Taylor Swift

McDonagh would reteam with “Six Shooter” star Brendan Gleeson for “In Bruges” as well as for this year's “The Banshees of Inisherin.” In McDonagh's latest film, ...

Sometimes it’s a melody that I have to go to the piano and then record and remember it. Sometimes it’s just a line and I’ll write it down and I’ll use it later. Sometimes it’s a fragment of a melody that has a lyric on it already. And I’m making more albums at a more rapid pace than I ever did before, because I think the more art you create, hopefully the less pressure you put on yourself. I wrote it knowing I wanted it to be a short. I put together a PDF of what I wanted to make, because I’d never made a short before, and I’m in the mode where I’m trying to persuade these two actors, and trying to convince them. Swift: I wrote the manuscript, and I had visual references of the art direction. I was writing my videos for years, and I had a video that was a very specific concept I had written [2019’s “The Man”], which was that I wanted to be prosthetically turned into a man and live my life as a man. We wanted her to look like she’d been crying and the kind of body heave of that. Swift: With Sadie, it was a very similar thing, where I had a few conversations with her about how she likes to work in those kind of intense, emotive scenes. And I think she does a lot of prep work on her own. McDonagh: That’s kind of why I knew I had to direct the movies — because the writer is sort of the lowest form of life on a movie.

At the request of Swift's team, the company said Monday that select fans have a “limited opportunity” to purchase a maximum of two tickets each.

"I cried at work when the pre-sale didn't go through before," said Ferrara, who estimated she spent two days — approximately 16 hours — trying to buy tickets to one of the Arlington, Texas, shows. When tickets go on sale, the link leads fans to a "Smart Queue" that "keeps ticket bots out." [apologized](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/taylor-swift-says-watching-ticketmaster-fiasco-excruciating-rcna57897) in an Instagram story, saying it was "excruciating" for her "to just watch mistakes happen with no recourse." "You were selected for this opportunity because you have been identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets," Ticketmaster wrote in an email to a group of fans Monday. Monday's email "surprised" her, and she initially thought it could be a Ticketmaster has said doing so helps to "ensure that more tickets go to the fans who will actually attend the event," by granting them access to tickets before the public sale. And [then] pick." "And let us see, OK, what seats are available? [canceled ](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/ticketmaster-cancels-public-sale-taylor-swift-tour-citing-high-demand-rcna57758)due to "extraordinarily high demand." Ticketmaster no longer wants to be the "Anti-Hero" to Taylor Swift fans. Invitations will be staggered by tour dates in each city." Some fans of Swift are now

The topic came up when the superstar sat down with acclaimed director Martin McDonagh as part of Variety's annual Directors on Directors series. “Do you feel ...

Taylor Swift opened up Monday (Dec. [Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/features/taylor-swift-director-all-too-well-hearbreak-martin-mcdonagh-1235456137/)‘s annual Directors on Directors series. 12) about how her approach to creativity has changed as she moves into the next decade of her career. I’ve been part of things where you didn’t know the script, and no one knew what the story was. If they want to be able to look at the monitor, or they want to know how it’s set up, they should be able to. “And I’m making more albums at a more rapid pace than I ever did before, because I think the more art you create, hopefully the less pressure you put on yourself.

Millions of angered Taylor Swift fans didn't receive tickets to the artist's latest tour after a widely scrutinized debacle over bungled ticket sales.

In a blog post that has since been taken down, Ticketmaster said its “Verified Fans” system, a mechanism aimed at eliminating bots by giving presale codes to individuals, couldn’t keep up with the intense demand. Presale tickets for Capital One card holders brought similar frustration — and then Ticketmaster canceled sales to the general public, citing “extraordinarily high demand” and “insufficient remaining ticket inventory.” Once the fan’s request is confirmed, their card will be charged and they will receive instructions on how to claim the tickets. In November, “Verified Fans” were sent a presale code — but when sales began, heavy demand snarled the website and millions of Swifties could not get their hands on a ticket. “You have been identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets,” the email said. [didn’t receive tickets to the artist’s latest tour after a widely scrutinized debacle over bungled ticket sales.

Swift previously denied ever hearing the 3LW song Playas Gon' Play, saying Shake It Off's 'lyrics were written entirely by me'

[resurrected by an appeal panel in 2021](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/10/taylor-swift-to-face-plagiarism-trial-over-shake-it-off-lyrics). The song, performed by R&B group 3LW, appeared on their 2000 album and appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 and MTV’s Total Request Live. Monday’s court papers, filed jointly by attorneys for both Swift and the songwriters, did not say if there was a settlement.

