From the desk of The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift is in the building, and she’s brought a special visitor. Her 11th album opens with “Fortnight,” a smooth, silky new collaboration with Post Malone. On “Fortnight,” Swift sets the scene for the album’s tone, with her vivid lyricism. Beautifully decorated with background vocals from Malone, […]
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Taylor Swift isn’t mincing words. Tonight (April 19), the prolific pop icon has shared her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. And as its title suggests, Swift is sharing the poetry of her tortured soul. On the album is a song called “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” on which, she details her time […]
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In honor of The Tortured Poets Department being Taylor Swift‘s 11th studio album, here are 11 initial thoughts on the album. 1. In his memoir Chronicles, Bob Dylan writes about how a new way of playing the guitar changed the way he connected to his songs. “I never used this style, didn’t see that there’d […]
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We are less than a month away from Billie Eilish’s much anticipated third studio album, Hit Me Hard And Soft. Having announced the album earlier this month, Eilish has fans abuzz regarding the sounds of her upcoming record. And she’s is remaining tight-lipped about the project, as she wants fans to experience Hit Me Hard […]
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There’s a notion in business that if you aren’t growing, you are dying. It’s a mentality that feels easy to combat, yet everything we experience regarding capitalism, about startups and the stock market, tells us differently, and it infects every aspect of our lives. You’d think culture would be immune, but Americans treat the arts […]
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There is now less than one day before the release of Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated new album, The Tortured Poets Department. Usually, Swift will have released at least a song or two ahead of the album. This time around, though, she has kept fans in the dark, dropping no advance singles to tease the project. […]
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As Rihanna as grown older and moved further into motherhood, she, by her own admission, has changed how far she’s willing to push the fashion envelope in terms of revealing looks. At a launch event for Fenty X Puma yesterday (April 17), Rihanna explained how there are some styles of hers she looks back on […]
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With just a few more hours to go until Taylor Swift officially releases The Tortured Poets Department out into the world, fans got to find out exactly what the first main surprise was she had in store this afternoon. After teasing that something would happen at 2 p.m. ET, Swift finally unveiled what the first […]
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How To Use Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department Spotify Countdown Page Upon searching for Taylor Swift on the Spotify app, you will be prompted to visit Taylor Swift’s Spotify Countdown page, which allows fans to pre-save The Tortured Poets Department and see a tracklist preview. Additionally, the Countdown page is home to exclusive clips […]
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The lineup for the first weekend of Coachella 2024 was stacked, but that was especially true when you look at all the surprise guests who popped up across the festival’s various stages. Among the big-name artists to unexpectedly take the stage was Billie Eilish, who popped up to perform Eilish’s “Ocean Eyes” and Del Rey’s […]
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Time unveiled its 2024 list of the 100 Most Influential People, spanning actors, athletes, directors, political figures, and others dominating the public conversation. As expected, many musicians made the list this year. Dua Lipa received a cover honor with a bio crafted by Patti Smith. “She moves with a lightness in a heavy world — […]
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To be clear: As far as we can gather from publicly available information, Kanye West does not wear diapers. That hasn’t stopped Jack Antonoff from jokingly making that assertion about Ye, though. He did so in a Los Angeles Times interview from February, and he did so again yesterday (April 16) on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. […]
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Today, international star Shakira announced the first run of shows on her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, named after her album of the same title. The album is her first since 2017’s El Dorado; she explained the length of the gap between the albums during her appearance on Hot Ones, where she also […]
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It’s finally happening: This Friday, April 19, Taylor Swift is set to release her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department. By now, most Swifties have surely decided which edition (or more likely, editions) of they album they’re going to get. For those who haven’t though, let’s take a look at the options. How Many Editions […]
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Shakira shocked Coachella this past weekend by popping up during collaborator Bizarrap’s set and announcing the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. Now, she has followed that up with an official announcement of dates. Those kick off this November, but in terms of when you can buy tickets, here’s what you need to know. […]
