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    Taylor Swift’s new album allegedly ‘leaked’ on social media and it’s causing a frenzy

    Social media can be a divisive place, but even more so when it comes to Taylor Swift. A Google Drive link allegedly containing 17 tracks that are purportedly from Swift’s eagerly awaited “The Tortured Poets Department” album has been making the rounds on the internet in the past day and people are equal parts mad, sad and happy about it. CNN has reached out to Swift’s representative for comment. The actual album is slated to drop at midnight Friday, but the claimed leak is both being hailed and...

  • Taylor Swift’s new album is for gamers.

    Not only is the first song called “Fortnight” (ignore the typo), but the lyrics from “So High School” reference both GTA and the beloved LucasArts adventure game Full Throttle. Curiously it’s not capitalized, but Swift does seem to be teasing a sequel. [Attachment: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/TgfDRP-EQ5cCLxAlLRbwH2M__Mk=/0x0:1170x1421/1170x1421/filters:focal(585x711:586x712)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25408748/img_7249.jpg]

  • All the Texas references in Taylor Swift’s new album

    Swifites are notorious for combing through every "Easter egg" or clue in the 34-year-old's lyrics and have taken notice that the singer references two states in several songs: Florida and Texas.

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    Following a classified briefing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), more commonly known as UFOs, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) suggested Wednesday that the U.S. government may be intentionally concealing information on these objects from the American public. “I think there's a cover up,” Burchett told Blake Burman on NewsNation’s “The Hill.” “There are tens of millions

  • Trump’s New York Trial Has Officially Begun. Here’s What’s at Stake.

    Jury selection began Monday in the first of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases to go to trial, a case legal experts say is the Read More

  • Deftones covered The Smiths at Coachella, give update on new album

    "I have this show again next week and then straight after that I go back home to Oregon and I go in the studio," Chino Moreno said ahead of his weekend one Coachella set.

  • Future Joins Jay-Z, Eminem, and More with Billboard No. 1 Albums Achievement

    With We Still Don’t Trust You taking the top spot on Billboard 200, Future has joined JAY-Z, Eminem, Kanye West, and his friend turned foe Drake as the only rapper to top the chart ten times. Future ties Eminem at ten, and trails Hov (14), Drizzy (13), and Ye (11). Future takes the top spot, […] The post Future Joins Jay-Z, Eminem, and More with Billboard No. 1 Albums Achievement first appeared on The Source.

  • Valley’s ‘Tortured Poets’ fully embracing new Taylor Swift album

    It felt appropriate to write about Swifties celebrating the release of “The Tortured Poets Department” by streaming the album. To the joy or dismay of many Americans, Taylor Swift and her art have come to define pop culture.

  • Questions hang over UK’s new, ambitious defense spending plan: Analysts

    Such is the scale of British Army acquisition problems alone that they could not be resolved if the UK moved to a long term spending settlement of even 4 percent GDP, an expert told British lawmakers.

  • Taylor Swift’s new album is about a reckless kind of freedom. If only it sounded as uninhibited

    The Tortured Poets Department depicts a spell of post-breakup mania against the perfect backdrop of the Eras tour – a thrillingly immature reality undermined by safe music

  • 8 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album The Tortured Poets Department

    In the 18 months between 2022’s Midnights and Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, Swift managed to grow into an even bigger cultural force, releasing three deluxe reissues of Midnights, as well as Taylor’s Version re-recordings of 2014’s 1989 and 2010’s Speak Now. Between records, she embarked on the ongoing Eras Tour, a three-hour career retrospective that’s boosted local economies, grossed over a billion dollars, and attracted the level of media attention usually reserved...

  • Share your thoughts on Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department

    We would like to hear your views on Taylor Swift’s surprise double albumWe would like to hear your views on Taylor Swift’s surprise double album, The Tortured Poets Department.Swift’s 11th studio album was released on Friday, and immediately updated with the addition of 15 unexpected bonus tracks as Swift revealed that it was a secret double album. [T]here’s a depth and maturity to this album that makes her competitors look a little wan by comparison. Clearly, the monocultural ubiquity she’s...