[note: this is simply a prediction post, and does NOT contain any leaked content]
So this is it. We've officially reached the two-hour countdown to the highly anticipated The Life Of A Showgirl. It feels like just yesterday I was staring at my phone as the time ticked down, anxiously awaiting the album announcement at 12:12 AM on August 12th. (In fact, honestly it feels like just yesterday I was counting the days until The Tortured Poets Department, before I was even a true Swiftie.) And now we're at the end of the 12 to 12 series with the final song prediction discussion, which is, in the wise words of Taylor Swift and the Kelce brothers... can I get a drumroll?
The title track, The Life Of A Showgirl, featuring... Sabrina Carpenter. (SABRINA CARPENTER!!!!!!)
Yeah, I understand Travis & Jason's excitement 100%. Considering how good they sounded on the Eras Tour stage performing Espresso and Please Please Please together as surprise songs, this is gonna make for a really good collab. Taylor and Sabrina are both very well-known performers and this song will probably tie together the main themes of this album - all the highs and lows and everything that goes on behind the curtain before and after the showgirls put on their shows. In my parallel songs post, I used one of my three Taylor Swift parallel songs to draw a connection to Long Live, a song about the joys of putting on a show for a cheering crowd of loyal Swifties and hoping to be remembered forever. However I have reconsidered that since then. This is The Life Of A Showgirl which implies it will be more about the "normal" things, along with the performance aspect of it. (I imagine "and baby, that's show business for you" being one of the lyrics in this song.)
Musically, I predict this will sound like one of my favorite songs at the moment that also happens to be a closing track - Sabrina Carpenter's Goodbye, combining country influence with a more ABBA-like 70s-y synth pop sound. The closest parallel I can think of in Taylor's discography would be the song Red. It's a lot less likely, but it would also be really cool if this had a more dramatic, theatrical, orchestral, almost jazzy production to it like a Broadway show tune. I think it will probably be very dramatically joyful and a lot of fun. And that's about all I have to say for this one, I'm just really excited to see how this album turns out! I'll be staying up til midnight tonight to listen!
Okay, and now for my final conceptual songwriting, and my last time saying it. At this point everybody can just say it with me...
No leaks or AI assistance were used!
"Take a look behind the curtain
The life of a showgirl is life too
It's gorgeous to look at
But living inside it makes us confused
Anything we do
Could be cold, could be cool, could be hot
It's a frightening feeling
It's a rapturous thought
But it's beautiful, it's true
And baby, that's show business for you!"
And finally... the last double-stuffed post of the series.
Pre-ranking The Life Of A Showgirl based on titles alone
This is an idea I got from seeing many Swiftubers do it, where I'll be predicting how I'll rank the album based on the vibes I'm getting from each title. Obviously don't take this too seriously, we haven't heard any of the songs yet so this will likely be far off from my actual ranking.
#12: Father Figure - confirmed to be an interpolation of George Michael, and I don't have a problem with that but I'm more excited for the new original material
#11: The Fate Of Ophelia - lead singles are usually not my least favorites but are often lower down
#10: Opalite - the next few songs are all just songs I didn't know where to place because of more vague titles
#9: Ruin The Friendship - see above
#8: Actually Romantic - see above
#7: Wi$h Li$t - this could genuinely be my favorite or my least favorite and it's hard to tell
#6: Elizabeth Taylor - probably a gorgeous narrative
#5: CANCELLED! - excited for the angst
#4: Wood - love the many interpretations
#3: Honey - more mature Beautiful Eyes?
#2: The Life Of A Showgirl (featuring Sabrina Carpenter) - probably super fun
#1: Eldest Daughter - track 5 is a favorite a lot of the time
Also, I know I didn't clarify this that much but this series was partially in celebration of 22,000 views so thank you so much for reading my blog!
That's all for now! Byeeeeeeeeee!
