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It had been more than two years since we’d heard new music from Olivia Rodrigo, but that all changed first thing Friday when she released “Vampire,” the lead single from her Sept. 8-scheduled sophomore album GUTS. In a tight, under-four-minute package, the melodramatic new song transitions from a “Drivers License”-style piano ballad to a My […]
Ariana Grande, Drake, Halsey, Harry Styles, Diplo, Kendall Jenner and many more celebs are joining BLACKPINK’s Blink fandom.
Toni Collette is a certified Swiftie. After seeing Taylor Swift perform at her second Eras Tour show in Cincinnati, the 50-year-old Golden Globe winner took to Instagram Sunday (July 2) to sing the musician’s praises. “Thank you @taylorswift for the MOST INCREDIBLE night last night‼️??” the actress began her post. “Your talent is immeasurable and your generosity […]
Don’t let the focus on motherhood and her business empires fool you — Rihanna definitely has not forgotten that she’s one of the biggest music artists of all time, and neither should fans. The Grammy winner took to Instagram recently to share a graphic of her latest record-breaking achievement that Spotify later confirmed: On July […]
Rosie O’Donnell shared an update on her longtime friend Madonna after the Queen of Pop was hospitalized due to a bacterial infection. The comedian took to Instagram on Sunday (July 2) to share a throwback photo of the duo starring in the 1992 sports comedy film, A League of Their Own. “remember when? #league #mo,” O’Donnell captioned […]
Hugh Grant is officially hooked on that pink venom. After seeing BLACKPINK perform, the 62-year-old Golden Globe winner took to Twitter to announce his new place among the BLINKs’ ranks. “Very grateful to three eleven year olds for taking me to see @BLACKPINK yesterday,” the film star tweeted Monday (July 3). “Am rabid Blink now. […]
Time is ticking down before Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) finally arrives this Friday (July 7), and Taylor Swift is here to remind you to pre-save the record.
In a Monday (July 3) exclusive video for Spotify, the 33-year-old pop star looked like she’d come straight out of 2010, wearing a whimsical green sundress and a long necklace, her hair in a fishtail side braid. “Hey! It’s Taylor Swift,” she said, seated in front of a purple backdrop and flickering purple candles.
“The next chapter begins on July 7, when Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) comes out,” she continued, smiling at the camera. “You can pre-save it now on Spotify.”
The video can be found on Swift’s “Upcoming releases” page on the music streaming app, which links fans to a timer counting down to release day, the record’s full tracklist and physical copies of the record available for purchase on the “Anti-Hero” singer’s website. Previously, Swift filmed a video for the Spotify page giving fans a peek at one of the magical purple vinyl discs and its accompanying poster.
Featuring re-recorded versions of all 14 of Speak Now‘s original tracks and six previously unreleased songs “From the Vault,” the fast-approaching project will mark the third of six planned “Taylor’s Version” albums. In 2021, Swift dropped both Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version), leaving her 2006 self-titled debut, 2014’s 1989 and 2017’s Reputation as the only albums left in the re-recording process.
Last week, Swifties got a taste of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) when “Back to December (Taylor’s Version)” was featured in a new The Summer I Turned Pretty season two trailer, which also included the Grammy winner’s Folklore fan-favorite “August.” The new season arrives on Prime Video exactly one week after Swift’s album, following a first season that included several other Swift tracks (“False God,” “Cruel Summer,” “This Love,” “The Way I Loved You” and more).
In June, Swift laid down some rules ahead of the album’s release at an Eras Tour show in Minneapolis. Just before performing “Dear John,” a scathing Speak Now ballad widely believed to be about her ex-boyfriend John Mayer, the Grammy winner asked fans not to spread hate online on her behalf.
“I’m 33 years old,” she told the crowd. “I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19. I’m not putting this album out so that you can go and should feel the need to defend me on the internet against someone you think I might have written a song about 14 billion years ago.”
Watch Swift’s new message to fans on Spotify below:
As Olivia Rodrigo officially kicks off the campaign for Guts, her second studio album, Billboard looks back on 21 of the most anticipated sophomore pop albums of the 21st century.
A Kentucky man’s proposal to his girlfriend during one of Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour shows in Cincinnati over the weekend has blown up. It might have something to do with Tyler Browne’s perfect timing in popping the question to his girlfriend and avowed Swiftie, Ana Stone.
According to WKRC, Browne scored a pair of floor tickets for the Friday night show with a secret plan in place to pop the question during “Love Story.” In fact, he said he spent a month-and-a-half memorizing the words to the fan-favorite Fearless hit so he could hit just the right note when getting down on his knee during the section where Swift sings, “He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said, ‘Marry Me, Juliet, you’ll never have to be alone.’”
“I texted on my phone in my notes, ‘Hey, would you guys please help me? I’m going to propose to my girlfriend during ‘Love Story,’ and everyone around me, the band rallied, and we got the thing done,” Browne told WKRC about his plan to enlist some adjacent Swifties into his surprise Swift-posal.
Browne said he was keeping an eye on the set list the whole night, counting down on his phone until the big moment finally came nine songs into the show. “I’m like, ‘Please don’t mess this up,’” he said of his nervousness. Luckily, things went off without a hitch, with those around the couple getting a sneaky thumbs up behind his back when the moment was at hand.
“He wouldn’t look at me until that part of the song, and I was wondering why he would not make eye contact with me or look at me,” Stone said. “Everybody screaming around us when everyone turned to face us. I will never forget that because it was so precious.”
“She said yes, thank gosh. It was the best day ever,” Browne told the station. “It was the best day ever,” Stone seconded. The station reported that the original video has more than 400,000 likes to date and has been viewed more than 2.5 million times.
It wasn’t the only unexpected moment during that night’s show, which also included an unplanned bit where Swift was forced to sprint to a main stage secret door after a trap door on the thrust stage failed to open.
Check out a fan video of the proposal below.
Taylor Swift has battled rain, bugs and swampy summer heat over the course of the first four months of her Eras Tour. And, as you’d expect, she handled all those challenges with her typical aplomb. So it was not surprising that the singer also had a brush-the-dirt-off-your-shoulder response to a stage malfunction during the first […]
