My story of meeting Taylor Swift begin seven years ago when I fell in love with her first album. But I’ll save you all the relationships, heartbreaks and life-changing songs and skip forward to November 2014. I was one of 33 lucky Taylor Swift fans who were sent holiday presents, picked out specifically to complement […]
Thanks to Taylor Swift, Ronan Farrow wins Cable News Twitter on Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Read moreOne of the weaknesses reporting Twitter metrics for Cable News shows is that there’s no bright line between cable news related tweets and those that have nothing to do with cable news. Such was the case on Wednesday, when Taylor Swift sent this tweet: That one tweet generated (at the time of writing) 8,800 retweets, […]
Speak Now: Taylor Swift Goes “Solo”
Read moreTaylor Swift released her third album yesterday titled “Speak Now,” her first since the wildly popular “Fearless” in 2008 which featured the infectious song “You Belong With Me.” “Speak Now” Taylor Swift, Big Machine Records. There are definitely some radio-friendly hits like “Mean,” “Last Kiss,” “Mine” and “Back to December.” But some of the 14 […]
Taylor Swift sends conservative fans a break-up note
Read more“Supporting all women lasted about a day. Pop star Taylor Swift decided to shake off years of political speculation and come out against a female candidate and back a liberal man. Even better, that man recently endorsed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Not a convenient media narrative. But Swift declared that Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn […]
Musical tastes offer a window into how you think
Read moreDo you like your jazz to be Norah Jones or Ornette Coleman, your classical music to be Bach or Stravinsky, or your rock to be Coldplay or Slayer? The answer could give an insight into the way you think, say researchers from the University of Cambridge. Although people’s music choices fluctuates over time, we’ve discovered […]