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USA Today
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Taylor Swift's uproarious bread puns from 'New Heights,' ranked
There were so many things to take away from the Taylor Swift appearance on the New Heights podcast with Travis Kelce and his brother Jason, from how good the former Eagle was at hosting to learning about Swift's fandom. But, oh, the bread! We have to talk about the bread! Swift talked a lot about baking sourdough and mentioned that she marks her bread bags with labels that are puns having to do with her own songs. This might have been my favorite thing in this whole podcast. It's just amazing to see Swift lean into all of these puns and jokes about her songs, like she was a fan online. So as this site's resident Dad Joke expert, I'm going to rank the ones we heard by how good they are: 4. Flour song is a slammin' screen door This is a good take on Our Song, but I think Swift had better ones. 3. Are you bready for it? It's a funny joke about ...Ready For It, don't get me wrong. But it's just a little too easy. 2. Loafing him was bread NOW we're talking. Two puns in one on Red. But it can't top No. 1. 1. It's a loaf story, baby, just say "yeast" Give this one a standing ovation. This is perfect, 10/10, no notes, a take on a Swift classic.
Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Taylor Swift Fans Were 'Transported to 2009' by Iconic Alt Rocker's 'Delightful' Cover of Early Hit
Taylor Swift Fans Were 'Transported to 2009' by Iconic Alt Rocker's 'Delightful' Cover of Early Hit Taylor Swift Fans Were 'Transported to 2009' by Iconic Alt Rocker's 'Delightful' Cover of Early Hit originally appeared on Parade. Taylor Swift felt themselves transported back to the beginning of her illustrious career when an early aughts icon covered one of her first hits. Bowling for Soup frontman Jaret Reddick took to TikTok on Monday, July 21, with a brief snippet of his version of "Our Song," riling fans up over the "delightful" rendition that left listeners begging for more. 'That dude from Bowling for Soup sings Taylor Swift,' he wrote over the video, before admitting, 'I think I know the words to this 'cause my kid listened to it about 10,000 times." ADVERTISEMENT "Wish me luck—be nice!' he added before launching into the track. Related: Mckenna Grace Shocks Taylor Swift Fans With 'Hauntingly Beautiful' Take on Beloved Track "She can sure write a song!!!" he applauded in the caption. Related: Fans Make Bold Declaration About Counting Crows' '90s Sad Boy Version' of a Taylor Swift Song Fans had nothing but rave reviews for the "cover we didn't know we needed ❤️," with one describing it as "Just freaking delightful." "IN LOVEEE," another viewer exclaimed, while someone else agreed, "this makes my swemo heart soar," referring to the mashup of the words "Swift" and "emo." "This is my favorite niche," another declared, with another swemo fan suggesting the mashup be named "Bowling for Swift!" "I feel like my childhood is coming for me on here, my fav childhood Taylor Swift song, Bowling for Soup, and just before this was All American Rejects singing gives you hell…" someone else admitted. "are you guys sure we haven't been transported to like 2009?" ADVERTISEMENT Related: Fans Are Losing Their Minds Over Keith Urban's Taylor Swift Cover Countless commenters begged for a formal release of the full cover, with one stating, "gonna need the ability to download THIS version, please...." "10/10 👏 now release the full version so I can stream it all day, please! 🙏," another agreed. "Oh, please. A full cover!!! 🥰🥰," a third person cheered, as someone else reiterated, "We need this to be released! I love this song and I adore it so much more with you singing it 🥰❤️." "Can you just cover all of her hits?" another suggested. "I love this so much." Related: New Taylor Swift Cover Draws Surprising Reactions: 'This Song Was Meant to Be Like This' Taylor Swift Fans Were 'Transported to 2009' by Iconic Alt Rocker's 'Delightful' Cover of Early Hit first appeared on Parade on Jul 22, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 22, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Taylor Swift Fans Were 'Transported to 2009' by Iconic Alt Rocker's 'Delightful' Cover of Early Hit
Taylor Swift Fans Were 'Transported to 2009' by Iconic Alt Rocker's 'Delightful' Cover of Early Hit originally appeared on Parade. felt themselves transported back to the beginning of her illustrious career when an early aughts icon covered one of her first hits. Bowling for Soup frontman Jaret Reddick took to TikTok on Monday, July 21, with a brief snippet of his version of "Our Song," riling fans up over the "delightful" rendition that left listeners begging for more. 