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If some are only interested in Taylor Swift’s love stories, her fans know what matters most to the singer: her group of friends. Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid, the Haim sisters, Blake Lively and even Sophie Turner (with whom she was seen recently, a few days after the announcement of the divorce between Turner and the man who was also Taylor’s lover, Joe Jonas)… Swift is well surrounded and highlights these precious friendships, a constant reminder that through stories of the heart, sisterhood triumphs (as the song’s iconic music video will always remind us Bad Blood).

Bracelets


PHOTO CHARLES-WILLIAM PELLETIER, SPECIAL COLLABORATION

Taylor Swift fans exchange bracelets before the performance of Taylor Swift’s film.

It all started with a song. “Everything you lose is a step you take/So make the friendship bracelets/Take the moment and taste it”, the singer preaches in the room You’re on Your Own, Kid, taken from his latest album, Midnights. His fans took it literally. At his concerts, it has become a ritual to exchange friendship bracelets on which song lyrics or even references to Taylor Swift are inscribed.

Léa Carrier, The Press

Controversial

Some controversies that marked Taylor Swift’s career.

  • September 2009: While Taylow Swift gives her acceptance speech after receiving the award for Best Music Video of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West comes on stage and says that Beyoncé should have received the trophy.

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    September 2009: While Taylow Swift gives her acceptance speech after receiving the award for Best Music Video of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West comes on stage and says that Beyoncé should have received the trophy.

  • 2016: Kanye West releases the song Famous, where he references Taylor Swift and their feud. In an interview, Kim Kardashian claims that Swift agreed to these lyrics being in the song and that the call was recorded. Four years later, the recording was revealed: Taylor Swift never actually approved the lyrics “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why?” I made that bitch famous.”

    PHOTO EVAN AGOSTINI, INVISION, PROVIDED BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

    2016: Kanye West releases the song famous, where he references Taylor Swift and their feud. In an interview, Kim Kardashian claims that Swift agreed to these lyrics being in the song and that the call was recorded. Four years later, the recording was revealed: Taylor Swift never actually approved the lyrics “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why?” I made that bitch famous.”

  • 2019: Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun's dispute over ownership rights to her albums takes an unexpected turn. When the record company was sold, Swift attempted to purchase them, but they were instead sold to the new owner, Braun, who then used them without the singer's consent.

    PHOTO FROM SCOOTER BRAUN’S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

    2019: Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun’s dispute over ownership rights to her albums takes an unexpected turn. When the record company was sold, Swift attempted to purchase them, but they were instead sold to the new owner, Braun, who then used them without the singer’s consent.

  • Summer 2020: the release of the surprise albums folklore and evermore, two weeks apart and without notice, allowed all the spotlight to be turned on Taylor Swift that summer.

    IMAGE FROM TAYLOR SWIFT’S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

    Summer 2020: the release of surprise albums folklore And evermoretwo weeks apart and without notice, allowed all the spotlight to be turned on Taylor Swift that summer.

  • March 2021: “You go through more men than Taylor Swift,” says a character from the Netflix series Ginny and Georgia, jokingly, in one of the episodes. The main person concerned does not intend to laugh.

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    March 2021: “You get through more men than Taylor Swift,” says a character in the Netflix series Ginny and Georgia, as a joke, in one of the episodes. The main person concerned does not intend to laugh.

  • January 2022: musician Damon Albarn accuses Taylor Swift of not writing her songs herself; she responds in a tweet: “I was a big admirer of yours until I saw this. I write ALL my own songs. You don't have to like my songs, but it's really crazy to try to discredit my writing. »

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    January 2022: musician Damon Albarn accuses Taylor Swift of not writing her songs herself; she responds in a tweet: “I was a big admirer of yours until I saw this. I write ALL my own songs. You don’t have to like my songs, but it’s really crazy to try to discredit my writing. »

  • November 2022: ticket sales for the Eras tour are a fiasco, due to poor management by Ticketmaster. “We asked them several times if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured that they could,” said a disappointed Swift the day after the sale.

    PHOTO FROM TAYLOR SWIFT’S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

    November 2022: ticket sales for the tour Eras is a fiasco, due to poor management by Ticketmaster. “We asked them several times if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured that they could,” said a disappointed Swift the day after the sale.

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Dessner


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Laura Sisk, Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner and Jonathan Low, at the Grammy Awards in 2021

Taylor Swift’s collaboration with the respected Aaron Dessner (member of The National), from the sumptuous folklore, in 2020, is a real turning point in the singer’s career; their first song together, Cardigan, was an immediate success. It then continued with her next two albums, all of which were widely acclaimed. Swift knows how to surround herself well: she has been working for 10 years now with the brilliant director Jack Antonoff, another magician whose touch elevates the singer’s work. His recent collaborations with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), over the years, have also sparked, with the popular songs exile (folklore) And Renegadea collaboration with Dessner and Vernon’s project, Big Red Machine.

Eras


PHOTO GEORGE WALKER IV, ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVES

Taylor Swift at a tour show Eras

This is the tour everyone is talking about right now. It is so popular that it is almost impossible to attend. The first time tickets went on sale caused a crash on the Ticketmaster platform, which recorded the largest sales in a single day for an artist. The tour Eras, it is: a three-hour show, with no less than 44 songs presented in 10 acts and a breathtaking production that only stadiums can accommodate. During these concerts, Taylor Swift visits her entire repertoire, i.e. the different “eras” of her career.


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