The queen of pop is back. Well, if she ever left at all. Taylor Swift has released this Friday the 12th studio album, The life of a showgirl, where the superstar aims to paint a portrait of what it means to be the most famous singer of the moment. Returning to the origins that gave her the crown, Swift seeks a reconciliation with her past in pop, with a more mature sound, but also fun and danceable. Although she explores an acoustic difference, she doesn't stray from her traditions: her fans can continue to search for the more or less hidden or transparent meaning of the lyrics, although this time the artist is much more direct. The intimate phrases of the album she released last year are long gone, The tortured poets department.

Taylor Swift has just begun a new musical era and many don't know it. Despite the announcement of her engagement to her boyfriend, American football player Travis Kelce, has been reported in every media outlet around the world and has been a global trend on every social network in the world, many believe that this is just personal news. But no, friends, Swift is a pop diva, the Madonna of the 21st century, which means that everything that happens to her—or causes to happen to her...—is fuel for a new tour, a new album, a new aesthetic, or a new storyline for her public persona. In English swiftie –as her fans call themselves–, anything that happens to her is material for a new “era.” Because they love Taylor Swift so much that they refer to the moments she goes through with this epic term, traditionally used to describe historical periods.

Taylor Swift is about to begin a new professional and personal era. The singer announced this Tuesday that she is engaged to American football player Travis Kelce and that they are already planning the wedding. Swift has published a carousel of photographs immortalizing the moment when Kelce proposed to her. In a flower-filled garden, the athlete appears on one knee in front of her. There are five images in total, in which details such as the engagement ring and the two embracing can be seen. The pop idol has accompanied the photographs with the caption "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married" and the song High school sound, from the album The tortured poets department, the latest thing he has published so far.

Taylor Swift is shaking up the music scene again with the announcement of her twelfth studio album, The life of a showgirlThe announcement was first made through a countdown on its website and a surprise appearance in a promotional video for the podcast. New heights, hosted by her boyfriend, American football player Travis Kelce. Two days later, she announced the cover art, the October 3 release date, and the 12 track titles, including a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter, specifically the title track. Pre-orders for the album are now available through the artist's website.

The musical already said it Grease, with the song Summer Nights: Summer love is swift and sometimes lethal. No one escapes the feverish crushes that come with days when temperatures rise and responsibilities diminish, not even celebrities. Celebrities are like the rest of us, and they also experience summer loves that seem like they're meant to last forever, but which often end up falling apart. We review some of the most talked-about summer loves in pop culture.

Donald Trump hates criticism and always responds to counterattacks. And if the person attacking him is someone as charismatic and famous as Bruce Springsteen or Taylor Swift, his anger boils over. After Springsteen called the Trump administration "corrupt, incompetent, and a traitor" during a concert in Manchester last week, Trump was not short on insults for the singer and, in turn, for former President Joe Biden: "He has no talent," he said of Springsteen to Truth Social, "he's just an arrogant, one and an arrogant, one and Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent idiot and the worst president in history, who almost destroyed the country."

Catalonia is losing ground in live music revenue, according to data for the entire country collected in the Live Music Yearbook of the Association of Music Promoters (APM). Ticket sales revenue in 2024 was €138,577,703, almost €14 million less than in 2023, when a record €152,454,840 was reached (well above the €97,368,239 recorded in 2022).

Taylor Swift had already given – at length – her version of the six years of her relationship with Joe Alwyn in her last album and this Saturday it was the actor's turn. He spoke about it in an interview in Sunday Times Style Magazine two months after the singer published the album The tortured poets department, a title that fans consider to be a reference to the WhatsApp group that Alwyn shares with other actors such as Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott and which is named afterThe tortured man club. After all the details of the relationship released by Swift, the actor Kinds of Kindess She has spoken about the impact of appearing in the media, the difficulty of breaking up, and Swift's current, very public relationship with American football player Travis Kelce.

The mass superstar Taylor Swift has already landed in Madrid, where she will perform at the Santiago Bernabéu this Wednesday and Thursday in the only two concerts he will do in the State. At this point, different information has already been leaked about the short stay that the singer will make in the State and, as expected, the magnitude, sumptuousness and financial outlay will mark the conditions of the North American vocalist's accommodation.

It can undo the mud that is social network X (formerly Twitter). His power reaches that point. And its capacity for loyalty! In April, hours before release of his latest album, The tortured poets department, the songs were leaked. It is not the first time, nor the last, that a musical secret kept under lock and key spreads across the Internet ahead of time. What was extraordinary was the reaction of the people, especially on social networks, in which a debate began about whether to wait for the official publication of the album to listen to it or take advantage of the leak. The loyalty of the fans was absolute with Taylor Swift. Almost devout, sacred. They waited.

I'm aware of We live in the era of Taylor Swift and that the objections that may be raised The Eras Tour They will be carried away by the wind and the adoration of the swifties. But I want to clarify that I don't have the problem so much with Swift's music as with the film's unwillingness to reveal something about an artist with a political, economic and media influence without equivalents on the current scene. Proof of this is that the British newspaper Guardian has started dedicating a weekly newsletter just to her. None of this can be deduced by seeing The Eras Tour, which shows simply like a star that fills stadiums.

Every good pop icon ends up summed up in a couple of traits that make it perfectly recognizable. We can see Elvis Presley with his toupee, John Lenon with round glasses, Michael Jackson with the fedora and the protagonist of this story of country songs and crowded stadiums with hers. eyeliner sharp and lips painted an intense red. The American Taylor Swift (West Reading, Pennsylvania, 1989) was named by the magazine time person of the year 2023. The same year his tour Eras Tour It began to travel around the world and became an omnipresent cultural event.

This Thursday night the fans of Taylor Swift (West Reading, Pennsylvania, 1989) celebrated their own New Year's Eve. As they prepared to live the last midnight of the era Midnights, were beginning to become familiar with the American singer's eleventh album, The tortured poets department, an unexpected and highly anticipated album at the same time, which he announced last February during the 66th Grammy Awards and which was published this Friday at 6 a.m., Catalan time. The singer has such a stratospheric influence that has managed to establish a vital calendar, the eras swifties, which many fans have adopted as an infallible template that guides their own lives. Stratospheric, as well as extraordinary, huge and astronomical, are adjectives that journalists often use unfairly, but in this case they are completely honest. Swift, who was named by the magazine time personality of the year 2023, it took only two minutes to accumulate a million likes on Instagram by publishing the cover of The tortured poets department, and now it has beaten the record of people who reserved the album in advance on Spotify. And all this while traveling around the world with The Eras Tour, which will arrive in Europe on May 9 with a concert in Paris.

By far, it was women who took the stage the most times at the 66th edition of the Grammys, the most important music awards. Taylor Swift made history by taking the awards for best album and best pop album with midnight. With these awards she became the first artist to win four awards for best album of the year, one more than Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon. But many other women also triumphed at the Grammys: Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, SZA, Lainey Wilson, Karol G... Things have changed a lot in six years. In 2018, controversy broke out because some voices criticized that the major music awards belittled women: few won awards and the majority of performances were by male singers. Then the statements of former awards director Neil Portnow, who said that women should be more noticed and improve their performance, were also quite controversial.