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Taylor Swift has returned to Instagram for her first post in over 100 days to pay tribute to her best friend Selena Gomez's new album with fiance Benny Blanco. On Saturday March 22, Taylor took to ...

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Morgan Wallen has been steadily releasing information about his next album, I'm the Problem, over the past couple weeks. But there's one piece of information — the release date — that he hasn ...

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After a day of what’s become regular hate-ranting on X (formerly Twitter), Kanye West took a break to release his new album “Bully” via different full-length versions of a film with editing ...