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Taylor Swift
Beth Garrabrant*Taylor Swift is on a roll. On the heels of releasing her All Too Well short film, the 31-year-old pop superstar is teasing another music video from her newly re-recorded Red (Taylor's Version) album.
On Sunday (Nov. 14), Swift took to social media to announce the imminent release of her visual for "I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor's Version)," featuring Chris Stapleton. The video was written by Swift and actress Blake Lively, and directed by Lively.
"SURPRISE! NEW MUSIC VIDEO TOMORROW at 10am ET," Swift captioned a snippet from the video on Twitter. "I finally got to work with the brilliant, brave, & wickedly funny @blakelively on her directorial debut. Join us as we raise a toast, and a little hell."
The 10-second teaser for "I Bet You Think About Me" reveals a woman's hand angrily ripping through a red velvet-filled white wedding cake. The clip links to a countdown page on YouTube, where a video still shows Swift wearing an elaborate red gown while passionately with her band performing beneath a large chandelier.
On Sunday evening, Swift also shared a behind-the-scenes clip of Lively directing on set via TikTok.
The "From the Vault" track, a free-wheeling and lushly produced jam, is one of nine bonus songs on the just-released Red (Taylor's Version), the second in Swift's series of re-recorded albums. Red was originally released in 2012, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
In addition to dropping Red (Taylor's Version) on Friday, Swift also released her All Too Well short film, starring Dylan O'Brien (Maze Runner) and Sadie Sink (Stranger Things). Written and directed by Swift, the short film portrays a couple whose idyllic romance unexpectedly sours, just like the tortured relationship at the center of the fan-favorite song.
Watch the teasers for Swift's upcoming “I Bet You Think About Me” video below, and visit the YouTube countdown page here.
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Music photographer Jill Furmanovsky said she wasn’t taken aback by the overwhelming excitement surrounding the Oasis reunion tour.
The photographer has been capturing the Wonderwall hitmakers for more than thirty years and shared that the Oasis Live '25 Tour, which brought Noel and Liam Gallagher back on stage together for the first time in 16 years, worked so well because the concerts have always been “about the audience”.
Jill, who first crossed paths with Oasis at one of their early shows at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in 1994, explained to NME: “It didn’t catch us off guard, because Oasis have always been about the crowd. Always. There was never much to shoot on stage.
“Even at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, the performance itself was simple, but the people in the crowd knew every word and were completely swept up in it.
“And that hasn’t really changed over time. They just bring out that songbook and deliver it. Liam is still magnetic and captivating, even when he keeps it minimal. It remains incredibly powerful. That’s the essence of their show.”
Furmanovsky, who has photographed icons like Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin over the course of her fifty-year career, added: “What they’ve done with this new tour, the production, and the visuals… it’s something special.
“The mix of generations in the crowd is also striking. I went with my 13-year-old granddaughter, and there were plenty of kids her age singing along word for word. It’s incredible.
“‘Biblical’ is the term people throw around. It sounds almost silly, but when two brothers who’ve been at odds for years come together again, there really is something biblical about that alone. Combine it with what they’re putting on stage… it’s unlike anything else.”
Jill’s latest book Trying To Find A Way Out Of Nowhere reflects her years documenting Oasis, and she shared that no current act matches what the Supersonic band represents. She was also able to photograph them once again at one of their massive Wembley Stadium shows during the reunion tour.
She said: “There aren’t many artists today who can step into the space Oasis occupies and actually live up to it.
“We’re in a different time now, a kind of in-between phase. It feels like the closing of a rock ‘n’ roll chapter. That doesn’t mean talent or creativity is gone. It’s like with painting — we still have great impressionists, but we’re no longer living in the impressionist era.”
