Taylor Swift performs onstage during her Eras Tour at Rogers Center on November 14, 2024, in Toronto. | Emma McIntyre/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management
At the end of Taylor Swift’s newly released 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, the narrator makes a somewhat shocking confession.
In the album’s final song, the title track, the narrator describes the sordid life of a showgirl: the betrayals, the faithless men, the industry indifference. She urges the song’s second narrator — a wide-eyed dreamer “as sweet as a peach,” also voiced by Swift — not to strive after the spotlight...
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