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Taylor Swift might have started off as a country singer way back in 2005, but today the singer has garnered such an influence and fan following that many believe she even has the power to affect the US Presidential elections to some degree. While that might have quite worked out, there is no denying that the singer is one of the biggest names of her time.

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On the other hand, we have Austin Swift, her younger brother who quietly lives his own life, away from the spotlight, helping her sister out whenever he can.

Who is Austin Swift, The Younger Brother of Music Sensation Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is a name that pretty much every teenage girl across the world would know, for her influence expands beyond her relatable lyrics and powerful vocals. While Swift is one of the biggest names in the music industry today,...

Taylor Swift has set a new record with the premiere of her “Eras Tour” concert film on Disney+.

“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)” had 4.6 million views on Disney+ in its first three days of release — making it the No. 1 music film ever on the platform, according to the company. Swifties watched 16.2 million hours of the blockbuster three-and-a-half-hour concert film on Disney+ over this past weekend. Disney+ defines a “view” as total stream time divided by runtime.

“The Eras Tour” debuted on Disney+ worldwide on Thursday, March 14, at 6 p.m. Pt. The newly expanded version of the film includes five bonus songs: “Cardigan,” from “Folklore,” plus four acoustic songs: “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” “Maroon,” “You Are in Love” and “I Can See You.” The film was shot at the first three L.A. shows of the Eras tour last August.

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Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn, as William Bowery, collaborated on several beautiful songs that showcased their songwriting talents. The mystery of William Bowery in Taylor Swift's songs was revealed to be Joe Alwyn, marking the couple's secret musical partnership. Tracks like "Exile," "Betty," and "Champagne Problems" hint at themes related to Swift and Alwyn's real-life relationship and eventual breakup.

The songwriting partnership between Taylor Swift and her British ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, writing secretly under the name William Bowery, led to several beautiful songs on three of Taylor’s beloved albums. While Swift had previously been romantically linked to other notable celebrities, such as Harry Styles and Calvin Harris, the actor Alwyn stood as her longest relationship and the pair were together for six years between 2017 and 2023. Together, the duo wrote five songs, often with Alwyn coming up with the piano melody while Swift wrote the lyrics.

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Originally announced to drop on Disney+ on Friday, March 15, the streamer moved back the release by a few hours.

When Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that Taylor Swift’s record-breaking concert film “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” would be coming to Disney+, the original plan was for the latest version of the film — aptly dubbed “Taylor’s Version — to be released on Friday, March 15. However, the legions of Swifties around the world are going to get a few hours of extra viewing time, as the film will actually drop a few hours earlier than originally planned.

Originally planned to premiere on Disney+ on Friday, the concert film will now premiere on the streamer on Thursday evening. Two of the four bonus acoustic songs that are being added to “Taylor’s Version” of the film have been confirmed. “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” grossed more than $260 million at the box office,...

The movie will premiere on Disney+ this week, and will feature songs that viewers did not see if they rented it on Prime Video.

Heads up, Swifties! Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” concert film is coming to streaming on Disney+ this week, the first time the movie will be available to stream with a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service. Swift appeared on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday to reveal another bonus song that will be available to stream with the movie, her 2019 hit “Death By a Thousand Cuts.”

Disney+ will begin offering the “Eras Tour” concert film on Thursday, March 14 at 9 p.m. Et. The Disney+ version of the film will be extended with a total of four acoustic bonus songs. Previously, the movie was only available to stream on rental and purchase platforms like Prime Video. Sign Up Now $7.99+ / month disneyplus.com

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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie, which became the highest-grossing concert movie of all time in 2023, will be exclusively streaming on Disney+ starting March 15, 2024. The film is expected to break records on Disney+, with its massive concert tour and inclusion of five bonus songs that were cut from the theatrical release to entice subscribers. Before watching The Eras Tour, fans can enjoy Taylor Swift's previous collaboration with Disney+, the acclaimed documentary Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, which offers a stripped-down and intimate version of her songs from the Folklore album.

