Taylor Swift performs onstage during The Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium on Aug. 15, 2024, in London, England. (Kate Green/Getty Images)
She’s married to the hustle, and now she knows the encore of a showgirl.
Taylor Swift has announced the upcoming release of a continuation of her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. The global music superstar will release four new songs, including the previously announced single “Patient Zero,” in a new version of the album dubbed The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore. It releases on Friday.
Swift made the announcement about this new version of the album in a post to Instagram on Wednesday.
“About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history,” Swift wrote. “I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album. Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs.”
Swift continued, writing she hopes her fans love the songs, because “they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made.”
A preorder page on Swift’s website shows that the three other new song titles on The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore are “Cleveland!,” “Pink Clouding” and “Babylon.” They join “Patient Zero” as tracks 13 through 16 on the expanded version of the album.
Eagle-eyed fans noticed Swift has been teasing this release for a while. She included the phrase “Patient for the encore” on a marquee to the side of the frame in her “Opalite” music video.
While a physical release of The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore has yet to be announced, Swift did make CD versions of the single “Patient Zero.” They were made available on her website on Tuesday, but have since sold out.
The original version of The Life of a Showgirl released on Oct. 3, 2025.
(L-R) François Arnaud and Robbie G.K. in ‘Heated Rivalry.’ (Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max)
Some familiar faces are suiting up for season 2 of Heated Rivalry.
Cast members returning to the Crave/HBO Max hockey romance series alongside stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams include François Arnaud and Robbie G.K., who play Scott Hunter and Kip Grady; Sophie Nélisse, who plays Rose Landry; and Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova, who plays Svetlana Vetrova.
Others reprising their roles are Christina Chang and Dylan Walsh as Shane Hollander’s parents, Yuna and David; Callan Potter and Benjamin Roy as Shane’s teammates Hayden and JJ; and Kamilla Kowal as Hayden’s wife, Jackie.
The returning cast joins the recently announced new additions, which include Justice Smith as Harris Drover, Charlie Gillespie as Troy Barrett, Daniel Diemer as Ryan Price, Shaheen Jafargholi as Fabian Salah and Edvin Ryding as Luca Haas.
Heated Rivalry, created by Jacob Tierney, is based on the Game Changers book series by Rachel Reid and follows the rivals to lovers story of Ilya Rozanov (Storrie) and Shane Hollander (Williams).
Season 2 is set to premiere in spring of 2027 on HBO Max in the U.S.
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