How Taylor Swift's engagement inspired 'The Life of a Showgirl'

TAYLOR Swift feared her songwriting would "dry up" once she was "truly happy".

- BANG SHOWBIZ

The 35-year-old pop idol has just released her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, and as she's happier than ever - having just got engaged to her longtime partner Travis Kelce. Swift was concerned she would have nothing to write about, because she'd had always assumed she was a tortured poet.

Speaking on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast With Greg James about her followup to 2024's The Tortured Poets Department" she said: "It's wonderful. I used to kind of have this dark fear that if I ever were truly happy and free, being myself and nurtured by a relationship, what happens if the writing just dries up?

"What if writing is directly tied to my torment and pain? And it turns out that's not the case at all, and we just were catching lightning in a bottle with this record."

Many of Swift's albums have included manifestations about the future, but this time, she focused on the present.

She said: "With this album, my life is in exactly the same spot as when I wrote the record."