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03 Jun 2024

How to Watch ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Online Without Cable

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The best cricket players from all around the world are playing in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 with matches set in various locations, including New York City, Barbados, Guyana, Antigua, Texas and more.

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The massive cricket tournament goes from now until Saturday, June 29.

Want to watch the T20 Cricket World Cup? Here’s what you need to know about livestreaming options.

How to Watch the ICC T20 World Cup 2024

There are quite a few ways to watch ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 since it broadcasts internationally, both on TV and online.

Fans can livestream the entire T20 World Cup tournament on Willow HD, which is available with Fubo and Sling TV.

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With Fubo, Willow HD is part of all of the streaming services plans starting with the “Pro” tier going for $79.99 per month. The plan includes more than 190 channels — including ESPN, ABC, FX, NBC, HGTV, CNN, NFL Network and more — unlimited cloud DVR and up to 10 streams on multiple devices at once. In addition, Fubo comes with a seven-day free trial, so you can try it out for a week before you commit for the rest of the month.

As for Sling, Willow HD is part of the service’s Desi TV package, which starts at $10 per month for the first month and $15 per month afterwards. Not only does it comes with live and on-demand cricket matches, but it also comes with movies and TV shows from networks, such as Star Plus, SonyLIV and more. These networks and offerings are in Hindi, Punjabi and other languages.

Meanwhile, you can also get an annual subscription for $99 per year — which is a 45% savings, compared to going month-to-month.

Additionally, you can use a virtual private network, like ExpressVPN, to access a live feed of cricket matches on India’s Disney+ Hotstar. ExpressVPN, which starts at $8.32 per month, lets you set your laptop, streaming device, tablet or smartphone to a location in India to watch matches — even if you’re in the United States. Learn more about ExpressVPN here.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 is available to stream on Willow HD via Fubo or Sling right now until Saturday, June 29. Check a complete schedule for matchups and start times here.

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03 Jun 2024

Jelly Roll, Ashley McBryde to Host CMA Fest Concert Special

Recent tourmates Jelly Roll and Ashley McBryde are set to co-host this year’s CMA Fest, set to air Tuesday, June 25, at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on ABC, and streaming the following day on Hulu.

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The three-hour primetime concert special will film in Nashville during the 51st annual CMA Fest, set for June 6-9. The special will highlight top moments from the festival, including surprise collaborations from some of country music’s top artists and never-before-seen performances.

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This year’s nightly concerts at Nissan Stadium will feature performances from artists including Jelly Roll, Keith Urban, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Luke Bryan, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Brittney Spencer, Hardy, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” hitmaker Shaboozey, McBryde, Thomas Rhett, “Austin” hitmaker Dasha and Bailey Zimmerman. The four-day country music festival will also host hundreds of artists performing on nearly a dozen stages across downtown Nashville.

Last year, two-time CMA Award winner McBryde opened shows on Jelly Roll’s headlining Backroad Baptism Tour. Former Billboard Country Power Players cover star Jelly Roll’s ascent to headlining status has been swift, thanks to his underdog story, his passionate, joyous persona and his genre-fluid hitmaking, topping Billboard rock and country charts, including earning three Country Airplay hits in 2023, with “Son of a Sinner,” “Need a Favor” and his Lainey Wilson collaboration “Save Me.” Last year, he was named the CMA new artist of the year, and earlier this year, he earned two Grammy nominations, including a nomination in the all-genre best new artist category.

His music connects with McBryde’s, in that both have forged unique musical signatures based on country, rock and poetic storytelling arcs–whether that is Jelly Roll’s unfiltered, personal songs of struggles with addiction, McBryde’s songs of small-town aspirations (“Girl Goin’ Nowhere”) or the vivid lyrics that showcase the wilder side of small towns on her album Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville.

McBryde has also earned the respect of not only fans but her industry peers, winning a Grammy for her Carly Pearce collaboration, “Never Wanted to Be That Girl,” which also topped the Country Airplay chart in 2022. McBryde has earned six total Grammy nominations to date, including three nominations for best country album, for her projects Girl Going Nowhere, Never Will and the collaborative project Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville.

CMA Fest is produced by the Country Music Association, executive produced and written by Robert Deaton and directed by Alan Carter.

