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Taylor Swift
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Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. One of the most popular contemporary female recording artists, she is known for songs about her personal life. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at age 14 to pursue a career in country music and she signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest artist ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. Her eponymous debut album in 2006 peaked at five on Billboard 200. The albums third single, Our Song, made her the youngest person to single-handedly write, Swifts second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop success of the singles Love Story and You Belong with Me. The album won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner, Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album, Speak Now. It debuted at one in the United States and the single Mean won two Grammy Awards. Her fourth album, Red, yielded the successful singles We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, with her fifth album, the pop-focused 1989, she became the first act to have three albums sell a million copies within one week in the United States. Its singles Shake It Off, Blank Space and Bad Blood reached number one in the US, Australia, the album received three Grammy Awards, and Swift became the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice. The 2015 eponymous concert tour for 1989 became one of highest-grossing of the decade, as a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift is one of the artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums—including 27.1 million in the US—and 130 million single downloads. She has appeared in Times 100 most influential people in the world, Forbes top-earning women in music, Forbes 100 most powerful women and she was the youngest woman to be included in the third of these and ranked first in Celebrity 100. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13,1989, in Reading and her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a financial advisor, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift, was a homemaker who worked previously as a mutual fund marketing executive. She has a brother named Austin. Swift spent the years of her life on a Christmas tree farm in Cumru Township. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns, the family then moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. At the age of nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and she also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons
Taylor Swift
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Swift performing at
Ford Field in
Detroit during
The 1989 World Tour in May 2015
Taylor Swift
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Swift performing at
Yahoo! headquarters in
Sunnyvale, California in 2007
Taylor Swift
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Swift performing in the
Prudential Center in
New Jersey during the
Fearless Tour in 2010
Taylor Swift
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Swift performing in
Los Angeles during the Fearless Tour in 2010
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1989 (Taylor Swift album)
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1989 is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 27,2014, through Big Machine Records, Swift began preparing for the album during the same year which Red was released, and during a significant amount of media scrutiny. Over the course of the two-year songwriting period, she collaborated with producers Max Martin and Shellback—Martin served as the albums executive producer alongside Swift. Named after Swifts birth year, the title was inspired by the pop music scene of the 1980s. The album represents a departure from the music of her previous albums. In contrast to Swifts previous work, the production of 1989 consists of programming, synthesizers, pulsating bass, processed backing vocals. 1989 received generally positive reviews from music critics and it was ranked as one of the best albums of 2014 by several publications, including Billboard, Time. After debuting at one on the US Billboard 200,1989 sold 1.287 million copies during the first week of release. 1989 eventually became the album of 2014 in the US market and has sold over 6 milion as of January 2017. The first five singles have all reached number one on the Adult Top 40 and Mainstream Top 40, the album also won Best Pop Vocal Album, Swifts first victory in the category. The first two singles Shake It Off and Blank Space were both nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance, the Bad Blood remix featuring Kendrick Lamar was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and won the award for Best Music Video. Swift released her studio album, Red, on October 22,2012. The album marked a change in Swifts musical style with the experimentation of heartland rock, dubstep, Red was a commercial success and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 1.21 million copies. This was the highest opening sales in a decade and ultimately made Swift the first woman to have two albums sell more than a million copies in their first week. To promote the album Swift embarked on the North American leg of her Red Tour, the tour visited arenas and stadiums in North America, New Zealand, Australia, England, Germany and Asia. In the Red era, Swifts romantic life became the subject of media scrutiny. Gawker remarked that Swift had dated every man in the universe, the New York Times asserted that her dating history has begun to stir what feels like the beginning of a backlash and questioned whether Swift was in the midst of a quarter-life crisis. During both the Red Tour and media scrutiny, Swift began work on 1989, following the release of her fourth studio album, Red, and its corresponding tour, Swift was six months deep in the songwriting process
1989 (Taylor Swift album)
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Parts of the album were recorded at
Jungle City Studios (pictured).
1989 (Taylor Swift album)
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The Red Tour
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The Red Tour was the third concert tour by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Launched in support of Swifts fourth studio album, Red, the tour began on March 13,2013 in Omaha, Nebraska and this was the first tour by Swift to extend to Muslim countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia. During a radio interview with WRVW, Swift mentioned that Its nothing like any other tour before, Swift told Billboard, Of course, you know the tour will be a big representation of this record. Im so excited to see what songs the fans like the most and we always see which songs are really the passionate songs and the ones the fans are freaking out over the most, and those are the ones that are definitely in the set list. Swift used Tom Pettys American Girl as her song on her previous tour. She sang a cover of The Lumineerss Ho Hey nightly, intertwined with her own Stay Stay Stay, the following set list is representative of the show on March 27,2013. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour, Swift became the first solo female artist in 20 years to headline a national stadium tour through Australia, with the last being Madonnas The Girlie Show World Tour in 1993
The Red Tour
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Swift performing at the Red Tour
The Red Tour
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The Red Tour
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Concert tour
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A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. A recital is a concert by a soloist or small group which follows a program, a recitalist is a musician who gives frequent recitals. The invention of the piano recital has been attributed to Franz Liszt. The performance may be by a musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called arena concerts or amphitheatre concerts, informal names for a concert include show and gig. Regardless of the venue, musicians perform on a stage. Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment, before recorded music, concerts provided the main opportunity to hear musicians play. The nature of a concert varies by musical genre, individual performers, concerts by a small jazz combo or small bluegrass band may have the same order of program, mood, and volume—but vary in music and dress. In a similar way, a musician, band, or genre of music might attract concert attendees with similar dress, hairstyle. For example, concert goers in the 1960s often had hair, sandals. Regular attendees to a concert venue might also have a style that comprises that venues scene. Other Types of concerts, To plan or arrange by mutual agreement, some performers or groups put on very elaborate and expensive shows. To create a memorable and exciting atmosphere and increase the spectacle, some singers, especially popular music, augment concert sound with pre-recorded accompaniment, back-up dancers, and even broadcast vocal tracks of the singers own voice. Activities during these concerts can include dancing, sing-alongs, and moshing, concerts involving a greater number of artists, especially those that last for multiple days, are known as festivals. Unlike other concerts, which remain in a single genre of music or work of a particular artist, festivals often cover a broad scope of music. Due to their size, festivals are almost exclusively held outdoors, new platforms for festivals are becoming increasingly popular such as Jam Cruise, which is a festival held on a cruise ship, as well as Mayan Holidaze, which is a destination festival held in Tulum. Often concert tours are named, to differentiate different tours by the same artist, different segments of longer concert tours are known as legs. In the largest concert tours it is becoming common for different legs to employ separate touring production crews and equipment
Concert tour
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A
classical music concert in the
Rod Laver Arena,
Melbourne,
Australia, 2005
Concert tour
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Concert, by Italian
baroque artist
Bernardo Strozzi
Concert tour
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Concert of Joler Gan Band, Bangabndhu International Conference Centre (BICC)
Concert tour
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A
Girl Scout passing out printed programs at a Municipal Band concert in
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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Singapore
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Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, sometimes referred to as the Lion City or the Little Red Dot, is a sovereign city-state in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the tip of peninsular Malaysia. Singapores territory consists of one island along with 62 other islets. Since independence, extensive land reclamation has increased its size by 23%. During the Second World War, Singapore was occupied by Japan, after early years of turbulence, and despite lacking natural resources and a hinterland, the nation developed rapidly as an Asian Tiger economy, based on external trade and its workforce. Singapore is a global commerce, finance and transport hub, the country has also been identified as a tax haven. Singapore ranks 5th internationally and first in Asia on the UN Human Development Index and it is ranked highly in education, healthcare, life expectancy, quality of life, personal safety, and housing, but does not fare well on the Democracy index. Although income inequality is high, 90% of homes are owner-occupied, 38% of Singapores 5.6 million residents are permanent residents and other foreign nationals. There are four languages on the island, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil. English is its language, most Singaporeans are bilingual. Singapore is a multiparty parliamentary republic, with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government. The Peoples Action Party has won every election since self-government in 1959, however, it is unlikely that lions ever lived on the island, Sang Nila Utama, the Srivijayan prince said to have founded and named the island Singapura, perhaps saw a Malayan tiger. There are however other suggestions for the origin of the name, the central island has also been called Pulau Ujong as far back as the third century CE, literally island at the end in Malay. In 1299, according to the Malay Annals, the Kingdom of Singapura was founded on the island by Sang Nila Utama and these Indianized Kingdoms, a term coined by George Cœdès were characterized by surprising resilience, political integrity and administrative stability. In 1613, Portuguese raiders burned down the settlement, which by then was part of the Johor Sultanate. The wider maritime region and much trade was under Dutch control for the following period, in 1824 the entire island, as well as the Temenggong, became a British possession after a further treaty with the Sultan. In 1826, Singapore became part of the Straits Settlements, under the jurisdiction of British India, prior to Raffles arrival, there were only about a thousand people living on the island, mostly indigenous Malays along with a handful of Chinese. By 1860 the population had swelled to over 80,000, many of these early immigrants came to work on the pepper and gambier plantations
Singapore
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Raffles Square around 1900.
Singapore
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Flag
Singapore
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Victorious Japanese troops marching through Singapore City after the British capitulation at the
Battle of Singapore in 1942.
