Taylor Swift announced the April release of The Tortured Poets Department at the 2024 Grammys in February, and Swifties spent the ensuing two months presuming the bulk of the album would be about Swift’s early 2023 breakup from British actor Joe Alwyn. Plot twist: Upon the album’s release last Friday, April 19, the presumption changed […]
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Lauv is inviting us into the new chapter of his life. Last year, Lauv identified as sexually fluid in a letter to fans. Today (April 24), he has shared his new single, “Potential,” on which he fully embraces himself. On “Potential,” Lauv ponders the thought of getting close with a longtime friend. A poppy, queer […]
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The MTV Video Music Awards have built quite a legacy: This year’s show will mark the event’s 40th anniversary. Speaking of the 2024 VMAs, when is that going down? When Will The 2024 MTV VMAs Be Held? MTV announced today (April 24) that this year’s ceremony will take place on September 10 at New York’s […]
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Coachella is officially over, but all that means is that festival season has just begun. It’s still early in the year and there are plenty of major events yet to come. That includes San Francisco favorite Outside Lands, which hits Golden Gate Park from August 9 to 11. The lineup was announced today (April 23) […]
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Taylor Swift‘s 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department not only has a lot of songs, especially on the Anthology edition, there’s also a lot of references to other artists, bands, and poets. Below, you’ll find an explanation for all the name drops, and if the person / group mentioned has said anything about the […]
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Taylor Swift has won more awards than just about anybody: She has 14 Grammys to her name and the Wikipedia page listing the awards and nominations she’s received has quite the scrollbar. Swift’s awards list is about to get even bigger, too: The 28th Annual Webby Awards are set to go down on May 13. […]
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Move over Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, there is a new crossover couple that has pop music fans attention. Since dating rumors kicked off in January, the public has grown intrigued by Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan‘s pairing. Now, with the relationship status confirmed, fans are obsessed with what will come from their romance. Yesterday […]
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Lana Del Rey might not have a Grammy Award just yet. But according to fans, the “Hollywood Bowl” singer has earned something much more valuable — the ‘Queen of Moody Music’ title. Yesterday (April 19), during Lana’s closing set as Coachella 2024’s headliner, she temporarily put her doom-and-gloom sonic signature aside. As a special treat […]
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Last night, Taylor Swift treated fans to the official release of her new album The Tortured Poets Department, only to surprise everyone at 2 a.m. by dropping an additional fifteen songs. After listeners managed to get some sleep and finish the record, Swift has now continued the rollout by dropping the era’s first music video […]
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In a wild turn of events for the weekend, Pink has reportedly filed legal paperwork against Pharrell Williams through her lawyers, claiming that he should not be allowed to trademark his P.Inc business, according to Rolling Stone. The pop star registered her stage name as a trademark officially in 2001, but feels that Pharrell’s is […]
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With weekend two of Coachella kicking off today, this year’s lineup of artists will be returning to treat a mostly-new batch of fans to all their favorite songs. However, it’s not the same festival if the headliners don’t have any surprises in store. Last week, the three main acts, Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat, and […]
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Taylor Swift fans got more than they expected today (April 19): Swift released The Tortured Poets Department at midnight, then shortly after that, she released the double album version, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. All in all, there are a whopping 31 new songs here, so let’s take a look at who is credited […]
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Who Is Cassandra From Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department’ Album? Some have connected the song title to Cassandra, a figure from Greek mythology. The Brooklyn Museum explains: “The ravishing Cassandra, literally ‘she who entangles men,’ was the daughter of Priam and Hecuba, king and queen of Troy. The god Apollo, enamored of her, granted […]
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More than just about any musician today, Taylor Swift is known for working elements of her personal life into her lyrics. So, with her new album The Tortured Poets Department out now, fans have been combing through the tracklist. Some lyrics have been identified as potentially being about Travis Kelce, so let’s check them out. […]
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Jimmy Kimmel has pulled some evil pranks over the years on Jimmy Kimmel Live, but this one might be the most sinister. During Thursday’s episode, Kimmel and his man-on-the-street team tricked Swifties into thinking they were releasing to a brand-new Taylor Swift song. But it was actually the latest single from Lara Trump, the wife […]
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Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department is here, and Charlie Puth gets a flattering, direction mention on one of the songs. On the flip side, fans are certain that Kim Kardashian gets an unflattering, indirect mention on another track. Let’s run through the lyrics of “Thank You Aimee,” but first, it’s important to […]
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What Does Taylor Swift Say About Charlie Puth On The Tortured Poets Department? At the start of the song’s second verse, Swift sings, “You smoked, then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.” Once the track dropped, social media was filled with memes about Charli being pleasantly […]
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While many Swifties were making their way through The Tortured Poets Department (our review) for the first time, Taylor Swift revealed that the 16-song single album was actually a 31-song double album. “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album,” she wrote on social media. “I’d written so much tortured […]
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Taylor Swift dropped her new album The Tortured Poets Department, which, according to her speech at the 2024 Grammy Awards, was written over the course of the past two years. Though she may never flat-out reveal who exactly her songs are about, it seems clear as day which ex Swift is referring to on one […]
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Taylor Swift knows how to take us on a journey. Tonight (April 19), the illustrious hitmaker dropped her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. On the album, Swift details an escape to the Sunshine State, with Florence And The Machine by her side. Haunted by the demise of a relationship, Swift and Florence Welch […]
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Taylor Swift released her first album 18 years ago. Since then, she’s been a country darling, a pop mega-star, and a quarantine savior; she’s sold 100 million albums worldwide and won 14 Grammys, including Album Of The Year four times (the first artist to ever pull off that feat). But her greatest accomplishment is providing […]
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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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