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| | Taylor Swift is out here educating the Snake Fam about early voting | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Something I wish I knew about when I was 18 and voting for the first time: ?EARLY VOTING?. It makes it so quick and easy to go and cast your vote before November 6. Early voting starts TODAY in Tennessee and goes to Nov 1 ?? You can check out your state?s early voting dates at the link in my bio
A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Oct 17, 2018 at 6:02am PDT
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| | Taylor Swift's Hotness Wins The AMAs | | Added 6 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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Last night, Taylor Swift definitely won the best dressed at the AMAs. I dont think anyone even came close to something as special as that outfit. Even though she pissed off half her fans with her politics, Im sure even the most right wing male had his pants down. []
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| | Taylor Swift wore silver Balmain at the AMAs, used her speech to GOTV | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As soon as Taylor Swift announced that she was coming to the American Music Awards, you knew that she was probably going to win all of the awards she was up for. She also opened the show with her first televised, awards-show performance of ?I Did Something Bad,? which just FYI I actually think is one of the strongest songs on Reputation. She really brought the snake drama, perhaps to compensate for? the lack of dancing drama, you know? Bless her heart, she TRIES to do choreography, she really does. But thank the lord for the giant cobra. That snake saved the performance. Here?s a clip (this will likely get taken down!).
can we consider this performance of ?i did something bad? as one of the best this year? Taylor Swift snapped. #amas pic.twitter.com/VMkQQVsXqL
? (@gagasyuyi) October 10, 2018
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| | Taylor Swift finally makes a statement about her liberal political opinions | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Oct 7, 2018 at 4:33pm PDT
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| | Taylor Swift steps out in London with Joe Alwyn: will they get engaged this year? | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn look lovely in London! https://t.co/UMs87LfG3N pic.twitter.com/kuAPV5YfRX
Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) August 23, 2018
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| | Taylor Swift's 2018 street style is all about high waists & animal prints, take note | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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On Friday, we learned the absolutely bizarre news that Oscar-winner Tom Hooper is going to be directing a film adaptation of the musical Cats. We also learned that it would star Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson and? Taylor Swift. On the same day this film was announced, Taylor stepped out in New York in the lace-and-leopard-print ensemble you see in these photos. Do you get it? SHE?S A CAT. She?s a big cat, a leopard, or maybe a cheetah. The important thing is that whenever you see Taylor, you think ?she?s a cat, I remember now.? Anyway, this ensemble is awful. The skirt is hiked up way too high and the lace top with a sports bra underneath makes it look like she?s bizarrely wearing a flesh-colored wide belt. The shoes are struggling too. Now, all that being said, I like that Taylor is back to pap-strolling. I?ve actually missed this.
Meanwhile, did you hear about Taylor getting sued? Taylor has a game now called The Swift Life. Except The Swift Life was registered as a business name in 2007, by a small computer company business.
Taylor Swift flat-out stole her gaming app, The Swift Life so claims a tiny computer company that is going after the singer in court. SwiftLife a computer consulting company claims it owned its name since 2007, and then Taylor came along and just jacked it.
SwiftLife is a one-man company and its owner, Patrick Benot, says he was never contacted by the singer or her reps they just took it to launch the digital gaming experience app The Swift Life. Benot goes on to say Taylor and her people know full well about the ins and outs of trademarking products shes trademarked 64 items herself, so there is no excuse. Benot says her app has caused him endless grief he has an email called help@swiftlife.com and it has been flooded with people confusing his little company with Taylors gaming app.
[From TMZ]
This seems to me like a pretty open-and-shut trademark issue. If it?s handled out-of-court, it will probably involve Taylor paying this guy to go away and paying him to hand over the rights to the trademark. But if he wanted to put up a fight, he could, because he IS right: Taylor and her lawyers know all about trademarks. They?ve tried to trademark everything from Welcome to New York to ?this sick beat? and more. Weird that no one ever bothered to check the trademark on The Swift Life?
Here are some additional photos of Taylor in New York on Saturday. As I said, I like that we?re getting lots of photos of her again. But why is her style getting worse?!? Note the animal-print booties too.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid and WENN.
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| | Taylor Swift's street style look involved denim shorts & a denim Madewell top | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As we discussed yesterday, Taylor Swift?s Reputation tour is back in America and she?s been using her New York apartment as a homebase while she?s doing concerts in Ohio, New Jersey, etc. All of that means that we?re back to getting daily pap strolls after two years of snake silence and mist. Seriously, for a solid year or longer we were having to make do with rare, blurry Sasquatch-like sightings of Tay. But now she?s back. In short-shorts.
Wednesday?s look consisted of denim-on-denim: the shorts are Ksubi, the top is Madewell, the sneakers are Golden Goose Deluxe Brand and the sunglasses are Jimmy Choo. Altogether, I think she looks rather cute, even if I?m not a big fan of some of these pieces on their own. Like, the shorts are horrendous. The top is admittedly cute, as are the glasses. It?s also worth noting that Taylor is no longer thicc she seemed to have gained some weight in fall 2017, but it came off pretty quickly. I liked her thicc, and she looks fine here too.
What else? When Tay performed in Cleveland on Tuesday, it was the 2-year anniversary of The Day of the Receipts. Which is why Tay noted the occasion in the middle of the concert, telling the crowd, ?Happy National Snake Day, my favorite day of the year,? during a performance of ?Look What You Made Me Do.? Girl? it?s a bad look when Kim Kardashian looks like the mature one. Last thing: there are lots of tweet-rumors about Taylor possibly collaborating with Lady Gaga. Gaga and Taylor were both in New York yesterday, and Tay stopped by the same studio where Gaga has been recording. Hm.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Taylor Swift in a custom Fausto Puglisi romper in NYC: super-cute or nah? | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I actually missed Taylor Swift?s regular pap strolls, which were a thing several years ago. Back during the 1989 era, Taylor lived in New York and went on near-constant strolls to showcase all of her cute outfits. Since 2016, there?s barely been any of that. But considering that no one really cares that much about Reputation-era Swifty, maybe she?s giving the people what they want: more pap strolls, more cute outfits.