Singapore
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A cheering crowd welcome the return of British forces, 1945
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Shanghai
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Shanghai is the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million as of 2014. As one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the Peoples Republic of China, it is a financial centre and transport hub. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai sits on the edge of the mouth of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the eastern Chinese coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, as a major administrative, shipping and trading city, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to trade and recognition of its favourable port location and economic potential. The city was one of five treaty ports forced open to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War, the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking and 1844 Treaty of Whampoa allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement and the French Concession. The city then flourished as a center of commerce between China and other parts of the world, and became the financial hub of the Asia-Pacific region in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was limited to other socialist countries, and the citys global influence declined. In the 1990s, the reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance. The two Chinese characters in the name are 上 and 海, together meaning Upon-the-Sea. The earliest occurrence of this dates from the 11th-century Song Dynasty, at which time there was already a river confluence. There are disputes as to exactly how the name should be understood, Shanghai is officially abbreviated 沪 in Chinese, a contraction of 沪渎, a 4th- or 5th-century Jin name for the mouth of Suzhou Creek when it was the main conduit into the ocean. This character appears on all motor vehicle license plates issued in the municipality today, another alternative name for Shanghai is Shēn or Shēnchéng, from Lord Chunshen, a third-century BC nobleman and prime minister of the state of Chu, whose fief included modern Shanghai. Sports teams and newspapers in Shanghai often use Shen in their names, such as Shanghai Shenhua F. C. Huating was another early name for Shanghai. In AD751, during the dynasty, Huating County was established at modern-day Songjiang. Today, Huating appears as the name of a hotel in the city. The city also has various nicknames in English, including Pearl of the Orient, during the Spring and Autumn period, the Shanghai area belonged to the Kingdom of Wu, which was conquered by the Kingdom of Yue, which in turn was conquered by the Kingdom of Chu. During the Warring States period, Shanghai was part of the fief of Lord Chunshen of Chu and he ordered the excavation of the Huangpu River. Its former or poetic name, the Chunshen River, gave Shanghai its nickname of Shen, two important events helped promote Shanghais development in the Ming dynasty
Shanghai
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Clockwise from top: A view of the
Pudong skyline,
Yu Garden,
China Pavilion along with the
Expo Axis, neon signs on
Nanjing Road, and
The Bund
Shanghai
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The walled
Old City of Shanghai in the 17th century
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Shanghai in the 1930s, with the
Shanghai International Settlement and
Shanghai French Concession
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The Bund in 1928; the WWI monument in the foreground was destroyed by the Japanese during WWII
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Melbourne
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Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania. The name Melbourne refers to an urban agglomeration spanning 9,900 km2, the metropolis is located on the large natural bay of Port Phillip and expands into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon mountain ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. It has a population of 4,641,636 as of 2016, and its inhabitants are called Melburnians. Founded by free settlers from the British Crown colony of Van Diemens Land on 30 August 1835, in what was then the colony of New South Wales, it was incorporated as a Crown settlement in 1837. It was named Melbourne by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke, in honour of the British Prime Minister of the day, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. It was officially declared a city by Queen Victoria, to whom Lord Melbourne was close, in 1847, during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the worlds largest and wealthiest cities. After the federation of Australia in 1901, it served as the interim seat of government until 1927. It is a financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region. It is recognised as a UNESCO City of Literature and a centre for street art, music. It was the host city of the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the main passenger airport serving the metropolis and the state is Melbourne Airport, the second busiest in Australia. The Port of Melbourne is Australias busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo, Melbourne has an extensive transport network. The main metropolitan train terminus is Flinders Street Station, and the regional train. Melbourne is also home to Australias most extensive network and has the worlds largest urban tram network. Before the arrival of settlers, humans had occupied the area for an estimated 31,000 to 40,000 years. At the time of European settlement, it was inhabited by under 2000 hunter-gatherers from three indigenous tribes, the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Wathaurong. The area was an important meeting place for the clans of the Kulin nation alliance and it would be 30 years before another settlement was attempted. Batman selected a site on the bank of the Yarra River. Batman then returned to Launceston in Tasmania, in early August 1835 a different group of settlers, including John Pascoe Fawkner, left Launceston on the ship Enterprize
Melbourne
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(From top left to bottom right)
Melbourne City Centre,
Flinders Street Station,
Shrine of Remembrance,
Federation Square,
Melbourne Cricket Ground,
Royal Exhibition Building.
Melbourne
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Melbourne Landing, 1840; watercolour by W. Liardet (1840)
Melbourne
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"Canvas Town", South Melbourne in the 1850s depicting temporary accommodation for the thousands who poured into Melbourne each week during the gold rush.
Melbourne
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Lithograph of the
Royal Exhibition Building, built to host the
Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880
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Apple Music
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Apple Music is a music-streaming service, developed by Apple Inc. Users select music to stream to their device on-demand, or they can listen to existing, Apple Music provides music recommendations based on a users taste, and the iOS application is integrated with Siri voice commands. The service was announced on June 8,2015, and launched on June 30, New subscribers get a 3-month free trial before the service becomes paid-only. As of December 2016, Apple Music has more than 20 million paying subscribers, Apple sent out a press release on June 8,2015, that their music streaming service, Apple Music, would launch worldwide on June 30. For family plans the prices were, in the US $14.99, in Australia $17.99, in the UK £14.99, the Apple Music app has several tabs. Library shows the music collection, with options to view songs by Playlists, Artists, Albums, Songs. The tab also shows music recently added to the library, the For You section recommends music for the user. Human expert selections supplement the algorithmic curation, browse shows new album releases from popular artists, as well as different categories, including New Music, Curated Playlists, Videos, Top Charts, and Genres. The Radio tab incorporates some aspects of iTunes Radio, such as ad-supported stations that play genre-specific or artist-related music, the Search tab features a search box, as well as a list of recent user searches and overall trending searches happening on the service. Before Apple Music, the companys iPod and iTunes were known for having revolutionized digital music, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was known to be opposed to the idea of music subscription services. Business Insider later reported that Apple was planning to merge the two services together, Apple also hired noted British radio DJ Zane Lowe to serve as a music curator. Morris emphasized several times that he prefers paid streaming as opposed to ad-supported, furthermore, Morris said he expects the service to be the tipping point to accelerate the growth of streaming, along with arguing that Apple has $178 billion dollars in the bank. And they have 800 million credit cards in iTunes. as opposed to Spotify, Morris further argued that Apple will promote this like crazy and I think that will have a halo effect on the streaming business. A rising tide will lift all boats and its the beginning of an amazing moment for our industry. She said the policy was unfair as Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, on Twitter, Swift wrote After the events of this week, Ive decided to put 1989 on Apple Music. She concluded saying it was the first time its right in my gut to stream my album. The U. S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into this alleged cartel in May 2015, the announcement happened as the signature one more thing. Apple Music launched on June 30,2015, in 100 countries, New users receive a 3-month trial subscription, which changes to a monthly fee after 3 months
Apple Music
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Beats 1
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ANZ Stadium
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Stadium Australia, commercially known as ANZ Stadium and formerly as Telstra Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium located in the Sydney Olympic Park, in Sydney, Australia. Every year since the stadium was built, the New South Wales rugby league teams games in the State of Origin series have been played there. Also the stadium has hosted the annual National Rugby League grand final. The stadium also hosted the 2015 AFC Asian Cup final, in 2003 reconfiguration work was completed to shorten the north and south wings, and install movable seating. These changes reduced the capacity to 83,500 for a field and 82,500 for an oval field. Awnings were also added over the north and south stands, which allows most of the seating to be undercover, the stadium was also engineered along sustainable lines for example with the low use of steel in the roof structure in comparison to the Olympic stadiums of Athens and Beijing. The stadium lacked a naming sponsor in its formative years. In 2002, telecommunications company Telstra acquired the rights, resulting in the stadium being known as Telstra Stadium. This change took effect on 1 January 2008, in 2014, ANZ renewed the deal through to the end of 2017. In 1993, Stadium Australia was designed to host the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the attendance broke the old record of 102,569 set at the Odsal Stadium in Bradford, England for the Challenge Cup Final replay between Warrington and Halifax held on 5 May 1954. The first musical act held at the newly built stadium was the Bee Gees, consisting of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, on March 27,1999. The band had embarked on what would be their world tour as a group before the death of Maurice. The show was out with an attendance of 66,285. The stadium was not officially opened until June 1999 when the Australian National Soccer team played the FIFA All Stars, Australia won the match 3–2 in front of a crowd of 88,101. The event attracted a capacity crowd of 82,698. The 1999 Bledisloe Cup rugby union match between the Australian Wallabies and the New Zealand All Blacks attracted a record rugby union crowd of 107,042. In 2000 this was bettered when an almost capacity crowd of 109,874 witnessed the Greatest ever Rugby Match when a Jonah Lomu try sealed an All Blacks win over the Wallabies 39–35. The All Blacks had led 24-nil after 11 minutes only to see Australia draw level at 24-all by halftime, an exhibition soccer match between the Socceroos and Premier League team Manchester United was played on 18 July 1999
ANZ Stadium
ANZ Stadium
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Stadium Australia
ANZ Stadium
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Nighttime view of Sydney Olympic Park
ANZ Stadium
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Track and Field events at Stadium Australia during the
2000 Summer Olympics
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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy
Twitter
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A blueprint sketch, c. 2006, by
Jack Dorsey, envisioning an
SMS -based
social network.
Twitter
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Twitter's homepage as of August 2015 (only in select countries)
Twitter
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Jack Dorsey, a co-founder and the chairman of Twitter, in 2009
Twitter
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Twitter's San Francisco, California headquarters, as seen from a corner on Market Street
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Vance Joy
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James Gabriel Keogh, better known as Vance Joy, is an Australian singer-songwriter. He signed a deal with Atlantic Records in 2013. He released his debut EP God Loves You When Youre Dancing in March 2013 and his song Riptide was voted number 1 on the 2013 Triple J Hottest 100. Joy released his studio album Dream Your Life Away on 5 September 2014 in Australia. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 he won Best Male Artist, prior to his music career, Joy was a promising Australian rules football player. In 2008 and 2009, he played for the Coburg Football Club in the Victorian Football League and he still continues his support for the club, as Coburgs number one ticket holder as of 2015. Joy was school captain, and graduated from St Kevins College, Toorak in 2005, Joy later graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. On 21 January 2013, Joy released his debut single From Afar, on 22 March 2013, he released his debut EP God Loves You When Youre Dancing. The single Riptide became a success on Australian commercial radio, peaking at number 6 on the ARIA Singles Chart, the song features in a GoPro TV advertising campaign in the USA. Riptide was inspired by a motel Joy visited as a kid, as a child, I used to go on family holidays down the coast of Australia, Joy told the Brand Alley blog. While we were there, we would stay at this motel called Riptide, so thats where that part of the idea came from. It’s all different songs, I guess, but all tied together in a way, Joy said in an interview with Triple J about his stage name, I was going through a Peter Carey phase and reading a lot of his books. The main characters name is Harry Joy and his grandfather is Vance Joy, hes the storyteller and a crazy old man. Plus, I thought it was a cool name, in July 2014, he released Mess Is Mine as the third overall single from the album, and the song peaked at number 37 in Australia. He performed his album live from 5 September 2014 onward, starting in Melbourne. On 7 September 2014, Joy released First Time as the single from the album in the United Kingdom. He announced a major US tour that occurred during October and November, Joy was announced as the support act for Taylor Swifts The 1989 World Tour on 3 November 2014. Joy appeared on all the dates in North America, the United Kingdom
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Joy in 2014
Vance Joy
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Vance Joy on the TV show
Sommarkrysset at
Gröna Lund,
Stockholm
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Time (Magazine)
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Time is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was founded in 1923 and for decades was dominated by Henry Luce, a European edition is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong, the South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney, Australia. In December 2008, Time discontinued publishing a Canadian advertiser edition, Time has the worlds largest circulation for a weekly news magazine, and has a readership of 26 million,20 million of which are based in the United States. As of 2012, it had a circulation of 3.3 million making it the eleventh most circulated magazine in the United States reception room circuit, as of 2015, its circulation was 3,036,602. Richard Stengel was the editor from May 2006 to October 2013. Nancy Gibbs has been the editor since October 2013. Time magazine was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, the two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor respectively of the Yale Daily News. They first called the proposed magazine Facts and they wanted to emphasize brevity, so that a busy man could read it in an hour. They changed the name to Time and used the slogan Take Time–Its Brief and it set out to tell the news through people, and for many decades the magazines cover depicted a single person. More recently, Time has incorporated People of the Year issues which grew in popularity over the years, notable mentions of them were Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Matej Turk, etc. The first issue of Time was published on March 3,1923, featuring Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, on its cover, a facsimile reprint of Issue No. 1, including all of the articles and advertisements contained in the original, was included with copies of the February 28,1938 issue as a commemoration of the magazines 15th anniversary. The cover price was 15¢ On Haddens death in 1929, Luce became the dominant man at Time, the Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923–1941. In 1929, Roy Larsen was also named a Time Inc. director, J. P. Morgan retained a certain control through two directorates and a share of stocks, both over Time and Fortune. Other shareholders were Brown Brothers W. A. Harriman & Co. the Intimate History of a Changing Enterprise 1957–1983. According to the September 10,1979 issue of The New York Times, after Time magazine began publishing its weekly issues in March 1923, Roy Larsen was able to increase its circulation by utilizing U. S. radio and movie theaters around the world. It often promoted both Time magazine and U. S. political and corporate interests, Larsen next arranged for a 30-minute radio program, The March of Time, to be broadcast over CBS, beginning on March 6,1931
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The first issue of Time (March 3, 1923), featuring
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon.
