Taylor Swift is set to bring more glitter pen songs on The Life of a Showgirl. The superstar shared that Max Martin and Shellback are back as the sole producers, along with Swift, for her 12th studio album.
Swift revealed the news on Wednesday night during her episode of the New Heights podcast. On the show, the singer called Martin her “mentor” before describing their work together. “The three of us have made some of my favorite songs that I’ve ever done before,” she said, referring to some of Swift’s biggest hits such as “22,” “Shake It Off,” and “Blank Space.”
“We’ve never actually made an album before where they’re, where it’s just the three of us,” she continued, before confirming: “There’s no other collaborators. It’s just the three of us making a focused album.” For Swift’s last five albums, the musician teamed up with Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, whom she also tapped for work on her Taylor’s Version re-recording project.
The musician shared that the production work for The Life of a Showgirl occurred on The Eras Tour while she was in Sweden. “When I was on tour in Stockholm, I had Max Martin come out to the show, and I was talking to him, and I was like, ‘I just feel like we could knock it out of the park if we went back in.”
Swift’s main focus of the album was how it connected to her career-spanning tour. “I essentially said to him, ‘I want to be as proud of it as an album as I am of The Eras Tour, and for the same reasons,” she said. “And he was like, ‘Do you understand what kind of pressure that is?’”
From Rolling Stone US
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