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After a quiet 1988 (her most notable pop culture moment was an acting gig in a Broadway production of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow), Madonna returned the following year to conclude the decade she’d dominated in style. The fact Like a Prayer instantly blew all the pop girlies who’d emerged since predecessor True Blue out of the water was no surprise. But no one was prepared for quite how much it changed the game. Madge’s fourth studio effort still contained its fair share of earworms – you don’t score a trio of singles that hit No. 1 or No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 without hooks galore (“Like a Prayer” topped the Ho...... Read Full article on HadNews

Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, says the First Amendment gives him the right to publish publicly available information about the flight paths of private jets owned by the rich and famous – including Taylor Swift. Swift’s legal team – and many of her fans – say that Sweeney posting the comings and goings of the singer’s private plane on social media is technological stalking. Sweeney also tracks the private planes owned or used by Elon Musk, Ron DeSantis, Mark Zuckerburg, Bill Gates, several Russian oligarchs and others, using public data from a global flight tracking website, TheAirTraffic.com. I am an ...... Read Full article on HadNews

In 2011, pop music scholar Simon Reynolds was already observing pop culture’s fascination with its own past, noting that “we live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration.” For Reynolds, this obsession with the past has the potential to bring about the end of pop music culture: “Could it be,” he asks, “that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is … its past?” The situation has not improved in the years since Reynolds voiced his concerns. Our fixation on the popular music of previous decades threatens our future by stifling originality. Thanks to recording technology, and now to more recent developments...... Read Full article on HadNews

Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour set list features a surprise song (or two), so far performed during a mini acoustic set, on each date of the the superstar’s trek, which kicked off in March 2023. Guitar in hand and making her way to the end of the stage’s catwalk at March 17’s Eras kickoff in Glendale, Ariz., Swift revealed her intentions for the acoustic portion of her long-awaited live show. She’ll perform a surprise song that will not be played again on this tour — probably. “The plan, the goal, would be to play different songs every single night and never repeat one. Right? ...... Read Full article on HadNews