"The Life of a Showgirl" by Taylor Swift — Review

Everyone's favorite middle aged women that sings about high school romances is back. Thank god, with an album that is only 40 minutes long. Since 2019, Taylor has released at least one album every year, you gotta give it to her. Her fans are always eating good, but what about the rest of us?

Over the years, Taylor has proved that she is more than capable of writing some pretty damn good tracks, as well as albums. I mean, her 2020 album "folklore" is genuinely awesome, filled her best, most mature songs ever. Her other 2020 album, "evermore" as well as her 2021 project "Red (Taylor's Version) also offer some interesting ideas. So, if you asked me, I would say that that time period is the peak of her career. And with her being able to release three of her best LPs in such a short time span, maybe her putting out albums every 6 months ain't a problem, right?

Well, I don't know. In the recent years, Taylor's greed and need to be the number one female artist took over her, making her release countless pointless albums, and her fans were all for it. It is a win win situation - she gets the money and the fame, her fans get new music from their idol, but for a casual Taylor Swift listener, it was not a win situation.

Let's talk about this record that she released today - "The Life of a Showgirl". Firstly, it really sucks that we got no other albums worth mentioning today, every artist on the planet earth skips the Friday Taylor decides to drop something, because competing with her really is a losing battle form the start.

This album is by no means awful, but it also isn't groundbreaking. It just exists. Its so soulless that you actually kind off have to be thankful for the Charli Xcx "disstrack" titled "Actually Romantic". It is the best, most energetic song of off this project, with the best instrumental. But my God does Taylor miss the point of "Sympathy is a Knife"... She is acting as a dictator, not letting anyone talk "bad" about her, and Charli didn't even talk badly about Taylor on that song... I don't know, I hope the song isn't actually a dig at Charli, because it's by far the best track from this album.

Every other track is so NPC coded like I'm sorry... did she forget how to sing? It's so monotone hearing her sing over the same exact instrumental for 40 minutes with one same tone in her voice without any emotion. It's only fitting that the closing track is featured with a younger version of Taylor Swfit, Sabrina Carpenter.

That song is also the title track of this album, and to be honest, it is at least instrumentally different than the rest. But vocals and lyrics are still boring, bland and annoying. There are also numerous cringe tracks over this album, worst one being "Father Figure". Is it dedicated to Gracie Abrams? It kind off ads up. Anyways, Taylor's lyrics are so surface level, it's hard to listen to. Especially that chorus, my God... "Wi$h Li$t" is such a boomer type of song, it's like I'm listening to someone's mother trying to be cool. I mean, it is a sweet, romantic love song if you are a 40 year old white female that is living in the suburbs.

As I already said, "The Life of a Showgirl" is not the worst album ever, but it's flaws are much stronger then it's good moments. Resulting in my rating being more then fair, in my opinion, of course.

Overall score: 45/100