In the last two weeks, the Trump administration has used music from Taylor Swift's latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in three posts on social media. The first, shared by the official White House account on TikTok, was a patriotic slide show of images set to lead single The Fate of Ophelia. As Swift sings pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes, the video cuts to pictures of the US flag, President Trump, the vice-president, JD Vance.
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 has been making fashion statements for over a decade. For performances, the singer often wears sparkly rompers and sheer dresses. On the red carpet, Swift isn't afraid to wear gowns with daring necklines or bold minidresses. As is often the case, all eyes are on Taylor Swift for the fall 2025 season. On Friday, Swift dropped her 12th studio album, " The Life of a Showgirl," and it seems both fans and haters of the album can't stop streaming it.
Taylor Swift's latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, dropped last week, and it has once again smashed records (regardless of whether it was well-received or not. Hint: not so much). The album marked Swift's biggest first-week US album sales, with 2.7 million copies sold in just 24 hours, AND $37 million in ticket sales were earned for the "Release Party of a Showgirl" in global screenings.
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."
