Wrapping up nearly 10 years of production, Stranger Things has been ramping up its marketing this past month, relying heavily on nostalgia. With many sayings such as "the end of an era" and "one last adventure" on Instagram, it seems like the directors, the Duffer Brothers, are really drumming up anticipation as Netflix's "best TV show" comes to an end.
As expected, Taylor Swift's new album The Life of a Showgirl has broken records on its way to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. Swift's 15th LP debuted with 4.002 million equivalent album units (including pure album sales and streaming activity), with pure album sales totaling 3,479,500, 1.3 million of which were vinyl sales, reports via Luminate.
The UK pop legend recently revealed that he had to delay his latest album, Britpop, to avoid direct competition with all that is Swift-Mania. "We're all pretending [the scheduling change] is not about Taylor Swift, but it f**king is," Williams said. "You can't compete with that." The revelation (via ) came during Williams' Thursday evening set at London's Dingwalls.
Amid the flood of discourse around Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl, one recurring sentiment jumped out: that the album which many critics have declared a misstep in Swift's otherwise consistently solid discography felt hurried, hasty, rushed. The Life of a Showgirl Is 40 Minutes of Elevator Music Rushed Out to Break a Beatles Record, read the particularly savage headline of a piece on Collider.
In her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift invites us into the psychological backstage of fame. One of the album's more provocative tracks, "Actually Romantic," has been widely interpreted as a diss track. While fans and critics alike often have a hard time reaching agreement on who Swift references in her bops, many believe "Actually Romantic" targets fellow pop icon Charli XCX. The track highlights Charli's reported drug use and likens Charli's critical attention to Taylor to infatuation.
Taylor Swift may be a pop star and business mastermind, but she's most beloved by fans for being a storyteller. "Everybody has their own sort of niche or specialty thing that they do that, you know, sets them apart from everybody else," Swift said in "Miss Americana," her 2020 Netflix documentary. "And my storytelling is what is for me. I know that without me writing my own songs, I wouldn't be here."
For the first time since she was still a teenager, Taylor Swift won't be competing for a nomination at the 68th annual Grammy Awards. This is for the simple reason that the pop superstar didn't release any music during the eligibility window, which ran from August 31st, 2024, to August 30th, 2025. Her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, and its lead single, "The Fate of Ophelia," were both released this past Friday, October 3rd, missing the cutoff date by more than a month.
By Swift's own account, she'd had a fraught history with Braun long before he acquired her back catalog in a deal with Scott Borchetta, the CEO of Big Machine Records, Swift's former label. "Everyone in my team knew if Scooter Braun brings us something, do not bring it to me," she told Rolling Stone in 2019. "The fact that those two are in business together after the things he said about Scooter Braun - it's really hard to shock me. And this was utterly shocking."
Shall I compare thee to a redwood tree? Thou art more sappy and more decadent. Rough winds do shake OK, enough of that. I apologise for the cod Shakespeare but I just couldn't help myself. Taylor Swift mania is at fever pitch and I have found myself swept up in the chatter about the lyrics from her new album, The Life of a Showgirl.
When it comes to proposals, we've all met that person who seems like they are storyboarding or executive producing the big 'surprise' "I just watch it like it's a TV," singer Taylor Swift said, showing off her sparkling engagement ring to chat show host Graham Norton and an array of guests on his red couch.
