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Buzz Feed
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Quiz: Can You Name These Taylor Swift Music Videos?
Let's get one thing straight: Taylor Swift is a cinematic genius. You could know that from simply watching All Too Well (10 Minute Version), but she's blessed us with sooooooo much more. I've pulled one screenshot from 30 of her most stunning videos, and I want you to name their proper song. Think you can handle that?
Newsweek
06-06-2025
- Business
- Newsweek
The 1600: Mutually Assured Destruction
The Insider's Track Good morning, 🎶 Friday Listening: Taylor Swift - All Too Well (10 Minute Version). One of the greatest breakup songs ever written. Speaking of... That escalated quickly, huh? I'd say our discussion yesterday about the cracks in the Musk-Trump relationship ended up being pretty prescient, despite those accusing me of trafficking in gossip and innuendo! Elon finally went full mask off just a couple hours after this newsletter hit your inbox, ripping into Trump directly over the course of about 40 posts on X. The trigger seems to have been Trump telling reporters he was "disappointed" in Musk's trashing of his marquee legislation. Musk started his tirade arguing that Trump would have lost the election if not for him (maybe), predicted the tariffs would cause a recession (more likely) and, as the coup de grace, accused the president of the United States of being in the Jeffrey Epstein files (which don't exist, at least not in the form that's been alleged). Remember that Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump hotel in Vegas on New Year's Day? It was an omen. Trump responded that Elon had "gone CRAZY" and threatened to pull his companies' government subsidies and contracts. All in all, at least so far, the POTUS has actually been the cooler head to prevail in this breakup. Whether that can last, we'll probably see today. I've heard some theories that this was all staged as a way for Trump to wash his hands of Musk and Musk to get back to his business of selling electric cars to Democrats. I don't buy it. Elon is dead to the libs, that ship has sailed. And from everything I've heard out of DC, Trump was legitimately taken aback by his former "first buddy" going scorched earth. I think what's more likely is what we've been saying right here for months. You just cannot have two alpha males in the same place at the same time. It never works. And Musk had grown way too big for his britches during his brief tangle with the federal government. I do think there's probably some kind of Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine at play that is going to lead to a detente, or rapprochement, out of necessity for both parties, maybe even as soon as today. These guys both still need each other. Musk needs Trump not to mess with Tesla or SpaceX. Tesla is where Musk's wealth is derived. The DOJ could easily cut its already struggling stock price in half with a well-timed investigation. SpaceX is where Musk sees his legacy. And given SpaceX is deeply entangled with the federal government, Trump could easily make Elon's life miserable by just dropping it as a federal contractor, or as Steve Bannon is calling for, actually seizing it. That would also be bad for America because SpaceX is one of our most innovative companies that is, literally single handedly, keeping our space program alive. Let's hope it doesn't get caught up in the crossfire. But Musk also has something that is extremely valuable to both Trump and the MAGA project, and that is the X algorithm. Elon has made the platform formerly known as Twitter into an echo chamber for Trump-adjacent voices. If he did get Trump elected, it wasn't because of the $250M he dropped in Pennsylvania—it was because of the influence of X. One tweak of that algo to make it less Trump friendly, like it was a few years ago, and that would be a big hit to the White House's reach. One certainty about when Donald Trump is president, it's never boring! The Rundown President Donald Trump is working to push his "big, beautiful bill" through the Senate in the face of resistance from some Senate Republicans and increasing criticism from Elon Musk. Some lawmakers have already raised serious concerns about the bill—more in the Senate than in the House, where the bill passed by just one vote—which has put its passage in doubt. Read more. Also happening: Trump-Harvard: President Donald Trump suffered a major legal setback in his dispute with Harvard University. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued a two-page temporary restraining order instructing the DHS and the State Department to disregard a proclamation issued by the Trump administration the previous day banning international students at the university from entering the U.S. for six months. Read more. Trump's travel ban: The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be co-hosted by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, with most matches—including the final—taking place in American stadiums. However, hopes among Iranian fans in particular to attend and support their national team on U.S. soil are now in doubt following Trump's announcement of a new travel ban targeting 12 countries, including Iran. Read the story. This is a preview of The 1600—Tap here to get this newsletter delivered straight to your inbox.
