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Hayley Williams Says Southern Pride Is Beautiful but Misused to Excuse Bigotry, and Says She Wants No Racist or Sexist Fans, or Fans Who Think Trans People Are a Burden, Around

In a new interview with CLASH, Hayley Williams opens up with striking candor about art, identity, and accountability. The Paramore frontwoman is currently promoting Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party, a project she describes as “a splintered thing”: part emotional memoir, part political meditation, and a full-on rejection of the expectations that have followed her […]

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Spotify Plans Another Price Hike During Q1 While CEO Daniel Ek Is Busy Pouring Millions Into AI Military Tech

Spotify listeners might want to sit down, preferably not while checking their bank statements. The streaming giant is gearing up for yet another price increase in the U.S., expected to hit sometime in Q1 of 2026. It would be Spotify’s first U.S. hike since July 2024, but globally the company has been quietly nudging prices

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Taylor Swift Merch

Fans Blast Taylor Swift for “Cheap, Misleading” Merch After $45 Towel Advertised as ‘100% Cotton’ Arrives as 100% Acrylic

Taylor Swift’s merch is once again under fire from a growing faction of increasingly disillusioned Swifties who say they’re done making excuses for her. After complaints about high prices and questionable quality from the pop star’s merch in recent years, some of her fans are now calling out the singer for what they describe as

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After Billie Eilish Suggests Billionaires Help People; Elon Musk Responds by Calling Her Dumb and Mocking Her Appearence

When you’re on track to become the planet’s first trillionaire, nothing says “I’m a serious visionary” like recycling middle-school insults at a 23-year-old pop star. Elon Musk, noted humanitarian, allergy sufferer to criticism, and self-proclaimed genius, took a break from not ending world hunger this week to fire back at Billie Eilish, the musician who

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Taylor Swift Merch

Taylor Swift Breaks Adele’s Record, Then Announces Four New Variants: The Billionaire’s Playbook of Endless Album Variants & Manufactured Urgency

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl has been breaking all kinds of records and has earned 3.5 million equivalent album units in the U.S. since its October 3 release, according to Luminate. With 3.2 million traditional sales and another 300,000 from streaming, the album has now surpassed Adele’s 25 for the largest debut week by total units since Billboard began using its

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Taylor Swift Using AI-Generated Videos to Promote an Album That’s Already Out is Embarrasing

Taylor Swift’s latest promotional campaign has once again sent her fans into detective mode, but this time, not everyone is impressed. On October 4, fans who searched Taylor’s name on Google were greeted with a custom animation revealing twelve international cities — Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, London, Melbourne, Santa Monica, New York, Nashville, Chicago, Beverly

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Taylor Swift’s New Album Wants the Internet to Stop Being Mean to the Poor Billionaire While Rehashing Love Songs Yet Again

Taylor Swift has released her latest album, and once again it’s less a bold artistic reinvention than a mashup of two familiar Taylor templates: one part please stop being mean to me on the internet, I am just a poor billionaire, and another part here are twelve more songs about being in love, again. At

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Ariana Grande vs Trump and White House

White House Laughably Claims Trump “Ended Inflation Crisis” After Ariana Grande Questions MAGA on Grocery Prices

The White House has gone on the defensive after Ariana Grande amplified a viral Instagram post asking Trump voters a blunt question: Has your life actually gotten better since Donald Trump returned to office? The pop superstar, who shared podcaster Matt Bernstein’s post with her 373 million followers, touched on what millions of Americans have

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