The Diary of a Showgirl is a triumphant pop victory lap

It was accelerating when we met Taylor Swift last.

His latest album, the tortured poets department was an emotional liquidation – two pains were a stunned death of scattered disintegration.

The lowest, “crying in the gym” and “angry” with the young actor Joe Alwyn was wasting his youth for a six -year relationship.

Eighteen months later, he returned with the latest update of his office; And the story is very different.

35 -year -old Happy, energy and American footballer Travis Kelce, who was recorded in the stolen moments during the record -breaking Eras tour.

“This album, during this round of what is going on behind the curtain in my inner life, very enthusiastic, electric and lively,” he said. A look at Kelce’s New Heights Podcast last month.

To capture this dynamics, the album, pillow productions at midnight and torture poets who have described the sounds of the long -standing Jack Antonoff for a long time, but I knew that Shake It was a problem before.

Swift said that the target was to make the album “Bangers” (this, not sausage, not sausage, not sausage).

But enough preface. Is a showgirl’s life, a success full of Rhinestone or a choir line disaster?

To come directly to the point: This is a victory.

Swift is a combination of compelling songs that easily cleanses the high bar set for itself and a combination of whip-white production.

Maximalist Red and fans waiting for a return to 1989 POP may be surprised.

Swift’s new music was more cool and gathered than previous collaborations with Martin; For The Weeknd and Ariana Grande, it touches the atmospheric tissues of their last hit.

But none of these songs do not have an ounce of oil.

In 41 minutes, a showgirl’s life has been released since Swift’s first release in 2006; And the laser focus is a pleasant relief after the swollen word soup of the torture poets.

Tematically, Swift’s latest lyrics have two different threads.

Half of the 12 songs of the album are completely falling, stupid, fall on the heels that are in love. The rest of the fame is struggling with the fame.

Along the way, we get some classics, such as the appearance of the Burlesque dancer that shines like the end of a cigarette “; Or comparison of a critic’s thorns with “a toy chihuahua barking from a small bag”.

There’s a song full of Playground Innuendo.

However, the album opens with misdirection.

If the fans assume this Ophelia’s fate Swift would tie Shakespeare’s story of a noble woman who drowned in mania after her grief.

Instead, Kansas City Chieffs and the number 100 (Kelce’s Jersey number, 87 and Swift’s lucky number 13, including the sum of 13, he says to “be saved” by Kelce on a crispy pop on the way to their relationship.

“I heard you looking for megaphone“He said that their romanticism declared his love for his podcast in July 2023 in July 2023.

“If you never came for me, I could have drowned in melancholy. “

Musically, the song plays a smart trick by adding an extra bar at the end of all other statements, as if Swift is going on, as if it were currently going on, it is swept in your emotions to continue.

The album is peppered with such small developments – and extremely satisfactory.

Lovestruck theme continues OpaliteBreezed chords and ABBA-ESQUE harmony emerge like a blooming romance; And Wi $ h li $ t, Swift’s place of Hollywood package for native happiness life.

“They want a critical shot Palme d’Or and the bathroom floors they want an Oscar“He’s observing.”I just want you“.

(Plus “the best friend I think is hot” and “a few children”).

But maybe the most eye -catching tribute for bald Wood – A Staccato dance track completed with Jackson 5 guitar Riff, is actually an extended pair of attempts.

Here, we find that his relationship will continue and his fiancée steal wood in the bedroom with an unexpected respect for his “masculinity” and “stealing on wood”.

So stupid and unexpected that I laughed loudly.

Applies to the same thing Actually romantic, It is a extraordinary sarcastic piece about Swift’s pop star (anonymous), called a “boring barbie” and writes songs about how much they hate it.

Grungy guitar and slaping drum rhythm on the rhythm, mocking them with the touch of the opposite psychology.

“It sounded bad, but it sounds like you’re flirting with me“He trill.”All the effort you put is actually romantic. “

Continues to solve the points Father figure – The scary story of a Backstabbing Protégé, which put George Michael Classic into enterpolpolation of the same name.

The fans will try to reveal the identity of the subject, but in my opinion, the song seems more like a moral fairy tale about a music industry svengali with the power to erase anyone who is not loyal to the family.

Full of cinematic strings and key changes that disrupt the direction, Swift sits with no body, crime, bad blood and vigilant S *** in Swift’s expanding revenge marches catalog.

But the best part of the album, soft -oriented ballad Friendship.

It reminds me of a child who spends time on Swift’s high school days in Tennessee, who longes for a single kiss while he was trapped in a friend’s area.

Sensitive and nostalgic requires a heartbreaking turn in the third verse when Swift’s real life becomes his best friend Abigail He calls to say that his old schoolmates are dead and flies throughout the night to attend the funeral.

In an album, which is largely interested in satisfaction, regret and sadness hit twice as hard.

The collection ends with Sabrina Carpenter, which has doubled as a stimulating story about the starry, a piece of head with a duet.

The stars are the only song that really focuses on the concept concept with a percussion tap dance intermittent and flashy key changes while trading about the cut Bosphorus industries.

“All head strokes on the walls of the dance hall / bitch wishing to rush and die.“Swift is singing.

Then the punch line: “But now I’m immortal, baby. “

This seems like a deliberate call to see what you are doing in 2017 after Swift’s Kanye West and a public calculation with a negative press for months.

She sang at that time: “The old Taylor cannot come to the phone right now… Why? Oh, because he’s dead.“

In 2025, when the world’s foot, Swift can finally say that his place in pop history was guaranteed.

The life of a show is his well -earned victory tour.