Swifties, the wait is nearly over. Taylor Swift's hotly anticipated The Life Of A Showgirl drops at 12am Eastern time Friday (12pm in Singapore), accompanied by a swirl of public release parties and plenty of fans in the music superstar's chosen colour this time around: Orange.

"Something that's been interesting from the last few albums is that we get an aesthetic, we get colours, but we don't hear any sound from the album until midnight on the Friday that it's released," fan Michael Kutek told AFP in New York.

Showgirl is the 35-year-old's 12th studio album, and draws inspiration from her life on the record-shattering Eras Tour, which wrapped up late last year with a staggering US$2 billion (S$2.58 billion) in ticket sales.

Indeed, it's Swift's world, and we are all living in it: This

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