Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl is a triumphant pop victory lap
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TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift's 12th album comes from "the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place", she said ahead of release
The last time we met Taylor Swift, she was spiralling. Her last album, The Tortured Poets Department, was an emotional purge - a stunned post mortem of two bitter, messy break-ups. We found her at her lowest, "crying at the gym" and "pissed off" at wasting her youth on a six-year relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn, that ultimately fizzled out. Eighteen months later, she's back with the latest update from her bureau; and the story is very different. Recorded in stolen moments during the record-shattering Eras tour, it finds the 35-year-old happy, energised and newly in love with American Footballer Travis Kelce.
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