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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Taylor Swift features a guest appearance by Sabrina Carpenter and was produced with Max Martin and Shellback.
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- Record Label: Taylor Swift
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 9 out of 22
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Mixed: 13 out of 22
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Oct 2, 2025With her twelfth studio album, the musician shoots into a fresh echelon of superstardom — and hits all her marks.
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Oct 7, 2025Overall, Swift’s writing holds up. The bridge of “Eldest Daughter” is a cinematic reverie of youthful indiscretions and natural imagery. .... Taylor Swift can capture the zeitgeist because she understands the concept of one: a battle between tension and freedom, and the knowledge that conflict is necessary to sustain the things we want.
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Oct 2, 2025The Life of a Showgirl might be one of her most uneven records, but she’s as compelling as she’s ever been – the showgirl, the ringmaster and the circus all in one.
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Oct 2, 2025"Showgirl" feels like a retreat from the vivid bloodletting of "Tortured Poets." .... Maybe those songs ["Opalite," "Ruin the Friendship," "Father Figure," & the title track] are Swift’s way of telling us that she knows "The Life of a Showgirl" isn’t as sharp as it could’ve been. We’ll see if it’s as tidy as it needed to be.
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Oct 5, 2025Gone are the wistfulness and melancholy that permeated her last four albums, yet ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ still sounds curiously muted despite Swift reuniting with pop super-producers Max Martin and Shellback for the first time in eight years.
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Oct 5, 2025Whatever vision Martin and Shellback set out to realize here is not really serving her strengths and, intentionally or not, appears to signal a disinterest in evolution.
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Oct 2, 2025In fairness, Wood is one clanging misstep on an album that isn’t terrible: it’s just nowhere near as good as it should be given Swift’s talents, and it leaves you wondering why.