Artists who perform during the festival are not paid for their sets, but volunteer so that sales profits can benefit the nonprofit CMA Foundation, which launched in 2011 with the aim of focusing “on providing sustainability, advocacy and accountability within music education by investing in various resources for students, schools and communities.”

CMA Fest launched as Fan Fair in 1972, drawing 5,000 fans to Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium. Over the past half-century, the festival has grown to become Nashville’s signature country music festival, welcoming fans from all 50 states and 39 international countries.

03 Jun 2024

Universal Music Creates Global Impact Team, With Susan Mazo to Lead

The Universal Music Group announced the formation of a new division, called the Global Impact Team, that will oversee the music conglomerate’s efforts to promote positive community engagement, environmental sustainability and other related efforts, the company announced today (June 3). The team will be led by Susan Mazo, formerly executive vp of social responsibility, events and special projects, who has been promoted to executive vp/chief impact officer.

Joining the new department will be former music journalist and GreenBiz Group executive Dylan Siegler, who has been named senior vp/head of sustainability at UMG; senior vp and executive director of UMG’s Task Force for Meaningful Change Dr. Menna Demessie, who will be part of the leadership group; Markie Ruzzo, who has been promoted to vp of global impact; and Sharlotte Ritchie, former senior director of communications and head of the U.K. chapter of the Task Force for Meaningful Change, who has been named senior director of global impact and communications. In addition, the social impact marketing agency Inside Projects, founded by Kristin Jones and Arielle Vavasseur which has worked with Netflix, Spotify and the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions, has made UMG its exclusive partner for the music industry.

“The formation of the Global Impact Team reflects our commitment not only to accelerating our work in these critical areas but to do so in a way that leverages the experience and talent of these exceptional individuals to drive positive impact across our company, our industry and in the communities in which we serve,” UMG chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge said in a statement. “With this new structure we are ensuring that these functions are not siloed, but rather positioned to meaningfully influence all aspects of our global strategy.”

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Mazo has been at the forefront of UMG’s efforts in this area since joining the company a decade ago, having co-created the music group’s Amplify Award to honor artists working towards positive change and serving as the founding chair of UMG’s All Together Now Foundation, which works to bring about meaningful change across the globe. In a statement, she said she was honored to lead the new team on behalf of UMG.

“Through our work we’ve demonstrated that sustainability, community engagement and corporate social impact go hand-in-hand with delivering positive results for our employees, artists and shareholders,” Mazo said. “With this next evolution of our team and structure, and with Sir Lucian’s constant encouragement and focus, I’m excited to create and implement a new approach that unites all of the efforts in a way that will amplify UMG’s global impact and brand resonance given our unique position to enact positive change.”

03 Jun 2024

Lee Anderson Promoted to President at Wasserman Music

Longtime agent Lee Anderson has been named president of Wasserman Music, the company announced Monday (June 3). Anderson was a founding member of Wasserman Music’s executive team when the agency purchased Paradigm’s music division in 2021.

Since playing a pivotal role in establishing Wasserman Music, Anderson has helped develop the company’s business strategy and growth plans, leading the staff to triple in size while expanding its global footprint and artist services offerings.

“From day one, we’ve built Wasserman Music on two core principles: to be the best place to work and the best place for artists to be represented,” said Anderson in a release. “I’m honored to accept this new role, but my mission remains the same: to work closely with my colleagues on our executive leadership team to ensure that we remain true to our vision and consistently deliver the best results for our clients and our global team.”

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Prior to Wasserman Music, Anderson served as a vp at the agency A.M. Only, which was acquired by Paradigm in 2017. At Paradigm, Anderson was named to the company’s leadership team in 2021.

“As our music business has continued to grow and expand, Lee has taken on an increasing number of leadership responsibilities and has been instrumental in shaping the foundation of Wasserman Music and charting a path for even broader global success,” said Wasserman chairman/CEO Casey Wasserman.

In addition to his duties as president, Anderson represents such artists as Cautious Clay, Charlotte de Witte, David Guetta, Disclosure, ISOxo, Kenny Beats, Knock2, Oliver Tree, Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia and Zedd at the agency.

