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Post by Admin on Oct 12, 2017 18:50:50 GMT
After a year during which Taylor Swift was nowhere to be found, Taylor Swift is suddenly everywhere: on demand on DirecTV, on the sides of UPS trucks, and now, in the App Store. Her new app The Swift Life is a partnership with Glu, best known for cash-grab celebrity mobile games like Katy Perry Pop, Britney Spears: American Dream, Nicki Minaj: The Empire, and the crown jewel, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.
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Post by Admin on Oct 17, 2017 18:57:29 GMT
She bathed in diamonds, ran through a graveyard and writhed on a golden throne of snakes in the explosive clip for her comeback track Look What You Made Me Do. But Taylor Swift seemed to favour a more urban vision for her latest music video, which saw her shooting in the rather humble surroundings of a kebab shop in London. The pop sensation, 27, channeled a grungy Eighties look with an oversized baseball jacket and fishnets while surrounded by dancers during the 3am shoot on Friday.
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Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2017 18:45:23 GMT
Taylor Swift is falling into the same outfit trap as Kylie Jenner and Khloe Kardashian, most recently, as she sparked rumors of a pregnancy with the latest snap that was posted to social media. Taylor hosted a listening party for some of her biggest fans at her home, previewing songs from her new album, Reputation. In one photo, she stands with a Swifty, hand on hip, wearing a loose sweatshirt dress. One user re-posted the photo, writing, “Guys what if gorgeous by @taylorswift13 is a baby announcement??? idk if this is a bad angle but she looks pregnant? IMAGINE OMG.” In truth, it just seems as though Taylor is arching her back, just-so, and her hand on her hip is causing her sweatshirt dress to push forward, over her stomach. Why is it, though, that every time a celebrity steps out in something slightly oversized, the world begins whispers (and screams) of a child on the way? It's really not OK to speculate on whether someone's pregnant or not, especially if it's solely based on what they wear.
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Post by Admin on Nov 7, 2017 18:46:08 GMT
The ACLU of Northern California issued a press release today saying it intends to defend a blogger who has drawn the ire of Taylor Swift. On October 25th, writer Meghan Herning received a letter from Swift’s legal team demanding the removal and retraction of a blog post she wrote in September titled “Swiftly to the alt-right: Taylor subtly gets the lower case kkk in formation.” The post appeared on PopFront, a tiny pop culture blog with 78 Twitter followers. The post details how the online alt-right has latched onto Swift throughout her career, taking it upon themselves to dub her a white supremacist icon. From there, it dives into some textual analysis of Swift’s recent single “Look What You Made Me Do,” arguing that her lyrics “I don’t like your kingdom keys” is similar in tone and message to “‘We will not be replaced.” Later, it describes a scene in one of Swift’s music videos where “Taylor lords over an army of models from a podium, akin to what Hitler had in Nazis Germany. The similarities are uncanny and unsettling.” Herning concludes that “it is hard to believe that Taylor had no idea that the lyrics of her latest single read like a defense of white privilege and white anger[.]”
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2017 19:00:42 GMT
Swift’s songs echo Mr Trump’s obsession with petty score-settling in their repeated references to her celebrity feuds, or report in painstaking detail on her failed romantic relationships (often, there is crossover). The message is quintessentially Trumpian: everyone is out to get me – but I win anyway. Seeded with clues to the identities of her famous associates, her lyrics reel in and solidify a hardcore fanbase – usually young, female followers known as “Swifties” – who passionately defend her honour on social media by attacking her detractors. Mr Trump realised it was more effective to target a core group than attempt blanket appeal in his campaign – but Swift worked it out first. For years, she has directed her extraordinary self-promotional skills towards cultivating a dedicated and emotional army of followers, handpicking particularly loyal fans for private listening parties and, on her latest tour, allowing members of the public to buy tickets only once they have proved their allegiance through their purchasing history. Her new album, Reputation, is not available on Spotify – anyone wishing to hear it must buy it. To some that makes her an artist wresting control, and a strong woman asserting and celebrating herself. The articulation of her inner life might be labelled introspection or splendid, swaggering confidence if it issued from a boy with a guitar. She calls herself a feminist. In August, she won a court case against a DJ who had groped her in 2013, taking a clear stand against the kind of sexual harassment that has long been trivialised in society, and foreshadowing the Harvey Weinstein allegations and the #MeToo campaign. She has been a target of the kind of misogyny that Mr Trump espouses. Yet notably her much-publicised “squad” of female models, actors and musicians is largely thin, white and wealthy. In a well-publicised Twitter exchange with rapper Nicki Minaj, she treated the discussion of structural racism as not only incomprehensible, but a way to disempower white people such as herself – though her lawyers have taken action over articles that associate her with the far right, and have taken issue with claims that she has not sufficiently denounced white supremacy.
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