Taylor Swift packed her "Fortnight" music video with plenty of Easter eggs for her fans, and here are the ones you might have missed on first watch.
Ariana Grande did it with her latest release Eternal Sunshine. I mean she cleared out the emotional baggage left by her divorce from Dalton Gomez using her music with a breakup album.
Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department" might be her most cathartic album yet. But what is the benefit of music-driven catharsis?
Swifties and influencers alike will be glad to learn that Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok. It’s a surprise move that comes after all Swift’s songs were removed from the social media platform earlier this year, along with other music from Universal Music Group (UMG). TikTokkers are likely pleased, but the return of Swift’s songs brings up a lot of questions. It comes just before her highly anticipated album, The Tortured Poets Department, drops next week. Swift partnered with TikTok...
Between in-game concerts, skins based on pop stars, and the addition of a rhythm game, Fortnite has been courting musicians and music lovers for years. I have to give props to Epic for specifically adding updates that spotlight pop queens like Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga, which has extended to full seasons for its Festival rhythm game bringing new skins, cosmetics, and songs based on specific artists. Starting tomorrow, April 23, it’s adding another pop girly to the line-up: Billie Eilish. The...
While it will probably take a few more days for all the reactions, close readings, and fervor over The Tortured Poets Department to really crystallize, one thing that’s immediately clear about the album is its sheer mass. Including its surprise, 16-track sister album, The Anthology, TTPD is a 31-song, two-plus hour behemoth, covering “a daunting amount of lore,” in the words of The A.V. Club’s Mary Kate Carr. But Taylor, clearly going for quantity over what could have been slightly more...
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Courtney Love has no love for famous stars from Taylor Swift to Beyoncé. In
With the release of Taylor Swift’s eleventh album just three sleeps away, the pop superstar is drumming up hype the way she does it best — with a scavenger hunt. On April 15, the Monday before “The Tortured Poets Department’s” debut on April 19, a curious mural cropped up on the side of a building in Chicago. The image is littered with “TTPD” letters and the number 13, telltale signs that this mural is meant for Swifties. At its center is a big QR code, and people have lined up to check it out....
Courtney Love might want to steer clear of social media for a few days because her recent comments about Taylor … Courtney Love Slams Taylor Swift’s Music: It’s Not ‘Important’ or … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
Universal Music Group and TikTok may never ever get back together, but Swifties can at least use some of her songs in their videos again.
Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant recently shared some controversial views on Taylor Swift's music career in a live event with The Guardian on April 22, sparking mixed reactions from listeners and fans alike.Despite Swift's enormous popularity, Tennant, 69, questioned the iconic status of her music, comparing her unfavorably to legends like Michael Jackson. "Taylor Swift sort of fascinates me as a phenomenon because she's so popular, and I sort of quite like the whole thing, but then when I listen to...