Sabrina Carpenter Celebrates Her ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Duet with Taylor Swift

Sabrina Carpenter is living the showgirl life with Taylor Swift!

The “Espresso” singer offered fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the making of her new duet with Swift, which serves as the title track of Swift’s latest album The Life of a Showgirl, which came out on Oct. 3.

Carpenter, 26, posted about their collaboration on her Instagram Stories, sharing Swift’s Instagram post announcing that the album is out. She also shared a picture of herself and Swift, 35, embracing at the 2025 Grammy Awards with their new duet playing in the background.

Their collaboration is the final track on the album and pulls back the curtain on the realities of showbiz and what it means to be a showgirl.

“Hеy, thank you for the lovely bouquet / You’re sweeter than a peach / But you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe / And you’re never, ever gonna,” the chorus goes.

“Wait, the more you play, the more that you pay / You’re softer than a kitten, so / You don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe / And you’re never gonna wanna.”

“I took her pearls of wisdom /Hung them from my neck / I paid my dues with every bruise / I knew what to expect,” Swift sings in the contemplative bridge.

“Do you wanna take a skate on the ice inside my veins? / They ripped me off like false lashes / And then threw me away,” sings Carpenter.

“I wanted Sabrina to be the person who did the duet with me on it because I just think she’s so smart and cut out for this job, if you want to call it a job,” Swift told Elvis Duran Friday morning on Z100.

“It’s really an all-encompassing life path, and I think she’s just so brilliant and tough in a way. She’s very sensitive in terms of being an artist, but she can handle herself. So I just thought that she would be a great person to collaborate with on that song in particular. And it’s the last song on the record, so it really ends out the story of the album.”

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Carpenter previously joined Swift during several shows on her record-breaking Eras Tour, making stops together in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Australia and Singapore.

The musicians even sang a mash-up of “Espresso,” “Is It Over Now” and “Please, Please, Please,” during Swift’s surprise songs set at the Caesars Superdome on Oct. 26 in New Orleans.

Carpenter expressed her excitement on Instagram once the news was out in August about Swift’s new album. “THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL OCTOBER 3rd 🧡 i know someone who’s freaking out and it’s me,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories at the time.

Carpenter spoke about Swift in 2020 during an interview with Apple Music, explaining how the 14-time Grammy winner inspired her.

“Taylor Swift posted something when she released her new album in the description of when it dropped and saying like, ‘I usually would overthink the songs that I’m going to put out and release,’ ” Carpenter said at the time.

“And I just feel like nothing is certain right now and so it just felt right and I wanted to do it.”

“And that put me in such a good warm-hearted place where then I could listen to all these songs that I’ve been making with such a fresh perspective of like, ‘You know what, this is how I feel right now in musical form.'”

Swift celebrated The Life of a Showgirl‘s release at midnight, posting dazzling pictures that are inspired by the latest album.

“Tonight all these lives converge here, The mosaics of laughter and cocktails of tears, Where fraternal souls sing identical things, And it’s beautiful, It’s rapturous. It is frightening,” she wrote on Instagram.

“I can’t tell you how proud I am to share this with you, an album that just feels so right. A forever thank you goes out to my mentors and friends Max and Shellback for helping me paint this self portrait.”

Added Swift: “If you thought the big show was wild, perhaps you should come and take a look behind the curtain…”

The Life of a Showgirl is available to stream.

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