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Taylor Swift and Saweetie to Appear on SNL This Month
Taylor Swift and Saweetie will be joining Ed Sheeran as the musical guests on this month’s episodes of Saturday Night Live. November on SNL! pic.twitter.com/LqwRCeUdxY — Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) November 2, 2021 With Jonathan Majors hosting, Swift is set to perform on November 13. Her appearance on the show is the day after the release of her next drop of reissued re-recorded albums, Red (Taylor’s Version), out on Nov. 12. Saweetie will perform for SNL on November 20 when Simu Liu is hosting. Saweetie teamed up with Jhené Aiko on “Back to the Streets” last month. Despite testing positive for COVID last week, Sheeran has recovered and completed his quarantine and will perform this Saturday as planned. Kieran Culkin, who stars on the HBO series Succession ...
Why the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Was the Best in Years
After skipping a year due to the pandemic, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its 2021 class with a wild, surprise-guest-filled party held in the town many argue is the ceremony’s only rightful home: Cleveland, Ohio. What a homecoming it was. Paul McCartney became a seventh Foo Fighter. LL Cool J, Eminem, and J. Lo blew up the night like old-school hip-hop Avengers. And later, LL was the only person on the arena floor to stand and clap for the late, great Biz Markie. Both Carli(s)les — Brandi and Belinda — were in the house. Drew Barrymore did Ponds performance art. [embedded content][embedded content] The Go-Go’s swore to use their induction to get more female bands into the painfully male-dominated institution. And, randomly, Survivor host Jeff Probst was there — the sol...
Taylor Swift Drops ‘Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)’ Because It’s Trending on TikTok
Taylor Swift has been re-recording her entire catalog this year, and the newest is interrupting the chronological order of her album releases. Swift just dropped “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” because she noticed the track has been recently trending on TikTok. “Hi!” she wrote on Instagram and Twitter. “Saw you guys got Wildest Dreams trending on tiktok, thought you should have my version” Listen to “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” below. [embedded content] Red (Taylor’s Version) was next in line of the newly recorded album remakes, and is set to arrive in November. Swift is re-recording her entire catalog due to the fight with producer Scooter Braun who currently owns her old catalog, so Swift can now own all of her new versions. “Wildest Dreams” has become a popular TikTok track b...
Big Red Machine and Taylor Swift Team for ‘Renegade’ From How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?
Big Red Machine just released their latest track, “Renegade,” and this is the one people have been waiting for. The third track from their recently announced sophomore album, How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?, features none other than Taylor Swift. While it’s not the first major feature from the indie supergroup’s latest album (“Latter Days” featured Anaïs Mitchell) it’s hard to get bigger than Swift in this kind of scenario. Of course, both halves of Big Red Machine previously collaborated with Swift, as The National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon have each worked on the megastar’s albums in recent months, but that doesn’t make “Renegade” any less of an indie-pop banger. “While we were making Folklore and Evermore last year, Taylor and I sometimes talked about experimen...
Taylor Swift to Release New Version of Red in November
Over the past few years, Taylor Swift has vowed to reissue re-recorded versions of her early albums. So far, she released Fearless, which we said in our review was a “meticulous flashback boosted by new deep cuts.” Now, it seems like she’s upping the stakes for a reissue of Red. In a tweet on Friday, Swift revealed her plans for Red, which will be out on Nov. 19. This new version will contain a whopping 30 songs and as she said herself as a tease, “And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long.” “Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end,” she said. “Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of ...
Lady Gaga Joins Lisa Kudrow on Friends Reunion to Sing ‘Smelly Cat’
People missed their Friends during the pandemic, and thanks to HBO Max it’s reunion time, and new “friend,” Lady Gaga and her acoustic guitar joined Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay, for a version of “Smelly Cat.” Kudrow’s beloved blonde character first sang “Smelly Cat” on a 1995 episode of Friends, and the song made a few appearances on the show, achieving oddball icon status. Kudrow and Taylor Swift sang it together at one of Swift’s 2015 concerts in Los Angeles’ Staples Center. Check out the “Smelly” fun below. The special has James Corden interviewing the show’s cast on a recreated version of the Friends set. Guests popped by; BTS, for instance, joined to wax ecstatic about their Friends fandom, while Justin Bieber wordlessly modeled Ross’ ...