'That dude from Bowling for Soup sings Taylor Swift,' he wrote over the video, before admitting, 'I think I know the words to this 'cause my kid listened to it about 10,000 times." "Wish me luck—be nice!' he added before launching into the track."She can sure write a song!!!" he applauded in the had nothing but rave reviews for the "cover we didn't know we needed ❤️," with one describing it as "Just freaking delightful." "IN LOVEEE," another viewer exclaimed, while someone else agreed, "this makes my swemo heart soar," referring to the mashup of the words "Swift" and "emo." "This is my favorite niche," another declared, with another swemo fan suggesting the mashup be named "Bowling for Swift!" "I feel like my childhood is coming for me on here, my fav childhood Taylor Swift song, Bowling for Soup, and just before this was All American Rejects singing gives you hell…" someone else admitted. "are you guys sure we haven't been transported to like 2009?"Countless commenters begged for a formal release of the full cover, with one stating, "gonna need the ability to download THIS version, please...." "10/10 👏 now release the full version so I can stream it all day, please! 🙏," another agreed. "Oh, please. A full cover!!! 🥰🥰," a third person cheered, as someone else reiterated, "We need this to be released! I love this song and I adore it so much more with you singing it 🥰❤️." "Can you just cover all of her hits?" another suggested. "I love this so much."Taylor Swift Fans Were 'Transported to 2009' by Iconic Alt Rocker's 'Delightful' Cover of Early Hit first appeared on Parade on Jul 22, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 22, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
RTÉ News
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Something For The Weekend – Anna Carey's cultural picks
Anna Carey is an Irish Book Award-winning novelist, journalist, editor and scriptwriter who spent her teens and twenties playing in bands. She is the author of seven acclaimed novels for young adults; her debut novel The Real Rebecca won the Senior Children's Book of the Year prize at the 2011 Irish Book Awards and her last book The Boldness of Betty was shortlisted for the same award in 2020. Her drama podcast The Famine Monologues was released by RTÉ in 2021 and her play The Making of Mollie was staged in 2024. Her latest novel Our Song is her first book for adults - read an extract here. We asked Anna for her choice cultural picks... FILM I'm a huge Ernst Lubitsch fan. Billy Wilder famously had a sign up in his office saying 'How would Lubitsch do it?' and I think that would still be a useful question for anyone trying to write comedy or romance or romantic comedy. The Shop Around the Corner is literally a perfect romcom and To Be Or Not To Be is just an incredible – and incredibly funny – anti-fascist film. Plus it has Carole Lombard in it, who I adore. I love his 1933 romantic comedy Design For Living. It's very much a pre-Code film, one of the daring movies made in the early 1930s before Hollywood introduced the Hays Code and started banning anything vaguely racy. Miriam Hopkins plays a woman who ends up in what's basically a throuple with Gary Cooper (good for her!) and Frederic March (meh). I paid homage to one of my favourite lines from Design for Living in a scene in Our Song. MUSIC I listen to a lot of French pop music. I've been a fan of classic French pop since my late teens and briefly ran a French pop club night in my early twenties, despite the fact that back then I didn't have a word of French (I did German and Latin in school and German in college). I started learning French at the Alliance Francaise about twelve years ago and once I could read French magazines I started discovering contemporary artists who aren't really big outside France. My favourites are all female solo musicians – Pomme, Pi Ja Ma and Clara Luciani, who are all very different but all make gorgeously melodic, kind of bittersweet music. In March I went to Lyon to see Clara Luciani play a big arena show and it was the most joyful thing – dancing for two hours with several thousand happy French people. BOOKS We're living in an excellent time for romantic fiction. My current favourite authors in the genre, who all have new books out this year, are Sarra Manning, Mhairi McFarlane and Katherine Center – I'm already looking forward to their next from romcoms, one of my favourite new books is Elaine Feeney's Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, about a woman who has returned to her family home in the west of Ireland and her family's history of violence and trauma. That sounds so grim, but Feeney has the amazing gift of writing about big, serious issues with such humanity and wit that the book is utterly compelling and sometimes funny. I loved it. THEATRE I love Sean O'Casey's Dublin plays. My dad's family were all dock workers from the North Strand and I drew on my family history to write my last YA novel The Boldness of Betty, which is set during the 1913 Lockout. O'Casey's plays were a brilliant resource for Dublin dialogue from this period – like, if I wanted to check if a slang expression was in use at the time, I'd check the plays. They're funny and angry and sad and very Dublin, and they all still have a lot to say about class and conflict and colonialism. Also I wrote my German degree dissertation on Brecht and Weill's Threepenny Opera and John Gay's Beggar's Opera and I still have a soft spot for both of them. TV I really, really love good telly. I think as an artform that can do things no other medium can. In terms of programmes that are currently airing or have just aired, I loved the latest season of Hacks. I am so invested in the lead characters Deborah and Ava, it physically