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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2017 19:34:36 GMT
Charles Zhang, the founder and CEO of Chinese internet giant Sohu, has shot down rumors swirling around the Chinese internet that he is dating Taylor Swift, offending all foreign women in the process. On a livestream session on Friday morning, the 52-year-old tycoon claimed that he was definitely not the American pop princess's latest squeeze. "It's a rumor! No taste for foreign women!" he said, adding that he didn't even know who Taylor Swift was.
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2017 19:19:48 GMT
One of Taylor Swift's secret weapons in her early hit-making days was Nashville songwriting veteran Liz Rose, who co-wrote a number of Swift's best and biggest early hits, including "Teardrops on My Guitar," "White Horse" and "You Belong With Me." The latter went all the way to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and established the country star as a major pop player. "It’s really fun to start a song, and you can just hand it to the room, and they all start singing it," Rose tells Billboard of the enduring smash, whose explosive shout-along refrain we just named the 20th-best chorus of the entire 21st century. "You don’t get many songs like that." After Swift wrote third album Speak Now entirely on her own, she and Rose only collaborated once more -- on 2012's Red highlight "All Too Well" -- but the latter has remained an in-demand country and pop songwriter, even winning a Grammy in 2016 for her work on Little Big Town's surprise crossover hit "Girl Crush." Rose spoke to Billboard about her memories of co-penning (and later performing) one of Swift's early signature hits.
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Post by Admin on May 9, 2017 18:52:50 GMT
If it feels like you haven't seen or heard much from Taylor Swift lately it's because she's reportedly hunkered down in Nashville working on new songs for her next album, according to a report from E! News. It's been three years Swift she released her smash 1989 album, one of the longest breaks between release since she dropped her self-titled debut in 2006. An unnamed source told E! that Taylor has been "writing and recording her new album in Nashville for the last several months," which might explain why the singer has been laying low on social media for a bit. "She has been working on it around the clock and will be making an announcement soon. She is really excited about her new music and can't wait to share it with her fans." A spokesperson for Swift could not be reached for comment at press time.
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Post by Admin on May 11, 2017 18:49:21 GMT
The blueprint was set. In late 2015, Taylor Swift watched as her close pal Ed Sheeran made the conscious decision to disappear from public life for a while. Despite his six Grammy nods and two smash albums, he felt his career was stalling. “Everything I did, I got a very lukewarm reaction,” he recently explained to Australian TV program The Project. Taking months off to drive up the coast of Australia did the trick. Said Sheeran, whose latest disc, Divide, set a record for most streams in a single week, “You disappear for a year and then people are kind of for it again.” Swift clearly took note. Fresh off a rough 2016 that saw her endure messy breakups with Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston and a public feud with Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian over his decision to dub her “that b—tch” in his single “Famous,” the usually omnipresent superstar decided to go dark, sources reveal in the new issue of Us Weekly.
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2017 18:50:52 GMT
It's a tale as old as time. And one that fans can't get enough of. Now that Katy Perry is out in interview mode promoting new music, she's being asked if her upcoming album release will include a response to Taylor Swift's anthem, "Bad Blood," which may or may not be about their (bad blood) feud. It's long been believed that the 1989 track is about the singer. So, is she ready to retaliate? "Well that’s not my question to answer — if it’s about me. I think [my new album is] a very empowered record. There is no one thing that’s calling out any one person," she recently told Entertainment Weekly. Before issuing this next statement: "One thing to note is: You can’t mistake kindness for weakness and don’t come for me. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. And that’s not to any one person and don’t quote me that it is, because it’s not. It’s not about that. Honestly, when women come together and they decide to unite, this world is going to be a better place. Period end of story. But, let me say this: Everything has a reaction or a consequence so don’t forget about that, okay, honey. [Laughs] We got to keep it real, honey. This record is not about anyone else! This record is about me being seen and heard so that I can see and hear everyone else! It’s not even about me! It’s about everything that I see out there that I digest. I think there’s a healing in it for me and vulnerability. If people want to connect and be healed and feel vulnerable and feel empowered and strong, God bless and here it is."
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