Taylor Swift Announces Expanded Album and Music Video

Taylor Swift has announced that an expanded edition of her album, titled The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, will be released on Friday, September 25. This expanded edition has now been opened for pre-order. The release contains four new songs titled Patient Zero, Cleveland!, Pink Clouding, and Babylon. Prior to the announcement, Swift traveled to Sweden with Max Martin and Shellback to celebrate the success of the album, and she wrote new songs during the trip.

Swift has also shared the first footage from the music video for her song Patient Zero. The music video features Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell, and it includes the work of Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. The complete music video is scheduled to premiere on Sunday, September 27 during the broadcast of the MTV Video Music Awards.

During the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift is scheduled to receive the first Artist Director Honors award. She also holds nine competitive nominations at the ceremony. Earlier in June, Swift released the song I Knew It, I Knew You from the Toy Story 5 film soundtrack, which became her 15th number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.