Taylor Swift Announces Expanded Album

Taylor Swift has announced an expanded version of the album titled The Life of a Showgirl. The expanded album is scheduled to be released on Friday and features four new tracks in total. Among the four new tracks included on the expanded album is the newly announced track named Patient Zero. In the days leading up to the release, by Wednesday, Swift updated her profile picture with the cover of The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore.

Prior to that update, on Tuesday, Swift shared news regarding the new single titled Patient Zero. In connection with the track announcement, the singer's website featured three different CD versions of Patient Zero. Around the same period of these music announcements, Swift also appeared on Travis Kelce's podcast, which is named New Heights.

Taylor Swift also traveled to Sweden in order to celebrate the album with Max and Shellback, who are co-producers on the album. The release of this expanded edition of the album takes place as it has now been approximately one year since Swift released her 12th studio album on October 3.