Tag: Taylor Swift
Gracie Abrams’ SNL Performance: In Truth, More of an Homage to Taylor Swift Than Romeo + Juliet
Being among Taylor Swift’s “protégées” (which the likes of Olivia Rodrigo also once proudly declared being), it should come as no surprise that Gracie Abrams [Read More…]
Zach Bryan and Lana Del Rey’s “Lies” Flaunts Tinges of Taylor Swift and Bon Iver’s “Exile” and Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie”
As Lana Del Rey continues to release anything but her much talked-about tenth album, Stove (and now, its companion, Spyda), she instead keeps adding to [Read More…]
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu”/“Obsessed” Are Blueprints for Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero,” With a Video That Showcases the Worst Kind of Melodrama
Perhaps it’s a bad sign that the first “artistic” offering Taylor Swift has given her public after getting married to Travis Kelce is a video [Read More…]
“Princess of Power” and “The Fate of Ophelia”: Songs That Employ Two Very Different Images of a Woman Being in a Tower
Seeing as how MARINA has never gotten the kind of due that, for whatever reason, Taylor Swift gets all the time (no matter how many [Read More…]
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…]
