{"id":34529,"date":"2025-10-08T07:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/taylor-swift-says-the-people-who-hate-her-new-album-are-still-helping-her\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T07:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:01:29","slug":"taylor-swift-says-the-people-who-hate-her-new-album-are-still-helping-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/taylor-swift-says-the-people-who-hate-her-new-album-are-still-helping-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift says the people who hate her new album are still helping her"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68df16331c1f80efbec4d488?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift performs in France during the Eras Tour.\"\/><figcaption>Taylor Swift performs in France during the Eras Tour.<\/p>\n<p>JULIEN DE ROSA\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Taylor Swift said any talk about her album, good or bad, helps her in the week of the album&#039;s release.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;The Life of a Showgirl&quot; was the top-streamed album on Spotify in a single day this year.<\/li>\n<li>Swift said she had respect for people&#039;s subjective opinions on art, and she was &quot;not the art police.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taylor Swift said people who are talking about her new album, positively or negatively, are helping her.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Apple Music, released on Tuesday, host Zane Lowe asked Swift how she was absorbing the reactions to her 12th studio album, &quot;The Life of a Showgirl,&quot; which was released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The album, co-produced by Max Martin and Karl &quot;Shellback&quot; Schuster, became the platform&#039;s most-streamed album in a single day in 2025, per Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>However, the album has also received a fair share of criticism from her fans, with Swifties posting on social media that the lyricism in the new album does not match that of her older releases.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I welcome the chaos,&quot; Swift replied to Lowe in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The rule of show business is, if it&#039;s the first week of my album release and you are saying either my name or my album title, you&#039;re helping,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I have a lot of respect for people&#039;s subjective opinions on art. I&#039;m not the art police,&quot; she added. &quot;It&#039;s like, everybody is allowed to feel exactly how they want.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Swift said that she had her legacy in mind when releasing new music.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#039;re doing this thing for keeps,&quot; she said. &quot;Like, I have such an eye on legacy when I&#039;m making my music.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know what I made. I know I adore it,&quot; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about how the songs in &quot;The Life of a Showgirl&quot; don&#039;t fall into the &quot;sad&quot; and &quot;cathartic&quot; song category she&#039;s known for, she said she was proud of the melodies and lyrics in the new album.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Life of a Showgirl&quot; is available in over two dozen configurations. Per a Billboard report, the album was sold in at least 27 different physical forms, including CDs, vinyls, and cassettes.<\/p>\n<p>Billboard, citing reports from data tracking firm Luminate, reported on Tuesday that 3.2 million equivalent album units were sold in the US since the album&#039;s launch. <\/p>\n<p>The album&#039;s release comes shortly after she announced her engagement to NFL player Travis Kelce, her boyfriend of two years.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,&quot; she wrote in the caption of their joint Instagram post in August. As of press time, the post had 37 million likes.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Swift did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift performs in France during the Eras Tour. 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