KANSAS CITY, Mo. — All that screaming and crying late Thursday night in Kansas City and points beyond came from fans of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce as they listened to her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”

The album and song lyrics leaked on Wednesday, so many people knew there might be a song about her current boyfriend.

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TAMPA, Fla. — From the first line in her new song “Florida!!!,” you can already tell that Taylor Swift has heard our state’s unofficial motto: A sunny place for shady people.

“You can beat the heat if you beat the charges too,” she sings. “They said I was a cheat, I guess it must be true.”

In “Florida!!!,” Swift paints a ...Read more

Taylor Swift has spent years warning us not to believe everything we hear about her. As the biggest star of pop music's parasocial age, she argues that the facts of her existence are constantly warped by gossip and misinformation, which is one reason the Easter eggs and coded messages she's long built into her work have helped create such a ...Read more

Perhaps never before have so many been so eager for something so steeped in heartbreak.

Taylor Swift's legions of devotees have eagerly anticipated her new album, "The Tortured Poets Department," in hopes of gaining insight into her notoriously private six-year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn — particularly her perspective on its demise.

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Taylor Swift tantalizes and tortures us once again. This time it's with her new album "The Tortured Poets Department," which dropped at midnight ET Friday. Which guy(s) in her life is she singing about? Why is she so unlucky in love? Which of these songs is about new beau Travis Kelce?

After one listen to the 16 songs on her 11th studio album, ...Read more

NEW YORK — “Everybody look around,” they’re singing, festively, at the Marquis Theatre. “There’s reason to rejoice, you see.”

For a lot of Broadway fans, especially Black audiences of a certain age, the return of the Super Soul Musical (it was the 1970s) “The Wiz” to the Great White Way after some 50 years is a cause for ...Read more

Can we really trust tears as a sign of a film’s quality? A century of so many shameless, relentless cinematic mediocrities suggest the answer is no. If a movie will stop at nothing in its mission to make you cry, yes, statistically speaking, you’ll probably comply. Or not, because you feel jerked around as a viewer. But just as there are ...Read more

DETROIT — The ABC News Studios documentary about the prosecution of James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the Oxford High School shooter, is now available on Hulu, and while it delves into prosecutors' mindsets while charging and prosecuting the case, little previously unheard information was revealed.

The documentary began with a bird'...Read more

Lewis Black, like some of his comparably seasoned brethren on the music side such as Elton John and Kenny Loggins, has decided to retire from hardcore touring as he approaches his 76th birthday.

“I used to do 200 shows a year, then cut back to 125 and I’m now at about 100,” Black told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently. “Now I’...Read more

The stalker who allegedly sent Harry Styles 8,000 cards in less than a month is headed in one direction — to jail.

The Hendon Magistrates’ Court in London on Tuesday sentenced Myra Carvalho to 14 weeks imprisonment and banned her from seeing the Grammy winner perform anywhere for 10 years.

The 35-year-old reportedly pleaded guilty to a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sydney Sweeney's team fired back at Hollywood producer Carol Baum for her "shameful" disparagement of the actor, calling Baum out for not supporting a fellow female producer.

Baum recently publicized her befuddlement over the "Euphoria" star's booming popularity, marked by Sweeney's roles in "The White Lotus," "Madame Web" and "...Read more

With parts of Taylor Swift’s new album “The Tortured Poets Department” reportedly leaked online, her fans rallied Thursday to stop their spread.

Some people apparently couldn’t wait until midnight for Swift’s much-anticipated 11th album, as unconfirmed snippets of songs circulated on social media beginning Wednesday.

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Dickey Betts, the guitarist and co-founder of Southern rockers the Allman Brothers Band, died Thursday of cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 80.

In statement posted to Betts' website, the musician's family said he died at home in Osprey, Florida. They said Betts was a "legendary performer, songwriter, bandleader, and ...Read more

With parts of Taylor Swift’s new album “The Tortured Poets Department” reportedly leaked online, her fans rallied Thursday to stop their spread.

Some people apparently couldn’t wait until midnight for Swift’s much-anticipated 11th album, as unconfirmed snippets of songs circulated on social media beginning Wednesday.

It remained ...Read more

That’s not a bingo.

Quentin Tarantino is scrapping plans to make “The Movie Critic” his next film and will start all over on his 10th and final project.

The legendary director previously said “Critic” would be his last movie, and it was expected to start filming this year.

Reports that Tarantino is dumping the project come after he ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Netflix has renewed its fantasy series "The Witcher" for a fifth and final season.

The series just began production on Season 4, the streamer announced Thursday. The upcoming two seasons will be the first to feature Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia, the lead character that Henry Cavill played for the first three seasons.

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It's true! Ashanti is expecting her first child with longtime love Nelly.

The "Baby" singer and the "Hot in Herre" rapper confirmed months of pregnancy rumors Wednesday after much speculation about their growing family. They also confirmed that they're engaged.

"This new year of my life is such a blessing full of love, hope, and anticipation,"...Read more

Taylor Swift’s Coachella weekend with Travis Kelce took the couple’s level of exposure to new heights as they partied among fellow music fans.

The Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 34, admitted on Wednesday’s episode of his “New Heights” podcast that he and the Grammy winner “probably could have finessed it” to party in private but he...Read more

CHICAGO — The Democratic National Convention will have a new political commentator: Stephen Colbert is bringing his “Late Show” to Chicago and will broadcast from the Auditorium Theatre in the Loop from Monday, Aug. 19, to Thursday, Aug. 22, during the same days of the convention across town at the United Center.

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A film about the life of legendary comedian Chris Farley is reportedly in the works, with Paul Walter Hauser signed on to star in the main role and Josh Gad set to make his directorial debut.

The story is being adapted from the New York Times bestseller “The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts,” reports Deadline.

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