Taylor Swift Takes Fans Inside ‘The Making Of ‘Midnights,” Her New Album

Rihanna has confirmed she will headline the Super Bowl 2023 halftime show next February, marking her first time headlining the event.In addition to a statement released by Halftime Show executive producers Roc Nation, Rihanna herself confirmed the news in a post to her Instagram earlier today (Sunday September 25), sharing a photo of an NFL-branded football.A post shared by badgalriri (@badgalriri)Roc Nation founder Jay-Z called Rihanna “a generational talent”. “[She is] A woman of humble beginnings who has surpassed expectations at every turn,” the rapper said.

Rihanna has confirmed that she'll be headlining the 2023 Super Bowl half-time show - and NFL fans couldn't be happier about it.The Barbados-born beauty took to Instagram on Sunday to announcement her triumphant return to music, posting a photo of her tattooed forearm holding a football to send her 135million followers wild.It had been rumoured that American singing sensation Taylor Swift was in line to headline the show, and the reaction from fans on social media suggests the NFL have made the right choice.READ MORE: Five most controversial Super Bowl half-time shows - nip slip, middle finger and more"LET'S GOOOO," one ecstatic supporter tweeted in response to the news."So pleased it's not Taylor Swift, super pumped for Rihanna," another wrote, while a third commented: "Best news I've heard all month! Bring on the Super Bowl!"Another user commented: "Yesss!!! About damn time. She gon’ give us a show," followed by three fire emojis.How do you feel about Rihanna getting picked to headline the Super Bowl half-time show? Let us know in the comments section below.Rihanna turned down the opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl in 2019, insisting she was unhappy with the way NFL star Colin Kaepernick had been treated.

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Taylor Swift has reportedly turned down the chance to perform the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show.The high-profile slot – which was taken in 2022 by an all-star cast of Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J.

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Taylor Swift was reportedly asked to host the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show, but turned down the offer because the timing is not right. According to TMZ, Swift was approached by the NFL to host the next Super Bowl, but she declined, stating she does not want to perform the big event until she finishes rerecording her first six albums. A representative for Swift did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

Taylor Swift's fans are convinced she's going to be the next Super Bowl halftime performer. Rumors and reports naming Swift as the coveted performer for the February 2023 game surfaced Friday, although People magazine has learned the "Look What You Made Me Do" singer is not performing. The NFL declined to comment on the matter when reached by Fox News Digital.

“You Need To Calm Down.”Hours after fans hypothesized that Taylor Swift could be the Super Bowl LVII halftime-show act, TMZ and People “have learned” from sources close to the situation that she will not be performing at the game. The buzz around Swift’s Super Bowl appearance began when the NFL and Apple Music released a press release Friday at midnight, announcing that the streaming service would fill Pepsi’s spot as the halftime show’s sponsor.

Taylor Swift fans went into a frenzy after the NFL announced Friday its multi-year partnership with Apple Music as the new sponsor for the iconic Super Bowl Halftime Show.  But it wasn't so much the announcement that had Swifties excited.

Taylor Swift fans got worked up into a tizzy in the past 24 hours after an apparent hint that the singer-songwriter might be performing at the 2023 Super Bowl.

Taylor Swift is counting down to . The 32-year-old superstar is set to unveil her 10th studio album,, on Oct. 21.

Taylor Swift fans are all in a panic!

in a TikTok video posted, naturally, at the stroke of midnight.Having previously only revealed that there were 13 tracks on “Midnights,” the 11-time Grammy winner debuted “Midnights Mayhem With Me” as a way to roll out the song titles with a lottery-style cage containing balls marked 1 through 13.“I know I have a habit of dropping cryptic clues and Easter eggs when giving you information about new music, and I’m not here to deny that — I’m here to defy that,” she says in the TikTok. “Welcome to a series I’m calling ‘Midnights Mayhem With Me.’ I am going to be using this technologically advanced device to help me allow fate to decide exactly what tracks titles I’m going to be announcing and in what order.”The 32-year-old entertainer then draws the first ball from the cage, and it just so happens to be for Track 13 — which any good Swiftie knows is Tay Tay’s lucky number.“The first track I’m going to tell you about is Track 13, because, of course,” says Swift, who then picks up a red phone and reveals that “Track 13 is called ‘Mastermind.’ ”And that title tease is all that eager fans get for now, and they will need to calm down and wait for what will presumably be 12 more videos — which are sure to be dropped at the witching hour — before getting the full track listing for “Midnights.”But Swift wasn’t playing it so coy when she accepted her Songwriter-Artist of the Decade honor at the Nashville Songwriter Awards, which took place at Music City’s Ryman Auditorium on Tuesday night.“Writing songs is a calling, and getting to call it your career makes you very lucky,” said Swift, who, of course, got her start in Nashville as a country artist.

