My sources are telling me that Travis had actually planned to retire this offseason, but felt obligated to return in order to help cover the growing financial burdens of his mothers extensive home renovations.
Let’s take a moment to celebrate the incredible Paul Tazewell.
Last year, Paul became the first Black man in history to win the Oscar for ‘Best Costume Design’. His career expands well beyond ‘WICKED’, creating incredible works for both the stage and screen. Some of his most notable including:
• The Color Purple
• Death Becomes Her
• Hamilton
• West Side Story
• The Wiz Live!
• Harriet
• Summer
• Jesus Christ Superstar Live
• Suffs
His work will be studied for generations to come as a true master of ingenuity.
listen, i’m an artist. i understand the necessity of criticism when it comes to art as means for growth and development. however! if your “criticism” is that she only writes good music when she’s sad/because of her ex-boyfriend, i’m no longer listening to you because that isn’t a proper critique. it’s asinine, you sound like a child that’s mad you didn’t get what you wanted. if you don’t like the production, fine! if isn’t what you’d prefer lyrically, fine! that’s valid! what’s not valid is these underlying misogynistic takes that her previous albums were only good because of who she was dating or that who she was dating actually wrote all of her good songs. ESPECIALLY when her first 4 albums alone go bar for bar with the likes of folklore, evermore, and ttpd. 5 years from now you’re gonna be saying this album wasn’t given its proper flowers, just like so many of y’all did with rep and lover.
i’m bored. these takes are tired. keep them to
yourself please!
Tonight all these lives converge here
The mosaics of laughter and cocktails of tears
Where fraternal souls sing identical things
And it’s beautiful
It’s rapturous.
It is frightening.
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I can’t tell you how proud I am to share this with you, an album that just feels so right. A forever thank you goes out to my mentors and friends Max and Shellback for helping me paint this self portrait.
If you thought the big show was wild, perhaps you should come and take a look behind the curtain...
The Life of a Showgirl is out now.
https://t.co/VetltwlcoJ
Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift
📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
it’s so crazy how long I can go on with my life as a normal functioning member of society but the moment that taylorswift dot com countdown starts it’s back to the asylum