Disney has officially confirmed that Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie is heading to Disney+ this year, and the streamer already has the perfect film to watch beforehand. While Taylor Swift has already made several concert films, The Eras Tour became an astounding phenomenon as it smashed box office records in 2023 to become the highest-grossing concert movie of all time at over $261 million.

“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)” is coming exclusively to Disney+ — and the concert film will include five songs that were not available in the theatrical or digital versions.

The newly expanded version of “The Eras Tour” will hit Disney+ worldwide on March 15, 2024. Among the bonus songs included on the streamer will be “Cardigan,” from Swift’s 2020 album “Folklore.” The release date of the film on Disney+ was announced by Disney CEO Bob Iger on the company’s earnings call — but he didn’t say what the additional songs are. “‘The Eras Tour’ has been a true phenomenon that has and continues to thrill fans around the world, and we are very excited to bring this electrifying concert to audiences whenever they want, exclusively on Disney+,” Iger said in a statement.

Disney+ in a post on X said the “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)” will feature...

Here’s Why We Think Taylor Swift’s Upcoming Album Is About Joe Alwyn! (Picture Credit: Instagram)

Taylor Swift made the 2024 Grammy Awards night more memorable by announcing her new album, The Tortured Poets Department. Meanwhile, her fans speculate it might be about her ex-boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. That might be possible as the actor once co-wrote two songs for a pop star, and if we think creatively, poets, thinkers, songwriters, or authors are all creators.

Taylor and Alwyn were together for six years before breaking up last year. Taylor soon found love in Travis Kelce, and the lovebirds are going strong now. Tay is known for writing songs about her former lovers. For example, Dead John was about John Mayer, Style for Harry Styles, Forever and Always for Joe Jonas, Midnight Rain for Tom Hiddleston, and more. However, Her song Lover is also believed to have been written for Joe,...

Taylor Swift's documentary/concert film, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, offers an intimate look into her creative process and the inspiration behind each song in the Folklore album. The film was shot in the Long Pond Studio, located in Columbia County, Upstate New York, near the Hudson Valley. The studio is owned by Aaron Dessner of The National. All 17 songs from the Folklore album are performed in the documentary, with Swift providing in-depth explanations of their meanings and inspirations, such as the East Asian myth of the Red Thread of Fate in the song "Invisible String".

One of the main questions that Taylor Swift fans had while watching Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions was where the Disney+ documentary was shot. The directorial debut of critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions serves as both a documentary and a concert film. The reason it...

“Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” is already on track to be among the biggest theatrical titles for the rest of 2023 — and that’s already ruffling some Hollywood feathers.

With box office analysts already projecting a possible $100 million-plus opening, the filmed concert documentary is exactly what theaters ordered to maintain momentum following a “Barbenheimer”-fueled summer movie season. The big surprise is that the film, produced with a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement, will be released directly via AMC and participating theaters, with no studio involvement.

“It’s scary that Taylor Swift can come in and become a hit without using conventional marketing routes,” Bruce Nash, founder and publisher of box-office data site The Numbers, told TheWrap.

Adding to the unsettling feeling is the fact that legacy studios made a play for the concert film, only to get rebuffed, which might explain the sour grapes.

But with the studios having proven themselves to...

The always private Joe Alwyn had a rewarding lockdown with his girlfriend (or fiancée?), Taylor Swift, to say the least. While the 31-year-old actor/songwriter rarely discusses his relationship with one of the world's most famous pop stars, it seems he's not opposed to sharing a bit of insight into their creative process.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, the "Conversations With Friends" star revealed that scoring a Grammy for Swift's "Folklore" album was a "surreal bonus of lockdown." According to Alwyn, his contributions to "Folklore" - which included cowriting "Betty" and "Exile" using the pseudonym William Bowery - were an organic part of the couple having more free time on their hands during the 2020 lockdown.

