Taylor Swift Teases ‘Tricks’ in Racy Outfit for Showgirl Album

Taylor Swift is stepping into full showgirl mode as she gears up for the release of her highly anticipated 12th album. 

In a series of new promotional images for The Life of a Showgirl, the pop superstar, 35, stunned in a dazzling feathered headpiece, bold red lipstick and a barely-there bejeweled bodysuit.

Posing against lavish backdrops and dripping in rhinestones, Swift channeled old-Hollywood glam while promising fans that she still has surprises up her sleeve.

One image even showed the Cruel Summer hitmaker, who is engaged to Travis Kelce, standing in the middle of a glamorous room lined with framed portraits of herself. 

‘A showgirl knows to save some of her best tricks for the grand finale…’ she captioned the sultry carousel of photos, sending Swifties into a frenzy.

The post also shared a look at the full tracklist for the record, which includes 12 songs such as The Fate of Ophelia, Elizabeth Taylor, Ruin the Friendship, Cancelled! and the title track, featuring Sabrina Carpenter.

Swift also announced that the special vinyl edition, dubbed Summertime Spritz Pink Shimmer, will be available exclusively at Target for pre-order.

‘We’re 9 days away (!!!!!!!!!!!!)’ she added, building buzz ahead of release day.

Fans flooded social media with excitement over both the glamorous visuals and the album’s theatrical theme, which Swift has described as the blurred line between stage persona and real life.

‘Taylor really said: “Save the best tricks for last”… girl you got us out here broke, streaming, AND pre-ordering like it’s rent day,’ one X user joker. 

Another wrote: ‘Taylor saving the grand finale tricks like it’s the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl… I fear for our emotional stability in 9 days.’ 

‘Taylor really treating album rollouts like a Broadway production — every drop feels bigger than the last,’ a third marveled. ‘Can’t wait to see what the ‘grand finale’ actually is.’ 

A fourth Swiftie exclaimed: ‘The way she saves the knockout punch for the finale every time… only Taylor. 9 days feels like 9 years. QUEEN of showmanship, QUEEN of vinyl, QUEEN of everything..’ 

Over the past few days, Swift has already sold $15 million in presale tickets to the upcoming theatrical release party for her The Life Of A Showgirl album. 

The 14-time Grammy winner announced on Friday that fans will have the chance to celebrate her upcoming album in theaters beginning on October 3 when the LP officially drops.

The event will play across 540 AMC theaters for one weekend from October 3 through October 5.

Swift’s theatrical release party is expected to rake in around $30-$50 million, per Deadline – and presale ticket sales reached $15 million over the span of 24 hours since the event’s announcement.

The Bad Blood songstress directly reached out to the AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron in late August in regards to the theatrical release, according to the outlet.

While trailers for the event will not be shown as promotion, digital billboards have already been put up.

Ticket prices sit at $12 – which was decided by the award-winning performer herself.

The special theatrical release is slated to be 89 minutes long and will include the music video premiere of the track The Fate Of Ophelia.

Swift also sat down to open up about the songs on the album which will be shown as well as lyric videos.

On Friday, the Love Story singer announced The Life Of A Showgirl theatrical release party on social media in celebration of her new music.

The star dropped her last album The Tortured Poets Department over one year earlier in April 2024.

‘I hereby invite you to a *dazzling* soirée, The Official Release Party of a Showgirl: Oct 3 – Oct 5 only in cinemas!’ Swift penned on her main Instagram page – which boasts 282 million followers.

Fans in attendance will have the chance to see the ‘exclusive world premiere of the music video for my new single ‘The Fate of Ophelia” as well as ‘never before seen behind-the-scenes footage of how we made it.’

The event is set to additionally show ‘cut by cut explanations of what inspired this music, and the brand new lyric videos from my new album The Life of a Showgirl.’

Swift wrote in conclusion, ‘Looks like it’s time to brush off that Eras Tour outfit or orange cardigan… Tickets are on sale now. Dancing is optional but very much encouraged…’

The songstress is no stranger to raking in box office numbers – and notably released Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour in theaters in October 2023. 

The movie included her Los Angeles concert from her record-breaking Eras Tour, with the film’s premiere taking place at The Grove in L.A. 

Swift had notably made an appearance at the screening, with the concert film garnering $37 million in presale tickets on its first day alone in the U.S. 

Domestically, the Eras Tour film made $180.8 million in the box office and around $267 million globally. 

Other movies set to hit theaters on October 3 include the A24 project The Smashing Machine, the re-release of Avatar: The Way Of Water and also Bone Lake. 

On Saturday, the Instagram account @taylornation dropped a new clip of the star as she discussed the album photos as well as the vinyl/CD packaging. 

‘I just wanted the fans to have as many images from this sort of world this album era as possible,’ Swift said while sitting in a chair on what appeared to be a set. 

She added, ‘And so I really spent a lot of time figuring out how I could make the best vinyl product and the best packaging and the best CD experience that they could have.’ 

The star explained that the CDs ‘all have photo cards in them’ while the vinyls ‘each have a poem inside of them, a unique poem. They’ve got more images than we ever planned to put in there.’

Swift added, ‘I think we wanted this album to feel really luxurious. And kind of as a nod to the luxury that a showgirl puts on when she’s onstage.’

The singer stated that she is ‘proud of’ of the album and added that she ‘hopes the fans are happy.’