It all started with pizza. Mike Birbiglia went on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and shared how he was chosen by Taylor Swift to play the role of her “nightmare” son in the “Anti-Hero” music video. “It was just a flukey thing,” Birbiglia started, saying he connected with the …
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Jack Antonoff’s mission to transform Taylor Swift into Bleachers is almost complete. The singer’s close collaborator joined her on a newly recorded arrangement of Midnights single “Anti-Hero,” this time bringing his band into the fold for a conversational, dual perspective rendition that channels the production style Antonoff usually saves for …
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Mikael Arellano has been a Taylor Swift fan for years, starting when he first heard the superstar’s sophomore album Fearless, which marked the moment the country prodigy began claiming the pop throne. “The first Taylor songs I ever heard were ‘Love Story’ and ‘You Belong With Me,’” Arellano recalls. “Everything …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. “I am feeling so sorry for any millennial woman out there who just found out their wedding date is one of these,” said TikTok user @emdoodlesandstuff in a …
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Swifties often refer to Taylor Swift as “the music industry.” Monday may be as close to that moniker as she’s ever been. The release of Swift’s Midnights has already been established as one of the biggest opening weeks for an album in recent memory — and now, the pop star …
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Taylor Swift knew she wasn’t going to get a role in 2012’s Les Misérables before she even had her “nightmare” audition. On Friday, Swift visited BBC One’s The Graham Norton Show and joked about her screen test for the film adaptation of the Broadway classic. “Basically, I was up for …
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Taylor Swift had to water down her artistic expression and how she chose to portray her lived experience with disordered eating because people found the use of the word “FAT” in her “Anti-Hero” video offensive. During one scene of her “Anti-Hero” visual, Swift originally looked down at a scale, and …
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Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, and Bad Bunny were among the musicians to secure multiple nominations for this year’s People’s Choice Awards. Days after dropping her 10th studio album, Midnights, Swift picked up nominations for Female Artist of 2022, Album of 2022, and Music Video of 2022 (for “Anti-Hero”). Bad Bunny, …
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Taylor Swift’s Midnights has been billed as the first truly collaborative album she’s made with producer Jack Antonoff, but the LP and the extended 3am version feature plenty of other names, both old and new in the Swift realm. One of those is Mark Anthony Spears, a.k.a. Sounwave, who collaborated …
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Taylor Swift made a surprise visit to Bon Iver‘s concert in London on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the OVO Arena in Wembley. As Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, began the first few verses of “Exile” from Swift’s eighth album, Folklore, the Midnights artist walked on stage. Immediately, the crowd lost it. …
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