If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. File name: The Swiftie Shopper. Fans are counting down the seconds until Taylor Swift releases her highly anticipated studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, out April 19. Announced …
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 …
Read More »Taylor Swift Loved Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt's 'All Too Well (Barbenheimer Version)'
Taylor Swift gave Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt rave reviews for their “All Too Well” parody during Gosling’s Saturday Night Live monologue this weekend. The night’s opening bit started with Gosling turning Swift’s classic break-up anthem into a prolonged, mournful coda on Barbie and his Year of Ken. About halfway …
Read More »'SNL': Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt Channel Taylor Swift for Farewell to Ken
Saturday Night Live host Ryan Gosling and fellow co-star of The Fall Guy, Emily Blunt, each bid farewell to their respective characters in last summer’s blockbusters, Barbie and Oppenheimer, by channelling Taylor Swift‘s “All Too Well.” Gosling, hosting SNL for the third time following his cameo appearance last week, took …
Read More »Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Dance to Ice Spice, Bleachers at Coachella 2024
Would it even be Coachella without some A-list spectators? Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were among the stars spotted dancing along to both Ice Spice and Bleachers on Day Two of Coachella 2024. Swift and Kelce were seen clapping and dancing along to Jack Antonoff in the designated artist guest …
Read More »Taylor Swift's Music Returns to TikTok, Despite App's Ongoing Dispute with UMG
Taylor Swift‘s catalog is once again available on TikTok, even as her record label, Universal Music Group, is still in the middle of a heated dispute with the influential short-form video platform. Back in February, Swift’s tracks were among the thousands pulled off TikTok after UMG announced that it hadn’t …
Read More »Taylor Swift Teases 'The Tortured Poets Department' During Solar Eclipse
As a solar eclipse moved across the U.S., Taylor Swift teased what some are speculating to be potential lyrics on social media ahead of her new album,The Tortured Poets Department. In her Instagram Story, Swift shared a black-and-white video of a typewriter punching the words, “Crowd goes wild at her …
Read More »Taylor Swift Starts Countdown to 'The Tortured Poets Department' With Her Favorite Number
Taylor Swift is dropping her new album, The Tortured Poets Department on April 19, which is 13 days from now, and also incidentally a number, which carries a lot of significance for her. She detailed the reason the number has been a lucky one for her back in 2009 when …
Read More »Taylor Swift Soundtracks the Five Stages of Grief With New Apple Music Playlists
As she gears up for the release of The Tortured Poets Department later this month, Taylor Swift has shared five new playlists on Apple Music comprised of her old songs, angled around the five stages of grief and heartbreak: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Swift shared brief audio messages …
Read More »Girl in Red Is Ready for Her Superstar Era
M arie Ulven is not a chill person. Over the course of lunch at a slick New York spot packed with women in expensive-looking black athleisure, she swings between aping Taylor Swift’s arm flex on “The Man” from the Eras Tour — a move that Ulven, who opened for a …
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