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Our review of The Life of a Showgirl

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Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Welcome to our review episode of The Life of a Showgirl!!  Is this perhaps the most divisive album of the last few years? Rolling Stone gave it a perfect 5/5, The Guardian a measly 2/5. Oh – and a viral tweet with tens of thousands of likes declared “The Life of a Showgirl is as if Dubai, matcha, pistachio chocolate, Colleen Hoover books, and labubus all had a baby with Al”.  So! What the hell did we make of it? Let’s find out!!! Thankyou so much to Guzman y Gomez for making this episode of Shameless possible.  Shameless Podcast is produced by Annabelle Lee and Eilish Gilligan, executive-produced by Lucy Hunt and audio-edited by Annabelle Lee. Our social media team consists of Naima Fatema and Emily Li, and our partnerships manager is Cindy Luu. Want to support our show? Clicking ‘follow’ on Apple and Spotify is the best way to do that, and we're super grateful to anyone who leaves a five-star review while they're at it. Also! An old-fashioned 'Tell a Friend In Real Life' is equally appreciated. Want more? We've got more… Subscribe to our newsletter Smart, Dumb Stuff: https://tinyurl.com/4yasjphn  Follow us on Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/2mf557uxAaaand we’re on TikTok: https://tinyurl.com/2hchchrp Everything else your heart could ever desire is here: https://linktr.ee/shamelesspodcast Thanks for listening! We’re huge fans of yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of Shameless Media.

0:08.2

This episode of Shameless is brought to you by GYG and their new season menu.

0:12.8

You've never had a Caesar like this before. Welcome to Welcome, welcome, welcome to our review episode of The Life of a Showgirl Taylor Swift's 12th album.

0:47.3

This is perhaps her most divisive album yet. Rolling Stone gave it a perfect 5 out of 5, while The Guardian

0:54.0

are measly two stars out of

0:56.0

five. And then there's some viral tweets floating around, including this one, which had tens of

1:01.0

thousands of likes, and declared, The Life of a Showgirl is as if Dubai, Marcha, Pistachio Chocolate,

1:07.4

Colleen Hoover Books, and Lubbubo's all had a baby with AI. So what the hell did we make

1:12.4

of it? Let's find out. Before we jump in, I am joined today by Frazi McDonald. Hi, Mishie

1:20.4

and Ilishie Gilligan. Hi. How we feel it? Yeah, really excited to talk. Yeah, feeling

1:25.6

very pent up. Pent up, okay. Oh, I do not feel pent up.

1:29.6

Well, I mean, I've got, I've got lots of stuff to say. Okay. Okay, amazing. I think the best way to

1:33.8

start this episode is I know the diehard Swifties will be listening. And I think sometimes we can have

1:39.8

some different Taylor Swift diets going on. I know that Zara's Taylor Swift diet to my Taylor Swift

1:45.0

diet is quite different. Yeah, it's really interesting because you and I are long-time

1:49.2

Taylor Swift fans, but we never like the same songs. Never, ever, ever. It's almost like we like

1:52.8

two different artists within Taylor Swift. Yes, exactly right. So what are your top three of

1:57.9

all-time Taylor Swift songs to give the listeners a kind of insight to what your taste is? When I answered this question, I didn't exactly put down my favorite three of all time. Okay. Because I didn't know that was exactly three. But I tried to kind of articulate my diet in the tightest way possible. Love. And it's actually quite embarrassing when I wrote them down. I nearly wrote FML next to the mall. No, I totally disagree. Stay, stay, stay on red. So random, but love for you. That vibe of a song is so good. Okay, great. The Tortured Poets Department, the song. I fucking love that song. I love that song. Yeah. The one where we declared Charlie Puth should be a great artist. Absolutely that song. Yeah. Fascinating stuff. Keep going. And how you get the girl. Okay, I do love that song. Love that song. None of them are cool. Like, this is not a cool diet. No, that's not true. Torto the Poets Department is cool. Thank you, Gill. What are yours? Mine are

2:51.4

All Too Well, original version, not the 10-minute version. Controversial, but I love it. Keep going.

2:57.1

Yep. I agree with you. Happiness on Evermore. Wow. That song is such a great example of Taylor Swift's

3:05.3

ability to reach inside of someone's chest and pull out

3:08.8

a feeling. Okay. And my final one is Clara Bow. Love that. Absolutely love that. Guys, they couldn't

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