03 Jun 2024

Spotify Again Raising Prices in U.S. — With Families Seeing Biggest Increase

Spotify is asking users to take another hike, raising premium subscription prices in the United States for a second consecutive year. Starting in July, Spotify’s premium individual plan in the U.S. will increase a dollar to $11.99 a month and the duo plan will jump a buck to $16.99 a month, while the family plan will leap-frog $3 to $19.99 a month. The student plan will remain $5.99 a month.

“On Spotify, users discover and enjoy music, podcasts, and audiobooks,” the company said in its announcement on Monday (June 3). “So that we can continue to invest in and innovate on our product features and bring users the best experience, we occasionally update our prices.”

In July 2023, the company enacted similar increases though the family plan was raised just a dollar from $15.99 to $16.99. Last year’s bump in its individual subscription price was a change of pace for Spotify after holding steady at $9.99 in the U.S. for a dozen years. For most of its existence, the company focused on rapid subscription growth over profits, though the mood has since shifted, with major labels and others welcoming price hikes as streaming’s importance to their bottom lines continues to increase.

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How important? In the U.S, subscriptions accounted for 59.3% of total recorded music revenues in 2023, up from 57.8% in 2022. Globally, subs accounted for 48.9% of recorded music revenue in 2023, according to the IFPI, up from 48.3% in 2022.

Label leaders are open about wanting higher subscription prices. In early May, Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl called for “further increases” to subscription prices to “ensure that the value that music provides to these platforms is properly recognized,” and Sony Music Entertainment CEO Rob Stringer recently called on streaming services with ad-supported tiers — ie, Spotify — to start charging a “modest fee.”

In April, Bloomberg reported that Spotify would raise its prices in select markets, including the U.K. and Australia, and that the U.S. would soon follow. Spotify’s willingness to raise prices in consecutive years pleased investors, and shares jumped 17.6% that week. Today’s announcement that it would again raise fees in its largest market has Spotify’s stock up nearly 6% in pre-market trading.

The price increase comes at the end of a “period of relative peace” between Spotify and music publishers following the former’s decision to pay the latter — and songwriters — a discounted rate for streams on several tiers. Spotify reasoned that by adding audiobooks to premium offerings like individual, duo and family plans, these subscriptions are now “bundles,” a type of plan that qualifies for a discounted rate on U.S. mechanical royalties given that multiple products are offered under one price. According to Billboard estimates, that change will mean publishers and writers will earn about $150 million less in royalties over the course of its first bundled year.

In response, the NMPA sent the company a cease and desist for alleged unlicensed content and the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) filed a lawsuit explicitly about the bundling. In addition, the Recording Academy, Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP), Nashville Songwriters’ Association International (NSAI) and more have made statements against the change.

03 Jun 2024

Destined for Stardom: How Ángela Aguilar Powers Her Family’s Musical Legacy

Ángela Aguilar was destined for stardom.  

As third generation of the Aguilar musical dynasty — her father is Mexican music icon Pepe Aguilar, and her grandparents are the legendary Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre — Ángela inherited the vibrant falsetto from her grandma, her grandfather’s knack for storytelling and her father’s passion for mariachi. She also inherited the great responsibility that comes from being part of a musical dynasty, especially when her last name is synonymous with regional Mexican royalty.  

“To know just how much my grandma and grandpa had to work for their success, it makes me proud of where I come from,” the 20-year-old singer-songwriter says from her home in Texas, where’s she’s spending a day off from touring with her father, her brother Leonardo Aguilar and her uncle Antonio Aguilar Jr., in the family’s Jaripeo Hasta Los Huesos Tour, which continues the legacy of the equestrian shows pioneered by her grandparents in the 1960s. “To this day, I don’t want to disappoint our last name. I want to do the best of my abilities to represent in a respectful way.” 

Ángela made her onstage debut at just three years old while she and her family accompanied her father on tour. Five years later, she released her first album at the young age of eight. It was a joint album with her brother Leonardo titled Nueva Tradición (which translates to New Tradition), that was powered by banda, mariachi and norteño sounds. At that moment, she says, she really understood that she was part of something bigger than herself.  

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“When I was three years old, I really thought the stage was my playground but when I released my first album, that was my realization of, ‘Oh my gosh, this is way bigger than I thought.’ I felt I had become less of an individual and more of an institution, and that was more important to me,” she explains.  