GMA Network
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Taylor Swift honored by Girl Scouts after reclaiming her music catalog
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan is proud of their former scout Taylor Swift after the American popstar reclaimed her old music discography! On social media, the organization shared an old photo of a young Swift in her Girl Scout uniform and wrote an uplifting message to the "All Too Well" hitmaker. "When Girl Scouts set their minds to something, there's no limit to what they can achieve. With courage, confidence, and character, we're building a generation that knows their worth—just like Taylor Swift reclaiming her masters," the caption read. Swift, who has been locked in a feud with record executives since 2019 over ownership of her music, has bought back the rights to her entire back catalog. "All of the music I've ever made... now belongs... to me," she wrote on her website, after years of disputes over her first six albums, a number of which she re-recorded to create copies she owns herself. Swift bought back her masters from Shamrock Capital, an LA investment firm, for an undisclosed amount.
The Spinoff
27-05-2025
- General
- The Spinoff
Is homemade butter worth it? Two methods, put to the test
With butter prices slipping through our fingers, we took matters into our own hands. Every day it feels like there's a new headline about Aotearoa's butter price blowout. With Stats NZ reporting a 65% price hike since February last year, a block of butter is slipping out of reach for many, with the rise unlikely to melt away anytime soon. People are lining up at Costco to bulk buy blocks of slightly cheaper butter, with one man even driving 750km to fill his van with the stuff. And it's putting pressure on cafes around the country, with some forced to hike their cheese scone price up to a whopping $8, and others resorting to buying butter from Australia. It got us thinking: would it be cheaper to make butter yourself at home? How hard can it really be? And will it taste just as good as Costco's finest? Alex Casey tried the shaking method My recipe for homemade butter came from The Stay at Home Chef, whose promise of 'a fun old-fashioned activity for kids' seemed achievable even for me, an adult who once let a whole unopened bag of frozen corn melt onto the sizzling hot element because I got distracted on my phone. The only prep required was picking up 300ml of fresh cream from Pak'nSave Riccarton for just $3.25, digging out an old jar from the garage, and washing the spider corpses out. As I watched the arachnid exoskeletons circle the drain, I felt a sense of old world charm seep in. There was no electricity or machinery needed here, and no fancy chemicals or additives apart from good old fashioned elbow grease. I diligently poured one cup of cream into the jar, twisted it shut, and began to shake with reckless abandon. Alas, within seconds of vigorous motion, I was splattered with cream (not accepting any blue humour at this time). With the jar safely secured with packing tape, I settled in again to listen to a 5.02 minute long voice note from a friend while doing my first round of shaking (the Stay at Home Chef promised 5-7 minutes). About 20 seconds in, my right arm started to ache and I had to swap to the left. This went on for a while, until I settled on using both hands and shaking from side to side like an excited trophy winner, and then back and forth in front of me like I was doing high speed netball passes. As the voice note finished, I was delighted to hear no more sloshing in the jar. Could it be that I had just made butter in half the time of the 'All Too Well' 10-minute version? I sliced through the sellotape feeling like Old Mother Hubbard, but was crestfallen to find nothing but whipped cream within. I ate a conciliatory teaspoon, and got back to work. The next voice note I shook my way through was eight minutes long (my friend is fine) and by the end of it I heard a satisfying 'THONK' inside the jar. The contents had separated into a thin white cloudy liquid housing what can only be described as a bright yellow brain within. I strained it all through the sieve and was delighted to find a near perfect sphere of butter waiting to be mooshed into a small bowl with a bit of salt and garnished with parsley. This is the 90s after all. I burnt a piece of Vogel's to a crisp and slathered it from coast to coast in my luxury hand shooketh