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There Is Precedent for Taylor Swift’s ‘Cleveland!’ Making the World Go Crazy: Paul McCartney’s ‘Silly Love Songs’ Era (opens the original)
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It is a controversy actually worthy of an exclamation point. When was the last time the internet lost its collective stuff over a single song the way it did this past week with Taylor Swift‘s “Cleveland!”? And they say there’s no such thing as a monoculture anymore. It might have felt like everyone you knew had not only heard “Cleveland!” (unlike the millions of people coming onto X to proudly proclaim their unfamiliarity with “Choosin’ Texas” as ot busted chart records) but had a Very Hot Take
Laura Benanti on Her Journey From Broadway to Stand-Up With a Riotous One-Woman Show, ‘Nobody Cares,’ and Why Melania Remains One of Her Proudest Roles (opens the original)
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Benanti performs at the Wallis in Beverly Hills this weekend and at South Coast Repertory Oct. 11. Laura Benanti is out of the woods and into a thicket that is very different from her initial Broadway base: the world of stand-up comedy. Officially, “Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares” is a “one-woman show,” but she says the only reason she shies away from calling it stand-up at all is because she respects the people who practice that on a weekly basis too much to want to claim she’s mastered that craft
Paul McCartney and Judd Apatow Have a Revealing and Free-Wheeling Conversation About Wings and the Beatles in ‘Man on the Run’ Post-Screening Q&A (opens the original)
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The conversation, which also included documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville, took some surprising turns at the Academy Museum's Ted Mann Theater in L.A. Paul McCartney met up with Judd Apatow for a 45-minute conversation following a screening of “Man on the Run” in Los Angeles Monday night, and it was very much a case of banter on the run. With Apatow at the helm, the chat took some comical turns, as might be expected, and also some unusually revealing ones, as Apatow getting McCartney to loosen
John Mayer Sets Sphere Residency for Spring 2027, Combining Full Band, Trio and Solo Sets (opens the original)
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John Mayer knows his way around Las Vegas’ Sphere, having spearheaded the residencies that Dead & Company did at that venue in 2024 and 2025. That Grateful Dead spinoff group may have reached its natural end with the death of Bob Weir in January of this year, but as it turns out, that did not mean that Mayer has lost his taste for exploring the possibilities of what can be done with the marriage of music and groundbreaking visuals there. He’s coming back on his own — with the various ensembles h
Taylor Swift Still Has Unfinished Business With Her Exes — Thank God! — While Also Mooning Over Her Groom in ‘The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore’: New Tracks Review (opens the original)
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If you’re a Taylor Swift fan, one of your deepest fears this year might have been that the pop superstar will be so wrapped up in a long, rapturous honeymoon that she’ll neglect to bring us down by continuing to write about the bums that got away, or any lingering regrets that were accumulated on the way to the skybox. So it will come as some relief that three of the four new tracks on “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore” prove she has no intention of turning in her Tortured Poets membership car
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