{"id":87133,"date":"2025-08-14T08:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/?page_id=87133"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:42:44","slug":"ruin-the-friendship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/the-life-of-a-showgirl-album\/the-life-of-a-showgirl-songs\/ruin-the-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruin The Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cRuin The Friendship\u201d is the sixth track on Taylor\u2019s twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl<\/a><\/em> (2025). Co-written and produced by Taylor, Max Martin and Shellback, the song was released on October 3, 2025, and reflects on an unspoken teenage romance, the sudden loss of a close friend and the regret of never taking a chance on what might have been.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cRuin The Friendship\u201d stands apart from much of The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> through its intimate storytelling and country-leaning sound, recalling Taylor\u2019s early songwriting while exploring a deeply personal story of friendship, loss and regret. Its emotional weight also connects it to \u201cForever Winter<\/a>,\u201d another song believed to have been inspired by the same high school friend.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn March 2023, Taylor launched “The Eras Tour<\/a>,” a career-spanning project that would continue for almost two years and become the highest-grossing concert tour in history. During the European leg in 2024, the tour also coincided with a period of significant personal and creative change: after reconnecting with Swedish producer Max Martin during the Stockholm shows in May, Taylor began developing what would become The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>. She had entered a new chapter in her personal life after meeting Travis Kelce in July 2023, a relationship that would later become a defining part of the period surrounding the album. She reunited with Martin and Shellback, who had previously worked with her on RED<\/a><\/em> (2012), 1989<\/a><\/em> (2014) and reputation<\/a><\/em> (2017), and travelled to Sweden between European tour dates to record the album:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\u00abIt was just a different type of muscle I was exercising. At that point in the tour, I was in the European leg of it, which was a lot more shows than I had done on the American leg of it. So, it was more shows, less days off. The phsysical exhaustion and soreness was at an all time high at the same time as I was starting to get to do that show with muscle memory. It took a while for that to happen because it's a three and a half hour show, but I was starting to be able to feel like, 'Okay, my body is getting more tired, and my mind is more able to do this on autopilot. And I never want to do this show on autopilot, so I need to do something to flex these creative muscles, and go in there and really exercise that other part of my brain.' And what it ended up doing was reinvigorating every aspect of my life, including the tour, which made me just able to recommit myself to the show even more.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor announced The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> on August 13, 2025, during her appearance on Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce\u2019s New Heights<\/em> podcast, revealing the album\u2019s October 3 release date and full 12-song tracklist. \u201cRuin the Friendship\u201d was revealed as the album\u2019s sixth track.\n

\nThe song was later included in The Life of a Showgirl + Acoustic Collection<\/em> in an acoustic \u201cMy Advice Version,\u201d released alongside the collection in October 2025.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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