{"id":6391,"date":"2025-11-09T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6391"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:42:00","slug":"taylor-swift-whats-a-girl-gonna-do-after-the-record-smashing-eras-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6391","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift \u2014 What\u2019s A Girl Gonna Do After The Record-Smashing Eras Tour?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s a girl gonna do after the record-smashing Eras Tour? Well, its success sparked the flame inside Taylor Swift that led to a reunion with former collaborators Max Martin and Shellback for her 12th full-length The Life of a Showgirl. Indeed, in a very showgirl manner, Swift flew back and forth to Sweden between stops on her European leg\u2014remember, the singer-songwriter believes \u201cjet lag is a choice\u201d\u2014to join Martin and Shellback, Swift\u2019s co-writers and producers on some of the most memorable and popular hits of her career (\u201cWe Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,\u201d \u201c22,\u201d \u201cShake It Off,\u201d \u201cBlank Space,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Blame Me,\u201d and \u201cDelicate,\u201d to name a few). The result? A confident, dazzling, at times elegant, at times cheeky, at times sensual pop explosion that examines Swift\u2019s relationships and her fame, which is both deeply personal yet extremely relatable…mostly. (The struggles of \u201cElizabeth Taylor\u201d\u2014with its thumping rock vibes\u2014can understandably be reserved for the uber-famous showgirls in the room.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis album, by personality, was a funnier album,\u201d she tells Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe. \u201cIt was coming off of TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT\u2014the character attributes I was highlighting in that writing process were much more serious and sensitive and introspective, and oftentimes more earnest and stoic, and the characteristics of a poet. This one was like, showgirls are mischievous, fun, scandalous, sexy, fun, flirty, hilarious.\u201d On the album\u2019s first single \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d Swift tests that theory by dipping back into the Shakespearean well that earned her crossover success and adoring fans, and once again, she turns the Bard\u2019s tale into a romance rather than a tragedy. But this time, it\u2019s more mature and fierce\u2014as the acceptant heroine resigns herself to solitude before the hero ever comes around: \u201cI swore my loyalty to me, myself, and I\/Right before you lit my sky up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her muses, of course, will be well-dissected. The aforementioned savior in \u201cOphelia\u201d is most likely Swift\u2019s husband-to-be, the three-time Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce. (She did, after all, announce the album on his podcast.) And he probably has a few more cuts dedicated to him\u2014the most direct being the saucy, \u201970s-funk-infused \u201cWood\u201d and its \u201cnew heights of manhood\u201d revelation. \u201cWhen I met Travis, I started to feel a little bit like I could be like a person who could have romantic whims and have these dreams,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cActually Romantic,\u201d with its semi-stripped-down production, deals not with a lover but with a certain hater. \u201cYou think I\u2019m tacky, baby\/Stop talking dirty to me\/It sounded nasty but it feels like you\u2019re flirting with me\/I mind my business, God\u2019s my witness that I don\u2019t provoke it\/It\u2019s kind of making me wet,\u201d Swift teases. And \u201cFather Figure\u201d pays homage to George Michael with Swift\u2019s breathy vocals, ending with a menacing act of betrayal by a prot\u00e9g\u00e9: \u201cYou made a deal with this devil\/Turns out my dick\u2019s bigger\/You want a fight, you found it\/I got the place surrounded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Importantly, though, remove Swift\u2019s own personal inspirations and score-settling and you get what she does best: vibrant songs that speak to universal emotions through her storytelling. The buoyant \u201cOpalite\u201d shows two people finding each other at the right time; baroque-pop \u201cWi$h Li$t\u201d portrays someone who knows what her heart desires. And \u201cEldest Daughter,\u201d the famous track 5\u2014generally one of Swift\u2019s most vulnerable on each of her albums\u2014reveals a promise of devotion.<\/p>\n

Swift ends the record on its title track, an epic duet with Sabrina Carpenter where the women volley back and forth about a girl named Kitty, perhaps alluding to their own places in the world. \u201cAnd all the headshots on the walls of the dance hall are of the bitches who wish I\u2019d hurry up and die\/But I\u2019m immortal now, baby dolls, I couldn\u2019t if I tried,\u201d Swift sings proudly. In other words, as she\u2019s proven time and time again, she\u2019ll never go out of style.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking this was really something I\u2019ve been wanting to do for my entire career, because I have always wanted to have fun in this type of way,\u201d she says. \u201cTo have fun, to exhibit mischief and be flirty and fun and make jokes\u2014that\u2019s a huge part of my personality. Oftentimes, I get so serious, or I\u2019m really known for a lot of my sad songs, my cathartic songs or breakup songs or whatever, because I love to write those things\u2014but that\u2019s not the place I\u2019m in my life. So what I have left behind is something that really exhibits who I am in this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s a girl gonna do after the record-smashing Eras Tour? Well, its success sparked the flame inside Taylor Swift that led to a reunion with former collaborators Max Martin and Shellback for her 12th full-length The Life of a Showgirl. Indeed, in a very showgirl manner, Swift flew back and forth to Sweden between stops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6393,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions\/6393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}