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Bibi Aisha on the Cover of Time.
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Time Magazine red X covers: from left to right, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Osama bin Laden.
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KIIS-FM
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KIIS-FM – branded 102.7 KIIS FM – is a commercial Top 40 radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California. KIIS-FM is the origin of the KISS-FM brand, and currently serves as the station for On Air with Ryan Seacrest. The KIIS-FM studios are located in Burbank, while the station transmitter resides on Mount Wilson, besides a standard analog transmission, KIIS-FM broadcasts over two HD Radio channels including Evolution on its HD-2 subchannel, and features an all-dance music format. Streams online via iHeartRadio, and extends its signal by using a single full-power repeater – KVVS in Rosamond. The station also simulcasts over channel 11 on Sirius XM satellite radio, KIIS-FM has consistently been rated the #1 radio station in all of the Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura County markets, averaging nearly 1 million listeners. 102.7 FM started as KLAC-FM, a station to KLAC. The station was a simulcast of the AM station, until the late 1960s, when the Federal Communications Commission banned continuous AM/FM simulcasts for over half of the broadcast day. The FM started its own programming, which was a middle of the format, in 1967. KKDJ broadcast as an FM top 40 station until 1975, when Combined Communications purchased KKDJ, at that time, KKDJs call letters were changed to KIIS-FM. The spelling of K-I-I-S instead of KISS, was because it resembled the AM frequency, the new merged station was referred to as, AM and FM, K-double I-S. Later, in 1977, News Director Gary McKenzie who went on to anchor at RKO Radio Networks, the AM and FM stations did simulcasts during the day while returning to two separate stations in the evening hours. Unable to draw high ratings with contemporary, KIIS-FM began to evolve, first to Top 40 in 1976, then Dance and Disco in 1978. KIIS AM would keep its soft rock/adult contemporary format until late 1979, just prior to this, Gannett Company purchased both KIIS-AM-FM and Combined Communications. In 1981, the format of KIIS AM was changed to religious talk, rick Dees joined the station for mornings in July 1981 after 93 KHJ switched formats to Country. Fill-In personality Dave Sebastian, working both the AM and FM stations at the time, hosted the vacated FM morning show until the arrival of Dees due to a clause in his contract. With Dees in mornings, KIIS became a CHR powerhouse in Los Angeles, in 1985, KIIS returned to a Top 40 format and simulcasted KIIS-FM morning and afternoon shows, while all other day parts had different disc jockeys. The simulcast continued until 1997, when KIIS AM flipped to Sports Talk as KXTA, simulcasting with XETRA-AM Tijuana/San Diego until 2005. In 1998, Jacor Communications acquired KAVS and KYHT, abandoning the format as High Desert Modern Rock 97.7 &105.3
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Semi-trailer truck
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A semi-trailer truck, more commonly called a semi truck, is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a fifth wheel hitch, the result is that both tractor and semi-trailer will have a distinctly different design than a rigid truck and trailer. The tractor unit typically has two or three axles, those built for hauling heavy-duty commercial-construction machinery may have as many as five, the most common tractor-cab layout has a forward engine, one steering axle, and two drive axles. The fifth-wheel trailer coupling on most tractor trucks is movable fore and aft, ubiquitous in Europe, but less common in North America since the 1990s, is the cabover engine configuration, where the driver sits next to, or over the engine. With changes in the US to the length of the combined vehicle. Cabovers were difficult to service, as the cab could not be lifted on its hinges to a full 90-degree forward tilt, Trucks average from 4 to 8 miles per US gallon, with fuel economy standards requiring better than 7 miles per US gallon efficiency by 2014. The cargo trailer usually has tandem axles at the rear, each of which has wheels, or eight tires on the trailer. In the US it is common to refer to the number of hubs, rather than the number of tires. The combination of eight tires on the trailer and ten tires on the tractor is what led to the moniker eighteen wheeler, many trailers are equipped with movable tandem axles to allow adjusting the weight distribution. To connect the second of a set of doubles to the first trailer, and to support the front half of the second trailer and this has one or two axles, a fifth-wheel coupling for the rear trailer, and a tongue with a ring-hitch coupling for the forward trailer. Individual states may further allow longer vehicles, known as longer combination vehicles, Long Combination Vehicle types include, Doubles, Two 28.5 ft trailers. Turnpike Doubles, Two 48 ft trailers, Rocky Mountain Doubles, One 40 to 53 ft trailer and one 28.5 ft trailer. In Canada, a Turnpike Double is two 53 ft trailers, and a Rocky Mountain Double is a 50 ft trailer with a 24 ft pup, future Long Combination Vehicles under consideration and study for the U. S. MAP-21 transportation bill are container doubles. The US federal government, which regulates the Interstate Highway System, does not set maximum length requirements. Tractors can pull two or three if the combination is legal in that state. Weight maximums are 20,000 lb on an axle,34,000 lb on a tandem. There is a width of 8.5 ft and no maximum height. Roads other than the Interstates are regulated by the individual states, maximum weight varies between 80,000 lb to 171,000 lb, depending on the combination
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Semi-trailer
tractor with sleeper behind the cab and oversize load on lowboy trailer
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A tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer
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Tractor with a dump trailer
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FAW semi-trailer truck in China
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Sleeper bus
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In Europe, these vehicles are full-sized coaches, but are only designed internally to carry between 8 and 18 passengers. There are always full galley facilities, comfortable lounges and bunk beds to allow the passengers to eat, relax and these vehicles sometimes have blacked out or mirrored windows, allowing passengers to see out, but preventing fans from peering in. They are well equipped, as the comfort of the passengers is paramount, DVD players, large screen TV, and game systems are now the norm, while some vehicles even have personal DVD players and screens in each bunk. Well known bands such as Bon Jovi or U2 may use as many as seven or eight sleeper buses on their tours to accommodate the many road crew required. These bands rarely travel on the bus though, they use air transport or limousines or a luxury splitter Tour Bus, smaller, less well-known bands will usually travel on the bus along with their tech crew. Sleeper coaches have come a long way since the old days when ex-National Express coaches were retired into sleeper coach use. Nowadays, the companies are buying new coaches, which after fitting out, cost over £350,000. Some travel companies have these as mobile hotels, taking tourists to locations where there is no hotel, in China, sleeper buses are a common means of long-distance transportation. They are slightly more expensive than trains, but also a little faster, there have been a number of fatal crashes involving these buses in China. In India these buses are used for city travel and are operated by private bus companies. They are operated between cities which are 6 hours to 10 hours apart by road, the journeys usually start late in the evening or at midnight and are scheduled so that most of the travel is at night. This service is an alternative to trains, as seats in trains get booked well in advance. Also, these buses are seldom filled beyond capacity, several State Transport units such as the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation and the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation also operate sleeper bus services. Sleeper services, open to the public, are known to have existed in the late 1920s. At least two services operated, from London to Liverpool and London to Manchester/Liverpool, run by a company called Land Liners Ltd. But the vogue passed, until 2011, on August 2,2011, the Stagecoach Group announced it was launching a new Sleeper coach service, open to the general public, using bendybuses. This service is operated under the Megabus brand, offering travel on a budget. These coaches will operate between the cities of Glasgow and London, leaving Glasgow at 23,15 and arriving in London at 07,20, in addition to a normal seat, each passenger using the service will be offered a berth for the duration of the journey
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A
Van Hool sleeper bus in Britain. Upstairs has 14 bunks and a lounge area; downstairs is the galley and a second lounge area.
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Bunks in a Jumbocruiser Ayats band bus
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Sleeper coaches are often used for work other than with bands. This was used to shuttle England football fans to and from the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
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Fearless (Taylor Swift album)
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Fearless is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The album was released on November 11,2008, by Big Machine Records, as with her first album, Taylor Swift, Swift wrote or co-wrote all thirteen tracks on Fearless. Most of the songs were written as the singer promoted her first album as the act for numerous country artists. Due to the unavailability of collaborators on the road, eight songs were written by Swift, other songs were co-written with Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat and John Rich. Swift also made her debut as a producer, co-producing all songs on the album with Nathan Chapman. Five singles were released from Fearless, the first single, Love Story, sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide. It was a hit that became one of the best-selling singles of all time internationally and was once the best-selling country song of all time. The succeeding single, White Horse, also performed well in the US and you Belong with Me was an international success, becoming Swifts second best-selling single and her highest position on the US Billboard Hot 100 at the time. Fifteen and Fearless followed with both achieving a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, Fearless is an international breakthrough and huge commercial success for Swift. It debuted at No.1 in the United States, and later became the album of 2009. It gave Swift,18 at the time, the distinction of being the youngest artist in history to have the years best-selling album and it has sold over 7 million copies in the United States, becoming the second-biggest-selling album in the last six years. Fearless topped the charts in Canada and New Zealand and achieved status in six countries. In all, Fearless has sold more than 8.68 million copies worldwide, prior to stardom, Swift received a publishing contract with Sony/ATV Music. When later signed to Big Machine Records, Swift compiled her Taylor Swift album of material written during her publishing contract and she said, Ive been very selfish about my songs. I had this dream of this coming out for so many years now that I just stockpiled. Im so happy that I did because now we have an album full of songs and a third album full of songs. However, when embarking on her first and second tour as opening act for Rascal Flatts and George Strait, respectively, Ive written a lot of songs by myself lately, especially since Ive been alone so much on the road, she said. I do love writing on the road – I usually write at the concert venue, ill find a quiet place in some room at the venue, like the locker room
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Swift performing "
You're Not Sorry " on the Fearless Tour.
