7 d. ago The state of Taylor Swift's friendship with Blake Lively revealed after singer released song about 'cancelled' pals

This comes after fans speculated that Lively is the subject of or, at the very least, partially the inspiration for Swift's song Cancelled off her new album, The Life Of A Showgirl.

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7 d. ago ‘It’s been a shock’: Taylor Swift fans flock to see German museum’s Ophelia

Depiction of Shakespeare character by Friedrich Heyser believed to have inspired pop superstar’s new music videoA 200-year-old museum in Germany has found itself in the eye of a storm of delighted Taylor Swift fans when it emerged that one of the probable inspirations for the music video of her new song The Fate of Ophelia was hanging on its wall.In the opening scene of the clip for the first song on Swift’s blockbuster new album The Life of a Showgirl, one of the world’s biggest pop stars assumes the role of the tragic Shakespearean character. The video, released earlier this month, was watched more than 27m times on YouTube in the first three days. Continue reading...

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1 week ago My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’

As a not-yet-out trans teen, The Sensual World – the singer’s rejection of masculine influence – felt like an invocation of everything I was feelingIt wasn’t safe for me to discover The Sensual World, the eponymous track on what Kate Bush described as her “most female album”. The song was intended to be a rejection of the masculine influence that had unwittingly shaped the artist’s previous work, and an ode to something taboo within the female experience. Based on Molly Bloom’s soliloquy in James Joyce’s Ulysses – a stream of consciousness in which the character reflects on her experiences of nature, sex and love – Bush wanted to celebrate the experience of life inside a woman’s body, and the ways it gives her spiritual and sexual pleasure. I knew that, for someone like me, who was already being bullied, to openly love a song like this could make me an even more obvious target to those who saw femininity as a sign of weakness. More daunting than that, it might force me to ...

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2 w. ago Travis Kelce's shy reaction to Taylor Swift's 'generous' song about his 'manhood'

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce was questioned by his brother about Taylor Swift's raunchy song about his 'manhood' from her new album, The Life of a Showgirl

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift reveals truth behind raunchy song about Travis Kelce's manhood

The pop megastar released her new The Life of a Showgirl album on Friday, which includes an overtly sexual song dedicated to her NFL-star fiance - much to the disbelief of her fans.

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2 w. ago Finn Wolfhard’s honest playlist: ‘I don’t know if I want to hear Sweet Child O’ Mine any more’

The musician and actor gives Bowie some welly at karaoke and is a lapsed G’n’R superfan. But which UK stadium indie-popsters created the first album he ever bought?The first song I fell in love withI was in my living room one fall afternoon, sick from school, aged six, and my mom was like: ‘You’ve never heard the Beatles before?’ She put on Help! the movie, then for the rest of the day, I played Help! over and over again on her iPod.The song I do at karaoke Anything David Bowie is really fun, like Fame or Queen Bitch. No one is ever going to sound like Bowie, but I just love the energy and mood. Recently I did Save Me by Aimee Mann, which I think made everyone really bored, but I had the greatest time. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The story behind the character who inspired Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia – and what it really tells us

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the album’s release, fans and art historians speculated that the inspiration could come from John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia (1851-52), one of the most visited paintings at Tate Britain.

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift's hidden heartbreak: The tragic story about death of one of her best friends at 21 that fans think is the inspiration for her new song

Fans are convinced that one poignant song on Taylor Swift's highly-anticipated album, which came out on Friday, tells the tale of a hidden heartbreak.

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3 w. ago 'Genius' Taylor Swift outsmarts Google with crafty song name in new album

Taylor Swift’s newest album, The Life of a Showgirl, is finally out, and one song in particular has become a trending topic across all social media platforms - and the reason is so smart.

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift leaves fans on the edge of their seats as she FINALLY reveals her true feelings about Blake Lively in new song Cancelled!

Taylor Swift appears to finally reveal her true feelings about Blake Lively in her new song Cancelled! from the singer's 12th studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl.

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift reveals Travis Kelce’s ‘favourite’ track from new album

The musician made an appearance on The Graham Norton Show where she spoke about The Life Of A Showgirl

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift says Opalite is Travis Kelce’s favourite song from new album

Taylor Swift says Travis Kelce’s favourite track on Life Of A Showgirl also excites her dad

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift references Travis Kelce romance on The Life Of A Showgirl

Swift fans are speculating that one song in particular references Kelce on The Life of a Showgirl

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift says Opalite is Travis Kelce’s ‘favourite’ track from new album

The 35-year-old musician spoke about her 12th studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl, during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show.

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3 w. ago All the clues Taylor Swift's new track is about her 'Cancelled' ex

There are several clues that Blake Lively was the inspiration behind Taylor Swift's new song Cancelled! off her 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl, which dropped on Friday.

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift releases her raunchiest song yet dedicated to Travis Kelce's 'manhood'

Taylor Swift released her raunchiest song yet with her track Wood from her new album The Life of a Showgirl.

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3 w. ago George Michael Estate thanks Taylor Swift for incorporating classic song on new album

Swift has created her own song titled ‘Father Figure’ for her highly anticipated new album

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3 w. ago Perrie Edwards on verge of tears over 'heartbreak' amid Jesy Nelson estrangement

Little Mix's Perrie Edwards was emotional at a gig following the release of her debut solo album whilst introducing a song said to be about her friendship with Jesy Nelson

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4 w. ago Cat On The Road To Findout by Yusuf/Cat Stevens review – fame, faith and charity

The enigmatic singer-songwriter on pop stardom, becoming a Muslim and returning to the stage decades laterWhen Cat Stevens changed his name to Yusuf Islam and announced his conversion to the Muslim faith and retirement from music in the late 70s, Bob Dylan apparently remarked that he had “finally stopped trying to be the prophet and begun to follow The Prophet”. It’s a quote that Islam reproduces in his autobiography, viewing it as a benediction, but it also tells you something about the music that made him globally famous.In the early 70s, the charts were awash with sensitive folky singer-songwriters. Their constituency, as Islam perceptively notes, was “the college generation, away from home, lonely and trying to find their place in the university of high academic expectations”. But none were as obsessed with spirituality as Cat Stevens, with his album titles that namechecked Buddha or referenced Zen poems, his conceptual song cycles based on numerology, his lyrical...

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