(CNN) — This could be Taylor Swift’s most exciting era yet, if that were at all possible.
Not only is she newly engaged to professional football player Travis Kelce , but she’s scheduled to drop her 12th studio album on Friday.
And while the new record, titled “The Life of a Showgirl,” isn’t her 13th (which of course is her favorite number), it is one of her most eagerly awaited albums to date for several reasons.
“Obviously in 2023 and 2024, she was on tour nonstop, traveled the world, got the new boyfriend. It was kind of very big years,” Swift expert and sociology scholar Georgia Carroll told CNN. (Not to mention, the industrious superstar managed to also release her previous studio album – nay, a double album, titled “The Tortured Poets Department” – in April of last year.)