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| | Taylor Swift Keeps it Fresh During Staples Center Concert Run | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Continuing the action on her huge RED World Tour, Taylor Swift rocked the Staples Center in Los Angeles for the third of four consecutive shows on Friday (August 23).
The "I Knew You Were Trouble" singer sported a white blouse and black leather hotpants to go along with her red guitar and red shoes as she wowed the sold-out crowd.
Sharing some surprises so each performance is different, one show featured Tegan and Sara playing "Closer" with the 23-year-old songstress.
As for Friday's performance, Taylor tweeted, "So.. Anything could happen at one of our LA shows. @elliegoulding showed up to sing 'anything could happen'! 15,000 person dance party."
Check out a video from the concert below, in which Ms. Swift belts out "Enchanted" and "Anything Could Happen."
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| | Taylor Swift Grabs A Bite to Eat In Between Staples Center Performances | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Grabbing a delicious bite to eat during her down time, Taylor Swift stopped by The Farm in Beverly Hills, CA on Thursday (August 22).
The "I Knew You Were Trouble" songstress looked effortlessly cute in a floral print dress, nude heels and black Ray Ban sunglasses as she smiled on her way out.
In other news, Miss Swift has been hard at work on her worldwide Red tour. Clearly a fan favorite, Taylor was recently awarded with a plaque for having a record-breaking amount of concert sell-outs at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Proving exactly why she was worthy of the prize, TSwift just completed three shows at the venue and still has two more to go. Planning to surprise her fans with an amazing performance, the 23-year-old tweeted, "To everyone who came to the show tonight in LA, I adore you. To anyone coming to the next 3 shows, expect more of the unexpected."
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| | Taylor Swift Amazing Performs at The RED Tour in LA | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Dickism |
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Here is Taylor Swift flashing a smile as she strikes a pose backstage after performing at Staples Center as part of The Red Tour in Los Angeles.
By the time Swift announced that Bareilles would be joining her, fans probably thought that they had seen all the special guests the ?Red? hitmaker was going to invite on stage that night. Ed Sheeran was on hand to perform his pop hits and team up with Swift on ?Everything Has Changed,? and Cher Lloyd performed ?Want U Back? with the country crossover star.
?Tonight at Staples was an absolute DREAM. @SaraBareilles came out to sing ?Brave?, one of my favorite songs. And she completely smashed it!!,? Taylor wrote on her Twitter account. ?To everyone who came to the show tonight in LA, I adore you. To anyone coming to the next 3 shows, expect more of the unexpected.?
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| | Taylor Swift: 'The only love worth being in is the love worth singing about' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift has a very Taylor Swifty new interview with Rolling Stone. She did the interview on the road during her Red tour, which is grossing crazy money at this point. You can read the full RS piece here ? there are some interesting details about random stuff, like Taylor knows a lot about hydraulic stage-lift systems and she?s pretty much touring only on weekends (which I didn?t know). I found Taylor?s pop culture references more interesting, which I?ll get to at the end. I?ll just say that I think Tay-Tay has finally been reading some Kerouac.
RS: Onstage, you discussed writing a lot of songs in your bedroom at 2 a.m. What’s it like to go from that to playing it for a huge stadium?
TS: I think the most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea that you have in the middle of the night to a song that a group of 55,000 people is singing back to you so loudly that you can hear it louder than your own voice coming out of the speakers, in a concert in a stadium. And I think that for me, that’s the final part of the process. You know, I’m still so in love with songwriting because it’s never the same. You never get the same fragment of information as an idea. It’s never just a chorus or a first line ? it’s always something different. And to piece it together in the crossword puzzle that ends up being your song and have it end up here is so rewarding, you know.
You also talked about the “fiery, difficult, complicated emotions” that drive those songs. You seem very comfortable talking about those emotions at length onstage.
I am getting to a point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about. And kind of mad love. I think that for me, when you experience something that’s worth writing a song about, chances are it’s the same kind of intense feeling that someone else has felt, and it has led them to be sitting on a bedroom floor crying, or walking through a crowded room feeling alone or feeling misunderstood by the person who’s supposed to know them better than anybody else. Those are things that make you feel really alone, and if someone’s singing a song about that feeling, then you feel bonded to that person, and I guess that’s the only way I can find an explanation why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
The show gets pretty dark. During “Red,” there’s a moment where what looks like blood is spilling across the video screens. Is that somebody’s blood?
Actually, no. I’ve never been into shock value and gory and scaring people. It’s actually paint, so it’s actually just supposed to be the general concept of something red and something flowing ? just red things. Like, there’s red fabric, red paint being thrown against a wall. It’s not blood. “God, we went to Taylor’s show ? it was really violent!”
How do you feel you have grown as a performer, especially in stadiums?
I feel like you have to push yourself in order to become a better performer, and I never want a fan to leave the show saying, “That was just like the last tour.” I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage. The more you throw yourself out of your comfort zone in the studio, the more colors you have to paint with when you go into the design stages of your tour. At the end of the day, the sound of a screaming crowd is my favorite sound, and the sight of a sold-out stadium is my favorite view. Everything derives from that and revolves around making those people dance, sing along, feel like they aren’t alone, and ultimately want to come back and see me next time.
You posted some images from your Fourth of July party you had this summer. What are your other favorite offstage moments of the summer so far?
