About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album. Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made. The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore including four new songs is out on Friday and available to pre-order and save now at https://t.co/bWaNOQ6OmT ❤️🔥
📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
🚨🎥 TMZ is still hunting for footage of vacationing members of Congress and it's now gone international. About 30 lawmakers were spotted touring a castle in Scotland and guess who's footing the bill? YOU.
Taylor Swift
Pearl Jam
Olivia Dean
Zach Bryan
Oasis
The Cure
What do they all have in common?
They've all spoken out about Ticketmaster ripping off fans.
But Trump just gave Ticketmaster the equivalent of a corporate pardon.
It's a betrayal of every fan in America.
In 2000 the NFL started collecting data of women viewership. They hired firms and spent millions of dollars to increase the women viewership. Although I would love to say it’s because they want us here, I’m a realist and say, Follow the money. Why would makeup companies want to pay for advertisements when this isn’t their target audience?
Prior to Taylor Swift’s debut game, the women viewership was less than 25%. By the end of the season, women viewership is now at 47% - almost HALF of mens. Makeup companies like NYX and Elf quickly secured commercial spots.
In just content revenue, Tay generated $331.5 million for the NFL. Kelce jerseys spiked 400%. NFL had its highest regular season viewership and the highest Super Bowl viewership. The cap space increased an additional $30 million this year due to “extraordinary increase in media revenue.”
So to you Dads, Brads, and Chads, when you complain about a quick glimpse of her during your football game, remember to keep that same energy when our cap space continues to increase and your favorite players get to stay on your team because there’s additional money for their contract.
Every few years, thousands of people are surprised to learn that I am a fan of Taylor Swift.
1. I am a fan of Taylor Swift. I have been since I first heard Speak Now in 2010.
2. I love Taylor Swift's music and lyrics. You don't have to. But I get to.
3. I love the Taylor Swift fandom. Again, you don't have to. But I get to.
4. Making your whole identity disliking something/someone is weird and a bit sad.
5. TTPD is excellent and I love listening to it. The writing is so, so good.
6. Gentle reminder that I delete almost all of my tweets after a few minutes.
The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.
And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now: https://t.co/PzuwWnatO7
It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours. 🤍
https://t.co/Mc0L20io4X
If you are listening to The Tortured Poets Department before it officially drops, you are not a real fan. A real fan respects Taylor’s work, and this is massively disrespectful.