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If you thought "So High School" and "The Alchemy" were about Travis Kelce, wait'll you hear some of the songs on Taylor Swift's new album, The Life of a Showgirl.The album of 12 "bangers," as Taylor described it, is indeed upbeat pop music, but a bit more stripped down than Reputation, her last collaboration with Max Martin and Shellback. Most of the tracks on the album are love letters to her fiancé, mostly sweet, but […]

L-R: Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson. (Dennis Leupold) Former One Direction bandmates Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik are hitting the road together — not for a tour, but for a new road trip show coming to Netflix.The two British singers will embark on a journey across the U.S. for the new three-part docuseries, which promises "a spontaneous adventure of reconnection, exploration, and a lot of laughter."According to a press release, the […]

Miley Cyrus at The 67th Annual Grammy Awards. (Phil McCarten/CBS ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.) Miley Cyrus may have been harshly criticized when she shed her Disney image for a more provocative image in her 20s, but she wasn’t letting it bother her at the time.In a preview clip ahead of her CBS Sunday Mornings interview airing Sunday, Miley says it wasn’t until years later that she learned […]

Cover of Elton John and Brandi Carlile's 'Who Believes in Angels? Live From the London Palladium'/(Interscope) Record Store Day has announced the list of releases for its 2025 Black Friday event, taking place in independent record stores on Nov. 28. This year there will be over 170 releases, and here is a selection of some of the titles:Benson Boone is releasing his 2023 EP, Pulse, on electric yellow and bright blue splatter vinyl, […]

Louis Tomlinson (L) and Zayn Malik of One Direction perform onstage during the One Direction Where We Are Tour at Rose Bowl on September 11, 2014 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/OneD/Getty Images) Former One Direction bandmates Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik are hitting the road together — not for a tour, but for a new road trip show coming to Netflix.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two British […]

Taylor Swift 'The Life of a Showgirl' (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott) George Michael’s estate is thrilled that the late singer’s song "Father Figure" has been incorporated into Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl.As previously reported, Taylor’s track of the same name interpolates the 1988 classic."We were delighted when Taylor Swift and her team approached us earlier this year about incorporating an interpolation of George Michael‘s classic […]

Taylor Swift 'The Life of a Showgirl' variant (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott/TAS Rights Management) With every new release, Taylor Swift rewrites the record books, and according to Billboard, she's poised to do again Friday with her new album The Life of a Showgirl. Here are some of the chart milestones she could set with the new album:Solo artist with the most #1 albums on the Billboard 200: Taylor is currently […]

A new lyric from Taylor Swift's new album The Life of a Showgirl was revealed Wednesday at Spotify's immersive pop-up experience built around the new album: “You wanna take a skate on the ice inside my veins?” The new lyric follows the two previously revealed ones from the pop-up: "Everyone's unbothered til they're not" and "Oftentimes it doesn't feel so glamorous to be me."While performing in Dallas, Texas, on Tuesday, Dua […]

Alex Warren's album 'You'll Be Alright, Kid' (Atlantic Records) Even Alex Warren couldn't have predicted that his song "Ordinary" would spend 10 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 and be declared the Song of the Summer by Billboard. Speaking to the publication, Alex reflected on his unlikely success, noting, “The last six months of my life have been really weird." "It’s surreal. I haven’t caught up with it yet,” Alex says. […]