I think the Fourth of July was way up there, just because anytime there’s face-painting and frolicking involved, I’m really excited about all of those things. I’ve loved really being with my girlfriends a lot. Like, there have been a lot of kitchen dance parties with my girlfriends. The wonderful thing about playing a lot of stadiums is it’s the equivalent to playing three or four arenas, so you have a few more days off. So I’ve really enjoyed getting to have a summer and also have a really high-intensity job waiting for me.
So you’ve been hanging out in Rhode Island a lot?
I’ve been in Rhode Island a lot. I’ve been in L.A. a little bit. Man, Rhode Island’s a good place. It’s a really good place.
Are you reading or listening to anything at the moment that you’re excited about?
I’m going back and revisiting Carly Simon a lot. I’m listening to a lot of Carly Simon. And I have a copy of [F. Scott Fitzgerald's] Tender Is the Night that I’m about to start reading, because I read it a long time ago and I want to reread it. I’ve been reading a lot of different things, but I really like [Gillian Flynn's] Gone Girl and [Jess Walters'] Beautiful Ruins. They’re great stories. They kind of take you away.
[From Rolling Stone]
I have Beautiful Ruins sitting beside my bed, but I haven?t started it yet. But anyone who describes Gone Girl as a ?great story? which ?takes you away? might not have really read it. Gone Girl is a good book, for sure, but it messes with your mind. Unless Taylor is acknowledging that she might be cut from the same cloth as Amazing Amy? That’s not such a stretch. And of course she?s reading F. Scott Fitzgerald ? that reference is so obvious! But her talk about ?mad love? seems like a reference to some Beat Generation literature.
?I am getting to a point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about? = she?s going to keep on singing songs about all of her boyfriends. Forever and ever. That?s her shtick and she?s shticking to it.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Taylor Swift Went Derp Derp on Stage and Chipped Her Tooth | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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While performing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Taylor Swift chipped her tooth while singing “I Knew You Were Trouble.”
As she explains it, she went full retard when she pulled the mic to her mouth and ended up uppercutting her tooth with it. She explained to Rolling Stone,
“Tonight I was particularly hung up on not chipping another tooth like last show in Pittsburgh, definitely. It had a tip on [the tooth] and it doesn’t anymore.
“I try to be really quick with the microphone, so I’m not standing there just waiting to sing with my mic right next to my face, so I really quickly pulled my mic up to sing and basically uppercut punched myself in the tooth.”
Now she sings with a lisp and her entire career is over. Just kidding. That was mean. I didn’t mean to get your hopes up.
The post Taylor Swift Went Derp Derp on Stage and Chipped Her Tooth appeared first on The Blemish.
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| | Taylor Swift & Carly Simon Perform "You're So Vain" in Boston | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Bringing an iconic song to the younger generation, Taylor Swift and Carly Simon performed the 68-year-old's hit tune, "You're So Vain."
Wowing the eager audience, the pair took the stage together at Boston's Gillette Stadium on Saturday night (July 27) to duet on the 1972 hit.
Talking about how the song will relate to her audience, Taylor told MTV News before the performance, "Every girl out there will be thinking of someone when we're singing."
"Got to sing 'You're So Vain' with Carly Simon at Gillette Stadium tonight!!!!! Unreal. I could not possibly look up to her more," Swift excitedly tweeted.
Be sure to check out the performance in the player below!
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| | Taylor Swift Great Legs Relaxes On Paddleboard in Westerly | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Dickism |
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Here is Taylor Swift trading her microphone for an oar when she went paddleboarding Sunday in Westerly, R.I.
Showing no signs of tiredness, she slipped on a vintage-style black and white striped bikini and hit the water for some exercise.
The ?Story of Us? songstress and her ?Lego House? tourmate celebrated a successful show in Foxboro the previous evening with the fun-filled activity, also joined by Taylor?s father and a security guard.
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| | Taylor Swift's Horrible Bikini Pictures | | Added 11 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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I don’t know what’s with Taylor Swift and this bikini, but it needs to be burned! It gives me a major softie. Girl has a pretty decent body and all this does is make her look awkward and outdated. Anyway, until Taylor puts on a proper swimsuit, let’s move along. We’ll punish her by not
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| | Taylor Swift's "Biggest Fan" Contest Canceled in Boston | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Surely upsetting loads of eager fans, Boston's KISS FM radio station canceled its " Taylor Swift's Biggest Fan" contest after the event was "compromised."
On Wednesday (July 24), the station released a statement explaining it's decision after a 39-year-old man named Charles won the top prize.
"Disappointingly, we have determined that the integrity of the "Taylor Swift's Biggest Fan" contest has been compromised," it read. "In accordance with our contest rules, effective immediately, the contest has been terminated. We apologize to all of our loyal listeners who have participated."
Although Boston fans were not too pleased, one lucky fan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania got the surprise of a lifetime.
According to reports, TSwift went out to dinner at Ralph's Italian Restaurant with pals Ed Sheeran and Austin Mahone, where she met up with the head chef and stopped to pose for personal photos with him and his crew.
Making the night even better, Taylor surprised the chef with two free tickets to her next-day show and even left a whopping $500 tip!
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| | Taylor Swift Lights Up the City of Brotherly Love | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Continuing her whirlwind RED tour, Taylor Swift performed at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday (July 19).
The "Love Story" singer donned a silky white blouse and black hot pants as she sang into a glittering red microphone while playing a matching guitar.
It was just announced that the 23-year-old songstress nabbed two nominations for this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
Encouraging her fans to propel her to the front, Taylor tweeted, "So stoked to be representing the girls in an otherwise all boys category for Video of the Year at the VMAs. Vote?!"
If you couldn't make it to the concert, check out what you missed in the players below!
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