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Album review: ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is a deeply personal and reflective high point of Taylor Swift’s career

Gracie Moore, Digital Editor April 23, 2024

Taylor Swift has truly reached peak notoriety and fame throughout the past two years. Since 2022, she’s released one new album (“Midnights”), re-recorded two albums (“Speak Now” and “1989”)...

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A New Romantic: Breathitt lecture highlights popstar Taylor Swift

Gracie Moore, Reporter April 25, 2023

The Gaines Center for the Humanities hosted the annual Breathitt Lecture featuring senior Hayden Osbounre on Thursday, April 13.  The Breathitt lectureship is a prestigious award presented to undergraduate...

Taylor Swift Night is held at Manchester Music Hall on April 1, 2023, in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Gracie Moore | Staff

Mirrorballs and bejeweled outfits: Manchester Music Hall hosts enchanting ‘Taylor Swift Night’

Gracie Moore and Jennifer Sadler April 10, 2023

On Saturday, April 1, Lexington’s Taylor Swift fans crowded into Manchester Music Hall to scream her biggest hits and dance like they were 22.  “The Taylor Party” is a dance party hosted at music...

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A story known All Too Well: The Taylor Swift Ticketmaster saga

Gracie Moore, Reporter February 14, 2023

Ticketmaster and the Senate saw the wrath of many Taylor Swift fans after chaos ensued while thousands of them hoped to get tickets to Swift’s first tour in four years.  The first round of tickets...

Taylor Swift’s 'Midnights' offers reflection and vulnerability

Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ offers reflection and vulnerability

Gracie Moore, Reporter November 4, 2022

Taylor Swift needed an era of healing and reflection, and “Midnights” accomplished that and more. The anticipation was built up beautifully: between the slow release of song titles and lyrics being...

Creative writing in the ordinary life

Creative writing in the ordinary life

Quézia Arruda Cunha, Reporter November 2, 2022

There are cameras and pencils everywhere. At every corner, a different angle of your face is captured. At each corner, another chapter of your journey is narrated. When I put my headphones on during...

Florence Pugh and Harry Styles in “Don’t Worry Darling.” Photo provided by Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Singer-actor duality could be Hollywood’s new phenomenon, but should it?

Jennifer Sadler, Reporter October 21, 2022

Harry Styles has been my celebrity crush for as long as I can remember. From the beginning of my older sister’s One Direction obsession to his extremely successful solo career, I have stuck with my...

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Me! and another Spider-Man: How we grow up with pop culture

April 30, 2019

When I was in fifth grade, I put on a horrible pink dress.My sisters, who were 7 and 3 at the time, put on the same horrible pink dress, as did one of my sister’s friends.Together, we sang “Love Story”...

Will Snapchat, Twitter and Taylor Swift get more college voters to the polls?

Cathryn Perini October 24, 2018

Voting registration has never been easier now that Instagram and Snapchat have taken matters into their own hands. With reminders and direct links, social media platforms are encouraging users to register...

Taylor Swift performs during her headlining Reputation Stadium Tour at the Papa Johns Cardinal Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday June 30, 2018. Photo by: Olivia Beach | Staff

Taylor Swift embraces her “Reputation” in Louisville concert

Jason Schroeder July 1, 2018

In the middle of Papa John's Cardinal Stadium stood a display screen 110 feet tall. On the screen the audience could see a newspaper with the headline "Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium Tour." The fake articles...

UK alumna Ashley Judd spoke to students, faculty and staff for the 14th annual Irma Sarett Rosenstein lecture at the Singletary Center on Friday, December 1, 2017 in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Arden Barnes | Staff

Ashley Judd among Time Person of the Year group, “The Silence Breakers”

Bailey Vandiver December 6, 2017

Time announced its Person of the Year Wednesday morning, but it is not just one person. It is a group, which Time called "The Silence Breakers," whose speaking up helped launch the #MeToo movement that...

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Unpopular opinion: Taylor Swift is overrated

November 6, 2017

Hey Taylor, look what you made me do: Write an article about my disdain for you as a musician because it wouldn’t be fair to dislike you entirely without knowing you.First things first, I will openly...

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