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Taylor Swift is now just a few days away from dropping her new album, The Tortured Poets Department. Between building the excitement by having a QR code painted in Chicago and announcing a Spotify pop-up in Los Angeles, fans have also discovered the songwriting credits for the entire record. According to Capital.FM, the credits were […]
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The first weekend of Coachella 2024 was full of surprises, and one of the big ones was Shakira popping up at Bizarrap’s set and announcing the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. Now, we have dates. What we have so far is being billed as the “first run” of shows, so more dates are […]
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On “Firework,” Katy Perry sings, “Baby, you’re a firework / Come on, let your colors burst.” But something else burst while the pop star was filming American Idol: her top. Perry suffered a wardrobe malfunction during the episode of the competition series (which she’s departing as a judge after this season) that aired on Monday. […]
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Taylor Swift is beloved by pretty much everybody, as her massive and somehow still-growing popularity over the past few years has proven. There are some outliers, though, and that includes Courtney Love. In a recent interview for The Standard, Love shared her thoughts on a number of music’s biggest stars. She said of Swift, “Taylor […]
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Ryan Gosling said goodbye to Ken, his horse- and patriarchy-loving character from Barbie, on SNL over the weekend. But he said hello to his favorite Taylor Swift song. During his monologue, Gosling performed a parody of Swift’s masterpiece, “All Too Well,” with help from The Fall Guy co-star Emily Blunt. “Cause here we are again […]
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Kesha’s music career got off to a scorching start with her 2009 debut single “Tik Tok,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was ultimately one of the defining songs of its era. The opening lyric, though, hasn’t aged particularly well: “Wake up in the morning feelin’ like P. Diddy.” Diddy, of course, is […]
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Yesterday, I wrote that Coachella remains an excellent venue for music discovery, as long as you keep an open mind and plan around the acts you really want to see. However the flip side of that is you will occasionally be forced to make choices. I had to contend with this obstacle more than once […]
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The ladies of Saturday Night Live are giving a go at country music. Tonight (April 12), Chloe Troast, Chloe Fineman, and Ego Nwodim starred in “Get That Boy Back,” a new country bop in which the three get back at their men, who they believe are cheating. As the age-old adage holds, hell hath no […]
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Coachella has been full of surprises this weekend. During this year’s festival, fans have been eager to see No Doubt perform with its classic line-up for the first time in years. During No Doubt’s performance, the Gwen Stefani-fronted band performed several fan favorites, including “Don’t Speak,” “Hey Baby,” “Hella Good,” and more. As the band […]
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New Billie Eilish music is on the way. Earlier this month, Eilish announced her third album, Hit Me Hard And Soft, is dropping in May. She also shared there would be no singles ahead of the album release, to allow for fans to experience the album in full. But if you were one of the […]
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Coachella is still the best place to discover music that you otherwise wouldn’t or couldn’t. For example: on Friday, the first day of this year’s festival, the handful of hip-hop acts that I saw were mostly by accident (as the hip-hop editor, I would normally prioritize those, right?). But on my editor’s recommendation – and […]
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Yesterday (April 12), Coachella 2024 started with a bang. The annual festival’s desert climate quickly soaked up all of day one’s wave of notable acts. To end the night, headliner Lana Del Rey steadied things with a mellow set of songs from her latest album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. […]
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Coachella has once again become the site of hologram-related controversy. However, this time, rather than the unexpected (and borderline creepy) likeness of a deceased performer, the scandal is all about a real performer versus a virtual one — and which of them actually got to appear as the hologram. During her headlining set Friday night, […]
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On Monday, April 8, Billie Eilish finally announced that she will release Hit Me Hard And Soft on May 17 — not only among Uproxx’s “Most Anticipated Albums Of 2024” but also among the most anticipated albums of the past few years. Eilish is aware of the stakes every time she does anything, and that’s […]
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Earlier this week, Billie Eilish put her fans (and “close friends“) out of their misery and finally announced her next album, Hit Me Hard And Soft, will be released on May 17. Eilish confirmed she’s “not doing singles” during this album cycle, but she did play “like 14 seconds” of an unreleased song snippet for […]
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In the year 2024, everybody wants a piece of Taylor Swift, but most people cannot get her. Swift might not be taking on any leading roles lately (she’s learned her lesson), but there is nothing wrong with a little cameo every once in a while, even though that’s also far-fetched. In order to get Taylor […]
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