Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated appearance on the New Heights podcast hit a snag when the YouTube livestream abruptly cut to black an hour and 44 minutes in. Moments later, the show’s X account confirmed “technical difficulties,” promising the episode “will be back shortly.”

Record-Breaking Viewership

The crash occurred as the live viewer count surged to 1.3 million, with the podcast’s YouTube subscriber numbers increasing from 2.85 million to 2.91 million during the broadcast.

A First Look at The Life of a Showgirl

During the episode, Swift joined hosts Travis and Jason Kelce to debut the cover art for her upcoming album ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ which will be out on October 3. She also explained the inspiration behind the project:“This album is about what was going on behind the scenes of my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant. It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life, and so that effervescence has come through on this record. And like you said, bangers.”

No Bonus Tracks This Time

Swift also confirmed there will be no bonus tracks for ‘The Life of a Showgirl’. “With Tortured Poets Department, I was like here’s a data dump of everything I thought, felt, experienced in two or three years. Here’s 31 songs. This is 12,” she said. “There’s not a thirteenth, there’s not other ones coming. This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time. I also wanted every single song on this album for hundreds of reasons, and you couldn’t take one out and have it be the same album; you couldn’t add one and have it be… It’s just right.”