butter. It was delicious, creamy, just like from the shop but possibly even better because of the delectable analog smugness. All in all, I got about 78 grams of butter from my 250mls of cream (minus the sleeve spill and the conciliatory teaspoon of cream) which means I'd be spending $20.80 to make my own 500g block (which is not the projected price until August). Daylight robbery you cry, but there is hidden value here. Consider the free arm workout, the free science extravaganza, free buttermilk, and free 50mls of leftover cream. The next morning I made two pancakes with the leftover buttermilk, served with leftover (jar whipped) cream, and of course my own melted homemade butter. It was a turducken of dairy products that had gone farm to plate, nose to tail, liquid to solid and all the way back again. A priceless bit of fun in a bleak ass world. Anna Rawhiti-Connell tried the KitchenAid method I set the task of making butter with my KitchenAid for myself, confident it would be easier than Alex's shaker method. Bridget Jones famously described married people as 'smug marrieds'. I am describing KitchenAid owners as smug KitchenAiders. When someone comments on something impressive you've made with a KitchenAid, you can't just take the compliment, you have to say you made it with a KitchenAid, but you're allowed to pretend you're saying that to highlight it's no big deal to make homemade pasta when you are aided by precision engineering. Those are the rules of KitchenAid club. KitchenAid's 'recipe' for butter is cheerfully titled ' Homemade Butter – Colour of the Year 2025 '. It's a) a Pantone-esque announcement about their colour of the year and b) a sales pitch for their cheerful and accidentally bleak-sounding colour range, described as a 'soft, energising butter yellow with a creamy satin finish'. Like butter, I guess? I woke up yesterday morning, my butter-making task on my list, and promptly handed half the job off to my husband by asking him to get some cream on his way back from the gym. 'Why?' he said 'Work' I replied. He nodded wearily, knowing it would be for some cockamamie experiment that my type A personality couldn't resist partaking in. I'd said I needed a 330ml bottle of MeadowFresh cream to match Alex's cream 'for science'. He wearily said there wasn't any and wearily put a 500ml bottle of Anchor cream in the fridge. The experiment has been corrupted and has already cost me $4.84 and a spousal favour backlog. I poured 330mls of cream into my KitchenAid bowl along with half a teaspoon of salt. One KitchenAid recipe I googled mentioned a 'whipping disc'. I don't have a whipping disc. I panicked for a brief second before returning to the first KitchenAid butter recipe I'd found the day before which just used the standard whipping attachment. I don't know why there are so many 'recipes' for something made of cream and centrifugal force. The recipe advised it would take 10-15 minutes for the butter fat solids to separate from the buttermilk. I'd half read a message from Alex the night before about how long it took her to make butter using just her arms and a jar and was immediately crestfallen because I thought she'd said seven minutes. I've just read her butter odyssey properly and my zest for life has returned. The KitchenAid recipe advised slowly dialling up the machine from one to turn-it-up-to-11, Vin Diesel speed. From cream to separated fat and buttermilk, it took eight minutes to get butter. I drained it in a sieve as per the instructions and rinsed it a few times with cold water to rid it of the last of the buttermilk. Voilá, le beurre! The magic of making something you have spent your life assuming required a gigantic industrial manufacturing process and the feeling of pretending you're sticking it to Big Dairy are enough to make the extremely dodgy economics of this endeavour worth it. I got 86 grams of butter from 330mls of cream. To make 500 grams of butter would have cost me $28.13, so it makes zero fiscal sense. I suspect the mixer approach, while faster, also wastes more cream by the time you lose the precious fats of our land to the bowl, the wall, your face, a spatula and a sieve. The butter was taste-tested by my colleagues yesterday, who praised it after spreading it on bread and putting that into a toasted sandwich press. I can confirm without the mask of a toastie, it tastes like butter, and I feel like a science wizard. A+++ would make it again if I won Lotto or owned a cow.
