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Paris (AFP) - Taylor Swift-fever struck Paris on Thursday as the highest-grossing tour in history finally arrived in Europe, with fans treated to the first-ever performance of songs from her latest album. The Eras Tour began its European leg with four dates at the La Defense Arena in Paris and attendance on the first night alone was 45,387, according to her press team. "I wish I could have toured Europe more. This is a dream crowd," the 34-year-old megastar told the ecstatic audience. There were deafening shrieks as images of typewriter sheets indicated that songs off the new album, "The Tor...
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Sydney (AFP) - Australian police are investigating claims Taylor Swift's father -- nicknamed "Papa Swift" by her adoring fans -- punched a photographer while disembarking a superyacht in the early hours of Tuesday morning. "Police have been told a 71-year-old man allegedly assaulted a 51-year-old man at Neutral Bay Wharf about 2:30 am, before leaving the location," police spokeswoman Alicia McCumstie told AFP. Australian police do not formally identify suspects. However, the alleged victim -- veteran photographer Ben McDonald -- and a law enforcement source both identified the man accused as S...
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Melbourne (AFP) - Whether it is her relatable pop songs, connection with millions of fans worldwide or role as a feminist icon, the power of Taylor Swift is now too large for academics to ignore. So much so that the University of Melbourne held a "Swiftposium" on Monday to discuss the Grammy-winning artist's influence across a range of disciplines before "The Eras Tour" arrives on Friday. "It's just so incredible to see how many different ways you can unpack Taylor Alison Swift," explains Jennifer Beckett, University of Melbourne senior lecturer in media and communications. The billionaire Ame...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - With her Kansas City Chiefs jacket slung over her shoulder and her gold necklace bearing Travis Kelce's number, 87, music megastar Taylor Swift brought a bevy of celebrity friends to cheer her beau on at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas on Sunday. The 34-year-old pop icon was the brightest in a galaxy of stars attending the game after making a trans-Pacific dash back to the United States on Saturday, after performing in the latest leg of her money-spinning world tour in Tokyo. Closed-circuit footage screened inside Allegiant Stadium showed Swift arriving, and she was comfortably e...
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Washington (AFP) - The world's most famous Kansas City Chiefs fan will make it to see beau Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl, even though she is performing in Tokyo the night before, Japan's US embassy said Friday. Angsty fans have been speculating for days over how pop music icon Taylor Swift could do it all next weekend: perform a concert as part of her record-smashing Eras Tour in Tokyo, and hours later support star tight end Kelce as the Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas. But the Japanese embassy in Washington moved decisively to reassure the public, while revealing it...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Pop music icon Taylor Swift is reportedly ready to make a lightning trip from Japan next month to see boyfriend Travis Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Swift and Kelce exchanged a lingering on-field embrace Sunday after the reigning champion Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens 17-10 to book their fourth trip in five years to the NFL's championship extravaganza -- which will be held in Las Vegas on February 11. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network and NFL.com, citing unnamed sources, said Swift would be there -- even though she has an Eras tour performance in Tokyo the nigh...
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Washington (AFP) - Fans of Taylor Swift and politicians, including the White House, expressed outrage on Friday at AI-generated fake porn images of the megastar that went viral on X and were still available on other platforms. One image of the US megastar was seen 47 million times on X, the former Twitter, before it was removed Thursday. According to US media, the post was live on the platform for around 17 hours. "It is alarming," said White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, when asked about the images. "Sadly we know that lack of enforcement (by the tech platforms)disproportionately ...
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Washington (AFP) - A Fox News host suggested this week that Taylor Swift is a "front for a covert political agenda," echoing disinformation that has percolated in right-wing circles for months -- and which experts say will likely get worse before the 2024 US election. The Jesse Watters segment warning Swift could be a "Pentagon asset" offered the latest conspiracy theory exploiting the singer-songwriter's fame and her past support for Democrats such as President Joe Biden. Attacks targeting Swift in recent months have ranged from personal barbs to accusations of witchcraft and speculation abou...
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Washington (AFP) - NFL star Travis Kelce said he is "learning every day" from Taylor Swift, as his new romance with the pop icon catapults him to heights of fame and scrutiny shared by few others on the planet. "I've never been a man of words," the 34-year-old Kansas City Chiefs player told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday. Now he is dating one of the most powerful songwriters in the industry, a woman described as a "literary giant" by a Shakespeare professor in an Australian newspaper. "Being around her, seeing how smart Taylor, is," Kelce told the Journal, has been "m...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Taylor Swift fans sporting friendship bracelets and glittery cowboy boots packed into early screenings of the pop megastar's concert film at movie theaters across the United States on Thursday. Thanks to the hysteria surrounding the singer's ongoing and record-setting world tour, a filmed version of her concert -- "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" -- is already tipped to be one of the year's biggest movies. Usual cinema etiquette has been thrown out the window, with multiplexes such as AMC encouraging customers to dance, sing and even take selfies throughout screenings. "At the...
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