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Taylor Swift's New Music Video for ‘Christmas Tree Farm’ Is Filled With So Many Adorable Home Videos


Taylor Swift surprised fans this week by releasing a brand new song and music video—and a Christmas-themed one, at that.

On Thursday, Swift posted about the new music with a video asking her cats—Olivia, Meredith, and Benjamin—if she should drop the single she’d just written, instead of waiting a whole year for Christmas 2020. “When in doubt, ask the itty bitty pretty kitty committee. When they shun you with silence, ambivalence, and judgmental brush offs… just put the song out anyway. NEW XMAS SONG AND VIDEO (made from home videos ?‍?‍?‍?) OUT TONIGHT #ChristmasTreeFarm ?????????????,” she wrote.

The singer also dropped a brand new music video for the song “Christmas Tree Farm,” which features a ton of adorable home video footage of Swift as a little girl with her parents and little brother, Austin. As her fans know, she did grow up on actual Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania before moving to Nashville to begin her music career, and you can see the magical spot in the video. “I actually did grow up on a Christmas tree farm. In a gingerbread house, deep within the yummy gummy gumdrop forest,” she tweeted. “Where, funnily enough, this song is their national anthem. #ChristmasTreeFarm song and video out now .”

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How cute is she? I love seeing her open up what might just be her first guitar, knowing what we know now about where that gift led. The song is lovely, too though not Swift’s first foray into holiday music. In 2007, she released the album Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, which included covers of songs like “Last Christmas” and “Santa Baby.”

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Taylor Swift release if her fans didn’t go deep diving for Easter eggs and clues about future projects. One fan drew attention to one of the home video’s dates. “Uhm… guys. Look at the date. November 23 1989. Taylor wasn’t born yet. 8 days until the end of the month and then 13 days later she was born… 8… 13. TS8 is coming #ChristmasTreeFarm @taylorswift13 @taylornation13,” they wrote.

Admittedly, that’s a bit of a stretch—but we do know Swift likes to hide clues in her songs and videos, so nothing is totally off the table.



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The Perfect Dupe for Taylor Swift's Red Lipstick


Taylor Swift loves nothing more than to keep us guessing. While she’s notorious for dropping hints about each of her relationships in her lyrics and videos, it’s rare that she’ll disclose exactly who a song is about—and the same goes for her beauty routine.

Despite often referencing her red lipstick, she’s been similarly tight-lipped about the specific shades she relies on. She’s shared a few of her favorites in the past—most notably Nars’ Dragon Girl and MAC’s Ruby Woo—but there’s a new red out that’s a deadringer for the rubies she’s famously known for. And it’s got to do with Zendaya.

If you remember, before she was rocking glitter tears in Euphoria, Zendaya made a cameo in Swift’s “Bad Blood” video as “Cut-Throat” back in 2014. Now Z is the face of the new Lancôme L’Absolu Rouge Ruby Cream Lipsticks, and the gem-inspired collection features a nod to the song. The lipstick in question? A bright red aptly named Bad Blood Ruby.

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As the name of the collection implies, the lipsticks are all inspired by rubies. Each bullet is shaped like a gorgeous gem, with varying different facets. In addition to Bad Blood Ruby, there’s also the Black Prince Ruby (named after a famous ruby given to The Black Prince of England in 1367), Pigeon Blood Ruby (a deep crimson ruby that gets its—rather odd—name from the most valuable type of ruby), and RubieZ, named for Zendaya, replacing the letter “S” with her lucky letter “Z”.

While the song reference is what drew me to the lipstick in the first place, Bad Blood Ruby also happens to be the perfect red lipstick. The shade is right in the middle of the spectrum—not too blue, not too pink, with no hints of orange (my enemy in a lipstick), and wakes up my face in one swipe. It glides right on, and doesn’t dry my lips out over the day, which is thanks to rose flower extract, along with the brand’s patented hydrating complex. It has some shine to it, but surprisingly stayed put for hours, even through a greasy lunch.



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Taylor Swift's Reaction to Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes' Almost-Kiss at the VMAs Is Priceless


The VMAs packed in a lot in this year: There was that epic Missy Elliott performance, a reminder that Normani is a gift to humankind, a Lizzo-in-red moment, a Taylor Swift opening, and a duet with Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes that had the crowd screaming. For a second, it seemed like they were going to share their first, non-paparazzi kiss in public, but they ultimately decided against it—leaving people like Swift, among others, with their mouths hanging wide open.

When Cabello and Mendes leaned in for a kiss during their performance, celebs lost their minds in unison. Bebe Rexha was caught on camera shouting, “kiss, kiss, kiss!” Sophie Turner and the Jonas Brothers all held their hands up and screamed in anticipation. Swift , who is a close friend of Cabello’s, held a hand to her mouth, gasping at the the build-up and appeared to murmur, “Oh, shit.” (Head over to the MTV VMAs official Twitter page to see more videos like this.)

