Welcome to our weekly rundown ofthe best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, two exceedingly intense highlights from Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Department, a new beef-sizzling new track from Drake, and a mystical Hozier B-side. Plus, new music from …
Read More »Clara Bow's Family Calls Taylor Swift Song a 'Testament' to Actress' 'Legacy'
The great-grandchildren of Clara Bow are feeling the love after Taylor Swift named a song after the iconic 1920s actress on The Tortured Poets Department. In a new interview with People, Nicole Sisneros and Brittany Grace Bell — the granddaughters of Bow’s son Rex Bell Jr. — shared that they …
Read More »Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' Is Spotify's Most Streamed Album in a Single Day
Taylor Swift‘s Tortured Poets Department is on pace for a massive opening, and in under 24 hours, the album already beat the record for most streams in a single day on Spotify, the service confirmed on Friday. The record has over 200 million streams already, Spotify said, and Swift now …
Read More »Taylor Swift Drops Dystopic, Post Malone-Featuring Trailer for 'Fortnight'
Four hours before officially releasing her album The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift posted a six-second trailer of the upcoming music video for “Fortnight,” her song with Post Malone. “At this hearing, I stand before my fellow members of The Tortured Poets Department with a summary of my findings,” she …
Read More »Taylor Swift Just Released 'The Tortured Poets Department'
The department meeting has begun…Taylor Swift has released her eleventh studio album The Tortured Poets Department. Swift reunited with both Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner for her latest album, which explores her most recent relationships as well as her own public image. The album features previously announced collaborations with Post …
Read More »Come for the Torture, Stay for the Poetry: This Might Be Taylor Swift's Most Personal Album Yet
Poets only want love if it’s torture. And when the poet is Taylor Swift, you always have to figure love and torture are never more than a few verses apart. Taylor became a legend as the poet laureate of teen romance. But that was kid stuff compared to the adult …
Read More »Taylor Swift's New Album Opens With a Stevie Nicks Poem
If you’re lucky enough to have a physical copy of Taylor Swift’s new album on release day, you can hear it kick off with a Stevie Nicks poem. Dated August 13, 2023 in Austin, Texas, and featuring the charming note “For T — and me,” the poem reads like a …
Read More »Taylor Swift Unveils Double Album 'The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology'
Surprise! The Tortured Poets Department is actually a double album. Taylor Swift revealed that she recorded an extra 15 tracks, which are now available in the form of The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album,” Swift wrote on …
Read More »Taylor Swift and Post Malone Were in the 'Tortured Poets Department' Together Way Before 'Fortnight'
Throughout her career, Taylor Swift has landed 232 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. Included in that are the 49 songs that broke into the Top 10. Within that, 11 topped the chart. Despite having an inescapable presence in pop for over a decade, there’s one artist’s record in particular …
Read More »Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' Was a Pop Pivot With a Sense of Humor
Taylor Swift knows a thing or two about swerving when people least expect it. Still, nothing could have prepared listeners for the way she totally abandoned country music on her 2014 album, 1989. Sure, she had teased some Max Martin-assisted pop hits on her previous album, Red, but 1989 was …
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