UPDATED, with Live Nation response: A Senate subcommittee has subpoenaed Live Nation/Ticketmaster, demanding documents as part of an investigation into exorbitant ticket prices for Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and other concerts.
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Flavor Flav is showing off some Taylor Swift merch!
The 64-year-old rapper, who is a Hall of Famer himself, attended the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Friday (November 3).
For the special occasion, he wore Taylor‘s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) light blue cardigan. Flavor Flav opened up about being a Swiftie at the event.
Keep reading to find out what he said…
“I’m a huge fan of her,” he told People. “I went to two of her [Eras Tour] shows. I think they were phenomenal and the whole nine for her.”
He added, “To be able to do all of those songs within three hours, oh my God. I ain’t gonna lie, but it’s an action-packed concert.”
Flavor Flav also complimented Taylor‘s songwriting, noting “every lyric that she spits out relates to life.”
“That’s why I support her,” he explained. “Because she’s real. She keeps it real with her fans, and she’s real with her music.”
Flavor Flav was joined by several other music stars at the ceremony, including Olivia Rodrigo, Carrie Underwood, Missy Elliott, and more.
UPDATED, with Live Nation response: A Senate subcommittee has subpoenaed Live Nation/Ticketmaster, demanding documents as part of an investigation into exorbitant ticket prices for Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and other concerts.
Taylor Swift has maintained chart supremacy on the UK Album Charts this week, holding off The Beatles from clenching the top spot with their reissued Greatest Hits albums.Swift has held on to Number One for the third week running with ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’, seeing off competition from the reissued editions of The Beatles’ ‘Blue’ and Red’ albums which charted at Number Two and Number Three respectively.These are the same positions that both albums charted in when they were originally released in 1973, according to the Official Charts Company, but stops them achieving a 16th number one album.The Beatles, however, did hit Number One earlier this month with their “final” song ‘Now And Then’.The song, which was completed with some help from AI, has topped the UK Charts 60 years after their first Number One. It is the band’s 18th Number One single, with the last being 1969’s ‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko’.Ringo Starr then shared his reaction to the news, with a video claiming that ‘Now And Then’ is the fastest-selling single of 2023 and fastest-selling vinyl single of the century.
Britney Spears has praised Taylor Swift while reflecting on how the two met 20 years ago in a new social media post.Yesterday (November 12), Spears took to Instagram to share two photos of her and Swift side-by-side. The first picture was taken when Swift met Spears backstage at the latter’s ‘Oops… I Dit It Again’ tour in 2003. The other was five years later after the then-19-year-old had released her debut self-titled album.“This is way back when but kinda cool,” Spears wrote in the caption while reflecting on meeting the young star.
Travis Kelce is definitely feeling surprised!
Taylor Swift has performed her tracks ‘The Very First Night’ and ‘Labyrinth’ live for the first time at her show in Argentina.The pop star kicked off her Latin-American leg of her ‘Eras’ tour last night (November 9) in Buenos Aires at the Estadio Monumental, where Swifties have been camping out for the live show since June.“There is not a single person in this stadium that is not going as hard as humanly possible. You are dancing; you’re thrashing around.
Billboard charts, but this week is different. It’s special for her, as it ranks as one of her most impressive showings yet, which is really saying something. The LGBTQ favorite is back at No.
Olivia Rodrigo is reflecting on her special night at the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, which took place in Brooklyn.
Chaka Khan and Missy Elliott — owned the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Friday night.After longtime Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner was ousted from the hall’s board of directors in September — immediately after telling the New York Times that women and people of color weren’t “articulate” enough to be included in his “The Masters” book of artist interviews — it was a sure sign that times have finally changed at an institution ruled by white men since its inception in 1983.Forty years after Wenner helped found the organization — he also served as chairman from 2006 until 2019 — it was a sweet thing when Khan rocked Brooklyn’s Barclays Center with the night’s first real highlight. Watching the 70-year-old Queen of Funk roar from “I Feel for You” to “I’m Every Woman” — with assists from Common, H.E.R.
Bernie Taupin received a Musical Excellence Award at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Friday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony brought out tons of celebrities and music stars!
The reclusive Kate Bush will not be in attendance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Olivia Rodrigo is stepping out for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and looking absolutely flawless!
Jaden Thompson The always star-studded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be holding its 38th iteration on Nov. 3 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn at 8 p.m. ET.
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Missy Elliott has recalled her shock at becoming the first female rapper to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.The hip-hop icon is set to be inducted into the prestigious hall tonight (November 3), and will become the first female rapper to ever receive the honour.Speaking about the acknowledgement of her discography in a new interview with Good Morning America, Elliott recalled her shock at being chosen and admitted that she initially thought an artist from the hip-hop world made the accomplishment “so far out of reach”.She also stated that “words cannot describe” what it feels like to be taking to the stage tonight, and that she is particularly pleased to be given the induction this year – as 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.“No matter what people say, the hip-hop world is something special and unique,” she told host Robin Roberts.She later added how it felt to be alongside fellow 2023 inductees: Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine and The Spinners, saying “To be even at a table with them is a blessing, past a blessing, there’s got to be a bigger word than that.”Held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony will be broadcast live in the US Disney+ ( 8pm ET and 5pm PT).
Sheryl Crow is singing Olivia Rodrigo‘s praises!
Sheryl Crow proved that she was more than “Strong Enough” to hang with the heavyweights of the pop world with her Grammy-winning debut, 1993’s “Tuesday Night Music Club.’Now the 61-year-old singer is joining music’s most exclusive club in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame when the induction ceremony takes place Friday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center (with the festivities streaming live on Disney+ at 8 p.m. ET).
Olivia Rodrigo is set to perform at this year’s Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony.The singer will join a mystery artist described as “one of her heroes” at the New York event this Friday (November 3).Despite that, according to an interview with The New York Times the chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, John Sykes, has already confirmed she will be performing with inductee Sheryl Crow.“Olivia Rodrigo is coming in this year,” he said. “Last year she got up and sang ‘You’re So Vain’ by Carly Simon.
Taylor Swift is the most translated artist in the world, according to a new study.The results were found as part of a recent study conducted by WordFinderX, which analysed data on 627,000 translations of 277,000 songs from more than 11,700 musical artists.The songs were ranked by the number of times that they had been translated from their original language, and artists were also ranked based on how many times their songs had been translated. Non-English-speaking artists were also ranked separately.Of the results, it was shown that Taylor Swift was the most translated artist globally, with fans translating 365 of Swift’s songs across 57 languages – the equivalent of nearly 5,000 translations in total.K-pop stars BTS came in second place due to their popularity and Korean lyrics, and Lana Del Rey and The Beatles came in third and fourth place respectively.Others on the list included Céline Dion, Julio Inglesias, Shakira and One Direction.
Thania Garcia Olivia Rodrigo has been announced as a performer for the upcoming Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony this Nov. 3 in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The Rock Hall announced Rodrigo’s appearance early Wednesday morning on social media with an official performance poster and added that she would be joined by “one of her heroes.” Rodrigo performed at the induction ceremony last year as a solo act after Alanis Morissette dropped out as her on-stage partner citing “an overarching anti-woman sentiment” in the industry, seemingly blaming an interaction she had with the telecast’s production team, per her social media post.