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Enter the Era of Taylor Swift Fatigue
Enter the Tortured
Swift Fatigue Department
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Enter the Tortured Swift Fatigue Department

'NYT' describes complaints 'unlike any Swift has faced' recently

(Newser) - Taylor Swift has been on everyone's lips for months. That hasn't changed with the release of The Tortured Poets Department, her 31-song 11th studio album and the fifth new release in five years (not to mention those four rereleases). But what people are saying has changed. Indeed, as...

It's a 'Masterpiece' by Beyoncé, Though Nashville May Disagree

New album 'Cowboy Carter' has twang but is not strictly country, say critics

(Newser) - Enter the era of Cowboy Carter. Released Friday at midnight, Beyoncé's eighth album, and the second in a trilogy , provides country music—and much, much more. "This ain't a country album. This is a 'Beyoncé' album," the artist said last week on Instagram,...

First a Surprise Swift Album, Now One for Bey

Beyonce drops 2 new country tracks during Super Bowl, announces release of 'Act II' on March 29

(Newser) - Beyonce was at the Super Bowl on Sunday in Las Vegas, but it was her Verizon commercial airing for viewers at home that generated the most excitement as she teased what turned out to be a surprise new album and the release of two singles. In the clip, which the...

Another Album Reboot, Another Record for Swift
Things Just Got Even
Better for Taylor Swift
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Things Just Got Even Better for Taylor Swift

That Travis Kelce thing seems to be going well. Now, her '1989 (Taylor's Version)' has shot to No. 1

(Newser) - Travis who ? Taylor Swift now has 13 No. 1 albums under her belt, thanks to the rerecording of her 1989 album. Over the weekend, 1989 (Taylor's Version) ascended to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 charts in its first week of release, with more than...

Singer Zach Bryan Goes Hard After Ticketmaster

Country star names ticket behemoth in new album title, slams unfair ticket prices for concerts

(Newser) - The chorus against Ticketmaster's contentious concert pricing practices is growing, numbering among them Zach Bryan and friends. The country music artist dropped a live album, All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster, on Sunday. With it came a statement posted to social media in which he decried "a massive issue...

Sorry, Harry Styles— Taylor Swift Just Buried You

First day of sales for singer's 'Midnights' album saw 800K copies sold—and that's not all

(Newser) - Taylor Swift's new album, Midnights, is making headlines not only for its "darker" and "more experimental" sound—it's also smashing sales records. Billboard cites data from Luminate that finds the 32-year-old singer's 10th original studio album sold more than 800,000 copies in the US...

From the Late Selena, an 'Unexpected Surprise'

A new album from 'Queen of Tejano Music' is coming out, according to her dad

(Newser) - Almost 30 years after the death of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, an "unexpected surprise" is set to drop from the "Queen of Tejano Music." That treat, per KSAT : a new album, according to her dad, who says it will be released by Warner Music. Abraham Quintanilla chatted last week...

Kanye's New Album Comes With a Catch
Kanye's New
Album Fails
to Drop as
Expected
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Kanye's New Album Fails to Drop as Expected

'Donda 2' requires an extra $200 purchase of a Stem Player to hear it

(Newser) - Update: Kanye West fans waited for his new Donda 2 album to drop at midnight Tuesday—the day of the album's planned release—and they're still waiting, reports the Daily Beast . This particular wait might be more annoying than most because West, who now refers to himself as...

Adele Is Back and 'Still Sublime'
Adele Is Back and 'Still Sublime'
MUSIC REVIEW

Adele Is Back and 'Still Sublime'

Single 'Easy On Me' focuses on forgiveness after heartbreak

(Newser) - Adele has suggested her upcoming album and first release since 2015 is an attempt to explain her divorce from Simon Konecki to her 9-year-old son. "I was just going through the motions and I wasn't happy," the 33-year-old singer told Vogue for November's cover story. "...

Toddler to Release First Album, Recorded While Still a Fetus

Luca Yupanqui's 'Sounds of the Unborn' comes out on April 2

(Newser) - If Nirvana hadn't named its final studio album In Utero, Luca Yupanqui may have had the perfect name for her own debut. Instead, the US toddler will have to settle for the slightly wordier Sounds of the Unborn when her album drops on April 2, the results of her...

