Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' deluxe album has 4 new songs. They range from inspired to indefensible.

Taylor Swift in a promo photo for "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore." Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott; TAS Rights Management On Friday, Taylor Swift released "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore." The "Showgirl" deluxe edition includes four new songs that Swift wrote after the original's release. "Patient Zero" and "Babylon" are standouts, but "Cleveland!" is one of her worst songs to date. Precious few music critics would've said that Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" needed more songs. When it was unveiled last October, Swift's 12th studio album — inspired by the joy, drama, and "effervescence" of the Eras Tour , Swift said at the time — received some of the most disenchanted reviews of her career.