She gets more foul-mouthed with age. Taylor Swift is increasing the number of curse words in her lyrics with every new album. The pop superstar’s 11th album “The Tortured Poets Department” contains seven explicit songs — “The Tortured Poets Department,” “Down Bad,” “But, Daddy, I Love Him,” “Florida!!!,” “loml,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” … Read more
They can’t shake off these dirty lyrics. Mothers have a problem with the curse words and mature themes on Taylor Swift’s new album “The Tortured Poets Department” — which has seven explicit songs that all come with warning labels. The controversy over whether or not “Taylor Tots,” a nickname given to young fans of the … Read more
Taylor Swift references romances with exes Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy on her new album “The Tortured Poet’s Society.” But the pop superstar isn’t only interested in mining her past relationships — she’s seemingly singing about her current boyfriend, too. Swift, 34, appears to pay tribute to beau Travis Kelce, 34, on the album’s track … Read more
These pets’ names are Taylor-made. Taylor Swift fans are known to give their fur babies monikers inspired by the pop star — and there was a recent spike in this Swiftie tradition ahead of the release of her double album “The Tortured Poets Department” on Friday. Poet, a Mini Australian Labradoodle, was named after the … Read more
Stephen A. Smith and Pat McAfee have applauded Taylor Swift’s new era. On Friday, Swift shockingly released her double album, dropping the 16-song “The Tortured Poets Department” at midnight, followed by “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology” two hours later for an additional 15-song surprise. Smith and McAfee are fans of the 14-time Grammy Award … Read more
Taylor Swift upped the ante of the release of “The Tortured Poets Department” by gifting Swifties more Easter eggs to unlock and a SiriusXM channel dedicated to her music. None of that was enough, however: Two hours after “TTPD’s” release early Friday, the singer announced that there was a second LP titled “The Anthology” — … Read more
Stevie Nicks has lent her creative genius to Taylor Swift for the singer’s highly anticipated album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” The Fleetwood Mac alum, 75, penned a moving poem about heartbreak that serves as a prologue on the 14-time Grammy winner’s 11th studio album, which dropped on Friday and was unveiled as a double album in … Read more
Double the trouble. Taylor Swift has sent her die-hard fans into a frenzy after announcing her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” is a double album. The 14-time Grammy winner released her 11th studio album on Friday — but just as Swifties got their fix of her melancholic tracks, the singer revealed even more songs … Read more
Are you ready for it? Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” is about to turn us all into wannabe bards when it is dropped from the pop heavens. The LP got the grandest of announcements on the Grammy stage in February — after Swift won Best Pop Vocal Album for 2022’s “Midnights.” … Read more
Beyond those April showers, it’s raining pop divas this spring. Ever since Ariana Grande kicked off the season atop the Billboard 200 with “Eternal Sunshine” — scoring what was then the biggest opening week of any album in 2024 — while simultaneously notching a No. 1 debut on the Hot 100 with her current single … Read more
Meet the Beytles. Consider that the name of the new mutual admiration society that has been started between two legends of the game: Beyoncé and Paul McCartney. The “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer covers the 1968 Beatles beauty “Blackbird” — written by Macca, although credited to both McCartney and John Lennon — on her countrified new … Read more
What a difference a rodeo makes. A mere eight weeks ago, Jay-Z made a controversial speech at the 2024 Grammys — while accepting the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award with eldest daughter Blue Ivy, 12, by daddy’s side — in which he called out the Recording Academy for wife Beyoncé’s failure to win the most … Read more
“This ain’t a Country album. This is a Beyoncé album.” So decreed Queen B in a rare lengthy Instagram post about “Cowboy Carter,” which is “Act II” in her “Renaissance” trilogy that began with the underground house beats of her 2022 album that had us buzzing and bopping to “Break My Soul,” “Cuff It” and … Read more
Honey B, meet Dolly P. Without singing a single note, Dolly Parton is the extra-special guest on “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé’s just-dropped country album that flips the script on the usual Nashville narrative. And the Queen of Country’s cameo couldn’t come at a more perfect place than the “Dolly P” intro to Honey B’s cover of … Read more
Let the Yeehaw-sance begin! As we count down the final hours to “Cowboy Carter” — the Beyoncé country album that is dropping at midnight — you don’t have to hold up before she brings some more of that “Texas Hold ‘Em” twang. Here are six other black country artists who will get your yeehaw up … Read more
It’s an egg-cellent time to be a pop fan. And while Taylor Swift may be music’s boss bunny when it comes to burrowing those Easter eggs for us to dig out and dissect — a tunneling trend that will no doubt continue when she drops “The Tortured Poets Department” on April 19 — she isn’t … Read more
As one of the biggest breakouts in pop this year, Teddy Swims has rode the wave of his soul-crushing smash “Lose Control” all the way to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. And it’s taken a triumvirate of music’s mightiest — Beyoncé, Kanye West and Ariana Grande — to keep the singer-songwriter born Jaten … Read more
If you’re Queen B, you don’t spill the tea — you spill the honey. And that’s exactly what Beyoncé did in an Instagram post revealing the cover of her upcoming country album, “Act II: Cowboy Carter,” due March 29. Mrs. Carter’s news left the Beyhive buzzing, with many recalling the cold reception the artist appeared … Read more
It’s been six long years since Justin Timberlake’s last studio album, 2018’s “Man of the Woods,” on which the pop superstar got his Americana on. But many of the fans who had rocked their bodies to his previous hit LPs — from 2002’s “Justified” to 2006’s “FutureSex/LoveSounds” to 2013’s “The 20/20 Experience” — weren’t feeling … Read more
Beyoncé is a little too young to have watched the “Carter Country” sitcom that aired on ABC from 1977 to 1979 — when Richard Paul’s Mayor Teddy Burnside character would dismissively tell his subordinates to “Handle it, handle it.” Well, five decades later, the new boss of “Carter Country” is none other than Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. … Read more