{"id":95831,"date":"2026-09-23T17:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/?page_id=95831"},"modified":"2026-09-26T01:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T00:26:02","slug":"pink-clouding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/the-life-of-a-showgirl-album\/the-life-of-a-showgirl-songs\/pink-clouding\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Clouding"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cPink Clouding\u201d is the fifteenth track on the deluxe edition of Taylor\u2019s twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore<\/a><\/em> (2026). Co-written by Taylor, Max Martin and Shellback, the song reflects on the regret of hurting someone who treated her well while she was emotionally unable to fully recognize or reciprocate what they offered. It was released on September 25, 2026, alongside the other three new songs on The Encore<\/em>.\n\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\u00abAbout a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind\u2026 You gave The Life of a Showgirl <\/i>the biggest first week for an album in history. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album. Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made. The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore<\/i> including four new songs is out on Friday.\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\tThe additional material was particularly unexpected because Taylor had previously described The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> as a carefully constructed 12-song album with no further tracks planned. Rather than being leftovers from the original recording sessions, \u201cPatient Zero<\/a>,\u201d \u201cCleveland!<\/a>,\u201d \u201cPink Clouding\u201d and \u201cBabylon<\/a>\u201d were newly written during the Swedish sessions, making the expanded edition a continuation of the project created almost a year after the original album had been completed.\n

\n\u201cPink Clouding\u201d was announced as the third of the four new songs when Taylor revealed The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore<\/em> on September 23, 2026. The four tracks were released together on September 25, with \u201cPatient Zero\u201d serving as the lead single and \u201cPink Clouding\u201d appearing as the fourteenth track of the expanded 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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