{"id":50306,"date":"2025-09-08T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/50306\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:30:05","slug":"taylor-swift-announces-target-exclusives-for-life-of-a-showgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/50306\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift announces Target exclusives for \u2018Life of a Showgirl\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"block-262048fc-6eaf-4b13-af35-46e589f6b432\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Taylor Swift<\/a> is partnering with Target to usher in three exclusive CDs for her 12th era, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl.\u201d The retail chain will be the first where fans can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.target.com\/c\/taylor-swift\/-\/N-54u4c\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.target.com\/c\/taylor-swift\/-\/N-54u4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">pre-order the album<\/a> (out Oct. 3) with three exclusive CD packages that include an 8-page lyric booklet and exclusive posters. Select stores will host midnight releases.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-262048fc-6eaf-4b13-af35-46e589f6b432\">The pop superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/12\/taylor-swift-announces-12th-era-what-to-know-about-life-of-a-showgirl\/71713227007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/12\/taylor-swift-announces-12th-era-what-to-know-about-life-of-a-showgirl\/71713227007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced her new album<\/a> on the Aug. 13 episode of fianc\u00e9 Travis Kelce&#8217;s \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast. Four limited-edition variants were made available for preorder: &#8220;Sweat and Vanilla Perfume,&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s Frightening,&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s Rapturous&#8221; and &#8220;It&#8217;s Beautiful.&#8221; By the end of August, Swift shared three additional variants: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/18\/taylor-swift-drops-another-vinyl-fifth-cover-photo-showgirl\/85712253007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">&#8220;The Shiny Bug,&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/21\/blue-countdown-taylor-swift-sixth-showgirl-album-variant-show-business\/85758486007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Baby, That&#8217;s Show Business&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/25\/taylor-swift-showgirl-countdown-gold\/85814174007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">&#8220;The Tiny Bubbles in Champagne.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">&#8216;I still get giddy&#8217;: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/03\/travis-kelce-talks-engagement-taylor-swift-giddy-new-heights\/85842117007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Kelce talks engagement to Taylor Swift on &#8216;New Heights&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My day ends with me in a bathtub, not usually in a bedazzled dress,&#8221; Swift told Jason Kelce during the podcast on the inspiration behind her opulent and vivacious era. &#8220;I wanted to glamorize all the different aspects of how (the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/12\/05\/taylor-swift-eras-tour-reporter-personal-journey\/76711565007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Eras Tour<\/a>) felt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 12 tracks are &#8220;The Fate of Ophelia,&#8221; &#8220;Elizabeth Taylor,&#8221; &#8220;Opalite,&#8221; &#8220;Father Figure,&#8221; &#8220;Eldest Daughter,&#8221; &#8220;Ruin the Friendship,&#8221; &#8220;Actually Romantic,&#8221; &#8220;Wi$h Li$T,&#8221; &#8220;Wood,&#8221; \u201cCANCELLED!\u201d &#8220;Honey&#8221; and the title track.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221; is Swift&#8217;s first chapter since she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/05\/30\/taylor-swift-masters-website-announcement-owns-music\/83945254007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/05\/30\/taylor-swift-masters-website-announcement-owns-music\/83945254007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bought her masters<\/a> for her first six albums. &#8220;All of the music I\u2019ve ever made now belongs to me,&#8221; she said in a letter posted to her website after fully acquiring her catalog from Shamrock Capital in May.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing: Kim Willis and Melissa Ruggieri<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-435ca9c3-a02d-4e8b-90d8-7ce3bfa29908\">Don&#8217;t miss any <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/taylor-swift\/\" data-autotag=\"ec0ec3d6-8031-4775-9c6d-550a6d24919d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a> news; sign up for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profile.tennessean.com\/newsletters\/this-swift-beat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">free, weekly newsletter This Swift Beat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-0959cb53-57c4-42eb-a897-e6a563855ded\">Follow Taylor Swift reporter Bryan West on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bryanwesttv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bryanwesttv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bryanwesttv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X as @BryanWestTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift is partnering with Target to usher in three exclusive CDs for her 12th era, \u201cThe Life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[840,365,434,5716,5812,9376,18,117,19,17,37082,124,24005,526,5718,337,5,713,856,4513,981,842,13448,4647,973,23878,122,716],"class_list":{"0":"post-50306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","12":"tag-country","13":"tag-country-music","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jason","19":"tag-jason-kelce","20":"tag-kelce","21":"tag-local","22":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","23":"tag-music","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-overall","26":"tag-overall-positive","27":"tag-pop","28":"tag-pop-music","29":"tag-positive","30":"tag-swift","31":"tag-taylor","32":"tag-taylor-swift","33":"tag-travis","34":"tag-travis-kelce","35":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}