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Taylor Swift has another new song out, and naturally, she isn't making it easy for Swifties to simply listen and move on. “Patient Zero” arrives Sept. 25 (Friday), just days after Swift dropped a ...

Three of Taylor Swift’s four new The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore tracks seem to draw inspiration from her romantic past (“Patient Zero,” “Pink Clouding”) and present (“Cleveland!”). But the subject ...

WASHINGTON — Adding to an already best-selling album, Taylor Swift released four new songs at midnight Friday, Sept. 25. Instead of releasing the songs on a separate EP, Swift added the four tracks to ...

"The Life of a Showgirl" lives on. Almost exactly a year after the release of her 12th studio album, Taylor Swift tacked a quartet of new songs onto a newly announced deluxe version of the album, "The ...

Taylor Swift‘s brand new song “Patient Zero” has arrived and you can listen to the full track, plus read the lyrics, right here. Meanwhile, some fans on Reddit theorize that Taylor herself could be ...