As one of Taylor Swift‘s closest friends, Zoe Kravitz was one of the first people to hear songs from the pop star’s new album The Life of a Showgirl.
And according to the actress, her bestie’s upcoming LP is worth all of the hype it’s already garnered in the six days since Swift first announced it last week. “I’ve heard bits of it,” Kravitz recently told Extra during an interview alongside Austin Butler for their new movie, Caught Stealing.
“It’s fantastic,” she continued. “Yeah, of course … No skips.”
When the interviewer replied that a skip-less album is “rare,” Kravitz asserted, “For her it’s not.”
At this point, the Batman star is an expert in Swift’s music. In addition to being friends with the 14-time Grammy winner for years, Kravitz has co-written songs with Swift in the past, lending her pen to Midnights opening track “Lavender Haze.”
The two women are so close, in fact, that Kravitz stayed at one of Swift’s homes with mom Lisa Bonet after having to evacuate her own residence amid the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year. While there, the two women accidentally lost Bonet’s pet snake Orpheus inside the Eras Tour headliner’s bathroom, resulting in Swift’s house manager having to take apart the musician’s cabinetry in order to get the reptile out.
“We completely destroyed Taylor’s bathroom, and there was just this moment where I was like, ‘Either we destroy her bathroom, or I have to tell her that there’s a snake somewhere in her house,’” Kravitz recalled Aug. 12 on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “I remember calling her and saying, ‘Hey … I wanted to talk to you about something,’ and she was like, ‘Is it the fact that you almost lost a snake in our house and destroyed my bathroom?’”
Kravitz’s comments on Showgirl come less than a week after Swift announced that her 12th studio album is set to arrive Oct. 3. Produced by Max Martin and Shellback, the project features 12 tracks — including a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter.
“[The album is] a lot more upbeat, and it’s a lot more fun pop excitement,” Swift said of Showgirl on boyfriend Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast. “My main goals were melodies that were so infectious, you’re almost angry at it.”
