In critical karaoke, participants tell their story in the span of time it takes to listen to the song they have chosen – with the song playing behind them.
Stays were imbued with symbolic meaning in the 18th century. Detail from A Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth (1735).
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Swift positions herself in a long history of women accused of ‘behaving badly’ while revealing the importance of revisiting our understanding of the past based on shifting evidence.
Major celebrity events can create multiplier effects and boost economies. Here’s what we can learn from how Singapore multiplied its investment in Swift’s Eras tour.
A woman protests against Live Nation and Ticketmaster outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 24, 2023.
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The government has been investigating Live Nation Entertainment for years. But a presale ticketing debacle for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour heightened scrutiny from politicians and the public.
An album of easter eggs, a film about a woman with worrying dreams, a series about an unknowable man, new Welsh music and the last chance to see a design great.
‘Fearless’ on stage − and in introspection.
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The star of the 1920s silver screen who appears on Taylor Swift’s new album abruptly left Hollywood at the height of her success – a middle finger to the men whom she had made rich and powerful.
Sales of vinyl records continued to increase in 2023 – decades after the LP’s death was forecast by music experts.
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Vinyl’s unlikely comeback story is linked to a combination of slick marketing, claims of superior sound, its polysensorial character and how it evokes nostalgia to construct and reconstitute memory.
Taylor Swift vinyl on display at a record store in Tokyo.
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A scholar of history of education and American politics explains what is behind his course on conspiracy theories and how students learn to debunk fake ideas.
An illustration from Christine de Pizan’s ‘The Book of the City of Ladies.’
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By compiling stories about the accomplishments of women, Christine set out to build an allegorical city where women and their achievements would be safe from sexist insults and slander.
Taylor Swift, flanked by security guards and Donna Kelce, mother of her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, appears at the Super Bowl in February 2024.
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A college junior who has gained a following by sharing high-profile people’s private flight information says that he is sharing public information. Others, like Taylor Swift, say that he is stalking.
Fans who were girls in the era of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Twilight are now the women who have powered the success of Barbie and the Eras Tour.