Taylor Swift's newest The Lifetime of a Showgirl album cowl has followers looking for Easter eggs.
“A showgirl is aware of to avoid wasting of her greatest methods for the grand finale,” Swift, 35, wrote through Instagram on Wednesday, September 24. “The Lifetime of a Showgirl: The Crowd is Your King Version on Summertime Spritz Pink Shimmer Vinyl is offered to pre-order now completely at @goal whereas provides final.”
In one of many photographs, Swift wore a rose-colored corset with a feathered headpiece as she posed in a salon with blush wallpaper and framed photographs from her Lifetime of a Showgirl photograph shoot.
In one of many framed pics, followers seen that Swift stood in a well-lit hall under a collage of two “exit” indicators. Taking to social media, devoted Swifties theorized the LED signal was a clue to the album.
“That is the THIRD ‘EXIT' reference we received,” one fan wrote through X, referring to a September 20 video of Swift on set of her Showgirl cardigan photograph shoot in entrance of a doorway that had an identical lit-up signal.
Others identified that Swift beforehand posted a TikTok video in October 2024 along with her pet cat Olivia forward of her Eras Tour live performance in Miami, the place an “exit” poster was seen within the background.
Seeing a plethora of exit indicators subsequently had followers attempting to seek for a deeper which means.
“What if the ‘Karma' door is an exit door?” one fan requested.
Swift had left her closing December 2024 Eras Tour live performance in Vancouver by an orange door behind the stage.
“I would depart the stage each evening happening the elevator raise. That's how each single Eras present ended apart from one — apart from the final one,” she mentioned on fiancé Travis Kelce's “New Heights” podcast final month. “I exited by an orange door, [which] was really an Easter egg. The explanation why I selected to exit that means is as a result of I wished to provide a subliminal trace to the followers that I could also be leaving the Eras Tour period, I used to be additionally getting into a brand new period.”
Swift then introduced that her subsequent album, her twelfth, can be out there beginning Friday, October 3. The Lifetime of a Showgirl was written whereas Swift was on the European leg of Eras, chronicling her expertise behind the scenes.
Followers now consider that the exit indicators connect with the premise of the album.
“There's a saying within the business known as exit stage left and should you discover as you're her, it's pointing to the suitable, however to her it's her left,” one other fan wrote through X. “There's an precise saying that goes far again in present enterprise that states exit stage is a means of exiting the stage in an orderly method.”
A separate X person posited that the exit indicators have been “only a nod” to the album's theme “being backstage” when she leaves a live performance venue.
A 3rd added, “I swear, it's soooo apparent it's [because] it's all BEHIND THE SCENES of a theatre/stadium, the place it's stuffed with exits.”
The Lifetime of a Showgirl can be launched Friday, October 3.