pained me when they were at odds. It's such a funny, humane show, and while its focus is on a 70-something and a 20-something woman, I love that my own generation is represented by the comedy genius Kaitlin Olson, who plays Deborah's daughter. Speaking of women of my generation, I'm also really enjoying the second series of Poker Face – I could watch Natasha Lyonne genially solving preposterous murders around America all day. GIG Throwing Muses were a hugely important band for me growing up. I first discovered them when I was 14 thanks to their 1989 album Hunkpapa and I was in total awe of Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly – I had never seen girls playing the guitar like that before. I still love them and I can't wait to see them when they play in Dublin in August. Speaking of women playing the guitar, I'm really looking forward to CMAT in the 3Arena later this year – her Fairview Park gig was my live music highlight of 2024. And my last gig was a brilliant concert at Féile Roise Rua in Arainn Mhóir in Donegal. It's a singing festival held on the island every May with lots of fantastic folk and trad artists. ART I absolutely adored the Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett exhibition currently running in the National Gallery – it was brilliantly curated and the art was incredible. I studied History of Art in college and spent a lot of time in the National Gallery back then, and I love how it's developed its approach to exhibitions over the last few decades. Outside of Ireland, two of my favourite exhibitions of the last decade explored the links between painting and fashion – Balenciaga and Spanish Painting at the Thyssen in Madrid, which explored the connections between the couturier's masterpieces and the works of everyone from Goya to El Greco, and Sargent and Fashion at the Tate in London. PODCAST I used to listen to a lot of podcasts and weirdly over the last year I've listened to fewer and fewer, mostly because I do most of my podcast listening on walks and for the last year I've spent my walks listening to French pop music and thinking about how to wrangle various issues in the books I've been writing. I do still never miss an episode of the unhinged and very funny Irish podcast The Creep Dive, and, when it's airing, the Hollywood history podcast You Must Remember This. TECH I am always trying and failing to spend less time on my phone. But I'll recommend Bandcamp, which allows you to buy music directly from the musicians and then stream it via the Bandcamp app. THE NEXT BIG THING... The band Poor Creature, featuring Ruth Clinton from Landless, Cormac MacDiarmada from Lankum and John Dermody from the Jimmy Cake. They're incredible live. Their first album All Smiles Tonight is coming out next month and I can't wait.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Taylor Swift reveals fate of debut album re-recording amid shock news she bought back her masters
'Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version)' may be coming soon. Taylor Swift revealed she has re-recorded her self-titled debut album despite buying back her masters. 'I've already re-recorded my entire debut album. And I really love how it sounds now,' the pop superstar, 35, said in a statement on her website Friday of her 2006 album, which featured hits like 'Tim McGraw,' 'Teardrops on My Guitar' and 'Our Song.' Swift made the revelation while addressing why the re-recording of 'Reputation' has been so delayed. She admitted of her sixth studio album, which was first released in 2017, 'I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it,' noting she 'kept hitting a stopping point' when she attempted to re-record it. However, Swift told her loyal fans she's open to the idea that both her debut album and 'Reputation (Taylor's Version)' will 'have their moment to re-emerge when the time is right, if that is something you guys would be excited about.' 'But if it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now,' the Grammy winner noted, referencing the major news surrounding her headline-making deal comes about six years after she and famed music manager Scooter Braun publicly feuded over the sale of her records. Braun, 49, bought the masters in 2019 for $300 million with the 'You Belong With Me' singer alleging that the transaction was made without her approval. Braun then sold them to Shamrock Capital in 2020. 'This was the second time my music had been sold without my knowledge. The letter told me that they wanted to reach out before the sale to let me know, but that Scooter Braun had required that they make no contact with me or my team, or the deal would be off,' Swift claimed via X in November of that year. As a result of the bad blood, the 'Shake It Off' singer re-recorded four of her albums, releasing 'Fearless (Taylor's Version),' 'Red (Taylor's Version),' 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version),' and '1989 (Taylor's Version).' Page Six exclusively reported last week that Swift was finally given the chance to buy back the originals. Sources told us at the time that Shamrock Capital had become interested in selling them back to her. We were also told Braun was allegedly encouraging the company to follow through with the sale.
