8 h. ago Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is out now – shop the vinyl and merch

The singer’s latest record is titled The Life of a Showgirl

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9 h. ago Noel Gallagher's scathing views on Taylor Swift as she releases Life of a Showgirl

Noel Gallagher has made it no secret that he's not a fan of Taylor Swift and once questioned how she ever became so successful, and believes only her parents have said she's talented

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10 h. ago Taylor Swift says Wish List ‘might’ be her favourite The Life Of A Showgirl song

The star spoke to Capital Breakfast upon the release of her 12th studio album.

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10 h. ago Taylor Swift's secret Life of a Showgirl Easter eggs revealed

Taylor Swift officially dropped her long-awaited 12th album The Life Of A Showgirl - and fans have already spotted the hidden Easter Eggs throughout the songs.

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11 h. ago Taylor Swift sings about Travis Kelce romance and his 'wood' on The Life Of A Showgirl

The star has dropped her latest record, The Life Of A Showgirl, and it is full of Easter Eggs

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14 h. ago How Taylor Swift secretly recorded The Life of a Showgirl album... as release breaks the internet

Taylor Swift shocked the world when she announced earlier this year she had secretly recorded her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl.

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7 d. ago Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is out next week – here’s how to pre

The singer’s latest record is titled The Life of a Showgirl

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9 d. ago ‘The idea we should be in the kitchen serving our men is enraging’: singer

She withstood bomb threats when making her all-female Lilith Fair festival in the 90s – and this week stood up to Disney over Jimmy Kimmel. The alt-pop star explains why she’s still so fired upIt’s 11 years since Sarah McLachlan last released an album of original songs. The break had worried her. “What do I have to say at this point in my life?” she says. “I’m a 57-year-old white woman of privilege. Does anybody want to hear from me?”Looking tanned and relaxed on an early morning video call from Vancouver Island, the Nova Scotia native admits she had “stayed busy”: she released a Christmas album (2016’s Wonderland) and worked as the principal fundraiser and founding board chair for her three namesake music schools, which provide lessons and education to at-risk youth. At the same time, she was a self-proclaimed dance mom raising two daughters; the second recently went off to college. But there was still “trepidation around being out of the game for so long”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Ed Sheeran: Play review – subcontinental sounds and shards of darkness – but still unmistakably him

(Gingerbread Man/Atlantic)Despite embracing Indian and Persian sounds, Sheeran’s eighth album goes back to basics after two records of muted melancholy – albeit with some surprising undercurrentsAs he points out on the opening track of Play, Ed Sheeran has now been around a long time. It’s 20 years since he self-released his debut album and 14 since he signed to a major label and set about becoming the most commercially successful British artist of his age: long enough that we’re now seeing the appearance of pop stars who claim him as a formative influence. (Singer-songwriter Myles Smith, who was just into his teens when Sheeran released his breakthrough album +, even plays one of those little acoustic guitars that have long been Sheeran’s trademark.) It’s certainly long enough that anyone with even a passing interest knows what to expect when Ed Sheeran releases a new album.Sheeran’s success is based on a certain dependability: it doesn’t seem to matter who he works with – Pharrell...

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