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Swift performing "You Belong with Me" at rehearsals for the
2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Swift performing "The Way I Loved You" on the Fearless Tour
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Sydney
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Sydney /ˈsɪdni/ is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australias east coast, the metropolis surrounds the worlds largest natural harbour, residents of Sydney are known as Sydneysiders. The Sydney area has been inhabited by indigenous Australians for at least 30,000 years, the first British settlers, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, arrived in 1788 to found Sydney as a penal colony, the first European settlement in Australia. Since convict transportation ended in the century, the city has transformed from a colonial outpost into a major global cultural. As at June 2016 Sydneys estimated population was 5,005,358, in the 2011 census,34 percent of the population reported having been born overseas, representing many different nationalities and making Sydney one of the most multicultural cities in the world. There are more than 250 different languages spoken in Sydney and about one-third of residents speak a language other than English at home and it is classified as an Alpha+ World City by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, indicating its influence in the region and throughout the world. Ranked eleventh in the world for economic opportunity, Sydney has a market economy with strengths in finance, manufacturing. Its gross regional product was $337 billion in 2013, the largest in Australia, there is a significant concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations in Sydney and the city is promoted as one of Asia Pacifics leading financial hubs. Its natural features include Sydney Harbour, the Royal National Park, man-made attractions such as the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Tower and the Sydney Harbour Bridge are also well known to international visitors. The first people to inhabit the now known as Sydney were indigenous Australians having migrated from northern Australia. Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity first started to occur in the Sydney area from around 30,735 years ago, the earliest British settlers called them Eora people. Eora is the term the indigenous used to explain their origins upon first contact with the British. Its literal meaning is from this place, prior to the arrival of the British there were 4,000 to 8,000 native people in Sydney from as many as 29 different clans. Sydney Cove from Port Jackson to Petersham was inhabited by the Cadigal clan, the principal language groups were Darug, Guringai, and Dharawal. The earliest Europeans to visit the area noted that the people were conducting activities such as camping and fishing, using trees for bark and food, collecting shells. Development has destroyed much of the citys history including that of the first inhabitants, there continues to be examples of rock art and engravings located in the protected Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. The first meeting between the people and the British occurred on 29 April 1770 when Lieutenant James Cook landed at Botany Bay on the Kurnell Peninsula. He noted in his journal that they were confused and somewhat hostile towards the foreign visitors, Cook was on a mission of exploration and was not commissioned to start a settlement
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The
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A Direct North General View of Sydney Cove, by convict artist
Thomas Watling in 1794
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Sydney Cove from
Dawes Point, 1817
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Stadium Australia
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Stadium Australia, commercially known as ANZ Stadium and formerly as Telstra Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium located in the Sydney Olympic Park, in Sydney, Australia. Every year since the stadium was built, the New South Wales rugby league teams games in the State of Origin series have been played there. Also the stadium has hosted the annual National Rugby League grand final. The stadium also hosted the 2015 AFC Asian Cup final, in 2003 reconfiguration work was completed to shorten the north and south wings, and install movable seating. These changes reduced the capacity to 83,500 for a field and 82,500 for an oval field. Awnings were also added over the north and south stands, which allows most of the seating to be undercover, the stadium was also engineered along sustainable lines for example with the low use of steel in the roof structure in comparison to the Olympic stadiums of Athens and Beijing. The stadium lacked a naming sponsor in its formative years. In 2002, telecommunications company Telstra acquired the rights, resulting in the stadium being known as Telstra Stadium. This change took effect on 1 January 2008, in 2014, ANZ renewed the deal through to the end of 2017. In 1993, Stadium Australia was designed to host the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the attendance broke the old record of 102,569 set at the Odsal Stadium in Bradford, England for the Challenge Cup Final replay between Warrington and Halifax held on 5 May 1954. The first musical act held at the newly built stadium was the Bee Gees, consisting of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, on March 27,1999. The band had embarked on what would be their world tour as a group before the death of Maurice. The show was out with an attendance of 66,285. The stadium was not officially opened until June 1999 when the Australian National Soccer team played the FIFA All Stars, Australia won the match 3–2 in front of a crowd of 88,101. The event attracted a capacity crowd of 82,698. The 1999 Bledisloe Cup rugby union match between the Australian Wallabies and the New Zealand All Blacks attracted a record rugby union crowd of 107,042. In 2000 this was bettered when an almost capacity crowd of 109,874 witnessed the Greatest ever Rugby Match when a Jonah Lomu try sealed an All Blacks win over the Wallabies 39–35. The All Blacks had led 24-nil after 11 minutes only to see Australia draw level at 24-all by halftime, an exhibition soccer match between the Socceroos and Premier League team Manchester United was played on 18 July 1999
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Nighttime view of Sydney Olympic Park
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Track and Field events at Stadium Australia during the
2000 Summer Olympics
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Australia against Uruguay in Stadium Australia, during the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying play-off.
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Ticketmaster
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Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is an American ticket sales and distribution company based in West Hollywood, California, with operations in many countries around the world. In 2010 it merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment, as a primary ticket outlet, most US ticket sales for US venues are fulfilled at Ticketmasters two main fulfillment centers located in Charleston, West Virginia, and Pharr, Texas. Typically, Ticketmasters clients control their events, and Ticketmaster acts as an agent, in January 2009, Ticketmaster acquired a UK ticket exchange site, Getmein. com. Getmein is a ticket exchange site that allows sellers to list the tickets at whatever price they choose, on 10 February 2009, Ticketmaster and Live Nation, the largest concert promoter, officially announced their merger deal. After almost a year of review, the two merged on 25 January 2010, under the name Live Nation Entertainment. To satisfy one of the United States Department of Justices conditions of approval for the merger, Ticketmaster sold Paciolan to Comcast Spectacor in March 2010, much of the price for a ticket advertised by Ticketmaster is earmarked for its own service fees. Some consumers find these markups excessive, because there are instances where no alternative purchase method is offered that would allow avoidance of the fees. This business practice, along with a dearth of competitors, has led many to view Ticketmaster as monopolistic, alternative ticketing companies have emerged, but, due to Ticketmasters exclusive agreements with a large percentage of venues, the company does not need to lower service fees. In some instances customers may be able to buy directly from the venue. Typical fees added to a face value include, Service Charge – This is Ticketmasters charge for the general service they provide. The amount paid may depend upon the method of payment, building Facility Charge – This is determined by the venue, and not Ticketmaster. Processing Charge – This is Ticketmasters charge for processing an order, the charge for printing out the ticket at home is often higher than the fee to have the ticket mailed. In other sectors, such as airline ticketing, companies usually do not charge, in some instances service charges amount to up to 50% of a tickets face value. That dispute then spilled over into a lawsuit filed in 2010 against Ticketmaster’s liability insurance carrier Illinois Union Insurance Company. Ticketmaster has been the subject of complaints of high ticket service charges, notably, in the 1990s, Pearl Jams complaints about Ticketmaster led the U. S. Department of Justice to open an antitrust investigation into the companys practices. In 2008, an anonymous source alleged that TicketsNow, a subsidiary of Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is the ticket seller for 27 of the 30 NHL teams and 28 of 30 NBA teams. MLB sells approximately 75,000,000 baseball tickets per year, Ticketmaster has historically had limited success in the secondary ticketing market
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AAMI Park
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The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, commercially known as AAMI Park, is an outdoor sports stadium on the site of Edwin Flack Field in the Sports and Entertainment Precinct in the Melbourne City Centre. The stadiums major tenants are NRL team Melbourne Storm, the Super Rugby team Melbourne Rebels, AAMI Park became Melbournes first large purpose-built rectangular stadium when completed in 2010. Referred to as Melbourne Rectangular Stadium during its construction, the ground was officially named AAMI Park on 16 March 2010, when the project to build the new stadium was approved, the largest stadiums in use were the MCG and Docklands Stadium. These were venues of oval configuration and best suited to Australian rules football or cricket, the previous largest rectangular stadium in the city, Olympic Park, was a repurposed track and field venue. The stadium was one of five venues for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, hosting the opening match, AAMI Park hosted rugby league Four Nations matches in 2010 and 2014, and will also be used for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. Olympic Park Stadium, Melbournes main venue for soccer, rugby league and rugby union, could hold 18,500 people and it had been the home ground of the Melbourne Storm since they entered the National Rugby League in 1998. The A-Leagues Melbourne Victory FC also used Olympic Park Stadium from 2005 to 2007 when they switched permanently to Docklands Stadium. In 2004, as part of Melbournes bid for a Super Rugby team, but in late 2004, the bid lost out to the Western Australian consortium, which would become the Western Force. The stadiums planned capacity was increased to 30,000, with capable of expansion to a capacity of 50,000 if needed. The stadium began construction in late 2007, on 23 November 2009 it was announced that the stadiums first match would be the 2010 ANZAC Test between the Australian and New Zealand rugby league teams on 7 May 2010. The stadium was referred to as Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Swan Street Stadium or the Bubble Dome during its early construction, the stadiums commercial name was announced as AAMI Park on 16 March 2010 in an eight-year deal. The stadium held its first event, rugby leagues 2010 ANZAC Test, the opening ceremony featured the NRLs all-time highest point-scorer, Hazem El Masri, who had retired the previous season, kicking a goal. The first points scored on the ground were from a Jamie Lyon penalty kick in the 32nd minute, Australia defeated New Zealand 12–8 in front of a sell-out crowd. Two days later the first National Rugby League match was played at the stadium when the Brisbane Broncos defeated the Melbourne Storm in front of a crowd of 20,042, on 5 August 2010 the stadium played host to its first A-League match. It was also another first, as the newly formed Melbourne Heart FC played their first game in front of 11,050 fans against the Central Coast Mariners, the Heart lost 1–0, and Alex Wilkinson had the honour of scoring the first goal. The first Melbourne Victory match was played at AAMI Park v Perth Glory on 14 August 2010 in front of 21,193 fans, the Melbourne Rebels played their first Super Rugby match at AAMI Park on 18 February 2011. The Melbourne Rising played their first National Rugby Championship match on 24 August 2014, the Rising played a semi-final at the stadium on 25 October 2014, but lost by 29–45 to the Perth Spirit. A surprise guest - Eddie Vedder joined Bruce on stage opening the show with a cover of AC/DCs Highway To Hell then Bruces own Darkness on the Edge of Town
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Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
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AAMI Park Eastern Stand
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AAMI Park interior
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Forbes
