Tag: Taylor Swift
It’s Both Shocking and Not That Madonna Still Doesn’t Have Taylor Swift Beat When It Comes to Having More Number One Albums on the Billboard 200
While the news of Madonna landing her tenth number one album on the Billboard 200 with Confessions II has been met with joy and triumph [Read More…]
The Weekend Certain Other Pop Stars Tried to Compete With/Upstage Madonna’s Confessions II Release
Let one start by saying that no other pop star-related event could have possibly been more important than the release of Madonna’s Confessions II on [Read More…]
Randy Newman Himself Anoints Taylor Swift Into the Toy Story Universe at Toy Story 5 Premiere
As far as one person and one person only being associated with a soundtrack, there are few other musicians apart from Randy Newman who are [Read More…]
A Real Shit-Kickin’ Affair: Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You”
In November of 1995, when Toy Story made its mark on the world, Taylor Swift was a month shy of her sixth birthday. A formative [Read More…]
With “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” Ariana Grande Offers a Song That Could Have Been Written From Taylor Swift’s Perspective
After rightfully prolonging the Eternal Sunshine era (complete with releasing the deluxe edition a year after the original version of the album), and then (/in [Read More…]
The “Elizabeth Taylor” Video Only Serves to Remind That Taylor Swift is Trying to Shape the Screen Legend into the Image of Her Own Narrative
In falsely fancying herself as an Elizabeth Taylor type (at least in spirit if not in looks), perhaps it was inevitable that Taylor Swift (whose [Read More…]
Hilary Duff’s Comeback Success Has Nothing to Do With Luck (…Or Something) and Everything to Do With the Same Earnestness That Established Her Career to Begin With
The last time Hilary Duff released an album, it was just days before anyone knew that Donald Trump would make his intentions to run for [Read More…]
Taylor Swift’s “Opalite” Video: Another Example of How Everything Has to Be a Reference (Especially to Something Esoteric, Like a Graham Norton Show Episode)
Maybe the only thing that “come[s] back stronger than a 90s trend” (as it was said on 2020’s “Willow”) is Taylor Swift with a new [Read More…]
Hilary Duff’s “Roommates” Is a Lament for the Honeymoon Phase (Both of a Relationship and Life)
As Hilary Duff gives another auditory snapshot of what to expect from sixth album, Luck… or Something, “Roommates” provides a marked thematic contrast to the [Read More…]
When It Comes to the Rockumentary Genre, The End of an Era Ain’t It—Truth Or Dare (and I’m Going to Tell You a Secret) Still Is
As if knowing, on some level, that she would need a form of “insurance” to make it so that the masses would remember “Taylor Swift” [Read More…]
