A Look Behind the Curtain

[Spoken]

The Life of A Showgirl, the idea of doing that was just, it was that this tour bled into everything I was doing and I was on this tour when I was making this record and I'd be doing three shows and then fly to Sweden and record for three days, take one day off, do three more shows. And that was like the thing that energized me in the second half of that tour because the tour had been going on so long, it was so physically exhaustive, I needed something to keep my mind sparking, like that was actually what made me so, like, it fueled me for the for the European lеg of the tour, was, was getting done with a show hopping on a planе and going and writing new songs and I think that, I think that one of the sort of ideas I had going into this was that I was winding down this tour and about ready to wrap up this tour, that was the proudest thing I'd ever done, I've never been more proud of, of anything than I am The Eras Tour and I just thought, "I want to make an album that I'm that proud of," and that's what, um, was the catalyst for this record and calling up Max and saying, "Do you guys want to do this? Like I'll come to you, I'll make this easy," um, and I think that the The Life of A Showgirl as a concept has to do with the, the fact that I was like, I just kind of realized I've been doing this for twenty years and I love it so much that it doesn't faze me how hard it can be at times. I think that the whole thing of being someone who puts yourself out there and puts yourself up there on a stage for people to like throw tomatoes at or cheer for is maybe something more people can relate to now that everybody has feedback all the time like even like people in like junior high feel like they got canceled because two people didn't like their outfit. We are all on this sort of pedestal now because of social media, anybody who chooses to engage with that, which is most people. I think a lot of people are feeling more like there's a performative side to their life that they have to. They have to balance, manage, figure out the ways around those complicated feelings. And ultimately, I'm really proud of doing what we did on The Eras Tour. It was really challenging and really fulfilling and lots of things all at once. And I just wanted to give people a look behind the curtain and show them what was going on creatively in my mind at the time