Taylor Swift Isn't the Only One Full of 2020 Surprises

Eminem drops 2nd album of year, a companion to January's 'Music to Be Murdered By'

(Newser) - It's been a year of curveballs from Marshall Bruce Mathers III. The 48-year-old (aka rap star Eminem) has spent 2020 pulling off unexpected performances at the Academy Awards , granting rare interviews , popping up on SNL , and now, coming out with yet another surprise album at midnight, Taylor Swift-style . The...

Taylor Swift Has Another Midnight Surprise
Swift: 'I've Never
Done This Before'

Swift: 'I've Never Done This Before'

Singer announces 2nd surprise album in 5 months

(Newser) - Well, that was quick. Just five months after releasing her eighth studio album , the well-received Folklore, Taylor Swift is out with another. Evermore, which Swift describes as a "sister record" to July's Folklore, will be released at midnight Wednesday. Swift made the surprise announcement in a tweet Wednesday...

Swift Proves 'the Most Gifted Songwriter in Music'
The Taylor Swift
Reviews Are Incredible
ALBUM REVIEW

The Taylor Swift Reviews Are Incredible

8th album manages to 'capture familiar feelings in ways you didn't know were possible'

(Newser) - Whatever you do, do not compare your achievements in coronavirus quarantine to those of Taylor Swift. Because, according to critics, they are massive. In dropping her eighth album , Folklore, compiled of 16 songs plus a bonus track written and recorded in quarantine conditions (with help from Jack Antonoff and the...

Taylor Swift Has a Midnight Surprise
Taylor Swift
Has a Midnight
Surprise

Taylor Swift Has a Midnight Surprise

30-year-old star is dropping her 8th studio album, 'Folklore,' tonight

(Newser) - Taylor Swift has been keeping busy lately fighting with Kanye and Kim , releasing coronavirus PSAs , and pushing back at President Trump. She's been so busy, in fact, that we almost forgot she does music for a living—until her surprise tweet Thursday morning to announce that later on, at...

Dalai Lama to Drop First Album
Dalai Lama to
Drop First Album

Dalai Lama to Drop First Album

'Inner World' pairs his teachings with music

(Newser) - Stressed out while working at a bank in New Zealand, Junelle Kunin began searching for music paired with teachings from the Dalai Lama to calm herself down and allow herself to focus. But she couldn't find it online, per the AP . That's when the musician and practicing Buddhist...

Bob Dylan Makes Big Announcement
Bob Dylan Makes
Big Announcement

Bob Dylan Makes Big Announcement

His first original album in 8 years arrives next month

(Newser) - Bob Dylan dropped his third original song in a little over a month Thursday and left no doubt about when his first original album in eight years would follow. Dylan announced his first album of original songs since 2012's Tempest would be released June 19. The 10-song album Rough ...

No One's Gotten a Pitchfork '10' Since Kanye in 2010. Until Now

Fiona Apple's new album gets first perfect score from music industry pub in almost a decade

(Newser) - Fiona Apple has been mostly out of the public eye for eight years, but the reclusive artist just came back with a big bang. So big, in fact, that Pitchfork felt compelled to give her new album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, a perfect score—its first in nearly a decade,...

Eminem Drops Surprise Album
Eminem Drops 
Surprise Album

Eminem Drops Surprise Album

'Music to Be Murdered By' was announced at midnight

(Newser) - Rapper Eminem once again dropped a surprise album, releasing Music to Be Murdered By on Friday. The follow-up to 2018's Kamikaze—also released without warning—was announced on Twitter just after midnight. The Detroit rapper also released a new music video for one of the 20 tracks on the...

Ed Sheeran Releases Album —and News That He's Married

Singer confirms wedding to Cherry Seaborn

(Newser) - Ed Sheeran released a new album Friday, and during an interview to promote it, mentioned that, oh, yes, he's married now. The Sun reported in February that Sheeran had married Cherry Seaborn, in December, a year after they became engaged. But the singer hadn't confirmed that until a...

Beyonce Drops Surprise Live Album
Beyonce Pulls Off
Another Surprise

Beyonce Pulls Off Another Surprise

Release of undisclosed live album, with a new song

(Newser) - Beyonce's Netflix documentary Homecoming, focusing on the singer's 2018 Coachella performance , premiered Wednesday with a surprise for fans. Included is a brand new song, a cover of "Before I Let Go," released by Frankie Beverly and Maze in 1981, per Variety . But you don't need...

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