{"id":15804,"date":"2026-09-25T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/09\/25\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-the-encore-review-flashes-of-humanity-and-bafflingly-vindictive-love-songs-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:33:55","slug":"taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-the-encore-review-flashes-of-humanity-and-bafflingly-vindictive-love-songs-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/09\/25\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-the-encore-review-flashes-of-humanity-and-bafflingly-vindictive-love-songs-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore review \u2013 flashes of humanity and bafflingly vindictive love songs Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Republic)<\/strong><br \/>This four-track addition to a critically maligned album works hard to remind fans what they love about Swift, with some sweet highs and galling lows<\/p>\n<p>One downside of turning your release strategies into scavenger hunts and layering clues within your work is that it invites enormous amounts of scrutiny about your potential motive. When Taylor Swift announced an expanded edition of last year\u2019s critically maligned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/oct\/03\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-review\">The Life of a Showgirl<\/a> this week, subtitled The Encore, many fans instantly suspected one of two things: that it was designed to remind Grammy members of Showgirl\u2019s existence during their voting period to determine next year\u2019s nominees, or to oust country ingenue Ella Langley from her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/sep\/22\/choosin-texas-ella-langley-billboard-mariah-carey\">record-breaking US No 1 run<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds cynical, it\u2019s also worth remembering that when Swift announced Showgirl last year, she said that unlike her previous album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/apr\/19\/taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department-review-fame-fans-and-former-flames-in-the-firing-line\">The Tortured Poets Department<\/a> \u2013 a 16-track record immediately inflated to 31 songs on release day \u2013 the purposefully concise, 12-track Showgirl would not be expanded. (This didn\u2019t stop her releasing <em>34<\/em><em> <\/em>variants of the record, with various acoustic demos and so on, to juice sales.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/sep\/25\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-the-encore-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/sep\/25\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-the-encore-review\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eced03f0963ad54758ada9ba109bf98f5a7f7c4f\/0_110_2048_1638\/master\/2048.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5f54eac5dfc0e00ee017a1a60cb15d59\" title=\"Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore review \u2013 flashes of humanity and bafflingly vindictive love songs\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Republic)This four-track addition to a critically maligned album works hard to remind fans what they love about Swift, with some sweet highs and galling lows One downside of turning your release strategies into scavenger hunts and layering clues within your work is that it invites enormous amounts of scrutiny about your potential motive. 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