23 October, 2025
By: Stuti Pemmaraju, Staff Writer
Even if you do not listen to Taylor Swift, chances are you have heard at least ten of her songs. Her newest album, The Life of a Showgirl, is a disappointing entry in her discography that fails to live up to the high standards she set with her earlier work. Once known for albums where almost every track was a hit, Swift now seems to be producing music that feels repetitive and uninspired. Swift is a Grammy-award-winning singer and songwriter who has published 12 original studio albums in various genres of music, including rerecorded versions of her first six albums, which she calls “Taylor’s Versions.” Taylor Swift is one of, if not the most, renowned singers and songwriters of our time.
I would say that I am a moderate listener of Taylor Swift, so, naturally, when I heard of the release of her newest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” I had to listen to it to see if it lived up to my expectations. After listening to Swift’s new album, I came to the conclusion that she should have stopped making music a long time ago. Taylor Swift’s albums used to be the kind where every single track was a hit, and maybe one or two fell flat. Now, it is the complete opposite: in “The Life of a Showgirl”, you’ll maybe find a few good hits buried in a mass of mediocre songs.
Many of the songs in this album sounded, if not AI-generated, just dull and repetitive. Some fans also speculated that these songs could have been unreleased tracks from her previous albums, but I find that that is exactly the problem: Taylor Swift has made so much music that she fails to make another album that is truly original. My belief is that it would be better for her to step back from releasing albums and instead focus on performing the ones that brought her huge success live.
Another problem I had with “The Life of a Showgirl” is that it sounds like Taylor Swift is trying too hard to fit in with the younger generation. Lyrics like “girlboss too close to the sun” and “every joke’s just trolling at memes” sound cringey, misplaced, and out of touch. It feels like Swift wanted her songs to relate to the younger generation, so she added certain words that she thought would make her music more appealing. Of course, Swift is a millennial, but adding these types of lyrics gets to a point where they end up feeling unnatural.
Swift is one of the most iconic and influential artists today, but if she keeps releasing albums that receive the same amount of response and criticism as “The Life of a Showgirl,” her reputation will start fading away, and she will end up sabotaging her own success.
Taylor Swift is the same person who wrote metaphor-filled albums like folklore and evermore and put out countless pop and country hits, but with the release of her new music, the public is struggling to remember that. In the long run, I hope that Taylor Swift remembers who she is, and what made her music so popular in the first place: her individuality and variety in music genres. “The Life of a Showgirl” did everything but showcase that.
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