A vinyl edition of The Life of a Showgirl at a Target on October 2, 2025, in New York City. | Valerie Terranova/Getty Images Even with 38 ways to buy it, Taylor Swift’s fans aren’t living for The Life of a Showgirl. When Swift dropped her 12th studio album earlier this month, people were already…
Models pose for photographs at a KPop Demon Hunters-themed area at an amusement park on September 30, 2025 in Yongin, South Korea. | Han Myung-Gu/WireImage Netflix’s mega-hit KPop Demon Hunters is now the streaming platform’s most popular movie of all time. But its ascendance as 2025’s surprise cultural phenomenon extends far beyond the animated movie…
Taylor Swift performs onstage during her Eras Tour at Rogers Center on November 14, 2024, in Toronto. | Emma McIntyre/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management At the end of Taylor Swift’s newly released 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, the narrator makes a somewhat shocking confession. In the album’s final song, the title track,…
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce their engagement. Wake up, babe, new wedding of the century just dropped. That’s not an exaggeration. The engagement of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, which Swift announced Tuesday via Instagram, warranted breaking news alerts from outlets ranging from the Washington Post to ESPN, and a live cutaway by Fox…
Shaboozey and Jelly Roll perform during CMA Fest 2025 on June 06, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. | Taylor Hill/Film Magic “We wanna thank God for giving us the grace to give him a little glory in this building tonight,” rapper-slash-country hit-generator Jelly Roll said onstage in May at the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards….
Sean “Diddy” Combs accepts the BET Lifetime Achievement Award on stage during the 2022 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 26, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. | Leon Bennett/Getty Images for BET Jurors in the federal criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs reached a mixed verdict Wednesday, finding the rapper and music mogul not…
Katy Perry performs in Sydney, Australia. | Don Arnold/WireImage These days, it seems like anything could be a recession indicator. Press-on nails. Strip club habits. Lena Dunham’s exodus from New York. But how do we really know if there’s an impending economic contraction? “There’s a super wide variety of what qualifies as a so-called ‘recession…
Sean Diddy Combs, who went by P. Diddy, and Cassie Ventura, his girlfriend at the time, attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. | Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Huffington Post Among all the lurid details and…
The crowd at Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour at Foro Sol in Mexico City on August 24, 2023. | Getty Images for TAS Rights Management When we see our favorite artist perform at a stadium concert, we’re expecting a divine experience. After all, attending a massive show is the closest thing the average person might…
Last summer, I quit Spotify, and wrote about it with the rather unsubtle headline “Why I quit Spotify.” My reasons remain sound: The software had become clunky, the ads relentless, and the Sabrina Carpenter songs too inescapable. I wanted to find a better music streaming service. It gives me no pleasure to report that a…
