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Taylor Swift Confirms New Album Track List, Lana Del Rey Cameo
Taylor Swift has revealed the complete track list for her new album, Midnights, which includes a guest appearance from Lana Del Rey on the song “Snow on the Beach.” Swift had been dribbling out one song title at a time over the past few days through her “Midnights Mayhem With Me” TikTok series, but late last night began unveiling one per hour until completing the track list 4 a.m. ET. The other four remaining titles are album opener “Lavender Haze,” “You’re on Your Own” (track 5), “Labyrinth” (track 10) and “Sweet Nothing” (track 12). Midnights will be released Oct. 21. Swift went into detail in a separate Instagram video about “Lavender Haze,” a phrase she says she “happened upon” while watching the TV series Mad Men. “And I looked it up because I thought it sounded cool, and it turns out...
Taylor Swift Reveals ‘Karma’ As Eighth Song From Midnights
Taylor Swift‘s latest song title reveal from her upcoming album, Midnights, is “Karma,” which is the eighth track in sequence on the project. “Karma” is the latest song to be picked out of a spinning, bingo-like ball cage, replete with cheesy, retro theme music in the background, as part of Swift’s cheeky “Midnights Mayhem With Me” TikTok series. Swift surprisingly announced Midnights would be released Oct. 21 during her Aug. 28 acceptance speech for video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards. She later said the album comprises “the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life. This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. The floors we pace and the demons we face. For all of us who have tossed and turned a...
Taylor Swift Announces Next ‘Midnights’ Song Title & It’s Spicy
The Midnights song title lottery game continues, and this one is spicy. Taylor Swift unveiled the next installment of her “Midnights Mayhem With Me” series on TikTok on Thursday night (Sept. 22) at midnight, of course. Like the first episode just two days before, the Grammy-winning superstar was once again seated next to a gold lottery-ball cage with ping-pong balls labeled 1 to 13, representing each track on her upcoming album, due out Oct. 21. This time, Swift was joined by her O.G. cat Meredith (who even lets out a perfectly timed meow) to announce the title of Track 8. She’s still in front of the brown crushed-velvet backdrop, but this time she’s wearing a chartreuse V-neck cardigan with white flowers down the sleeves and her hair in braided pigtails. The new title? “Vigilante Shi...
Taylor Swift Unveils First ‘Midnights’ Song Title, for ‘Track 13, Because of Course’
Taylor Swift knows she has a, well, reputation for dropping bread crumbs across her social media and music for eagle-eyed fans to decode and decipher. But that’s not what she’s up to this time around. She’s ready to give her fans some straightforward information, posting a TikTok first thing Wednesday (Sept. 21) — at the stroke of midnight, naturally — with a very cable-access vibe and the title “Midnights Mayhem With Me.” The superstar singer/songwriter, wearing a mustard blazer and sitting in front of a brown crushed-velvet backdrop, had a gold lottery-ball cage next to her with ping-pong balls labeled 1 to 13, representing each track on her Midnights album, due Oct. 21. “I know I have a habit of dropping cryptic clues and easter eggs when giving you information about new music, and I’m ...
Taylor Swift Accepts Songwriter-Artist of the Decade Honor at Nashville Songwriter Awards: Read Her Full Speech
Two decades after writing her first song, and almost 16 years after releasing her eponymous debut album, Taylor Swift accepted the Songwriter-Artist of the Decade award on Tuesday evening (Sept. 20) at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, during the annual Nashville Songwriter Awards. The honor celebrated Swift’s successes between 2010 and 2019, a time period that saw Swift fully transition from country to pop, amassing hits and fan favorites including the pop-country crossovers “Fearless,” “Mine” and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” to the electrifying pop of “Shake It Off,” “Style” and “Blank Space” to more intimate tracks such as “Lover” and “New Year’s Day.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Nashville Songwriters Association Intern...
MAGA Stooge Nick Adams Says Kid Rock Should Drop Music Same Day As Taylor Swift
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Scott Legato / Getty Kid Rock, a middling struggle rapper at best, is something of a MAGA mascot these days and a favorite of former president and top-secret document hoarder, Donald Trump. Nick Adams, a political pundit who stans for Trump, issued a pair of tweets suggesting Kid Rock should drop an album the same day as Taylor Swift. Out of respect for your time and energy, we won’t post the direct tweets in question but instead share it in full below. From Nick Adams: Under Joe Biden, America is more divided than at any point in our history since the Civil War. Music brings people together. It’s become abundantly clear, America does NOT need new music from Taylor Swift. America needs a new Kid Rock album ASAP to re-unify the country! — Kid Rock sh...
