Listen to Taylor Swift’s bittersweet new single ‘Patient Zero’ – along with three more ‘Encore’ tracks

Taylor Swift has shared her bittersweet new single ‘Patient Zero’, alongside three more songs on ‘The Life Of A Showgirl: The Encore’. READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ review: magical when the songwriter just lets herself be The expanded edition of Swift’s 2025 album arrived today (September 25), adding ‘Patient Zero’, ‘Cleveland!’, ‘Pink Clouding’ and ‘Babylon’ to the original tracklist. All four songs were written with Max Martin and Shellback after Swift travelled to Sweden to celebrate the record-breaking success of ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’. Lead single ‘Patient Zero’ is a glossy pop track built around electronic percussion and a swooning string line, with Swift using infection as a metaphor for a destructive relationship. She addresses another woman caught in her ex-partner’s orbit, warning her about the “devil” beneath his halo and offering herself as the original case who survived the same experience. “If you’re sick of him, I got you,” she sings, before declaring herself “patient zero”. Swift announced ‘Patient Zero’ earlier this week after changing various instances of the letter ‘O’ to zeroes across her social media, prompting fans to wonder whether an e...