If you want new information on Taylor Swift’s upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, you’re not getting it from Margaret Qualley.
The Maid star gave an awkward answer to whether she knew any details about her close friend’s new project.
“I don’t know anything,” Qualley said during an Aug. 14 appearance on the Today show. She took a long pause, seemingly to gather her thoughts, and added, “But we’ll all be excited to listen to the music.”
Qualley’s husband, Jack Antonoff, is a frequent collaborator of Swift’s as they worked on her albums: 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, and Midnights. However, for The Life of a Showgirl project, she worked alongside producers Max Martin and Shellback. All three musicans previously worked together on hit records for Swift, including “Blank Space,” “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” and “…Ready For It?”
Swift spoke about how the album came together on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast which he co-hosts with his brother, Jason Kelce.
“When I was on tour in Stockholm, I had Max Martin come out to the show,” Taylor explained during an Aug. 13 appearance. “I was talking to him and I was like, ‘I just feel like we could knock it out of the park if we just went back in.'”
“We’ve never actually made an album before where it’s just the three of us,” she continued. “It felt like catching lightning in a bottle, honestly.”
In addition to the production process behind the project, Swift shared that she wrote the album while she was on her record-breaking Eras Tour and was inspired by how she felt.
“This album is about what was going on behind the scenes of my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant,” she said. “It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life, and so that effervesence has come through on this record. And like you said, bangers.”
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” ft. Sabrina Carpenter
While 13 is the singer’s “lucky number” she shared that there will only be 12 songs and no bonus tracks.
“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. “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.
“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.”
The Life of a Showgirl is out on Oct. 3.
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