The release of musician Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album “The Life of a Showgirl” has already sparked discussion and debate online as fans rush to figure out hidden meanings in her lyrics. The album’s 10th song, “CANCELLED!,” has particularly ...

Taylor Swift is known for her storytelling and poetic lyricism. Her lyrics reference novels by Daphne du Maurier, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, and more. Swift's newest single, "The Fate of Ophelia," subverts the fate of Shakespeare's famous heroine.

University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In 2023, Forbes published an article about Taylor Swift that included the following mind ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift’s “August” reenters four Billboard charts in its namesake month, including global and U.S. alternative ...

In a letter posted on her website on Friday, Swift announced that she had bought the masters, or original recordings, of her first six albums from Shamrock Capital nearly six years after her former record label, Big Machine Records, sold them to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in what she described at the time as her “worst case scenario.”

A new Taylor Swift album is nothing short of an event, and one of the biggest questions that comes with the release of 'Life of a Showgirl' is who these new songs are about. Swift is known for writing autobiographical lyrics that make fans feel like they ...

Though Taylor Swift rarely addresses her exes or current loves by name in her songs, fans can usually gather who they’re about based on context clues and Easter eggs. And Tuesday — upon the announcement of her engagement to Travis Kelce — Swifties ...

Another Taylor Swift era, another round of pre-release speculation about who her new songs could be about. When the pop icon announced the tracklist to her upcoming 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, on the New Heights podcast Wednesday, Swifties ...

I have been a Swiftie longer than any of my three daughters. As a country music fan, I was bopping to ‘Our Song’ while pregnant with my firstborn. When Taylor Swift was in her Fearless era, I took my then-4-year-old to see her live in concert in ...

The comedian and podcaster used Swift’s “Bigger Than the Whole Sky” for his soon-to-be-released stand-up special Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty;Barry Brecheisen/Getty ...

Taylor Swift stopped by "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert in an off-the-shoulder mini dress with sky high heels to match.

Anyone with a finger on the pulse of popular music knows what a whirlwind Taylor Swift has been on lately. After completing her seemingly endless Eras Tour and embarking on a nearly six-month social media hiatus (beyond the infrequent story post), the only ...