Dua Lipa wins album of the year at Brit Awards
Dua Lipa won the coveted British Album of the Year prize at the Brit Awards on Tuesday, in a ceremony that saw female artists dominate the mixed categories. Around 4,000 guests streamed into London’s O2 Arena for the biggest night in British pop music, as the ceremony welcomed guests for the first time in two years as part of the government’s pilot scheme easing coronavirus restrictions. The Brit Awards have been criticised in the past for nominations seen as skewing heavily male, but this year almost all of the main prizes went to female artists. Little Mix won best British group — becoming the first female act ever to do so. Singer and poet Arlo Parks took the Breakthrough Artist award, and best international group went to the American band HAIM. In another history-making moment, Taylor ...
Taylor Swift Wears a Sparkling Miu Miu Ensemble to Accept the BRIT Award For Global Icon
While we were all staying safe during lockdown, Taylor Swift was busy releasing three whole albums. To honour her hard work and hustle, the Lover, Folklore, and Evermore singer accepted the 2021 BRIT award for global icon in a sparkling Miu Miu co-ordinated set. “I want to thank the BRITs or anyone who thought that I would be worthy of this incredible honour,” Swift said while accepting her BRIT Award. “I’m really really proud to be a part of this musical community. Especially in a year when we all needed music so much.” Swift’s sparkling, custom Miu Miu ensemble featured a spaghetti-strap bralette crop top with clear beaded floral embroidery, a matching high-waist pencil skirt, shoes by Miu Miu, Jessica McCormack earrings, Sophie Bille Brahe rings, and ...
Taylor Swift’s Fearless Re-Recording Is a Thrilling Timewarp
Before we start, a note: There really is no precedent for what Taylor Swift is doing. Sure, artists have re-recorded bits and pieces of their catalog over the years. Frank Sinatra, Def Leppard, DMX — they’ve all redone at least some of their greatest hits due to prior contract disputes or other financial incentives. In 2018, JoJo re-released new versions of her first two albums, after years of label quarrels and not owning her masters — troubles not so foreign from Swift’s contentious ending with Big Machine Records and feud with super-manager Scooter Braun, who acquired the pop megalith’s first six albums in 2019 and flipped them to a private equity firm for a cool $300 million in November. No artist in their prime, let alone one of the best-selling singers of the last 20 years — fr...
Taylor Swift Plays Songs From folklore and evermore at Grammys
Coming off the mega-success of her sister albums folklore and evermore, Taylor Swift had a little help from her friends during her latest major Grammy moment. On Sunday night, Swift performed a medley of hits from her Billboard-topping 2020 albums, including “Cardigan,” “Willow” and “August,” as she sang and played along in a woodland surrounding. The elegant performance, featuring Swift sitting on a mossy roof and joined by collaborators Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner inside what appears to be a mini-cabin, helped celebrate the milestone success of their two latest projects. <!– // Brid Player Singles. var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ “div”: “Brid_10143537”, “obj”: {“id”:”25115″,”width”:”480″,&...
Taylor Swift, Chris Martin, Haim and Billie Eilish Set to Perform at 2021 Grammy Awards
The 2021 Grammy Awards have announced this year’s performers, and the list is stacked. Taylor Swift, Chris Martin, Haim, and Billie Eilish are all set to take the stage “while still safely apart.” The broadcast will also include sets from Bad Bunny, Black Pumas, Cardi B, BTS, Brandi Carlile, DaBaby, Doja Cat, Mickey Guyton, Brittany Howard, Miranda Lambert, Lil Baby, Dua Lipa, John Mayer, Megan Thee Stallion, Maren Morris, Post Malone, Roddy Ricch, and Harry Styles. Trevor Noah-hosted event will take place a little later than usual this year, after the Recording Academy postponed the ceremony from its original Jan. 31 date due to COVID-19 concerns. Though she won’t be performing, Beyoncé leads the pack&nbs...
Taylor Swift Claps Back at ‘Deeply Sexist’ Joke in Netflix Show Ginny & Georgia
The new Netflix series Ginny & Georgia makes a joke at Taylor Swift’s expense. But Swift isn’t laughing about the jab at her love life, which contains the punchline “You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.” The “You Need To Calm Down” singer clapped back on social media saying, “2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back. How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse shit as FuNnY.” She added her own zinger at the end: “Happy Women’s History Month I guess.” Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back. How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse shit as FuNnY. Also, @netflix after Miss Americana this outfit doesn’t look cute on you 💔 Happy Women’s History Month I guess ...