"It wasn't like, 'It's five o'clock, it's time to try and write a song together,'" he told the publication. "It came about from messing around on a piano, and singing badly, then being overheard,...

Grab your “Driver’s License,” we’re going on a road trip.

Olivia Rodrigo, the breakout star of Disney+’s “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” is returning to the streaming platform on March 25 with “Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u (a Sour film),” a high-concept concert film built around her blockbuster 2021 album “Sour.”

According to the official release, the new movie “takes audiences on a familiar road trip from Salt Lake City, where she began writing her triple-platinum Geffen Records debut album “Sour,” to Los Angeles. Along the way, Rodrigo recounts the memories of writing and creating her record-breaking debut album and shares her feelings as a young woman navigating a specific time in her life.

Through new live arrangements of her songs, intimate interviews and never-before-seen footage from the making of the album, audiences will follow her along on a cinematic journey exploring the story of “Sour.”

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Taylor Swift, whose legion of fans has made her one of the best-selling artists of all time, is breaking more records with “All Too Well,” her short film based on a new, 10-minute version of the song originally released in 2012. It premiered to an emotional, tissue-carrying crowd at AMC Lincoln Center in New York City and on YouTube November 12; by the next morning it was the number-one trending video on the site with over 14 million views. And it briefly took the number-one rated spot on Letterboxd: with 4.65 stars, the short, written and directed by Swift, is better received by users of the movie-ranking site than “Parasite” and the concert short “Radiohead: In Rainbows – From the Basement.”

The 15-minute film stars Sadie Sink (“Stranger Things”) and Dylan O’Brien (“Teen Wolf”) as star-crossed lovers navigating the roller coaster of their relationship before inevitable heartbreak. It’s centered around the new, long version...

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation’s 46th annual Gracie Awards, honoring exemplary programming created by, for and about women, is shifting the date for its 2021 ceremony to Tuesday, October 5. The ceremony was to be live this year later this month but will shift to a virtual event for a second consecutive year that will stream on Awm’s Facebook page.

The ceremony will be hosted by comedian Lauren Ash and feature performances by Jewel and CeCe Winans, and will be executive produced for a sixth year in a row by Vicangelo Bulluck. It begins at 7 p.m. here.

This year’s awards, originally announced in June ahead of a planned September 27 in-person ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire, will honor Kerry Washington, Lena Waithe, Kelly Clarkson, Michelle Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Erin Andrews along with winners including Today, CBS This Morning, Black-ish, Mrs. America and Taylor Swift’s...

The Gracie Awards, which are bestowed by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation to honor standout women in the media industry and recognize entertainment and news programming that addressed timely topics and social issues, has unveiled its winners for its 46th edition.

Kerry Washington, Lena Waithe, Kelly Clarkson, Michelle Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Erin Andrews are among this year’s winners, along with shows including Today, CBS This Morning, Black-ish and Taylor Swift’s hybrid Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions. FX’s Mrs. America won twice, for Limited Series and Ensemble.

In other TV categories, 60 Minutes, Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi and This Is Us also scored wins, as did Caitriona Balfe of Outlander, Catherine O’Hara of Schitt’s Creek, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan of Never Have I Ever and P-Valley’s Shannon Thornton. Obama and Clinton won for their work in their respective podcasts.

Winners will be...

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Disney+ has a new major release for families just as 2020 is wrapping up: “Soul,” the first Black-led Pixar film, was supposed to hit theaters in June 2020 but instead is out December 25 on Disney+ — no premium access required.

While “Mulan” required an additional $30 purchase for “Disney+ Premier Access,” which gave users who bought the film unlimited access to the live-action remake for as long as they subscribe to the service, “Soul” is being released on the regular tier that all users pay for, like other 2020 films including “Godmothered,” “Black Beauty,” the Taylor Swift documentary “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions,” “The Mandalorian,” and the upcoming Marvel shows.

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