Swift Releases 'The Life of a Showgirl' Featuring Carpenter

Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, was released Oct. 3, 2025. The title track features Sabrina Carpenter as the only guest vocalist on a mid-tempo pop closer that ends with live-show audio and repeats the refrain "you don’t know the life of a showgirl." Carpenter celebrated the collaboration on Instagram; the pair have a long friendship that includes Carpenter opening on the Eras Tour and repeated backstage and public appearances. Reviews and lyric coverage describe the album as exploring the performer’s public persona versus private reality, and fan reaction has been mixed. Commentators noted rollout signals — including astrology coverage tying the release to Libra season — and business coverage framed the ‘‘Showgirl’’ era as a high-stakes commercial chapter given estimates of Swift’s net worth near $1.6 billion and past per-night tour grosses of roughly $10–$13 million.