Nicki Minaj Parties With Taylor Swift After 2022 VMAs: ‘Barbs, I Know You Love Her’
Nicki Minaj had quite the night at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, but her fun didn’t end with receiving this year’s Video Vanguard Award. The honoree took to Instagram on Monday (Aug. 29) to share a video from the Republic Records VMAs afterparty with none other than Taylor Swift. “The big winner of the night is the beautiful Taylor Swift. Barbs, I know you love her; we all love her,” she told the camera over booming music as she and the superstar cozied up together. Indeed, Swift walked away from the ceremony with her record-breaking third win for video of the year (for All Too Well: The Short Film) as well as Moon Persons for best longform video and best direction. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Later in the clip, which she captioned “Last...
VMAs 2022: Taylor Swift Wins Video of the Year, Announces New Album
Taylor Swift won the video of the year award for “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” to close out the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards and took the opportunity to break some major news in her acceptance speech: her new album will be released on Oct. 21. “I will tell you more at midnight,” she added. Indeed, at midnight Swift took to Instagram to confirm that the 13-track album is titled Midnights and comprises “the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life. This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. The floors we pace and the demons we face. For all of us who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and fo searching — hoping that just maybe, when the clock strikes 12, we’ll meet ourselves.” The...
A Timeline of Taylor Swift & Selena Gomez’s Friendship
For every birthday celebrated, heart broken, album released and milestone achieved, Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez have been there for each other through it all. Very few are more famous than these two pop stars, and even fewer celebrities have maintained such a long-lasting, ride-or-die friendship through the years. When one drops music, the other is always the first to share their praise — even though we all know they were definitely one of the first to hear any new song or album of their bestie’s months before its release. At awards shows, you can often spot the pair seated next to each other whispering into one another’s ears. And by now, fans know to expect that Gomez will make an appearance at one of Swift’s shows whenever the “All Too Well” singer goes on tour. That level of loy...
Taylor Swift Heads to ‘Carolina’ on Song for Crawdads Movie
Taylor Swift‘s latest new song is arriving at midnight (ET) tonight, according to the artist’s social media platforms. “Carolina” will play over the end credits of the upcoming movie Where the Crawdads Sing, which was produced by Reese Witherspoon and hits theaters on July 15. Like Swift’s most recent studio albums of original music, the 2020 projects folklore and evermore, “Carolina” was produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner. “I wanted to create something haunting and ethereal to match this mesmerizing story,” Swift said of the song in March. Witherspoon and director Olivia Newman revealed last week in an online roundtable discussion that Swift not only wrote the song without being commissioned to do so but also turned it into them without warning. Swift recorded “Carolina” in one take...
10 Chart-Toppers That Sample or Pull From Past No. 1s
“First Class,” the second single from Kentucky rapper Jack Harlow’s album Come Home The Kids Miss You, is one of the biggest songs of 2022 so far, reaching No. 1 on the Hot 100 twice since its April release. One reason for the quick ascent: the familiarity of the chorus, which samples Fergie’s vocals from “Glamorous,” which also topped the Hot 100 back in 2007. Since Billboard began publishing the Hot 100 in 1958, nine songs have topped the chart more than once by different artists, like Little Eva’s 1962 original “The Loco-Motion” and Grand Funk Railroad’s 1974 cover. But as hip-hop began to take over the charts in the 1990s, sampling old hits has become the most notable method of reviving pop’s past. And in recent years, interpolations with replayed elements of old hits have kicked up a ...
Taylor Swift’s 40 Biggest Hot 100 Hits
Few artists have earned the chart hits, fan support and critical acclaim that Taylor Swift enjoys. Emerging as a country singer-songwriter on her 2006 self-titled debut before branching out into the worlds of pop music, indie folk and beyond, Swift has notched eight No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100, inspired a dedicated legion of Swifties and won the Grammy for album of the year three times — for Fearless, 1989 and Folklore; She is just the fourth person, and the first woman, to win that prestigious Grammy three times. In 2019, Swift was honored as Billboard‘s first ever Woman of the Decade at our 2019 Women In Music event, not just for her commercial success, but for her commitment to protecting creative rights, music education, literacy programs, cancer research, disaster relief and the T...