Born in Los Angeles, Ángela is a fixture in música mexicana, one of a handful of women that have forged their own path in the decades-old genre that continues to be overwhelmingly dominated by men. So far, she has landed three No. 1 songs on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart — including “Dime Como Quieras” with Christian Nodal, which ruled the tally for five weeks — and four top 10 hits on Latin Airplay, including her first No. 1 on that chart, “Por El Contrario” with Leonardo and Becky G. She also scored a Latin Grammy best new artist nomination in 2018.  

On the touring front, she’s perhaps the most successful regional Mexican woman today with back-to-back U.S. arena tours (Jaripeo Sin Fronteras and Jaripeo Hasta Los Huesos) since her father launched the family show concept in 2018. In the middle of it all, in 2023, she went on her eight-date Piensa En Mí Tour, a solo trek across the U.S. 

“Singing is a very lonely career because you go on stage and sing in front of 20,000 people and then you go back to a hotel room and you’re all by yourself,” Ángela shares. “But I have the privilege of having three people in my family that experience the same thing I do every single night. I get to learn from them every weekend.”  

Most recently, Ángela released Bolero, a nine-song set produced by her father in honor of the genre that originated in the 19th century and inspires her ever expanding musical palate. With this LP, she doubles down on her effort to expose a new generation of fans to the styles that soundtracked her childhood home.  

“That’s been my message for many years; wanting the younger generation to appreciate the music,” she says with pride. “I think people often question whether I’m singing the music I want to sing but I am. Truly this is my biggest passion. And I’ve inherited not only the passion for it but also the love passed on from generations of fans because I’m part of this musical dynasty. You don’t need to be part of one but when you are, it’s beautiful.”  

03 Jun 2024

Here’s the Recording Academy’s 2024-25 Board of Trustees (Full List)

Nineteen people have been elected or re-elected to the Recording Academy’s 42-member board of trustees, including Taylor Hanson, a member of the brother trio Hanson, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997 with “MMMBop”; Sara Gazarek, who won her first Grammy on Feb. 4 for helping to arrange a new version of the classic “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning”; and publishing veteran Mike Knobloch, president of music and publishing at NBCUniversal. Their terms took effect on Saturday (June 1).

“I’m honored to welcome this amazing group of creatives to our board of trustees,” Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, said in a statement. “Our board’s expertise and dedication to helping music people everywhere has been essential to all we have achieved at the Academy. However, the work never stops, and I look forward to working alongside our new and current trustees on ways we can continue to provide guidance for our music community.”

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Of the 42 trustees that serve on the national board, 30 are elected by the chapter board of governors (15 each year) and eight are elected directly by voting and professional members of the Academy (four each year). The remaining four seats are comprised of the national trustee officers, who are elected by the board of trustees once every two years. The current national trustee officers, who are all currently midterm, are Tammy Hurt (chair), Dr. Chelsey Green (vice chair), Gebre Waddell (secretary/treasurer) and Christine Albert (chair emeritus).

“Welcoming our newly elected trustees is always such an exciting time at the Academy,” Hurt said in a statement. “With new ideas to contribute to our board and the eagerness to helping change music, I have no doubt that together this year’s board of trustees will continue our commitment to fostering a diverse and representative music industry.”

The 2024-25 board includes six Grammy winners, including two who just won prizes at the 66th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 4. Those newly-minted winners are J. Ivy, who won best spoken word poetry album for the second year in a row for The Light Inside, and Gazarek, who won best arrangement, instruments and vocals for the aforementioned new version of “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” by säje featuring Jacob Collier.

The four other Grammy winners on the current board are Angélique Kidjo, who won her fifth Grammy two years ago, for best global music album for Mother Nature; songwriter Jonathan Yip, who won two Grammys six years ago for co-writing the Bruno Mars smash “That’s What I Like”; Ledisi, who won best traditional R&B performance three years ago for “Anything for You”; and Cheche Alara, who won best Latin pop album five years ago for Sincera.

Three members of the current board of trustees served on the Recording Academy’s all-important television committee for the 66th Grammy Awards: Alara, Hurt and Knobloch.

