Taylor Swift Releases ‘The Life of a Showgirl: Encore’ Deluxe Edition

Taylor Swift released four new songs on Friday (Sept. 25) as part of a deluxe version of her 12th studio album, titled The Life of a Showgirl: Encore.

The extended project adds “Patient Zero,” “Babylon,” “Pink Clouding” and “Cleveland!” to the original set, which spent 12 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and opened with 4.002 million equivalent album units in the United States in its first week. Swift announced the deluxe edition two days prior on Instagram, writing, “About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing … you gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history.”

“I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max [Martin] and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album,” she continued in her post. “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. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made.”

The 14-time Grammy winner previously teased the release by replacing the letter O’s in her Instagram bio and certain Apple Music song lyrics with zeros. Those functioned as clues for “Patient Zero,” which Swift announced ahead of the full Encore project.

Swift will premiere the cinematic music video for “Patient Zero” during the VMAs on Sunday (Sept. 27). She directed the visual, which features Colin Farrell and Dakota Johnson, and she will receive the inaugural Artist Director Honor at the 2026 VMAs.

Listen to The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore below.