#taylor-swift

#taylor-swift

"I was so honoured that she would be down, that she even trusted me to step in so last minute," he explained.

In the tournament of pop culture-an arena increasingly obsessed with charts, data, and stat lines-Taylor Swift has, by most measures, already emerged the victor. In her nearly two decades in the public eye, she has become a billionaire by engineering one of the most dependable fan bases on the planet: a legion willing to buy every vinyl variant for her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, and generate such collective frenzy at her 149-date Eras Tour that it registered as seismic activity.

As Swift's star rose, something else shifted: her voice. Researchers at the University of Minnesota analyzed recorded interviews with Swift throughout her career and found that after she moved to Tennessee, she picked up a southern accent. She began to pronounce my like "mah" and boom like "bee-oom"-features not typically present in a Pennsylvania accent. Matthew Winn, a co-author of the study, told me that these changes suggest that Swift's voice subtly altered to fit in with the Nashville scene.

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.

British auction house Omega Auctions anticipates the note, dated Dec. 1, 2017, will sell for anywhere from A5,000 (about $6,579) to A10,000 (about $13,158) when it goes up for auction Dec. 2. Liam, Long time no see! the Life of a Showgirl crooner wrote on stationery emblazoned with her name. I'm so excited for you, you'reA crushing it out there. I'm obsessed with Bedroom Floor.' It's so cool to see you from afar. I'm always cheering you on. Good luck tonight! Taylor.

"If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, then they shouldn't do bad things."

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.