All positions on the board of trustees are subject to two, two-year term limits.

These newly elected or re-elected trustees joined the Academy’s midterm trustees to uphold the Academy’s mission, which the Academy says is “to serve and represent the music community at-large through its commitment to promote diversity, equity and inclusion, fight for creators’ rights, protect music people in need, preserve music’s history, and invest in its future.”

You can find the full list of the Academy’s board of trustees, chapter officers and bylaws here.

The full list of the Academy’s board of trustees is shown below. An asterisk signifies that they were elected or re-elected this year.

Cheche Alara*

Christine Albert

Marcella Araica

Julio Bagué    

Nikisha Bailey*         

Larry Batiste  

Marcus Baylor

Jennifer Blakeman*   

Evan Bogart   

Torae Carr*    

Dani Deahl*   

Maria Egan*  

Fletcher Foster*         

Anna Frick     

EJ Gaines*     

Kennard Garrett         

Sara Gazarek*

Tracy Gershon

Dr. Chelsey Green

Dave Gross*  

Jennifer Hanson

Taylor Hanson*

Justin “Henny” Henderson*

Tammy Hurt   

J. Ivy  

Terry Jones*   

Angelique Kidjo

Mike Knobloch*        

Ledisi 

Eric Lilavois   

Susan Marshall           

Riggs Morales

Donn Thompson Morelli “Donn T”  

Ms. Meka Nism*       

Ashley Shabankareh*

Ken Shepherd*          

Jessica Thompson*

Gebre Waddell

Paul Wall        

Wayna

Tamara Wellons*

Jonathan Yip

03 Jun 2024

Cyndi Lauper Announces 2024 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour: See the Dates

Cyndi Lauper is saying goodbye to the road.

On Monday (June 3), the veteran pop star announced her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, a 23-city North American trek that marks the singer’s first major run in more than a decade.

The Live Nation-produced jaunt is scheduled to launch Oct. 18 at the Bell Centre in Montreal and wrap Dec. 5 at the United Center in Chicago. The tour will also visit major such major cities as New York, Boston, Nashville, Atlanta and Houston. See the full list of dates below.

Special guests on the trek will be revealed at a later date.

A ticket presale begins on Tuesday (June 4) and the general onsale starts Friday (June 7) at livenation.com.

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Lauper’s farewell tour announcement arrives alongside the release of her upcoming biopic, Let the Canary Sing, which debuts June 4 on Paramount+. The feature-length film, directed by Emmy-winning documentarian Alison Ellwood (Laurel Canyon), premiered at last year’s Tribeca Festival in New York.

Legacy Recordings will release a career-spanning companion album that takes listeners from the singer’s early days in the group Blue Angel (“I’m Gonna Be Strong”) through the global breakout success of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and other iconic hits such as “True Colors,” “I Drove All Night,” “Money Changes Everything,” “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough,” “She Bop,” “All Through the Night” and more.

See the dates to Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour below.

Oct. 18: Montreal (Bell Centre)
Oct. 20: Toronto (Scotiabank Arena)
Oct. 24: Detroit (Fox Theatre)
Oct. 26: Boston (MGM Music Hall at Fenway)
Oct. 27: Washington, D.C. (Capital One Arena)
Oct. 30: New York (Madison Square Garden)
Nov. 1: Nashville (Bridgestone Arena)
Nov. 3: Columbus, Ohio (Schottenstein Center)
Nov. 6: Tampa, Fla. (Amalie Arena)
Nov. 8: Hollywood, Fla. (Hard Rock Hollywood)
Nov. 10: Atlanta (State Farm Arena)
Nov. 12: Dallas (American Airlines Center)
Nov. 14: Austin, Texas (Moody Center)
Nov. 16: Houston (Toyota Center)
Nov. 19: Phoenix (Footprint Center)
Nov. 20: San Diego (Viejas Arena)
Nov. 23: Los Angeles (Intuit Dome)
Nov. 24: Palm Desert, Calif. (Acrisure Arena)
Nov. 26: San Francisco (Chase Center)
Nov. 30: Portland, Ore. (Moda Center)
Dec. 1: Seattle (Climate Pledge Arena)
Dec. 4: Minneapolis (Target Center)
Dec. 5: Chicago (United Center)

03 Jun 2024

Cercle Announces Immersive Touring Show Set To Launch In 2025

Cercle, the Paris-based production company known for putting on livestream DJ sets in far-flung locations, will take a touring show on the road in 2025.

