While appearing on Apple Music's The Zane Lowe Show, Taylor Swift addressed the mixed reaction she received from critics -- and even some fans --about her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl.

Swift last teamed up with Martin and Shellback on 2017's Reputation, but the trio is perhaps best known for their work together on 2014's 1989. A deluxe edition of the latter album also featured a voice memo capturing how they wrote seven-week Billboard Hot 100 -topper "Blank Space."

Kansas native Carrie Barton lived the life of a showgirl. Raised in the small-town embrace of Wellsville, southwest of Olathe, she was 22, newly graduated from Oklahoma City University in 2007 and newly engaged when she was chosen for the cast of “Jubilee!,” the longest running showgirl spectacular in history.