"Taylor Swift has dropped the year’s biggest album with The Life of a Showgirl. It’s also the year’s most polarizing album — but how would it not be? Something about Taylor will always trigger those over-the-top love-or-hate reactions from people. “I have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness,” she sings halfway through the album — I love this line because it’s either the best or worst moment on the album, depending on your personal Swiftian chemistry. That’s the showgirl in her."     

- Rolling Stone