Is Taylor Swift releasing The Life of a Showgirl deluxe? Here's why there's no bonus tracks

4 October 2025, 13:54 | Updated: 6 October 2025, 09:57

Is Taylor Swift releasing a The Life of a Showgirl deluxe? Here's what she's said about bonus tracks. Picture: Wondery, Republic Records

By Sam Prance

Taylor Swift has opened up about The Life of a Showgirl tracklist and if fans can expect a deluxe edition.

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Taylor Swift's The Life of the Showgirl is officially here but is she releasing a deluxe edition and will there be any more songs?

The Life of the Showgirl is Taylor Swift's 12th studio album and it consists of precisely 12 songs, coming in at just over 41 minutes long – one of her shortest albums of her career so far. (Only the standard version of Debut is shorter!)

Taylor is no stranger to surprising people with secret editions of her albums though. Just three hours after releasing Midnights, Taylor dropped a '3AM Edition' with seven extra songs. She then topped that with The Tortured Poets Department by releasing The Anthology with 15 extra songs just two hours after the album came out.

But is Taylor planning a similar surprise for The Life of a Showgirl? It's bad luck for those hoping she is...

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When Taylor announced the album on the New Heights podcast with fiancé Travis Kelce, Taylor revealed that there is no deluxe this time around: "There's no other songs coming."

Taking this into consideration, The Life of a Showgirl will be Taylor's first time releasing an album without a deluxe edition since Reputation in 2017 and her most concise project since the standard version of her debut album.

Explaining why she's not releasing bonus tracks, Taylor said: "With The Tortured Poets Department, I was like here is a data dump of everything I've thought, felt, experienced in two or three years. Here's 31 songs. This is 12."

Taylor added: "There's not a 13th, there's not other ones coming. This is the record I've been wanting to make for a very long time.

Essentially, it appears that Taylor wanted to release a precise "focused" album after her more free-flowing records.

What is Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl tracklist?

'The Fate of Ophelia'
'Elizabeth Taylor'
'Opalite'
'Father Figure'
'Eldest Daughter'
'Ruin The Friendship'
'Actually Romantic'
'Wi$h Li$t'
'Wood'
'Cancelled!'
'Honey'
'The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter)'

Taylor Swift confirmed there is no deluxe version of The Life of a Showgirl coming. Picture: New Heights via Instagram

Describing how The Life of a Showgirl came about, Taylor said: "When I was on tour in Stockholm, I had Max Martin come out to the show. I was talking to him and I was like, 'I feel like we could just knock it out of the park if we went back in'. We did this all in Sweden." Taylor explained that she made every song with Max and Shellback.

For context, Taylor's previously written singles like 'Style', 'Blank Space', 'I Knew You Were Trouble', '...Ready For It' and 'Delicate' with Max and Shellback. She said: "The three of us have made some of my favourite songs that I've ever done before. We've made songs that I'm so proud of.

Taylor continued: "We've never actually made an album before where it's just the three of us. There's no other collaborators. It's just the three of us making a focused album where it felt like catching lightning in a bottle."