Taylor Swift strides into ‘Showgirl’ era with new joyful album

Taylor Swift is in a sparkling new era.

Earlier today, she dropped her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” a collection of bouncy pop songs about love, marriage, success — and score-settling — that had fans analyzing and debating every word.

The 35-year-old artist reunited with Swedish hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback for the tight 12-track collection, and their influence is clear in the driving beats and catchy hooks.

“I can’t tell you how proud I am to share this with you, an album that just feels so right,” Swift posts on Instagram, along with photos of her in showgirl outfits.

Elated fans worldwide are snapping up tickets to special “release party” screenings in movie theaters — including the premiere of the video for lead single “The Fate of Ophelia.”

While the album still features plenty of introspection, it reveals a lighter, happier Swift — in love with her NFL Super Bowl champion fiancé Travis Kelce, happy to have bought back her music catalog and proud of her record-shattering Eras Tour.

“I just want you, have a couple of kids, got the whole block looking like you… Got me dreaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop,” she sings on the dreamy “Wish List.”

And on “The Fate of Ophelia,” referring to the tragic character in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” she says: “Late one night, you took me out of my grieving / Saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.”

“I used to have this dark fear that if I ever were truly, like, happy and… nurtured by a relationship — what happens if the writing just dries up? What happens if writing is directly tied to my torment and pain?” Swift said in an interview with BBC Radio 1.

“And it turns out that’s not the case at all.”