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Taylor Swift Unveils ‘Life of a Showgirl: Shiny Bug Edition’ Vinyl — Available for Only 48 Hours

The drop comes hours after a mysterious purple countdown appeared on the pop star's website.

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot

Taylor Swift is keeping the surprises coming ahead of her new album The Life of a Showgirl, with the 14-time Grammy winner unveiling two new vinyl variants on her website Monday (Aug. 18).

Available for pre-order at 2 p.m. ET — hours after a mysterious countdown appeared on Swift’s site teasing the drop — the brand new The Life of a Showgirl: The Shiny Bug Edition collection features an exclusive set of goodies that can only be purchased over the next two days. The limited editions are only available while supplies last until 1:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday (Aug. 20).


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Available in two colors — wintergreen onyx and violet shimmer — the marbled Shiny Bug vinyl records feature exclusive cover art depicting Swift wearing a dark, sparkly leotard with flared spikes and matching gloves. They also come with a full-size gatefold photograph of Swift, a double-sided foldout panel displaying a special poem she wrote for the set and a collection of exclusive photographs.

The news comes less than a week after the pop star announced The Life of a Showgirl — her 12th studio album — on Aug. 12, via a teaser clip for her interview on Jason and Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast. The full episode featuring Swift arrived the following day, with the musician sharing more details about the LP — including its cover art, production team and tracklist — on the show and in an Instagram post.

“[The album is] a lot more upbeat, and it’s a lot more fun pop excitement,” she said on the show. “My main goals were melodies that were so infectious, you’re almost angry at it.”

With Max Martin and Shellback serving as Swift’s only co-producers on Showgirl, the 12-track project features a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter on the title track. At the time Swift first announced the LP last week, she also debuted four alternate versions of the album — the “Sweat and Vanilla Perfume” edition, the “It’s Frightening” edition, the “It’s Rapturous” edition and the “It’s Beautiful” edition — that each come with different artwork and photo cards, as well as a jewelry box with a different collectible charm bracelet.

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As opposed to Swift’s last album, the sprawling 35-track Tortured Poets Department — which spent 17 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — the singer has also promised that Showgirl will not have any bonus tracks beyond the core 12 on the tracklist.

“There’s no other songs coming,” she emphasized on New Heights. “This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time.”

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.

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