Taylor Swift reacts to her album leaking just hours before Life of a Showgirl release

The superstar, 35, liked a reel of a content creator expressing their disappointment about the album leaks ahead of the record dropping in the early hours of October 3. 

This comes after some fans allegedly received their physical copies of her album earlier and started sharing the leaks online. 

Fans noticed she liked a video made by the Guyset Podcast host, in which he said it was ‘f***ed’ and ‘messed up’ that other fans were ‘ruining it for everybody else.’

In the rest of the video, which Swift co-signed via a like on the Instagram post, the Swiftie and podcaster Josh Felgoise criticized the leaks.

‘Apparently Taylor Swift’s album leaked and that’s f***ed, like, there’s less than 24 hours to go until the album drops,’ he said. 

‘You can’t wait a little longer? Like no, no. That is one thing I will never do. You will never catch me listening to a leak of an album because that’s messed up. I wanna listen to it the way it was intended. Like, I wanna listen to it with full production,’ he continued.

‘I don’t need to know anything early,’ he reiterated. ‘Like I wanna listen to it the way it’s supposed to happen. I don’t wanna know anything early.’ 

He also added: ‘I like all the theorizing. I like all the predictions of what’s gonna to happen, what it’s gonna sound like, what you gonna say. I like that stuff. That makes it fun.’

At the end of the video, he asked other fellow Swifties to not share the leaks and ‘don’t ruin the fun.’

‘That’s all part of the fun. Don’t ruin the fun. Don’t ruin the party. Why do people feel the need to ruin the party?’

Swift liking his message comes just hours before The Life of a Showgirl officially dropped, all 12 tracks leaked online in low-quality audio across Discord and other platforms. 

Within minutes, Swifties were dissecting every verse, from the scathing to the swoon-worthy, sparking feverish speculation about whether she was singing about her fiancé Travis Kelce, or rumored industry rivals like Charli XCX and Olivia Rodrigo.

The record marks a major milestone for Swift: her first as an engaged woman, following Kelce’s romantic, garden proposal in August 2025.

It also ushers in a bold new era for the 14-time Grammy winner, who ditched her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff for the first time in over a decade.

Instead, she co-produced the album with pop powerhouses Max Martin and Shellback, pairing her sharpest storytelling with their high-gloss, hit-making touch.

Alongside the music, Swift unveiled a daring new visual aesthetic, embodying a sultry Vegas showgirl for the album’s imagery. 

The title itself, she revealed, was inspired by her days juggling her record-breaking Eras Tour, which spanned 21 months, and late-night studio sessions in Sweden.

‘I would do like three shows in a row, have three days off, fly to Sweden, go back to tour — I was physically exhausted but so mentally stimulated,’ Swift recalled on her husband-to-be’s New Heights Podcast over the summer. ‘I was just so excited to be creating.’ 

In August, Kelce teased to his listeners that he couldn’t stop ‘listening to this album’ and had ‘been dancing throughout the house’ to it. 

‘I know she mentioned that it’s gonna be a lot more pop beats, but it’s just still so poetic in her melodies and her references and stuff,’ he assured Swifties. ‘It’s just so much fun to listen to.’ 

He also gushed his favorite track was Opalite. 

Kelce was reportedly only one of five people who have been granted access to the new album which has been kept under wraps in an encrypted folder.

Others include Swift’s formidable publicist Tree Paine, an unidentified studio engineer, and Max Martin and Shellback who both helped to produce the music.

The Life of a Showgirl follows Swift’s 2024 record, The Tortured Poets Department, which shattered records before it was even released.

Last month, Swift announced she was having a theatrical release party to celebrate her record, which will play across 540 AMC theaters this weekend. 

Fans will see the exclusive world premiere of the Fate of Ophelia music video, plus behind-the-scenes footage, lyric videos and personal insights from Swift herself.

The special theatrical release is slated to be 89 minutes long. 

It is expected to rake in around $30-$50million, per Deadline – and presale tickets reached $15 million over the span of 24 hours since the event’s announcement.

Ticket prices sit at $12 – which was decided by the award-winning performer herself.