Lana Del Rey fans attending NYU next semester will be able to put their standom to the test with a course focused on the singer. Topics in Recorded Music: Lana Del Rey will be taught at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music with journalist and author Kathy Iandoli helming the two-credit course.

closer to striking as Taylor Swift is revealing new details about her forthcoming album. The 32-year-old artist revealed a new track title on Tuesday night in a silly TikTok video. In a playful new series Swift dubbed she confesses, «I know that I have a habit of dropping cryptic clues and easter eggs when giving you information about my music and I am not here to deny that but I am here to defy that.» She then goes on to use a bingo ball cage to randomly select numbers that correlate to the 13 tracks on her album.First up is the closing track, her lucky number 13, titled «Mastermind.» The reveal followed a huge honor for Swift, who received the Songwriter-Artist of the Decade award from the Nashville Songwriters Association International at the NSAI’s annual ceremony.

Lana Del Rey on a new course that’s launching next month.The Grammy-winning artist is the subject of a new course titled ‘Topics in Recorded Music: Lana Del Rey’ at the University, which is set to run from October 20 to December 8 at the Clive Davis Institute and be taught by journalist and author Kathy Iandoli.A course description (via Variety) reads: “Over the course of eight critically-acclaimed albums, the six-time Grammy nominated artist has introduced a sad core, melancholic, and baroque version of dream pop that in turn helped shift and reinvent the sound (and mood) of mainstream music beyond the 2010s.“Through her arresting visuals and her thematic attention to mental health and tales of toxic, damaged love, Del Rey provided a new platform for artists of all genders to create ‘anti-pop’ works of substance that could live in a mainstream once categorised as bubblegum.”Earlier this year, the Clive Davis Institute also launched a new course on Taylor Swift.The course began at the Davis Institute, which is part of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, on January 26 and ran through to March 9.Taught by Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos, the course covered “Swift’s evolution as a creative music entrepreneur, the legacy of pop and country songwriters, discourses of youth and girlhood, and the politics of race in contemporary popular music” (via Variety).“This course proposes to deconstruct both the appeal and aversions to Taylor Swift through close readings of her music and public discourse as it relates to her own growth as an artist and a celebrity,” a description adds.“Through readings, lectures and more, the class delves into analyses of the culture and politics of teen girlhood in pop music, fandom, media

Taylor Swift has begun revealing the tracklist for forthcoming album ‘Midnights’, through a new TikTok series, starting with its 13th and final song.The series, titled ‘Midnights Mayhem With Me’ and announced earlier today (September 21), will have Swift randomly picking which song titles to disclose in the lead-up to the album’s release next month.“I know that I have a habit of dropping cryptic clues and Easter eggs when giving you information about my music, and I’m not here to deny that. But I am here to defy that,” Swift says to the camera before introducing the new series.“I’m going to be using this technologically advanced device to help me allow fate to decide exactly what track titles I’m going to be announcing, and in what order,” she continues, pointing to a bingo cage with 13 balls.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “I’ve never talked about this publicly before,” said Taylor Swift, teasing the audience as she accepted an award in Nashville Tuesday night, leading at least some of the attendees to be on the edge of their seats. And because it was an audience mostly of songwriters, they stayed there, even when the secret to be revealed turned out to have to with classifications of different types of lyrics she has kept in her head for years. She went on to say that “it’s dorky. But I also have, in my mind, secretly, established genres categories for lyrics I write. Three of them, to be exact: They are affectionately titled Quill Lyrics, Fountain Pen Lyrics and Glitter Gel Pen Lyrics. … I came up with these categories based on what writing tool I imagine having in my hand when I scribbled it down — figuratively. I don’t actually have a quill. Anymore. I broke it once when I was mad.”

Taylor Swift was honoured with the Nashville Songwriters Association International’s Songwriter-Artist of the Decade Award at the NSAI’s annual ceremony on Tuesday (September 20) night.Accepting the award at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Swift gave a 13-minute speech in which she discussed her approach to songwriting, re-recording her first six studio albums following her much-publicised masters dispute, the extended version of ‘All Too Well’ that appeared on ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ last year and more.“I’m up here receiving this beautiful award for a decade of work, and I can’t possibly explain how nice that feels. Because the way I see it, this is an award that celebrates a culmination of moments,” Swift said when accepting the award, as transcribed by Pitchfork.“Challenges.