Give 2022 some credit—any year with Kate Bush crashing Top 40 radio can’t be all bad. So let’s celebrate a superbly crazy year for music, when brilliant tunes kept exploding all over the stylistic map. These are my 25 favorite songs of 2022. (Although many other gems are over on …
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What a year for music—any of my top half-dozen or so could have been Number One some other year. But these are my faves, with pop idols, guitar bangers, rap poets, disco visionaries. All these albums keep giving up new surprises for me. The double-digit years are always pivotal for …
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A federal class action lawsuit has been filed against Ticketmaster and Live Nation following Taylor Swift‘s “Eras Tour”ticketingdebacle. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, alleges that the ticketing company violated federal antitrust laws and unfair competition laws, and that they misled consumers in the sale of tickets for Swift’s tour. “Ticketmaster intentionally …
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What do you recall about the feud between Kanye West and Taylor Swift? Maybe something about a misogynistic lyric in West’s 2016 song “Famous,” or Swift’s subtle-but-scathing swipe at the line at that year’s Grammys — or, later, Kim Kardashian’s claims that the track had Swift’s prior approval. Surely the …
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As Swifties already knew: Taylor Swift dived into her deep, personal heartbreak on “All Too Well,” making the Red song an all-time favorite. The pop star recently sat down with director Martin McDonagh for Variety to discuss directing her All Too Well: The Short Film. “Emotionally, I was going through …
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From superstar pop, hip-hop, and Afropop, to indie-rock, K-pop, reggaeton, R&B, and reggae, Rolling Stone‘s list of the Top 100 albums of 2022 may well be our most musically diverse year-end round-up ever. In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we zero in on that list’s …
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Three of the biggest stars in the pop pantheon — Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Lady Gaga — will be competing against each other not at the Grammys next year, but at the Golden Globes, for Best Original Song. The category is led by Swift’s “Carolina” (for Where the Crawdads Sing), …
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Some extremely lucky Taylor Swift fans are getting another opportunity to scoop up leftover tickets to the pop star’s “Eras Tour.” On Monday, Dec. 12, Ticketmaster — which has faced intense scrutiny for the way it handled the massive demand for Swift tickets — sent emails to some folks who’d …
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Taylor Swift and the two songwriters who accused her of copyright infringement on “Shake It Off” have agreed to dismiss the lawsuit a month before it was set to head to trial. The decision was announced in court filings Monday, Dec. 12, with all parties involved asking the judge for …
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Taylor Swift, an Oscar hopeful for her All Too Well: The Short Film, has announced she’ll make her feature-length directorial debut based on an original script she wrote. Searchlight Pictures has partnered with Swift on the upcoming movie, details of which will be announced at a later date. “Taylor is …
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