Taylor Swift has entered her The Life of a Showgirl era, dropping a 12-song album full of Easter eggs that fans are racing to decode. "One thing about this album that I think is really exciting is that, oftentimes when I make a record, we then take all this time to plan out how we're going to put it out," Swift, 35, said on Friday, October 3, interview on the U.K.'s Hits Radio station. "There's a little lag time between when I made it and when it enters the world. Oftentimes, your life can change drastically between that point and this other point.