Taylor Swift had been watching the whole Cabello-Mendes scene go down with her friends and collaborators Todrick Hall and Dexter Mayfield, who worked on the video for “You Need to Calm Down.” When the video won awards for Video of the Year” and “Video for Good,” Swift brought Hall, Mayfield, and several of the drag queens who performed in the video onstage with her. Swift reportedly refused to perform on the award show unless MTV gave all of the drag queens awards, too. Hall and Mayfield also did some gasping during the “Señorita” showcase.

But Cabello and Mendes didn’t give in. They ended up hugging and walking offstage together, leaving everyone hanging in anticipation. It sounds like most people, particularly Joe Jonas, aren’t going to forget that they wanted to see a kiss. He shared a video of his reaction and wrote in the caption, “#VMAs are over, but we’re still waiting for that kiss tho ? @camila_cabello @shawnmendes.”





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Taylor Swift's Diary Reveals How She Really Felt After the 2009 VMAs


It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since Kanye West hopped up on stage and interrupted a young Taylor Swift as she was receiving her 2009 MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video for “You Belong With Me.”

The “I’mma let you finish” moment, when West declared that Beyoncé had the best video of the year for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” is now one of the most famous moments in recent pop culture history—and it’s had 10 years of ripple effects, including West’s song “Famous” and the ensuing drama with Swift and his wife, Kim Kardashian.

But we’re just now learning new details about what exactly went down that night, thanks to excerpts from Swift’s diary released with the deluxe version of her new album, Lover, as well as an oral history from Billboard published ahead of Monday night’s VMAs.

“If you had told me that one of the biggest stars in music was going to jump up onstage and announce that he thought I shouldn’t have won on live television, I would’ve said, ‘That stuff doesn’t really happen in real life.’ Well… apparently…. It does,” Swift wrote in her diary at the time.

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According to Billboard‘s oral history of the incident, MTV producers were just as shocked as we (and the audience at Radio City Music Hall) were to see West jump on on stage during Swift’s acceptance speech. On TV, we all watched Beyoncé mouth, “Oh, Kanye,” but we didn’t see Pink later confront him during a commercial break.

“During the commercial break, he went back down to his seat ,and Pink walked up to him and got in his face,” then-MTV senior correspondent Jesse Montgomery told Billboard. “I wasn’t close enough to hear the conversation, but she was pointing in his face and nodding her head back and forth, and giving him her two cents about how fucked up this was and then stormed off. Then he was sitting there next to Amber Rose with his arm around her, and you could feel everyone in Radio City glaring at his back.”

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All the Easter Eggs in Taylor Swift's 'Lover' Music Video


Taylor Swift‘s Lover album is finally here. But last night, ahead of its release, she dropped the video for the title track.

Of course, this means that her fans jumped into deep analysis mode as they took in each frame, found so many hidden Easter eggs, and developed some theories. In the video, we see a little girl at Christmas time opening her presents. One of them is a snow globe, and soon we’re taken into the house inside the globe where Swift and her “lover” reside. We see the couple laughing, loving, dancing, fighting, throwing parties, and diving into a fish bowl together. You know, living their lives.

At the end, the camera pans out to show that the little girl is their daughter—a very sweet touch that I must admit choked me up a little bit.

Watch the video for yourself, below, and then let’s break down what it all means.

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The house.

The home inside the snow globe has seven rooms, which fans think represent Swift’s seven albums.

One fan also noted that the rooms are lit in color while the outside is dark, seemingly a reference to the lyrics in “Out of the Woods” from 1989: “The rest of the world was black and white, but we were in screaming color.”

Another thought it was a reference to the dollhouse in 13 Going on 30.

The cat.



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Every Woman Needs to Listen to Taylor Swift's New Song 'The Man'


Taylor Swift‘s been quite outspoken about the sexism she’s faced in the music industry. When she was promoting her 1989 album in 2014, she called out the double standard of being criticized for writing about her exes even though male artists like Ed Sheeran do the same thing. Earlier this month, she opened up about the treatment she received after her 2012 album Red topped the charts.

“It’s fine to infantilize a girl’s success and say, ‘How cute that she’s having some hit songs,’” she told Vogue. “‘How cute that she’s writing songs.’ But the second it becomes formidable? As soon as I started playing stadiums—when I started to look like a woman—that wasn’t as cool anymore.”

Now she’s doubling down on this message with a new song, “The Man” off her album Lover (which dropped today). In it, Swift muses about how her life and career might have panned out if she were a man.

“I would be complex. I would be cool,” Swift sings. “They’d say I played the field before I found someone to commit to. And that would be OK for me to do. Every conquest I had made would make me more of a boss to you.”

Swift isn’t the first pop singer to call out this troubling dichotomy. Everyone from Madonna to Nicki Minaj has drawn attention to the fact that women in music aren’t allowed to be strong without being branded “divas.” “When [Lil’] Wayne walks on the set, and says, ‘Don’t talk to me. Have my music ready,’ it’s cool. But every time I put my foot down and stand up for myself, it’s like, ‘We’ve heard about Nicki Minaj,'” Minaj said in 2012.



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