Called Cercle Odyssey, the show will be built as a 360-degree panorama projection designed to create an immersive experience. The set-up will features a number of massive screens meant to envelope the audience, with these screens measuring roughly 40-feet high and 180-feet long, with high definition footage synchronized with the music.

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Hitting the road in 2015, the show will feature music and artists of all genres, with artists, dates and cities to be announced in the coming months. Cercle Odyssey videos will be overseen by Paris-based director Neels Castillon, the co-founder of Motion Palace, a creative studio that produces original content for brands, culture, and the arts. Focused on humanity, nature and beauty, the videos will be based on the story of Homer’s Odyssey and focus on the theme of returning home.

Cercle Odyssey is also designed to be a sustainable operation, with all of the sound, light and projection equipment used in each performance rented locally in each respective performance city. The company notes that by using 29 state-of-the-art projectors instead of traditional LED screens to illuminate the scenography, the show doesn’t necessitate the transport of a huge number of LED screens, thereby reducing the carbon emissions of transporting the show.

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Phones will be banned inside the performances, and guests will instead be given filmed content from the performance they attend.

“Cercle’s mission is and will always be to create unique stages for unique artists,” Cercle’s creative director Derek Barbolla tells Billboard. “We have just reached one billion views on our videos, we realized that many people want to experience Cercle, but traveling to Egypt or to the top of a mountain isn’t easy or feasible for everyone. With Cercle Odyssey, we’re bringing the experience closer to people’s homes, whilst continuing with our heritage site events”

Since launching in 2016, Cercle has produced 240 events in locations around the world including a Bolivian salt flat, the Eiffel Tower, a peak in the Alps and other locales including roughly 30 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Participating artists have included Disclosure, Peggy Gou, Above & Beyond, Carlita, Amelie Lens, Hot Since 82 and many more.

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02 Jun 2024

Taylor Swift Laughs Through ‘Dating the Boy on the Football Team’ Line in ‘Fifteen,’ Debuts ‘The Prophecy’ Live in Lyon

Taylor Swift had a bit of a laugh with the crowd in Lyon, France, when she sang a lyric about how she’s destined to do “greater things” than date a football player, from her song “Fifteen.” The track was written when she was still a teen and originally released back in 2008.

Swift played a piano mashup of the classic Fearless track with the more recent “You’re on Your Own, Kid,” from 2022’s Midnights, during the acoustic section of her concert Sunday night (June 2). This is the part of the show where Swift changes up the set list at each date.

On Sunday, when Swift reached the part of “Fifteen” where she looks back at her high school years from the perspective of someone who’s been through it, fans noticeably reacted to her choice to sing “in your life you’ll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team” right now — since the pop star has been in a high-profile relationship with NFL player Travis Kelce, tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Swift took the reaction in stride with a quick grin and laugh on Sunday.

She found humor in the “boy on the football team” moment after the night’s surprise guitar performance, during which “The Prophecy” had its live debut. The song — found on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology — is an emotionally heavy one that took an interesting turn with the perspective from Evermore‘s “Long Story Short,” with Swift swirling her writing together in a medley of the two works.

“Some nights like tonight I try out playing a song that I’ve never played live before,” the Tortured Poets singer-songwriter announced ahead of “The Prophecy.” (Swift holds steady at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with Poets, so far spending six consecutive weeks in the top spot.)

“I looked to the sky and said, please/ I’ve been on my knees/ Change the prophecy/ Don’t want money/ Just someone who wants my company/ Let it once be me/ Who do I have to speak to/ About if they can redo/ The prophecy?” Swift sings in the chorus of “The Prophecy.”

In “Long Story Short,” she tells herself, “Past me, I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things/ Your nemeses will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing/ And he’s passing by, rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky/ And he feels like home/ If the shoe fits, walk in it everywhere you go.”

Watch clips of Sunday night’s surprise song performances below. Catch up with the complete list of songs played during the acoustic section of The Eras Tour here.