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Forbes is an American business magazine. Published bi-weekly, it features articles on finance, industry, investing. Forbes also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics and its headquarters is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. Primary competitors in the business magazine category include Fortune and Bloomberg Businessweek. The magazine is known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest Americans. Another well-known list by the magazine is The Worlds Billionaires list, the motto of Forbes magazine is The Capitalist Tool. Its chairman and editor-in-chief is Steve Forbes, and its CEO is Mike Perlis, Forbes, a financial columnist for the Hearst papers, and his partner Walter Drey, the general manager of the Magazine of Wall Street, founded Forbes magazine on September 15,1917. Forbes provided the money and the name and Drey provided the publishing expertise, the original name of the magazine was Forbes, Devoted to Doers and Doings. Drey became vice-president of the B. C. Forbes Publishing Company, while B. C. Forbes became editor-in-chief, B. C. Forbes was assisted in his later years by his two eldest sons, Bruce Charles Forbes and Malcolm Stevenson Forbes. Bruce Forbes took over on his fathers death, and his strengths lay in streamlining operations, during his tenure, 1954–1964, the magazines circulation nearly doubled. On Malcolms death, his eldest son Malcolm Stevenson Steve Forbes Jr. became President and Chief Executive of Forbes, between 1961 and 1999 the magazine was edited by James Michaels. In 1993, under Michaels, Forbes was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. com, a 2009 New York Times report said,40 percent of the enterprise was sold. For a reported $300 million, setting the value of the enterprise at $750 million, according to Mark M. Edmiston of AdMedia Partners, Its probably not worth half of that now. The companys headquarters moved to the Newport section of downtown Jersey City. In November 2013, Forbes Media, which publishes Forbes magazine, was put up for sale and this was encouraged by Elevation Partners, of whom were minority shareholders. Sales documents prepared by Deutsche Bank revealed that the publishers 2012 EBITDA was $15 million, Forbes reportedly sought a price of $400 million. In July 2014, Forbes sold a majority of itself to Integrated Whale Media Investments, Steve Forbes and his magazines writers offer investment advice on the weekly Fox TV show Forbes on Fox and on Forbes On Radio. Other company groups include Forbes Conference Group, Forbes Investment Advisory Group, from the 2009 Times report, Steve Forbes recently returned from opening up a Forbes magazine in India, bringing the number of foreign editions to 10
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Cover for December 20, 2010, featuring
Julian Assange
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Forbes's former headquarters on
5th Avenue in Manhattan (now owned by New York University)
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Forbes Building on
Fifth Avenue in New York City (now owned by
New York University)
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Fleetwood Mac
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Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967. The band has more than 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the worlds best-selling bands of all time. In 1998, selected members of Fleetwood Mac were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to date, the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the eighth-highest-selling album of all time. Due to numerous changes, the only original member present in the band is drummer Mick Fleetwood. Keyboardist Christine McVie, who joined the band in 1970 while married to John McVie, has appeared on every album except the debut album and she left the band in 1998 but returned in 2014. Fleetwood Mac were formed in July 1967 in London when Peter Green left the British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Peter Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received critical acclaim for his work on their album A Hard Road. After he had been in the Bluesbreakers for some time, Green asked if drummer Mick Fleetwood could replace Aynsley Dunbar, Green had been in two bands with Fleetwood—Peter Bs Looners and the subsequent Shotgun Express. John Mayall agreed and Fleetwood became a member of the band, the Bluesbreakers now consisted of Green, Fleetwood, John McVie and Mayall. Mayall gave Green free recording time as a gift, in which Fleetwood, McVie, the fifth song was an instrumental which Green named after the rhythm section, Fleetwood Mac. Soon after, Green contacted Fleetwood to form a new band, the pair wanted McVie on bass guitar and even named the band Fleetwood Mac as a way to entice him. However, McVie opted to keep his income with Mayall rather than take a risk with a new band. The Green, Fleetwood, Spencer, Brunning version of the band made its debut on 13 August 1967 at the Windsor Jazz, Brunning merely played at a handful of gigs with Fleetwood Mac. Within weeks of this show, John McVie agreed to join the band as permanent bassist, Fleetwood Macs first album, Fleetwood Mac, was a no-frills blues album and was released on the Blue Horizon label in February 1968. In fact there were no players on the album. The album was successful in the UK, hitting No,4, though it did not have any singles on it. The band soon released two singles Black Magic Woman and Need Your Love So Bad, the bands second album, Mr. Wonderful, was released in August 1968. Like the first it was an album, but this time they made a few changes. The album was recorded live in the studio with miked amplifiers and PA system and this method provided the ideal environment for producing this style of music, and gave it an authentically vintage sound
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Left to right:
John McVie,
Stevie Nicks,
Lindsey Buckingham,
Mick Fleetwood at
Saint Paul, Minnesota on 3 March 2009
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Peter Green, 18 March 1970
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1973 line-up with Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Bob Weston, John McVie, and Bob Welch.
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Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham on the Say You Will Tour, 2003
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On with the Show (tour)
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On with the Show was a world tour by the rock group Fleetwood Mac. The tour began in Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 30,2014 and concluded in Auckland, tickets were available for pre-sale between March 31 to April 6, before going on sale to the general public on April 7,2014. At the end of 2014, the tour placed 13th on Pollstars Top 100 Worldwide Tours, in 2015s year-end report, the tour placed 6th with a gross of $125.1 million from 78 shows, bringing the total gross so far to $199.2 million. On January 13,2014, the bands publicist Liz Rosenberg announced that Christine McVie, Rosenberg additionally announced that a new album and tour would be forthcoming. The group spent time in March working on new music, until confirming they dont plan on releasing any new material until after the tour is finished, tour dates were announced on March 27,2014 and tickets went on sale to the public on April 7,2014. On October 9,2014 the band announced it would add a 2nd Leg with an additional 28 shows beginning on January 16,2015 in St. Paul, Minneapolis and ending March 31,2015 in Wichita, Kansas. In November 2014 Mick Fleetwood went on BBC Radio 2 to announce that Fleetwood Mac would be touring through Britain in May, however, due to high demand, more dates were added, which stretched the leg into July 2015. This set list is representative of the performance on October 6,2014 and it does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour
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Promotional poster for the tour
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Maroon V Tour
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The Maroon 5 Tour is the fifth worldwide concert tour by American band Maroon 5 in support of their fifth album V. The tour began on February 16,2015, in Dallas and take place in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and it ended on March 8,2017 in New York, United States. The tour was announced in May 2014, the band stated that, through a contract with Live Nation, they are set to embark on a world tour in late 2014 through to early 2015 in support of the new album. In June, the posted a photo on their official Instagram account asking fans where they should perform with a tour coming soon. Also through Instagram, in August the band revealed with a series of photos the states where they bring the tour. All the dates for North America and Europe were announced on September 2,2014, in early 2016, new European shows were added. Rozzi Crane Nick Gardner Nick Jonas Matt McAndrew Dirty Loops Conrad Sewell Rey Pila The Mills Foxley Dashboard Confessional Dingo Bells Tove Lo PHASES R, City Tinashe This set list is representative of the show in Kansas City on March 21,2015. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour,2015, $72.0 million from 62 shows 2016, $60.1 million from 42 shows Total available grossing, $132.1 million from 104 shows
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Promotional poster for the tour
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Fargodome
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Gate City Bank Field at the Fargodome is an indoor athletic stadium located in Fargo, North Dakota, on the campus of North Dakota State University. Opened in late 1992, the facility is owned by the City of Fargo and its seating capacity is 18,700 for football and over 25,000 for full arena concerts. It is the field of the North Dakota State Bison football team. Prior to the 1993 season, the Bison played at Dacotah Field, the stadium also plays host to many large concerts, sporting events, and trade shows. These screens replaced the 6 old boards installed in 2002, in total, the new boards provide for 8,500 square feet of LED boards in the dome. The contract also provided for an increase from 3 to 5 High Definition cameras for additional angles, the Asics/Vaughan Cadet and Junior National Wrestling Championships takes place every year in the Fargodome in the month of July. The Fargodome is also capable of hosting events on ice such as Disney On Ice, the Fargodomes Gate City Bank Theatre is home to theatrical productions, produced locally and touring. The building was planned to be modeled on the Tacoma Dome and have an inflatable roof. However, as the design evolved, it was decided to have a hard roof. November 1987, Fargo Parks Superintendent Bob Johnson and City Council President Ranen Nicholson proposed a plan for convention and athletic facilities in Fargo. January 1988, Proposed plan was modified to include a stadium to be built on North Dakota State University land. March 2009, The Fargodome is used for the filling and storage of sandbags during the flood, october 10,2012, The Fargodome hosted a preseason NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and Minnesota Timberwolves. The Timberwolves won the game 84-70, september 6,2013, Taylor Swift performed at The Fargodome as part of her Red Tour. January 11,2014, Pink performed at the venue while on her Truth About Love Tour, February 7,2014, As part of his The 20/20 Experience World Tour, Justin Timberlake will make his North Dakota concert debut at the Fargodome. July 12,2014, Paul McCartney played to a crowd of 17,000 people while on his Out There Tour. October 14,2012 TobyMac had a concert as a part of the Eye On It Tour, august 23,2014, Katy Perry performed at The Fargodome as part of her Prismatic World Tour.5 million. NDSU Bison Football Games The Fargodome is currently studying an expansion of its permanent seating, the current capacity is 18,700 with an additional 100 seats to be added during the winter 2015. The addition of 5,000 to 7,500 seats has been discussed since 2011 and that would bring the total capacity for football games to around 25,000
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Fargodome in 2009
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The NDSU band plays in the stands
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Volunteers fill sandbags in the Fargodome during the 2009 flood.
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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An 1896 issue of Billboard
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Cover of Billboard (January 26, 2013).
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Tampa
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Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida. It is located on the west coast of Florida on Tampa Bay, near the Gulf of Mexico, the city had a population of 346,037 in 2011. The current location of Tampa was once inhabited by peoples of the Safety Harbor culture. The area was explored by Spanish explorers in the 16th century, resulting in violent conflicts and the introduction of European diseases, which wiped out the original native cultures. In 1824, the United States Army established a frontier outpost called Fort Brooke at the mouth of the Hillsborough River, near the site of todays Tampa Convention Center. The first civilian residents were pioneers who settled near the fort for protection from the nearby Seminole population, today, Tampa is part of the metropolitan area most commonly referred to as the Tampa Bay Area. For U. S. Census purposes, Tampa is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, the Greater Tampa Bay area has over 4 million residents and generally includes the Tampa and Sarasota metro areas. The Tampa Bay Partnership and U. S. Census data showed an annual growth of 2.47 percent. A2012 estimate shows the Tampa Bay area population to have 4,310,524 people, Tampa was ranked as the 5th best outdoor city by Forbes in 2008. Tampa also ranks as the fifth most popular American city, based on where people want to live, a 2004 survey by the NYU newspaper Washington Square News ranked Tampa as a top city for twenty-somethings. Tampa is ranked as a Gamma+ world city by Loughborough University, ranked alongside other world cities such as Phoenix, Charlotte, Rotterdam, and Santo Domingo. The word Tampa may mean sticks of fire in the language of the Calusa and this might be a reference to the many lightning strikes that the area receives during the summer months. Other historians claim the name means the place to gather sticks, toponymist George R. Stewart writes that the name was the result of a miscommunication between the Spanish and the Indians, the Indian word being itimpi, meaning simply near it. The name first appears in the Memoir of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda and he calls it Tanpa and describes it as an important Calusa town. While Tanpa may be the basis for the modern name Tampa, archaeologist Jerald Milanich places the Calusa village of Tanpa at the mouth of Charlotte Harbor, the original Bay of Tanpa. A later Spanish expedition did not notice Charlotte Harbor while sailing north along the west coast of Florida, the name was accidentally transferred north. Map makers were using the term Bay or Bahia Tampa as early as 1695, people from Tampa are known as Tampans or Tampanians. Latin Americans from Tampa are known as tampeños, or tampeñas for females and these terms of Spanish origin emerged after 1900 for the immigrant communities in West Tampa and Ybor City
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Hernando de Soto
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Images from top, left to right: Skyline of
Downtown Tampa,
Amalie Arena,
Ybor City,
Henry B. Plant Museum,
Raymond James Stadium,
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
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Fort Brooke circa 1840.
