Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl (October 3, 2025) • Page 82

That's fair, I can see how it feels disjointed.

I think it works for me because both verses are held together as explanations for coming across cold at key moments in her relationship. The first with her lying about being busy when he first came to see her, stemming from her learned behaviour of trying to seem cool and apathetic. Then the second verse examines her apparent aversion to marriage, maybe the first time they spoke about it, and how it was more of a front to avoid getting hurt, another behaviour learned out of fear and insecurity.

Plus, starting with a dismal verse about the internet makes where the song ends up in the bridge feel even more joyous and it seems like a reflection of the change in her mental state/focus.

 

Ian is always worth reading/hearing from

 

More deluxe editions available for 24 hours, this time with voice memos

 

Wait no, hold on

I think this is a deluxe version of one of the deluxe CDs but this time it's digital??? So the CD has two bonus tracks but the same deluxe version on digital has two more?

 

So I guess these CD exclusive acoustic tracks will actually just be immediately available digitally. I'm sure she's doing one per day

 

So how's that 'no bonus tracks' working out Taylor

 

So how many total versions of the album have been released so far, across all outlets?

 

at least 4....

 

Define version, because we have all the vinyl variants, then the CD variants, of the standard track list. Then 4 CDs with unique track lists, and this digital with unique track list, and more to come certainly

 

Has anyone in this thread ever listened to one of the Taylor voice memos more than once?

 

I think I even deleted the voice memos from my iTunes

 

i haven’t listened to them at all so the chances of this are high

 

I think I listened to the 1989 ones once...

 

It's the gaming every time with this kinda stuff that leads to my extreme over-saturation/exhaustion feeling.

A couple extra songs to boost numbers? Doesn't bug me that much if it's like, here's a few more songs on a deluxe digital release or whatever. It's the voice memos editions that gets me side eye-rolling it all.

 

Yeah I’m guessing variants; to me rough guess it seems like 10 or whatever at this point

 

As The Hives recently sang, Enough Is Enough

 

no new songs i guess…different versions don’t count haha

 

how do you even see this version? I can only get it to show through this post

 

I've listened to the 1989 ones a few times, I do like how they're really early demos, but the TTPD ones weren't as interesting

 

I followed the link from her Instagram story I think

 

I don't think I ever listened to those, or to any of the acoustic versions from that album. The endless machinations to cling to number 1 on that album cycle really wore thin for me.

 

I have listened to each TTPD bonus track (acoustic, live, mashup, voice memo) once each. At one point I was going to burn them to a CD to listen in the car one time, but then she released more than fit on one CD and I gave up