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Beyoncé, Taylor Swift Could Have Record Nights

'Folklore' is nominated for album of the year, while 'Black Parade' is up for record and song honors

(Newser) - It could be a night for the history books for Taylor Swift and Beyoncé at Sunday’s Grammy Awards. Swift could become the first woman to win the top prize, album of the year, three times, the AP reports. Her first surprise album of 2020—the folky, alternative adventure Folklore—...

Taylor Swift Responds to 'Deeply Sexist' Netflix Joke

Singer isn't happy about 'Ginny and Georgia' line

(Newser) - Netflix's Ginny and Georgia premiered on the streaming service Wednesday, and it's already controversial. The dramedy features this line, per CBS News : "You go through men faster than Taylor Swift." Someone, namely Taylor Swift herself, was not a fan. "Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called...

Taylor Swift's Battle With Utah Theme Park Heats Up

Singer files suit against park named Evermore

(Newser) - Taylor Swift isn't shaking this one off. Earlier this month, a fantasy theme park named Evermore sued the pop star over the name of her latest album, also Evermore, which she released in December. The Pleasant Grove, Utah, park claimed copyright infringement, complaining that Google searches for the park...

Fantasy Theme Park Is Suing Taylor Swift

Evermore Park isn't happy about her album title

(Newser) - Taylor Swift's lawyers are fighting a lawsuit from a fantasy theme park in Utah, saying there is little chance that album Evermore will be confused with Evermore Park, where guests are "immersed in a fantasy European hamlet of imagination," according to its website. The park, which has...

Taylor Swift Has Another Midnight Surprise
Swift: 'I've Never
Done This Before'
Dec 10, 2020 10:05 AM CST

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...

Cyndi Lauper's Youth Benefit Gets Help From Some Big Names

Billie Eilish, Dolly Parton, LL Cool J, Taylor Swift, Cher join annual homelessness event

(Newser) - Taylor Swift, Cher, Billie Eilish, LL Cool J, and Dolly Parton are adding their voices to Cyndi Lauper's annual concert to combat youth homelessness, an issue the "True Colors" singer says has only gotten worse during the pandemic. "You can say, 'Stay home, protect yourself.'...

For Satan and 2020, It's a 'Match Made in Hell'

'LOLsome' Match ads come courtesy of Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Swift

(Newser) - When not making movies, investing in gin , or giving to charity , Ryan Reynolds brings us ads, and hilarious ones at that. This week, Match released two ads made by the actor's creative company, Maximum Effort. In the first , released Wednesday, Satan connects with the love of his life—the...

Big Winners From American Music Awards

The Weeknd takes home big honors, but Taylor Swift wins artist of the year

(Newser) - Taylor Swift won her third consecutive artist of the year prize at the American Music Awards on Sunday night, but she missed the show for a good reason: She said she's busy re-recording her early music after her catalog was sold . Swift beat out Justin Bieber, Post Malone, and...

Producer in Taylor Swift Feud Makes Millions Off Her

Scooter Braun just sold off her Big Machine masters

(Newser) - Taylor Swift claimed Scooter Braun was holding her first six albums hostage —and now the producer is making big bucks off them. Braun, whose Ithaca Holdings LLC acquired Big Machine Label Groups and its assets— including the masters of those first half-dozen Swift albums—last year, has now sold...

Taylor Swift: Here&#39;s How I&#39;m Voting
Taylor Swift:
Here's How I'm Voting
Oct 8, 2020 10:20 AM CDT

Taylor Swift: Here's How I'm Voting

Singer endorses Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who can 'start the healing process'

(Newser) - Taylor Swift used a plate of cookies to help make her first-ever public presidential endorsement ahead of the vice presidential debate on Wednesday. In a tweeted photo , the singer held the plate of blue custom cookies, reading "Biden Harris 2020." She also shared a cover of V Magazine...

In One New Ranking, Taylor Swift Is No. 1 in History

She has 47 cumulative weeks in the top spot on the Billboard music charts, best among women

(Newser) - Taylor Swift's Folklore is the No. 1 album on the Billboard charts for the seventh straight week. That's impressive, but more so is what that seventh week means: Swift now has 47 cumulative weeks at the No. 1 spot over the course of her career, which is tops...

Swift Proves &#39;the Most Gifted Songwriter in Music&#39;
The Taylor Swift
Reviews Are Incredible
ALBUM REVIEW
Jul 24, 2020 11:50 AM CDT

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
Jul 23, 2020 10:10 AM CDT

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...

Taylor Swift Sparks Angry Debate With Tweet Thread

The singer-songwriter wants statues taken down in her home state of Tennessee

(Newser) - Taylor Swift unleashed a string of angry tweets Friday demanding the permanent removal of "racist" statues in Nashville, Rolling Stone reports. Among her appeals, the singer-songwriter urged officials to remove a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest (a "monstrosity") and not replace one of Edward Carmack ("a...

Taylor Swift Issues a Warning to Trump

'We will vote you out in November,' Swift tweeted after Trump's inflammatory 'shooting' tweet

(Newser) - It hasn't been a secret that Taylor Swift doesn't care for how President Trump has been running things, but she laid it even more out on the line on Friday. After Trump's inflammatory tweet regarding protesters for George Floyd , in which the president called the demonstrators "...

Celebs Reaching Out to Help During Shutdown

Drew Brees, James Taylor, Ariana Grande, and Taylor Swift among the latest

(Newser) - More big names are getting out their checkbooks to help people amid the coronavirus outbreak:
  • Famous QB: New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and his wife, Brittany, have committed $5 million to the state of Louisiana, reports ESPN . Among other things, that will mean 10,000 meals a day to
...

Kim Kardashian: Taylor Swift Is Lying
Kim Kardashian:
Taylor Swift Is Lying
the rundown
Mar 24, 2020 11:50 PM CDT

Kim Kardashian: Taylor Swift Is Lying

Kim Kardashian not in agreement with Swift's take on Kanye West phone call

(Newser) - Taylor Swift says the newly leaked footage of her 2016 phone call with Kanye West proves she in fact did not, as she has long insisted, have advance knowledge that West was going to refer to her as a "bitch" in his song "Famous." Now West's...

Phone Call Between Kanye, Swift Again Roils the Net

The feud over Kanye's controversial 'sex' line somehow refuses to die

(Newser) - Taylor Swift may have ended her feud with Katy Perry but the one with Kanye West seems simply not to want to die, the AP reports. New leaked video clip of the entire four-year-old phone call between the rapper and pop superstar about his controversial song "Famous" have been...

Celebrities Are Releasing Amusing, Weird Virus PSAs

Arnold and his tiny animals, Mel and his son urge you to stay home

(Newser) - Amid widespread calls to practice social distancing in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, celebrities are starting to get in on the movement. Among the video PSAs that have come out is one from Arnold Schwarzenegger, who, along with his miniature horse and his...

Ariana Grande: 'You Need to Care' About Outbreak

Taylor Swift also asks people to stay home

(Newser) - Ariana Grande didn't say "thank u," but she did say "please." The singer has admonished fans to take the pandemic seriously. A tweet Sunday included an image reading: "The 'we will be fine because we're young' mindset is putting is putting people...

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