On Friday (April 19), Drake released his second “diss” track aimed at Kendrick Lamar on Instagram entitled “Taylor Made Freestyle.” On it, he tells the Pulitzer Prize-winning emcee to hurry up and respond to him. Essentially, the “Toosie Slide” rapper is having a light-skinned temper tantrum. My Hip-Hop Story: Sway Calloway Felt Like a Superhero […]
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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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Taylor Swift is known for her overly emotional, soul-baring lyrics. When someone of her influence in the music industry puts out an album titled, “The Tortured Poets Department,” we expect a certain amount of dramatic feelings. However, what we were not expecting from the Queen of the Swifties was to drop controversial lyrics that seemingly […]
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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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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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Photo: Nykieria Chaney (Getty Images) Former NFL star Antonio Brown is known for his offensive jokes and beefing with folks online. However, his latest commentary about Caitlin Clark has spurred the basketball player to block him on X/Twitter. Michael Oher On New Book, NFL, The Jets, Aaron Rodgers, Running Backs Contracts & He Sings! Off […]
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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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Steven and Ian begin this week’s episode by talking about shows they plan on seeing this weekend — Ian is going to check out the buzzy retro-pop master Cindy Lee while Steven is venturing to Las Vegas to see Phish play the Sphere. They also briefly touch on the iffy-looking Taylor Swift album out today, […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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He also, early in his career as a state legislator in Florida, was allegedly involved in a “points game,” in which he and other Republican lawmakers earned points for sleeping with women, with one point for doing so with a lobbyist, three points for a fellow legislator, six for a married fellow legislator, and so […]
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He also, early in his career as a state legislator in Florida, was allegedly involved in a “points game,” in which he and other Republican lawmakers earned points for sleeping with women, with one point for doing so with a lobbyist, three points for a fellow legislator, six for a married fellow legislator, and so […]
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