US District Judge Michael Fitzgerald said that songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler “have sufficiently alleged a protectable selection and arrangement or a ...

[Taylor Swift](https://deadline.com/tag/taylor-swift/) has shaken off a copyright lawsuit that alleged she had plagiarized the lead song to her 1989 album. A trial for the case had originally been scheduled to start on January 17. The two songwriters, Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, dropped the suit and said they would dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning that they will not be able to refile, according to [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/legal/taylor-swift-songwriters-agree-end-shake-it-off-copyright-case-2022-12-12/).

On Monday, a judge dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against Taylor Swift in 2017 by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler.

Swift is no stranger to copyright claims related to "Shake It Off." Fitzgerald dismissed the lawsuit “with prejudice,” which means the dismissal is final and the copyright infringement claim can’t be filed again by Hall and Butler. A judge initially dismissed the suit in 2018, commenting that the lyrics were "too banal" to be stolen, but an appeal panel brought the case back in 2019. District Court judge rejected a different "Shake It Off" lawsuit in which writer Jesse Graham of 2013's "Haters Gone Hate" claimed Swift stole his lyrics and sought $42 million in damages. [were 'written entirely by me' in response to lawsuit](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/08/09/taylor-swift-shake-off-3-lw-song-copyright-lawsuit/10277952002/) [filed a copyright infringement lawsuit ](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/08/09/taylor-swift-shake-off-3-lw-song-copyright-lawsuit/10277952002/)against the [ “Midnights”](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/10/21/taylor-swift-midnights-album-review/10553445002/) singer, claiming the lyrics from Swift’s 2014 hit “Shake It Off” ("Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play/And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate") infringed on the Hall and Butler-penned "Playas Gon' Play," released by R&B girl group 3LW in 2000.

Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler drop lawsuit claiming Taylor Swift copied their lyrics in her 2014 number-one hit 'Shake It Off'.

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Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has reached an agreement with two songwriters to end the copyright lawsuit in which they ...

"Tim McGraw," her first single, was released in 2006. With sales of more than half a million copies in its first week, Ms Swift's second album "Fearless" opened at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Ms Swift is one of the biggest names in the music industry with record-breaking albums and stadium-selling tours.

Songwriters Sean Hall and Nate Butler had claimed the pop star lifted lyrics in her song's chorus from their own hit Playas Gon' Play. Swift denied being aware ...

and Dreams by Fleetwood Mac. Songwriters Sean Hall and Nate Butler had claimed the pop star lifted lyrics in her song's chorus from their own hit Playas Gon' Play. "Prior to writing Shake It Off I had heard the phrases 'players gonna play' and 'haters gonna hate' uttered countless times to express the idea that one can or should shrug off negativity." "The lyrics to Shake It Off were written entirely by me," she said, in a sworn declaration also obtained by PA. Both that song and Shake It Off feature variations of the phrases "players gonna play" and "haters gonna hate". Swift said she had drawn from her own experiences and "commonly used phrases and comments" she had heard throughout her life for the track and that the lyrics had been written "entirely by me".

A magician on stage, a pacifier for broken hearts- Taylor Swift's music is unique, and she has been making it with love for many years.

Taylor Swift appeared as a teenager on CSI as a guest star. In an earlier interview with GQ, the singer claimed that she wrote a young-adult fiction novel when she was just 14 years old. She even released a Christmas song called "Christmas Tree Farm" in 2019 with a video made out of memories from her childhood. However, music was not the only thing that piqued her interest when she was little. She has also named a few on her more recent folklore and evermore albums. Check out some interesting facts about the performer as she turns one more page of her life on her 33rd birthday.

After Taylor Swift fans were left ticketless following a botched rollout for her Eras Tour, Ticketmaster said some fans will have another chance to purchase ...

"It goes without saying that I’m extremely protective of my fans," she said. After submitting a ticket request, Ticketmaster will send an email alerting fans if their request was confirmed, then charging their card and giving them instructions to claim their tickets. Live Nation Entertainment did not respond to a request for comment from TODAY. 12, at the request of Swift's team, delivering the news that they had been chosen for a "limited opportunity" to purchase tickets to the Eras Tour. Ticketmaster said that all eligible fans were contacted and will be sent an invite to submit a purchase request by Dec. "You were identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets," Ticketmaster wrote.

Ticketmaster has released more Verified Fan tickets for Taylor Swift's "The Eras Tour" after having "been asked by Taylor's team to create this additional ...