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A surviving Ft. Brooke cannon on the
University of Tampa campus.
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One Direction
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The group signed with Simon Cowells record label Syco Records after forming and finishing third in the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Their awards include six Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, eleven MTV Europe Music Awards, seven American Music Awards, according to Nick Gatfield, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment UK, One Direction represented a $50 million business empire by June 2012. They were proclaimed 2012s Top New Artist by Billboard, according to the Sunday Times Rich List, by April 2013, they had an estimated personal combined wealth of £25 million making them the second-wealthiest musicians in the UK under 30 years of age. In 2014, Forbes listed them the second-highest earning celebrities under 30, in June 2015, Forbes listed their earnings at $130 million for the previous twelve months, and ranked them the fourth highest earning celebrities in the world. After the release of Four, One Direction became the first band in the US Billboard 200 history to have their first four albums debut at number one and their third album, Midnight Memories, was the biggest-selling album worldwide of 2013 despite being released in late November. The bands Where We Are Tour in support of Midnight Memories and Four, was the concert tour in 2014. In 2014, Billboard named One Direction Artist of the Year, the band is temporarily on a hiatus that began in January 2016, which is expected to last around 18 months. In 2010, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, nicole Scherzinger, a guest judge, and Simon Cowell have both claimed to have come up with the idea of forming the band. In 2013, Cowell said that it took him 10 minutes to put together as a group. Subsequently, the group got together for two weeks to get to each other and to practice. Styles came up with the name One Direction, for their qualifying song at judges houses, and their first song as a group, One Direction sang an acoustic version of Torn. Cowell later commented that their performance convinced him that they were confident, fun, like a gang of friends, within the first four weeks of the live shows, they were his last act in the competition. The group quickly gained popularity in the UK, shortly afterwards it was confirmed that One Direction had been signed by Cowell to a reported £2 million Syco Records record contract. Recording for their debut album began in January 2011, as they flew to Los Angeles to work with RedOne, a book licensed by One Direction, One Direction, Forever Young, was published by HarperCollins in February 2011, subsequently topping The Sunday Times Best Seller list. The same month, the boy band and other contestants from the series participated in the X Factor Live Tour, during the tour, the group performed for 500,000 people throughout the UK. After the tour concluded in April 2011, the group continued working on their debut album, recording took place in Stockholm, London and Los Angeles, as One Direction worked with producers Carl Falk, Savan Kotecha, Steve Mac, and Rami Yacoub, among others. Subsequent singles, Gotta Be You and One Thing, peaked in the UK Singles Chart top ten, in November 2011, they signed a record deal with Columbia Records in North America. Steve Barnett, the co-chairman of Columbia Records, said it was not a decision to sign One Direction, I just thought there was a void
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One Direction performing in
Glasgow on their
On the Road Again Tour, October 2015. From left to right:
Louis Tomlinson,
Niall Horan,
Liam Payne and
Harry Styles
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One Direction on The X Factor Live tour in 2011
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One Direction performing on their
Up All Night Tour, April 2012
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One Direction at red carpet of the
Logie Awards of 2012 in
Melbourne
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On the Road Again Tour
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The On the Road Again Tour was the fourth headlining concert tour by English-Irish boy band One Direction. It promoted the fourth studio album, Four. The tour began on 7 February 2015 in Sydney, Australia and ended on 31 October 2015 in Sheffield, the majority of the tour venues were sold out, bringing in revenue of $208 million from 80 shows total. During the tour, on 19 March 2015, it was announced that group member Zayn Malik would be taking a hiatus from the due to stress. Malik later announced his departure from the six days later. His last performance with the group was the 18 March show in Hong Kong, the group continued performing on tour and began to release new material as a foursome. As of February 2016, this is the last tour the group have headlined due to their extended hiatus that began earlier in the year, the tour was announced on the Australian breakfast television program Today. The group will be making their debut performance in some countries on this tour and it was reported on 19 January 2015 that The X Factor 2012 winner Samantha Jade would be headlining the Australian leg alongside McBusted. On 19 March 2015, Zayn Malik announced his decision to exit the tour, a representative for the band said in a statement, Zayn has been signed off with stress and is flying back to the UK to recuperate. In a statement, they said, Were really sad to see Zayn go, the past five years have been beyond amazing, weve gone through so much together, so we will always be friends. The four of us will now continue, were looking forward to recording the new album and seeing all the fans on the next stage of the world tour. On 1 June 2015, the North American tour was announced as a part of 14th Annual Honda Civic Tours. This set list is representative of the show on 7 February 2015
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Promotional poster for the tour
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The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The original line-up consisted of Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. Jones left the less than a month prior to his death in 1969, having already been replaced by Mick Taylor. After Taylor left the band, Ronnie Wood took his place in 1975 and has been on guitar in tandem with Richards ever since, following Wymans departure in 1993, Darryl Jones joined as their touring bassist. Other touring keyboardists for the band have been Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, the band was first led by Jones, but after teaming as the bands songwriters, Jagger and Richards assumed leadership while Jones dealt with legal and personal troubles. The Rolling Stones were at the forefront of the British Invasion of bands that became popular in the US in 1964, and identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the group began a period of musical experimentation in the mid-1960s that peaked with the psychedelic album Their Satanic Majesties Request. During this period, they were first introduced on stage as The Worlds Greatest Rock, the band continued to release commercially successful records in the 1970s and sold many albums, including Some Girls and Tattoo You, which were their most popular albums worldwide. From 1983 to 1987, tensions between Jagger and Richards almost caused the band to split, however, they managed to patch up their friendship in 1987. They separated temporarily to work on projects and experienced a comeback with Steel Wheels. Since the 1990s, new recorded material from the group has been increasingly less well-received, despite this, the Rolling Stones have continued to be a huge attraction on the live circuit, with stadium tours in the 1990s and 2000s. By 2007, the band had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time, Voodoo Lounge Tour, Bridges to Babylon Tour, Licks Tour and A Bigger Bang Tour. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and their estimated album sales are above 250 million. They have released 30 studio albums,18 live albums and numerous compilations, Let It Bleed was their first of five consecutive number one studio and live albums in the UK. Sticky Fingers was the first of eight number one studio albums in the US. In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart, in 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends and classmates in Dartford, Kent, Jagger had formed a garage band with Dick Taylor, mainly playing Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin Wolf and Bo Diddley material. Jagger met Richards again in 1960 on platform two of Dartford railway station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records that Jagger carried revealed a common interest that prompted their musical partnership
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The Rolling Stones performing at
Summerfest festival in June 2015 Left to right:
Charlie Watts (drums),
Ronnie Wood (rhythm guitar),
Mick Jagger (vocals),
Keith Richards (lead guitar)
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The back room of what was the
Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, London where the Rolling Stones had their first residency in 1963
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The Rolling Stones performing at Georgia Southern College in Statesboro, Georgia, May 1965
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A trade ad for the 1965 Rolling Stones' North American tour.
