Taylor Swift Announces Patient Zero and New Tracks

Taylor Swift has announced that her single Patient Zero will be released at midnight with three additional songs. The songs Patient Zero, Cleveland!, Pink Clouding, and Babylon are all featured on the album The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore. This album serves as the latest edition of the 2025 album, of which different expanded versions were previously released. Swift co-wrote these additional tracks together with her collaborators Max Martin and Shellback, whom she visited in Sweden.

Alongside the release announcement, Taylor Swift shared a video teaser for the new single Patient Zero. The full music video includes appearances by Colin Farrell and Dakota Johnson. It will be shown on Sunday night at the MTV VMAs. At the Sunday VMA ceremony, Swift is set to receive the Artist Director Honors award, which is being presented for the first time.

Swift has also been inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the National Recording Registry. In other work, she released a song titled I Knew It, I Knew You for Toy Story 5. Patient Zero, Cleveland!, Pink Clouding, and Babylon mark the newest additions to The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore.