Taylor Swift issues 24‑hour iTunes deluxe featuring studio voice memos
October 6, 2025
Taylor Swift has released a fleeting digital deluxe of The Life of a Showgirl on iTunes that includes raw studio voice memos recorded during songwriting sessions. The offering is available for just 24 hours beginning October 6, 2025, giving fans a rare, behind‑the‑scenes glimpse at how the songs were created.
The artist announced the limited window on social media on October 6, 2025; she described the recordings as captured moments from the studio and a way to revisit the creative process in real time. Read her announcement on X. View the post
Swift explained that she recorded while writing so those sessions serve as a direct record of ideas as they happened. Alongside the release she shared four photographs from the Sweden sessions — one shows her reading lyrics on her phone while Max Martin plays piano, another captures a candid moment with Martin and Shellback.
The iTunes package is labeled The Life of a Showgirl (DELUXE Alone In My Tower Acoustic Version) and includes “The Life of a Showgirl (Original Songwriting Voice Memos) Act 1” and “Act 2,” available only during the 24‑hour sale.
Short, timed drops have been a recurring tactic during the Showgirl campaign. In the weeks before the album’s October 3, 2025 release, Swift offered a series of vinyl variants on her website that were each on sale for just 48 hours.
The approach has translated into enormous first‑day demand: Swift’s 12th studio album moved roughly 2.7 million traditional album copies in a single day, a tally that produced the second‑largest first week in the modern era and leaves room to approach Adele’s 2015 opening for 25 as the release week continues.
Swift reunited with producers Max Martin and Shellback for this project; the trio previously collaborated on 2017’s Reputation and most famously on 2014’s 1989. A deluxe edition of 1989 once included a voice memo that captured the early writing of the Hot 100‑topping “Blank Space.” Listen to that memo.