Mashable [spoke to Swifties ](https://mashable.com/article/swifties-take-down-ticketmaster-eras-tour)about the frustrating and disappointing process. Then, Ticketmaster [cancelled public ticket sales](https://mashable.com/article/taylor-swift-eras-tour-ticketmaster-cancelled) days later. [Ticketmaster's website crashed](https://mashable.com/article/taylor-swift-era-tour-ticketmaster). Fans knew [buying from Ticketmaster was trouble before they walked in](https://mashable.com/article/ticketmaster-platinum-prices-hurting-fans), and the botched sale proved it. Now, a few lucky fans seem to be getting another chance, but it might not be enough to assuage [the droves of Swifities who missed out.](https://mashable.com/article/swifties-take-down-ticketmaster-eras-tour) This would be the show and city you selected during registration for the "Verified Fan" presale and you won't be able to change this.

Thank Taylor Swift for pushing Ticketmaster to create a new opportunity for Verified fans to get Eras Tour tickets.

That’s on top of the Justice Department investigation and the pending [Congressional hearing](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-senate-hearing-announcement-1849818056) that the company is also facing. [legal action against Ticketmaster](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-fans-ticketmaster-lawsuit-1849855741) and its parent company Live Nation. [Swift likened to](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-responds-to-ticketmaster-chaos-eras-tour-1849802708) “several bear attacks.” Swift herself was apparently behind the push to put tickets back on sale, according to Ticketmaster. [lyrical Easter eggs](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-underrated-songs-obscure-tracks-1849666689) to cheer up forlorn Swifties? [Taylor Swift](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-film-directorial-debut-searchlight-1849875394) has gotten you another opportunity to purchase tickets for the [Eras Tour](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-eras-tour-new-dates-added-1849774125). Your fearless leader has once again stood up to the man, and long story short, tickets are going back on sale.

Ticketmaster sent an email to select fans informing them they will have a "limited opportunity" to purchase no more than 2 tickets for one of Taylor Swift's ...

Justice Department launched an inquiry](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/live-nation-ticketmaster-investigation-taylor-swift.html) into whether Live Nation has abused its power in the multibillion-dollar live music industry. [apology](https://blog.ticketmaster.com/ticketmaster-verified-fan-request-taylor-swift-the-eras-tour-2023/) on its website and said select fans will receive staggered invitations to purchase tickets based on tour dates in each city. Ticketmaster echoed this sentiment in a statement. The investigation began before the Swift ticket sale outrage. Immediately following the presale, scalpers were attempting to resell Swift tickets for up to US$28,000 ($37,430). In a statement, Ticketmaster wrote it sold more than two million tickets and fielded 3.5 billion system requests, which is four times its previous peak.

What music videos has Taylor Swift directed herself? When does Taylor Swift premiere on Variety's annual “Directors on Directors” interview series?

Now, Morgan Myles could win ‘The Voice’](https://www.deseret.com/2022/12/12/23505970/the-voice-2022-morgan-myles) I’ve been part of things where you didn’t know the script, and no one knew what the story was.” - “Cardigan”. [Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/taylor-swift-feature-directing-debut-searchlight-pictures-1235455606/). [Swift](https://www.deseret.com/2022/10/22/23413864/why-is-taylor-swift-so-popular) is also being highlighted in Variety’s annual [Directors on Directors](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/taylor-swift-james-cameron-ryan-coogler-gina-prince-bythewood-variety-directors-on-directors-1235453552/) series starting on Monday. It is a genuine joy and privilege to collaborate with her as she embarks on this exciting and new creative journey,” said Searchlight presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield, per

Taylor Swift claimed the song's lyrics were composed solely by her, denying ever hearing the 3LW song Playas Gon' Play.

[Hall and Butler](/topic/hall-and-butler)'s poem Playas Gon' Play. [Nathan Butler](/topic/nathan-butler)and [Sean Hall](/topic/sean-hall)told a national judge in [Los Angeles](/topic/los-angeles)how they could forgive their case of 2017 with discrimination, which controls a filing again. [Taylor Swift](/topic/taylor-swift)with robbing the lyrics for her number one 1 hit of the year 2012 have neglected their objection.

Certain Taylor Swift fans who got Verified Fan codes from Ticketmaster but weren't able to score tickets last month are getting a second chance.

She said she refused to “make excuses” for a company that according to her had repeatedly assured her team it could handle the demand her tour would create. An FAQ on the Ticketmaster website explains that fans who got the email will have an opportunity to buy a maximum of two tickets to a Swift show. Meanwhile, in Mexico, a consumer-protection official said Ticketmaster México would be fined millions after hundreds of faulty tickets were sold for Bad Bunny shows last Friday and Saturday in Mexico City. But it sounds like the process is designed to roll out on a more controlled timeline than the original crush did. [received an email Monday](https://twitter.com/kristaferrara/status/1602308507495464961) from Ticketmaster saying, “You have been identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets. Bots and “fans who didn’t have invite codes” were blamed.

