Taylor Swift to collaborate with Sabrina Carpenter after announcement of her 12th album 'The Life of a Showgirl'? Fans say, 'Is this a hint at a...'

Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter, two global sensations who enjoy a humongous fan base across the world and have mutual admiration for each other, might collaborate soon, as per several theories of netizens circulated on social media.

After Taylor Swift announced her 12th album titled The Life of a Showgirl, users shared their views and theories on X.

One netizen wrote, “Sabrina Carpenter covered Taylor Swift’s ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ acoustically for Spotify. Taylor put that very same song at number 12 in the Spotify playlist for her new album tonight. Guess what number Sabrina updated her website to earlier today? Tay x Sab collab incoming”.

“Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift both post August 12 on their respective websites. Is this a hint at a collab?” wrote another user.

The duo has performed together at the Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert in New Orleans.

“The Life of a Showgirl” follows last year’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” announced during the 2024 Grammys and released during her record-breaking tour, which raked in over $2.2 billion across two years and five continents, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time.

The album is also Swift’s first release since she regained control over her entire body of work. In May, the pop star said she purchased her catalog of recordings — originally released through Big Machine Records — from their most recent owner, the private equity firm Shamrock Capital. She did not disclose the amount paid.

In recent years, Swift had been re-recording and releasing her first six albums in an attempt to regain control of her music. The project was instigated by music executive Scooter Braun’s purchase and sale of her early catalog. Previous “Taylor’s Version” releases have been more than conventional re-recordings, arriving with new “from the vault” music, Easter eggs and visuals that deepen understanding of her work.

So far, there have been four re-recorded albums, beginning with “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” and “Red (Taylor’s Version)” in 2021. All four have been massive commercial and cultural successes, each debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Swift’s last re-recording, “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” arrived in October 2023, just four months after the release of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).” That was the same year Swift claimed the record for the woman with the most No. 1 albums in history.

With inputs from AP