Overview

• Taylor Swift made her debut on the New Heights podcast to announce her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, due October 3 with cover art, track list and collaborators Max Martin and Shellback
• The YouTube livestream drew about 1.3 million viewers at its peak but ended suddenly when the show’s account attributed the cutoff to a streaming glitch
• On-air moments included Swift discussing reclaiming her masters and the Eras Tour alongside visible PDA with Travis Kelce, who repeatedly called himself “the luckiest man in the world”
• Reactions on social media were split between fans celebrating the candid access and critics deriding the episode’s public displays of intimacy as overly saccharine
• Separately, Donna Kelce told PEOPLE her son Travis slimmed down and intensified his offseason training as he gears up for his 13th NFL season