The AG's Office said they have registered thousands of consumer complaints after heavy demand for pre-sale tickets caused outages on Ticketmaster's website in ...

"Emails will be sent to pre-sale registered fans for the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia shows in the coming days," according to the AG's Office ["a new round of ticket opportunities](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/taylor-swift-tour-philadelphia-lincoln-financial-field/) will be coming to Pennsylvania consumers," the AG's Office said on Twitter on Tuesday morning. [Taylor Swift](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/taylor-swift-eras-tour-ticketmaster-additional-tickets/) fans will have another opportunity to buy tickets to her upcoming and highly anticipated "The Eras Tour" thanks to the [Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/taylor-swift-eras-tour-tickets-ticketmaster/).

“You were identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets,” the email said. “We apologise for the ...

“Thank you for wanting to be there.” “We apologise for the difficulties you may have experienced, and have been asked by Taylor's team to create this additional opportunity for you to purchase tickets.” [faced a backlash](https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/music-stage/2022/11/18/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-tour-tickets-cancelled/) for how it handled the massive demand for Swift tickets, emailed "Swifties" and others who had signed up to the “verified fan” presale but had been unsuccessful the first time around.

Taylor Swift reflected on directing "All Too Well" in an interview with Martin McDonagh for a new Variety interview.

Swift was on the cusp of 21 when she was in this relationship with an older partner. In it, Swift shines as a director, giving directives to the smallest things like hand placements and wording. It’s structured narratively in a way that I felt had to be different than any music video I’ve made,” Swift said. The pop star recently sat down with director Martin McDonagh for [Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/features/taylor-swift-director-all-too-well-hearbreak-martin-mcdonagh-1235456137/) to discuss directing her [All Too Well: The Short Film](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-all-too-well-ten-minute-short-film-1257075/). “Emotionally, I was going through exactly what the short film depicts, and I think that time is such an incredible asset to use when we have these stories that are hard to tell,” she told the Banshees of Inisherin director. “I wanted to tell that story, too, about sort of girlhood calcifying into this bruised adulthood.”

From "Tim McGraw" to "Anti-Hero" with hits and Swiftie-loved cuts in between, vote for the one you like most on her birthday.

In the age of her re-recordings, Swift has given her fans even more music, including vault tracks such as “Mr. The superstar rang in her latest birthday on Tuesday (Dec. But it wouldn’t be a birthday-appropriate [poll](https://www.billboard.com/t/poll/) if we didn’t include “22” alongside the hopeful “Begin Again” and 1989 tracks such as “Blank Space,” “Style,” emotional closer “Clean” and bonus cut “New Romantics.”

Variety ranks Taylor Swift's best songs, with hits and deep tracks from albums like 'Speak Now,' '1989,' 'Folklore' and 'Midnights.'

When “Midnights” first came out, with none of the songs pre-issued to the public, if you weren’t paying attention to video premieres or that sort of splash, you might have taken “Anti Hero” as one of the odder songs on the album, not a sure out-of-the-box hit. It’s just universal enough to get that kind of usage in American customs and rituals, but you have to savor the bits that are pure Swift, whether it’s the guitar-string scars on her fingers or her custom-made vow: “Swear to be overdramatic and true.” Wait, is it her entire public she’s pretend-marrying, as well as this guy? It’s a wedding song for people who don’t intend, right away at least, to get married — there’s even a fakeout wedding scene in the middle of the song that ends with them vowing in front of God and onlookers to be, well, lovers — but anyone who wants to use it for actual nuptials probably gets a pass. So much of the “Fearless” album came to be about the bracingly candid breakup songs, or embracing the fairy tale, in “Love Story,” and rejecting it, in “White Horse” (and “Fifteen,” for that matter). This leads to one of the greatest lines in all of Swift-dom: “I swear, I’m only cryptic and Machiavellian ’cause I care.” Is she kidding with that lyric? You should not have these people as your friends.) So it was the beginning of a correction in the popular mindset when, for her third album, “Speak Now,” she made a point of writing a song for an ex-boyfriend in which she took credit for what went wrong and expressed apologies and regrets — normal human actions, in other words, for someone who was not the narcissistic teen wraith some of the culture had set out to make her. It’s good that Taylor doesn’t really believe that “forever is the sweetest con,” and good that she’s stretched out to the kind of writing where she can create a character to say it. With “Out of the Woods,” one of the most talked-about tracks from “1989,” it’s really enough to know what the emotional tenor of the scenario is, and not who she spent a night in the emergency room with. The telling way in the choruses that she keeps answering “good!” to every repetition of the “Are we in the clear yet?” question lets you know that this is a protagonist who constantly has to talk herself into believing that everything’s fine. Meanwhile, I suspect there’s a musical joke embedded in the title, which is written as a numeral, the way a musician would render it, versus “the one.” At the end of the chorus, the word “one” begins on the last note of one bar and slides over to the next, where it lands on… This is a kind of sequel, in spirit, to “Blank Space.” In that one, she was still playing at being the bad girl, for satire. A song about why a relationship that’s escalated for some of the wrong reasons can’t help but feel right when you throw that slinky a groove on it — and throw in something Swift has never employed from her arsenal before: a solo saxophone.

