Zoë Kravitz Reveals First Reaction to Taylor Swift’s Upcoming Album The Life of a Showgirl

Zoë Kravitz has given her first review of Taylor Swift’s upcoming album The Life of a Showgirl. 

In an interview with Extra published on Sunday, August 17, the actress and singer — who was promoting her new film Caught Stealing — was asked if she’d heard her friend’s 12th studio album.

Kravitz, 36, revealed that she had “heard bits of it.”

“It’s fantastic, of course. No skips,” she told the interviewer of Swift’s forthcoming album, to which they replied, “No skips? That’s rare.”

“For her, it’s not,” said Kravitz.

The High Fidelity alum recently shared another anecdote about Swift while appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday, Aug. 12.

During the Los Angeles fires, Kravitz revealed that Swift kindly offered her and her mom Lisa Bonet a place to stay, which led to an interesting encounter involving her mom’s pet snake.

“My mom has a pet snake and so she came over with the snake,” she said, noting that the pair had to stay at Swift’s home for “maybe about two weeks.”

“Taylor has a very beautiful house from the ‘30s, it’s just something you want to preserve and take care of,” added Kravitz. “…It was the last day, I was gonna leave [for work], my mom was actually going to stay longer … and I was saying to my mom, ‘I really want to be a good house guest … I don’t want her to even know we were here.’ ” 

As she was packing up her things, her mom, 57, called with a problem.

“She goes … ‘I’m in a little bit of a pickle, can you come upstairs’ … and she’s [in] the bathroom and she’s like crouched in the corner in this weird way,” recalled Kravitz. “She’s like, ‘so I was washing my face and I had Orpheus (the snake’s name) and I just put her down for a second, closed the door and she found this little hole in the corner.’ ”

According to Kravitz, the snake went into “a little hole” in the corner of Swift’s bathroom, before Bonet, 57, quickly grabbed its tail.

“I was panicking so much,” she said of the experience.

While Kravitz ended up calling the house manager, she said, “We’re ripping up the tile, we’re scratching the walls … [We] completely destroyed Taylor’s bathroom.”

In recent years, Kravitz and Swift have become close friends. In 2022, Kravitz shared that the pair became close after spending time together in London during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

On Wednesday, Aug. 13, the 14-time Grammy winner, 35, revealed her album The Life of a Showgirl was on its way via Instagram, also unveiling the cover art.

In the image, Swift could be seen sporting a bedazzled one-piece featuring cut-outs as she lies in a body of water and rests her hand on her head. Her look still features her signature red lip and a smoky eye.

“And, baby, that’s show business for you. New album The Life of a Showgirl. Out October 3,” she captioned the post.

The album is produced by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback.

Swift also shared follow-up photos channeling her showgirl era with rhinestones, feathers and matching headpieces.

She also shared the track list, which revealed that Sabrina Carpenter will be featured on the title track. Other songs on the album include “Elizabeth Taylor,” “Ruin the Friendship,” “Honey,” “Actually Romantic,” “CANCELLED!”, “Eldest Daughter”, “Father Figure”, “Opalite” and “The Fate of Ophelia.”

In an Instagram video teaser on the New Heights podcast — which her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce co-host — Swift announced her forthcoming LP at 12:12 a.m. E.T. on Tuesday, Aug. 12.