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One of the most controversial updates that you’ll find in Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is the lyric change in the song Better Than Revenge (Taylor’s Version).
That’s a lot of potential voters behind Swift at her Denver concert on July 14, 2023.
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Pittsburgh’s mayor renamed the city ‘Swiftsburgh’ when the singer’s tour hit town. He’s not the only politician who has publicly fawned over the star.
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The maths are simple. Most Taylor Swift fans wanting tickets to her Australian shows will miss out.
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Taylor Swift will be performing three shows in Sydney and two in Melbourne – and tickets will be in high demand.
Taylor Swift’s fans were not happy when it was rumoured she had started dating infamous bad boy Matt Healy.
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Sometimes you have to let your friends know when they’ve made a bad choice in life but there’s a way to go about it.
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When fans of Taylor Swift suspected their idol of dating Matty Healy, they vocally objected to the relationship. What does this reveal about the expectations fans have of celebrities?
Taylor Swift was accused of fatphobia over her ‘Anti-Hero’ music video.
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By only discussing fatphobia in the context of eating disorders, Taylor Swift illustrates how deeply individualized and depoliticized white feminism is.
Literary devices abound in Taylor Swift’s body of work.
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Swift, like all writers, draws from her literary forebears to craft new works.
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Music has the potential to change our experience of intrusive thoughts and how we deal with pain.
It can cost a bundle to see popular performers like Taylor Swift.
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This strategy to get the highest prices the markets will bear can lead to problems, as fans of Taylor Swift know all too well.
Albarn has apologised ‘unreservedly and unconditionally’ to the US singer Taylor Swift after claiming she didn’t write her own songs.
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Anyone involved in the creation of a song is a songwriter.
Lord Byron was the original breakup artist.
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From Jaques Brel to Adele, those who sing of lost love owe a lot to the lyrics of the Romantics.
Taylor Swift, one of millions of Americans who has struggled with an eating disorder.
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As National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is observed Feb. 24-March 1, here are some things to consider.
De La Soul performs at Down the Rabbit Hole music festival, Beuningen, the Netherlands in June 2017.
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Desperate fans may have to settle on paying exorbitant amounts for a cassette tape.
Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do.
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MTV may not be the power house it used to be but the music video is flourishing online.
Country superstar Dolly Parton has a huge following across Africa.
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Africa’s broadcasters have a large role to play to ensure that country and western grows to its full potential on the continent.
Taylor Swift.
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If Swift’s new single is anything to go by, the poet and the former ‘pop princess’ have an awful lot in common.
Beyonce struts onstage in her concerts as a kind of warrior goddess while the word ‘feminist’ lights up in colossal letters behind her.
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They claim to be new-age feminist, but pop stars like Beyonce and Taylor Swift have – even if unintentionally – reinvented feminism as “getting paid” and “being sexy”.
Taylor Swift hopes to outfox the counterfeiters.
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The singer-songwriter has signed deals with two Chinese retailers to sell authentic merchandise in the country in hopes of stemming the tide of knockoffs.
Shake it off.
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New studies show that unethical reputations actually don’t concern consumers of streaming services.