The pop megastar said she 'wouldn't have it any other way' as she shared a picture of herself with collaborator Jack Antonoff.

By only discussing fatphobia in the context of eating disorders, Taylor Swift illustrates how deeply individualized and depoliticized white feminism is.

In identifying fatphobia as primarily about women’s looks, Swift and others obscure the [structural and material oppression experienced by fat people](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670607/belly-of-the-beast-by-dashaun-harrison/) Here, fatphobia is a personal flaw rather than a [systemic social issue](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95935-7_6). [mock media misogyny](https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1976586). Moments like this come up [regularly in feminist politics](https://theconversation.com/mask-or-no-mask-stop-using-fat-people-in-political-cartoons-176631) and rejecting a fat activist critique is a missed opportunity for coalition. As author [Sonya Renee Taylor writes](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565139/the-body-is-not-an-apology-second-edition-by-sonya-renee-taylor/), “From LGBTQIA bodies, to fat bodies, to women’s bodies, we live under systems that force us to judge, devalue, and discriminate against the bodies of others.” Swift’s defenders dismiss and demonize fat activists, aligning them with stereotypes of [fat women as unruly](https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739114872/The-Embodiment-of-Disobedience-Fat-Black-Womens-Unruly-Political-Bodies). [Feminists have argued that eating disorders do not exist in a social or cultural vaccuum](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520240544/unbearable-weight), but this argument has stopped short at fat acceptance. According to Swift, fame and public scrutiny of her body was [a major contributor to her eating disorder](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/taylor-swift-miss-americana-disordered-eating-body-image). [power away from the term “fat”](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/197420/fat-so-by-marilyn-wann/9780898159950) and use it as a neutral descriptor. But how does removing the term “fat” water down a specifically feminist message unless fat is seen to be a feminist issue? Taylor Swift’s music video, where she looks down at the scale where it says “fat,” is a shitty way to describe her body image struggles. In the scene, Swift’s two selves, the real her and her “anti-hero” character, are in a bathroom.

She included a snapshot that showed her sitting on the floor with a double bass laying across her lap while Antonoff strummed on an acoustic guitar on a ...

The Ticketmaster site was so flooded by traffic that it actually crashed; seen in November And the Grammy Award-winning artist took to Instagram to thank her devout fanbase for flooding her with 'beautiful wishes'; Swift seen in September Many pre-verified fans were left waiting in a virtual line for hours while others were unable to purchase tickets at all. I spent my 33rd birthday in the studio of course [side-eye emoji] Wouldn't have it any other way. 'Thanks for all the beautiful wishes today!! In the studio: She included a snapshot that showed her sitting on the floor with a double bass laying across her lap while Antonoff strummed on an acoustic guitar on a chair beside her

Two songwriters have dropped their lawsuit claiming Grammy-winning musician Taylor Swift copied their lyrics in her 2014 number-one hit "Shake It Off,"

appeals court revived it in 2019. Monday’s court papers, filed jointly by attorneys for both Swift and the songwriters, did not say if there was a settlement. In “Shake It Off,” Swift sings: “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”

A lawsuit filed against Taylor Swift alleging that she stole lyrics for her hit 2014 song 'Shake It Off' has been dismissed by a US judge.

Teddy Coward [are still fuming over the recent Ticketmaster debacle](https://whynow.co.uk/read/taylor-swift-tickets-what-can-be-done-to-help-fans), which has left many unable to see her touring [her latest, record-breaking](https://whynow.co.uk/read/taylor-swifts-midnights-best-selling-record-of-2022) [Midnights album](https://whynow.co.uk/read/midnights-taylor-swift-review). Now though, a judge has dismissed the case “in its entirety”, just over a month out from when the case was due to go on trial, on 17 January.