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Tokyo Dome
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Tokyo Dome is a stadium in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. Construction on the stadium began on May 16,1985, and it was built on the site of the Velodrome, adjacent to the predecessor ballpark, Kōrakuen Stadium. It has a total capacity of 55,000 depending on configuration. Tokyo Domes original nickname was The Big Egg, with calling it the Tokyo Big Egg. Its dome-shaped roof is a structure, a flexible membrane held up by slightly pressurizing the inside of the stadium. It became the first Japanese venue with an American football attendance above 50,000 and it is also the location of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame which chronicles the history of baseball in Japan. The Tokyo Dome was developed by Nikken Sekkei and Takenaka Corporation, Tokyo Dome is part of a greater entertainment complex known as Tokyo Dome City, built of the grounds of the former Tokyo Koishikawa arsenal. Tokyo Dome City includes an amusement park and Tokyo Dome City Attractions and this amusement park occupies the former Korakuen Stadium site and includes a roller coaster named Thunder Dolphin and a hubless Ferris wheel. Mariah Careys three sold out shows at the Dome during her 1996 Daydream World Tour on March 7,10 and 14 set records when all 150,000 tickets sold in under 3 hours. She later performed at the Dome for 4 nights during her 1998 Butterfly World Tour on January 11,14,17,20 and 2 nights during her 2000 Rainbow World Tour on March 7 and 9. Overall, Carey performed at the Tokyo Dome 9 sold out concerts to date and she holds the record for the most number of shows performed at the venue for a female solo artist, both in her country of origin and international. The second is Janet Jackson with a total of 8 shows, mick Jagger was the first international act to play in the Tokyo Dome on March 22 and 23,1988. Bon Jovi followed suit and played at the Tokyo Dome on 31 December 1988, the band has since performed total of 19 concerts at Tokyo Dome, most recently in 2010 as part of The Circle Tour. American singer Janet Jackson performed at the Dome in 1990, selling out four shows in 7 minutes and this record was later surpassed by Japanese rock band LArc~en~Ciel. The stadium played host to Amnesty Internationals Human Rights Now, benefit Concert on September 27,1988. After an 11-year absence in Japan, he performed again in the Tokyo Dome for three nights in November 2013 and another 3 nights in April 2015 during the Out There, Tour, for a total of 18 performances at the venue. The Rolling Stones performed 10 concerts at the stadium during Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour, later they performed seven concerts during the Voodoo Lounge Tour in 1995. The band returned to Japan in 1998 to play four more concerts, part of the Bridges to Babylon Tour then again in 2003, after three years, the band returned in 2006 to perform two more shows at the venue as part of their A Bigger Bang Tour
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Tokyo Dome at night
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Welcome to New York (song)
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Welcome to New York is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released as the promotional single on October 20,2014 from Swifts fifth album,1989. Swift is donating all proceeds from the sale of the single to the New York City Department of Education, the song was released to digital download on iTunes and with the CD on October 20,2014. The song is the track on the album,1989. Prior to the digital release Swift released a 30-second sampler of the song on YouTube and she continued on by stating I approached moving there with such wide-eyed optimism and sort of saw it as a place of endless potential and possibilities. You can kind of hear that reflected in music and this first song especially. You know, I dreamed about living in New York, I obsessed moving to New York, the lines And you can want who you want/Boys and boys and girls and girls has been viewed as Swifts way of supporting LGBT equality. Welcome to New York is a song written by Swift and Ryan Tedder and produced by Swift, Tedder. It runs the length of three minutes and thirty-two seconds. It has a beat of 117 beats per minute. The song is written in the key of G major with Swifts vocals spanning between the octaves of D4 and D5, jen Carlson of Gothamist called it the worst NYC anthem of all time. Julianne Escobedo Shepherd of Jezebel called the song a gentrification anthem so obtuse it makes one wonder if is, in fact, esther Zuckerman of Entertainment Weekly pointed out that It honors the city. I note that even from a limo you can tell that the everyone here who was someone else before includes many immigrants of color, and I credit its gay-curious moment even if she ends up with a banker like her dad. In more enthusiastic critique, Forrest Wickman from Slate considered it a soaring synth-pop anthem of the kind you could imagine being sung by Katy Perry, nate Scott of USA Today praised the song and said it would be the next New York anthem and stated that the song works. It works because Taylor Swift is the kind of artist that doesn’t care — at all — that the “I’m a young person who just moved to New York. ”She just lived it, She moved to New York, and she felt her life was changed by moving to the big city. Jason Lipshutz of Billboard gave the three stars out of five and praised the song stating that it naturally arrives with a warm grin slapped on the first carnival-themed synthesizer. The song has peaked at number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, on January 22,2015, Welcome to New York was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for its shipments exceeding of 500,000 units in the United States. The song performed well in Oceania, peaking at number 6 and 23 in New Zealand and Australia, Ryan Adams recorded a rock version of Welcome to New York for his album 1989, a cover of Swifts album 1989. Writer Oscar Gracey said that Adams cover of Welcome to New York is more Coney Island than East Village
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Blank Space
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Blank Space is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her fifth studio album 1989. It was written by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback, the song was released to the radio by Republic Records on November 10,2014 as the albums second single, after Shake It Off and is the second track on the album. Musically, Blank Space is a song with lyrics that satirize the medias perception of Swift. Blank Space reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 following Shake It Off, Swift became the first woman in the Hot 100s 56-year history to succeed herself at the top spot. A critical success, it has also included in numerous year-end critics lists. The song has topped charts in Canada, South Africa. It also charted in the top 10 in numerous countries, such as Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, New Zealand, Spain, the songs accompanying music video was directed by Joseph Kahn and was shot over three days at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York. The song received its first televised performance at the 2014 American Music Awards and as part of Taylor Swifts 1989 Secret Session with iHeartRadio on October 27,2014, in New York City. The song received nominations for the 58th Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Blank Space is an electropop song that many critics compared to the works of fellow artist Lorde. It makes fun of Swifts recent exposure in the media about her dating life, the song was written by Swift along with Martin and Shellback, and produced by the latter two. Blank Space is composed in the key of F major and set in a 4/4 time signature at a tempo of 96 beats per minute. Swifts vocals range from A3 to D5, some listeners, including Swifts mother, misheard the lyrics of Blank Space, incorrectly hearing got a long list of ex-lovers as all the lonely Starbucks lovers. On Valentines Day 2015, Swift jokingly tweeted about the misheard lyrics, the New York Times noted the song as a clever metanarrative, commenting that This is Ms. Swift at her peak. Its funny and knowing, and serves to both her power and her primness. In a positive review, Robert Leedham of Drowned in Sound recognized it as Its the work of someone who finds success in misadventure, instead of wallowing in it. Los Angeles Times called it, A thrillingly vicious riff on Swifts reputation as a man-eater, a topic she also addresses in the albums jumpy lead single, Shake It Off. Got a long list of ex-lovers / Theyll tell you Im insane, she sings, her voice surging with newfound power, But Ive got a blank space, baby / And Ill write your name. It was included in several critics lists and was the second
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"Blank Space"
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I Knew You Were Trouble
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I Knew You Were Trouble is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her fourth studio album, Red. It was released on October 9,2012, in the United States by Big Machine Records as the promotional single from the album. Later, I Knew You Were Trouble was released as the single from Red on November 27,2012. It was written by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback, with the production handled by the latter two, I Knew You Were Trouble received generally positive reviews from music critics, who commended its mainstream appeal yet noted Swifts experimentation with dubstep as relatively limited. At the inaugural YouTube Music Awards in 2013, I Knew You Were Trouble won the award for YouTube phenomenon, the single has been certified sextuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. As of 2014, The song has sold 5 million copies in the US, during her performance at the 2012 iHeart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Swift told Rolling Stone magazine that she would start unveiling the songs from her fourth studio album, Red, one-by-one. Starting this week I’m gonna start unveiling new music, talking about the accompanying tour for the album, the singer explained that she always thinks about the visuals associated with a song—Ooh, how are we gonna play this in concert. What’s the lighting gonna be like, what costumes are we gonna have. —and one of the songs that stood out to her for its visual aspect was called I Knew You Were Trouble. The song was written by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback, the latter two also producing the track. When Swift previewed the song on Good Morning America on October 8,2012, initially the media had speculated the song to be about her ex-boyfriend, singer John Mayer, in light of her previous song Dear John from her third studio album, Speak Now. In an interview with MTV, Swift further explained that the song told the story of a girl falling for the bad boy. Its going to be dangerous, but look at me going in there anyway, I Knew You Were Trouble was released as the third promotional single from Red on October 9,2012, to iTunes Store for digital download, following Begin Again and the album title track. In the United Kingdom, I Knew You Were Trouble was the single from the album and was released on December 10,2012. The song was removed from the site three days. The melody of the song was developed by Swift on a piano and she asked Martin and she also wanted to sing the bassline of the song in a particular way and sound, to which Martin and Shellback suggested to infuse little bit of dubstep. However, she confessed that she had not studied that particular genre of sound further. During the middle eight of the song, most of the music stops and Swift sings in a shrill voice the lines you never loved me, or her, or anyone. As per the sheet music published at Musicnotes. com, the song is set in time with a moderately fast tempo of 154 beats per minute
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Swift during her appearance on
Good Morning America, where she talked about "I Knew You Were Trouble", and also previewed the song
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"I Knew You Were Trouble"
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Love Story (Taylor Swift song)
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Love Story is a song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was written by Swift and produced by Nathan Chapman and it was released on September 12,2008 by Big Machine Records, as the lead single from Swifts second studio album Fearless. The song was written about a love interest of Swifts who was not popular among Swifts family, because of the scenario, Swift related to the plot of William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet and used it as a source of inspiration to compose the song. However, she replaced Romeo and Juliets original tragic conclusion with a happy ending and it is a midtempo song with a dreamy soprano voice, while the melody continually builds. The lyrics are from the perspective of Juliet, the song was a critical success with critics complimenting Swifts writing style and the songs plot. It was also a success, selling over 8 million copies worldwide. It is also one of the singles in the United States and was once the best-selling digital country single of all time there. The single was certified 8× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, internationally, Love Story became Swifts first number one single in Australia, followed by Shake It Off in 2014. The song has been certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The song is one of the singles worldwide, with worldwide sales of more than 6.5 millions of units. The songs accompanying video was directed by Trey Fanjoy, who directed the majority of Swifts prior videos. The video is a piece that drew influences from the Medieval, Renaissance. It follows Swift and model Justin Gaston as they meet in a university campus, Love Story was promoted through numerous live performances. The song was included on Swifts first, second, third, and fourth headlining tours, the Fearless Tour, the Speak Now World Tour, the Red Tour, Love Story has been covered by several artists, including Joe McElderry and Forever the Sickest Kids. Love Story came along late into the production of Fearless, Swift wrote Love Story about a man who was never officially her boyfriend. When she introduced him to her family and friends, they did not become fond of him and his situation was a little complicated, but I didnt care, said Swift. She conceived the idea for the song when she reflected about the scenario, I thought, This is difficult but its real, it matters—its not simple or easy and she then centered the song on the line, which was ultimately placed in the Love Storys second refrain. All events, with the exclusion of the end, narrated in the song regarded Swifts actual story, the songs conclusion differed from that of Romeo and Juliet
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Swift performing "Love Story" on the
Fearless Tour.
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"Love Story"
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"Love Story" became Swift's first number one on
Billboard Pop Songs, marking the highest peak by a country song on the chart since
Shania Twain 's "
You're Still the One ".
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Swift and model
Justin Gaston as they meet in the field in the music video for "Love Story".
