Taylor Swift
Opinion
Trade wars
How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can resolve US-China relations
While we were sleeping, China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything. Will China bury us? That is not at all inevitable.
- by Thomas L. Friedman
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Why we’ll never see anything like the Eras Tour again
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour wasn’t just the most successful concert tour of all time. It was a “magic moment” that could be impossible to replicate.
- by Meg Watson
River city streaming: Brisbane really is a big country (music) town
When it comes to Spotify, the music heard in Brisbane is notably different to that played in other Australian cities.
- by Rosanna Ryan and Sean Parnell
Taylor Swift dominates 2024 Spotify charts with 26.6 billion streams
Spotify Wrapped 2024 shows listeners were obsessed with Swift, female artists, collaborations and country music reimagined by big names.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Sceptical about Taylor Swift? This book might just change that
Rolling Stone veteran Rob Sheffield’s deep dive examines the musical and cultural impact of the world’s biggest pop star.
- by Nathan Smith
Beyonce leads Grammy nominations in female-dominated list
Australia’s Troye Sivan and Tame Impala also scored nominations.
Analysis
US Votes 2024
Celebrities flocked to Kamala Harris, but did it do more harm than good?
In a nation divided, the backing of Taylor Swift, Beyonce and George Clooney played into a narrative of the Democrats as the party of the “bicoastal elite″.
- by Karl Quinn
Major sporting events in ‘arms race’ to secure top singers
In an effort to attract new fans, sporting events invest heavily in securing musical acts.
- by Angus Delaney
Bigger than the Fab Four and Swift: The Queen who rocked Sydney
When the young Queen Elizabeth visited Australia in 1954, 75 per cent of Australians saw her. Can a visit by her 75-year-old son revive some excitement in royalty?
- by Julie Power
Taylor Swift outplays AFL and NRL grand finals to fill hotel rooms
Neither the AFL nor NRL grand final will surpass the pulling power of Taylor Swift and her legion of followers earlier this year.
- by Simon Johanson
Opinion
US Votes 2024
How Beyoncé is helping Millennials fall crazy in love with Kamala
While Harris has secured the endorsement of female artists at the cutting edge of pop culture, Trump’s list of endorsements reads like a narrowcast of “who’s that guy again?”
- by Anna Samson
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