Taylor Swift‘s latest countdown clock led to the unveiling Monday morning of two vinyl variants for her “The Life of a Showgirl” album, appearing on her webstore under the umbrella of “The Shiny Bug Collection.”
Both new LP editions share the same cover art, of Swift in a showgirl outfit; one is in violent shimmer marbled vinyl and the other is in “wintergreen and onyx marbled vinyl.” The two pressings are said to be one-time-only offerings and will be for sale for 48 hours, or as long as supplies last, as they say.
These alternate vinyl editions follow on the heels of three deluxe CD variants that went on sale last week in Swift’s webstore and sold out well before the announced end time.
All of the covers for the standard and deluxe editions of the album use the showgirl motif and point back toward Swift’s stated theme for the album, which is that it reflects her experiences balancing show business and her personal life on the nearly two-year Eras Tour.
As with all the other artwork released in conjunction with the album so far, the imagery for this new cover is being jointly credited to the team of Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
In the recent past, Swift has augmented her variants with bonus tracks, including a deluxe edition of “The Tortured Poets Department” that was nearly twice as long as the standard edition, but she declared in a podcast appearance with Travis Kelce that she would not be doing that this time around. So fans can count on the differences in editions of “Showgirl” having to do with packaging and not content.
“With ‘Tortured Poets Department,’ I was like here’s a data dump of everything I thought, felt, experienced in two or three years. Here’s 31 songs. This is 12,” she said in the podcast. “There’s not a thirteenth, there’s not other ones coming. This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time. I also wanted it to be every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons, and you couldn’t take one out and it be the same album, you couldn’t add one and be… It’s just right.”
She continued, “That focus and that kind of discipline with creating an album and keeping the bar really high is something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time,” she continued. “I tend to write lots and lots of music, so it’s a temptation to release lots of music. But oftentimes, I wanted to do an album that was so focused on quality and on the theme and everything fitting together like a perfect puzzle that these 12 songs for my 12th album, I feel like we achieved that and I’m really happy about that.”
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