USA Today
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Missing the Eras Tour? This tribute band performs an unofficial version around the world
Missing the Eras Tour? This tribute band performs an unofficial version around the world Welcome to the (unofficial) Eras Tour! The record-shattering, stadium bumping and happiness generating adventure through Taylor Swift's 11 eras lives on through singer Charity Eden and her Lover Tribute Band. "Taylor really is my biggest inspiration," Eden says over a video call. "It's just the relatability of her music and how her experiences are my experiences. It's her ability to create a soundtrack to our lives." What fans may be shocked to learn is how fast the 35-year-old learned the lyrics and dance moves to 50+ songs. Surprisingly, she had never scream-shouted to "All Too Well," danced to "Shake It Off" or harmonized to "Willow" until 2022. "I honestly only listened to Christian music up until three years ago," she says. Eden's introduction to non-Christian music was the superstar's 10th studio album. "When 'Midnights' came out, it wrecked me and literally changed my life." A friend invited her in 2023 to see the Eras Tour in Dallas, where she was indoctrinated in Swift lore. As the "Karma" confetti enveloped her at the end of the show, she knew she wanted to recreate the magic of the three-hour show. She just didn't know how. 'OK, I guess I'm doing this' At Eden's birthday party in June 2023, the University of North Texas music grad performed some Swift covers for her family and friends. "My friend and now drummer," she explains, "told a venue booker shortly after, 'My friend Charity does a Taylor Swift tribute, you should call her.' I got a call and was like, 'OK, I guess I'm doing this.'" The little white lie propelled her into a full-fledged career. She quit her finance and wealth management job and dived in, enlisting friends to join her 10-person team of bandmates, dancers and stage managers. She styled her hair like Swift's signature blonde bangs, sharpened her cat eye and donned a bold red lip. "This is what I was born to do," she says. "I love when people come up after the show and say, 'I wasn't able to go to the Eras Tour and it feels like I got to go' or 'I was able to go to the Eras Tour and it feels like I got to go again.'" Long live the Eras Tour with our enchanting book Eden bought a bunch of spangly outfits on Etsy and had them professionally altered. Her portable closet of gowns, catsuits and jackets has followed her across the U.S. and to Japan, Canada and Kuwait. "The costume changes are the craziest 2 minutes every 12 minutes," she says. "In the beginning, I didn't realize how long it would take. I had three friends backstage helping me do everything. But I learned a few tips and tricks like investing in high-quality zippers. There was one show where four zippers broke." She perfected the transitions between eras and now only needs one assistant to help backstage. And like Swift, she sings live. "I'm not going a full three hours. It's usually two," she says. "There are days I don't talk at all, just to fully recover my voice. I try to be as healthy as I can." Booked through 2026 Eden makes a point to emphasize she's not affiliated with Swift's team and her intention is to spread some of the sparkly and shimmery magic to cities and countries that never got the chance to see the show. The tribute is as close to the Eras Tour as a fan can get, aside from turning back time. Eden hands out a "22" hat, plays a moss-adorned piano, faints after "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" and sings "Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me." Relive the final night: Taylor Swift ends record-breaking Eras Tour in Vancouver Her most memorable performance happened last Fourth of July for an audience of troops stationed in Kuwait. "It was almost all men and it was fun to see how in the beginning, the crowd was maybe 50 feet from the stage and they weren't really interacting," she says. "During the 'Fearless' era I went out into the audience and slowly started luring them in. By the end of the show, they were right at the stage. I loved singing 'Karma' because they were all dancing and singing it down the octave." The Lover Tribute Band is booked through February 2026 with trips to Canada, Mexico, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Oklahoma, Bermuda, Virginia, Utah, Minnesota, Ohio and Florida. Don't miss any Taylor Swift news; sign up for the free, weekly newsletter This Swift Beat. Follow Bryan West, the USA TODAY Network's Taylor Swift reporter, on Instagram, TikTok and X as @BryanWestTV.