Taylor stepped out in New York outside of her apartment building on Tuesday. Her tour is stateside, and she?s currently doing stadiums in Cleveland, Philadelphia, New Jersey, etc. So she?s using her New York pad as her home base. The reason why I know Taylor wants us to see her: she wore a custom romper which probably set her back a pretty penny. The romper is by Fausto Puglisi. She also wore a Kate Spade backpack, because fk it, she?s going to bring backpacks back too, Snake Fam. While you can?t see it in these photos, trust that Taylor is also wearing her ?J? pendant necklace, which is the signal that she wants us to know that she?s still with Joe Alwyn. She wasn?t wearing the necklace the other day, and rumors swirled that Joe and Tay had broken up. No. Trust that she?ll let us know when they break up.
As I mentioned yesterday, Tuesday was the two-year anniversary of Kim Kardashian dropping The Receipts. The Snake Fam decided to celebrate their Snake Queen by flooding Kim Kardashian?s social media with snake emojis (HOW ORIGINAL) and demanding that Kim ?apologize? to Taylor. Wow, Snake Fam. Still salty, huh?
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.
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| | Taylor Swift & Joe Alwyn have 'vowed to keep their relationship to themselves' | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As we discussed last week, Taylor Swift did NOT spend the Taymerica holiday in Rhode Island. Back in the day, Taylor would host HUGE parties for the Fourth of July at her massive Rhode Island mansion. But since the Tiddlebanging of 2016, Tay has tried to be more low-key, and thus, Taymerica was canceled. She spent this year?s Independence Day holiday on a break from her Reputation Tour, in Turks and Caicos with Joe Alwyn. Obviously, New Snake still has many of the same tricks as Old Snake, thus there were tons of photos from her vacation with Handsome Joe:
THIS is why we can have nice things. https://t.co/2NfFSSsth1
E! News (@enews) July 9, 2018
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| | Taylor Swift is the first artist in two years to sell two million albums | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The last time I actually bought an entire album was? Adele?s 25, I think. But I did buy Sam Smith?s latest album on CD for my mom, who loves him. But generally, my music consumption is pretty limited: I just download the individual songs I want on iTunes. I don?t even bother with Spotify or Tidal or whatever. I haven?t even listened to a CD in my car for several years (I just listen to the radio, the oldies station or the urban station or NPR). Full disclosure: I still haven?t even downloaded the entirety of Beyonce?s Lemonade. I only downloaded half the album, song by song. What?s my point? My point is that the music industry has changed drastically in just the past decade, and how we consume music has changed drastically too.
Taylor Swift?s career, to a certain extent, encapsulates these changes. Taylor – along with Adele, Katy Perry, Beyonce and Rihanna – are the biggest deals in pop music today. They can sell out tours, their lives are fodder for constant gossip, their music and videos are analyzed and loved and GIF?d. But in the new music landscape, it?s getting harder and harder to simply move albums. So give it up for Taylor Swift for being the first artist in TWO YEARS to sell two million copies of her album.
Taylor Swift celebrates her sixth album to sell 2 million copies in the U.S., as Reputation reached the mark in the week ending March 15, according to Nielsen Music. The set sold another 5,000 copies that week, bringing its cumulative sum to just over the 2 million threshold. Notably, Reputation — which was released on Nov. 10, 2017 — is the only album released in the last two years to sell 2 million copies in the U.S. It launched with 1.216 million copies sold in its first week.
Previous to Reputation, the most recently released set to sell 2 million was Adele?s 25, which arrived on Nov. 20, 2015. It hit the 2 million mark after just three days and bowed with 3.38 million sold in its first week. 25 has sold 9.45 million copies through March 15.
For context, in all of 2017, only two albums sold more than a million copies: Reputation and Ed Sheeran?s (Divide). That?s a stark contrast to 10 years earlier, when 29 albums sold at least 1 million, with eight of those surpassing 2 million. Of course, the diminishing number of million-selling titles isn?t surprising. Since 2001, album sales have steadily declined each year (except for 2011). In 2017, 166.3 million total albums were sold, as compared to 500.5 million in 2007 and 790.1 million in 1997.
Swift Goes Six for Six: As for Swift, all six of her studio albums have now sold at least 2 million copies. Reputation reached the 2 million milestone in its 18th week of release. To compare, here?s a look at how fast Swift?s five earlier studio albums cleared 2 million: 1989 (three weeks), Red (five), Speak Now (six), Fearless (seven) and her self-titled debut (61).
[From Billboard]
There?s a lot to analyze in that data. By many accounts, Reputation is not Taylor?s best album. It didn?t have the breakout mega-hits like 1989 had. The videos have been kind of bad from Reputation too, right? Right. But even with a lukewarm album – lukewarm for Tay – she still managed to sell 2 million copies, it just took her 15 weeks. Whereas it only took 3 weeks for 1989 to sell 2 million. What does that say about Taylor, what does that say about the music industry and what does that say about Reputation as an album?
(Also HELLO Adele sold nearly 10 million copies of 25 in roughly the same amount of time it took Tay?s Reputation to only go double-platinum. Maybe it?s Adele, not Taylor, saving the music industry.)
Photos courtesy of WENN and Big Machine.
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