5 h. ago The story behind the character who inspired Taylor Swift’s latest track – and what it really tells us

Serena Trowbridge looks at the inspiration behind one of Swift’s latest tracks

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5 h. ago Taylor Swift explains Actually Romantic lyrics as fans claim it's a Charli XCX diss track

Taylor Swift fans were adamant her track Actually Romantic from her The Life Of A Showgirl album was a diss track about Charli XCX and now the singer has explained its meaning

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10 h. ago Taylor Swift ROASTED by Charli XCX fans over Actually Romantic diss track after she was seen dancing to her performance at the Grammys

The former tour mates appear to be at the centre of a growing feud, thanks in part to pointed words about Charli's 'coke habit' in the track which features on Taylor's new album, The Life Of A Showgirl.

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11 h. 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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34 h. ago Taylor Swift 'mocks Liverpool legend' in lyrics on new album The Life of a Showgirl

Trent Alexander-Arnold's controversial move from Liverpool to Real Madrid was bizarrely caught in the crossfire during one track on Taylor Swift's new album The Life of a Showgirl

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35 h. 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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36 h. ago Taylor Swift’s 'dark and sexual' The Life of a Showgirl: The Easter eggs, hidden meanings track by track

Orange doors, Shakespearean heroines, Travis Kelce innuendos... Swift’s twelfth album is full of secrets. Here’s the definitive breakdown

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36 h. 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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37 h. 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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38 h. ago Did Taylor Swift just try to start beef with Charli xcx on The Life of a Showgirl?

It sounds like Matty Healy has been stirring up drama

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38 h. 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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39 h. 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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39 h. 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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40 h. ago Taylor Swift takes a swipe at Scooter Braun in new track about a mentor's betrayal

Braun bought the master recordings of Swift's first six albums in June 2019 in a controversial deal worth an estimated $300 million.

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40 h. ago Taylor Swift champions future husband Travis Kelce and dethrones enemies on four star new album

Our 4 star track-by-track review of Taylor Swift's The Life Of A Showgirl album digs deep into all the lyrics and Easter eggs. A celebration of her love for future husband Travis Kelce, along the way she still dabbles in a dose of poetic revenge, with a few new grunge flavours thrown in too. Peak Taylor triumphs again.

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48 h. ago George Michael's estate responds after Taylor Swift featured his iconic track Father Figure on her new album The Life of a Showgirl

Ahead of the record's release on Friday, it was revealed the hitmaker has recorded a song called Father Figure, which shares the same name as George's 1987 track, as well as an interpolation.

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2 w. ago ‘It makes you feel like a teenager again!’ Why The Summer I Turned Pretty is 2025’s surprise TV hit

This nostalgic tale of first love is an agonising masterclass in modern romance. No wonder it’s become such a sensation – and that a movie is on the wayIt’s often said that the romcom is dead. Kiss goodbye to the crisp charm of Nora Ephron’s freshly sharpened pencil bouquets in the fall, embrace the era of musings on love as nothing more than a maths equation. Then along comes gripping teen romance The Summer I Turned Pretty and it gets us at the first Taylor Swift track.Across its 26-episode run, the adaptation of Jenny Han’s trilogy of novels has won the hearts of millennials who have been desperately yearning for a nostalgic watch to fill the void of 00s romcoms. Reminiscent of rose-tinted love stories of their youth, before dating apps, catfishing and ghosting entered their vocabulary, the show’s potency has been such that Prime Video even issued a warning asking viewers not to use hate speech towards the cast. It isn’t real, no matter how visceral it feels, and the streamer did...

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