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Style (Taylor Swift song)
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Style is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and is the third track from her fifth album,1989. The song was written by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback and it was released to radio by Republic Records, in partnership with Swifts label Big Machine Records, on February 9,2015, as the albums third single, following Blank Space. It also made the top 40 in countries like the United Kingdom, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, the accompanying music video was directed by Kyle Newman and premiered on February 13,2015. Style merely began as a track written by Ali Payami for himself. Ljungfelt, detailing the collaboration with Swift to the Grammys, stated that the track was not initially intended for anyone, after Payami agreed on the collaboration, Swift and Martin then proceeded to write new lyrics to the track. Style debuted as a snippet in a Target commercial to promote her album, in late December 2014, Big Machine Records head Scott Borchetta answered a fans question on an impromptu Q&A on social networking site Twitter. The fan asked, Whats Taylors next single, and Borchetta responded promptly that he was leaning towards Style—it was an obvious single choice, according to Billboard. In January 2015, Republic Records officially announced Style as Swifts third single from 1989, Swift explained the meaning and inspiration of the song to Ryan Seacrest during an interview on iHeartRadio in October 2014. I loved comparing these timeless visuals with a feeling that never goes out of style and its basically one of those relationships thats always a bit off. The two people are trying to forget each other, so, its like, All right, I heard you went off with her, and well, Ive done that, too. My previous albums have also been sort of like, I was right, you were wrong, you did this, it made me feel like this—a righteous sense of right and wrong in a relationship. What happens when you grow up is you realize the rules in a relationship are very blurred and that it very complicated very quickly. Style has a tempo of 95 beats per minute and is written in the key of D major, analyzing the songs structure, Voxs Kelsey McKinney compared the opening beat of the song to a call-and-response format. McKinney also noted that although the first half of the chorus plays D major and G major chords, jason Lipshutz from Billboard characterized Style as a James Dean-evoking pop rock song. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Timess Mikael Wood and The Observers Kitty Empire described the track as funk-pop, on behalf of Time, however, Sam Lansky detailed it as a disco anthem. PopMatters described Swift as on several styles that fit her like a cashmere-lined leather glove on Style and praised it as immaculate, almost impossibly ebullient. The Observer called it a percolating funk-pop number that satisfies on every level, the New York Times declared it the albums high mark and compared it to the original Miami Vice soundtrack. Now chose it as the top track from the album, the Los Angeles Times praised it as a sensual funk track
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"Style"
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Bad Blood (Taylor Swift song)
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Bad Blood is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, from her fifth studio album 1989. The remixed version of the song, featuring American rapper Kendrick Lamar, was released on May 17,2015, the album version was written by Swift, Max Martin, and Shellback, with Lamar writing his verses on the remixed version. The lyrics of Bad Blood describe the betrayal of a close friend, the album version is the eighth track of 1989. The song reached number one in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Scotland, the accompanying music video was directed by Joseph Kahn and features an ensemble cast. The video previously held the 24-Hour Vevo Record with 20.1 million views and it won Video of the Year and Best Collaboration at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. The song received a nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance while its video won Best Music Video at the 58th Grammy Awards. A cover version of Bad Blood was released as the first promotional single from singer-songwriter Ryan Adams interpretation of Swifts 1989 album, Swift co-wrote Bad Blood about an undisclosed female musician. Swift says the artist attempted to sabotage one of her concert tours by hiring people who worked for her, publications such as Billboard, Rolling Stone, Time, and The Washington Post have speculated that Katy Perry is the subject of the song. Daniel DAddario for Time and Emily Yahr for The Washington Post noted parallels between Bad Bloods lyric If you live like that, you live with ghosts and Ghost, a song from Perrys 2013 album Prism. The album version of the song only contains Swift as the vocalist on verses, while the version features a re-worked instrumental. Jem Aswad of Billboard felt the song is reminiscent of Gwen Stefanis Hollaback Girl, the Guardians Kitty Empire wrote that the song faintly recalls Charli XCX with its stark beats. It is written in the key of G major, and runs at 88 bpm, the original version of Bad Blood received generally negative reviews from music critics. Many described the song as clichéd while also criticizing its writing, chorus, entertainment Weekly listed it as one of the best songs on the album. George Seabrook of The Edge awarded the four and half stars out of five. He praised the song for Lamar’s simple, brutally effective verses and acknowledged the collaboration as not just one more meaningless stunt collaboration, but a powerful new duo. Bad Blood first charted on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in November 2014 and January 2015 as a cut from 1989, peaking at number 78. It also became her 18th top 10 single and Lamars second and it dropped to number two the week after, being replaced by Wiz Khalifas See You Again, where it stayed for five consecutive weeks. It spent another five weeks at number four, before leaving the top ten of the chart after thirteen consecutive weeks in it on September 5,2015
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"Bad Blood"
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We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
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We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her fourth studio album, Red. Swift co-wrote the song with its producers, Max Martin and Shellback, the song was released as the lead single from Red on August 13,2012, by Big Machine Records. Its lyrics depict Swifts frustrations at an ex-lover who wants to re-kindle their relationship, Rolling Stone magazine named the song the second best song of 2012 while it took the fourth spot in Times end-of-year poll. It has received a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year and it also received a Peoples Choice Awards nomination for Favorite Song of the Year. A music video for the song was released in August 2012 and it was the first music video to be presented in 4K resolution and received positive reviews from critics. A CD single was released in September 2012 by Swifts official store, Amazon. com, the single has been certified Quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The song is one of the singles worldwide, with worldwide sales reaching 7 million copies to date. After writing Speak Now entirely solo, Swift opted to collaborate with different songwriters and producers for Red, thus, she called Max Martin and Shellback, two songwriters and producers whose work she admired, to discuss a possible collaboration. When Martin suggested that they write about the incident, Swift began playing the guitar and singing, We are never ever. And the song flowed rapidly afterwards and she described the process as one of the most humorous experiences she had while recording, and said the musical partners matched her expectations. An audio clip of her sarcastically speaking about breakups can be heard before the final chorus, the song is reportedly about Swifts ex, Jake Gyllenhaal, as the two had broken up in January 2011 but had been seen on a date a few days later. A lyric video premiered on Swifts official Vevo that same day. The song was released to Adult Contemporary radio stations on August 13,2012 with it being released to radio stations the next day. The song was released to country radio on August 21,2012. The music video for the song premiered on August 30,2012, a limited edition individually numbered CD single was released to Swifts official store and Amazon. com on September 4,2012. The limited edition CD single was packaged with a We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together T-shirt, the CD single was also able to be bought individually. The CD single was released exclusively to US Walmart stores the same day. The three-minute-and-twelve-second song features heavy production and a pop music vocal styling
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Swift during her appearance on
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Swift performing on her
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It was covered by English band
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Wildest Dreams (Taylor Swift song)
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Wildest Dreams is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her fifth studio album,1989. The song was released to radio by Big Machine Records on August 31,2015, Swift co-wrote the song with its producers Max Martin and Shellback. Musically, Wildest Dreams is a ballad with a prominent dream pop influence. Following the release of 1989, it charted in the United States, Canada, after its release as a single, it reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the fifth consecutive top-10 song from 1989 and Swifts 19th top-10 single on the chart. It also became her sixth chart topper on the Radio Songs chart, later a remix by Dutch DJ R3hab was released digitally in October 11,2015. Swift wrote the track with the producers, Max Martin. Reviewers compared the song to the works of Lana Del Rey, written in the key of A♭ major in Mixolydian mode and set in a common time signature, it has a relatively slow tempo of 69 beats per minute. Swifts vocal range spans from E♭3 to E♭5, the song samples With Every Heartbeat by Robyn and Kleerup. Corey Bealsey of PopMatters described it as Swift doing more or less a literal Lana Del Rey impression and managing it with a ventriloquists mastery to conjure Del Reys moody, sultry atmospherics. Club said that Swift even takes her voice down a few notches, ramping up the melodrama by way of Be My Babyish drums, Wildest Dreams paints the man as the victim, doomed to spend the rest of his life haunted by what hes carelessly lost. On the other hand, Craig Manning of AbsolutePunk dismissed the song as a bit disposable, jem Aswad of Billboard had a mixed reception about the Lana Del Rey similarities, saying that its hard to tell if the song is homage or parody. Wildest Dreams first entered the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 76 on the week ending November 15,2014 as a cut from 1989 and it reached number 12 the following week, and peaked at number 5 on November 7,2015. The songs peak position made Swift only the fourth artist to have at least one single peak at position of Billboards top 10 as the lead performer. It re-entered the Billboard Digital Songs chart at number 7 selling 83,000 copies, at the Billboard Radio Songs chart it debuted at number 26 with 43 million audience impression. It climbed to the top position of the Radio Songs chart on the week ending November 14,2015, on Billboards Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, the single became Swifts first number one. The accompanying music video was directed by Joseph Kahn, who directed the music videos for the second. The music video was filmed in Africa and California, the video was first aired on television during the pre-show of the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards on August 30,2015. Scott Eastwood appeared in the video, in the video, Swift plays a fictional actress named Majorie Finn which is a reference to her grandmothers name, Majorie Finlay, and Scott Eastwood plays a fictional character named Robert Kingsley
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Parts of the video were shot in the
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"Wildest Dreams"
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In the video, Swift portrays an actress akin to
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Richard Burton.
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Out of the Woods (song)
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Out of the Woods is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was written by Swift and Jack Antonoff of fun and it was the second song to be officially released from her fifth studio album 1989, serving as the first promotional single on October 14,2014. It is the track on the album, after Style. Out of the Woods serves as the official single with an accompanying music video that premiered on December 31,2015. It was released to radio on February 5,2016, the song went number one in Israel and has reached the top 10 in Belgium, Canada, and New Zealand as well as the top 20 in Australia and the United States. Swift premiered a 15-second clip of Out of the Woods on Good Morning America on October 13,2014, Swift called Out of the Woods one of her favorite songs on this album because it best represents 1989. She explained that the song is about the fragility and breakable nature of some relationships and this was a relationship where I was kind of living day-to-day wondering where it was going, if it was going to go anywhere, if it was going to end the next day. Out of the Woods was initially released as a single on October 14,2014. On December 22,2015, Good Morning America officially announced the release of a video for the song to premiere during Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve. Out of the Woods also serves as the official single from 1989. Out of the Woods is a pop and synthpop song, the track was written by Swift and Antonoff and is the first song that Swift has written to an existing track. Antonoff sent a version of the song without the vocals or lyrics to Swift. Speculation as to whom the song is about is rampant, the bridge section of the song references the snowmobile incident that Swift and her former boyfriend, One Directions Harry Styles, were reported to be involved in during their relationship. Max Martin produced Swifts vocals for the song and it is written in the key of C Major with Swifts vocals spanning two octaves, between G3 and E5 and runs three minutes and fifty-five seconds, at 92 bpm. Featuring heavy synths and percussion, Antonoff described that the song is given an arrangement that combines both 1980s and modern elements and he said, I just chopped this piece of my voice singing and started looping it over and over. Then I started banging on some drums I had in the room and stomping on the floor, hit the brakes too soon could mean the literal sense of, we got in an accident and we had to deal with the aftermath. But also, the relationship ended sooner than it shouldve because there was a lot of fear involved, I dont think its ever going to be easy for me to find love and block out all those screaming voices. Billboard gave the four and half stars out of five
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"Out of the Woods"
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You Belong with Me
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You Belong with Me is a song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was co-written by Swift and Liz Rose and produced by Nathan Chapman with Swifts aid and it was released on April 18,2009, by Big Machine Records as the third single from Swifts second studio album, Fearless. Swift was inspired to write You Belong with Me after overhearing a male friend of hers arguing with his girlfriend through a phone call, the song contains many pop music elements and its lyrics have Swift desiring an out-of-reach love interest. The song won Favorite song at 2010 Kids Choice Awards, and received nominations for the Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. You Belong with Me enjoyed commercial success as well, it became a top ten hit in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, in the United States, the song became Swifts highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time and has become Swifts third best-selling single. It managed to gain the largest crossover radio audience since Faith Hills Breathe did in 2000, the single was certified 6× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The song is one of the singles worldwide, with worldwide sales of more than 5.1 million units. The songs accompanying video was directed by Roman White. The video featured Swift portraying two characters, a nerd and a girl, while American actor Lucas Till portrayed the male lead. The videos plot centers on the protagonist secretively loving the male lead, the video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, but during Swifts acceptance speech, rapper Kanye West interrupted, protesting in support of Beyoncé. The incident caused a reaction in the media, with most people coming to Swifts defense, the song was performed live at numerous venues, including the 2009–10 Fearless Tour, where it was the opening number. It was covered by artists, including Butch Walker and Selena Gomez & the Scene. Swift became inspired to write You Belong with Me after she overheard a friend of hers speaking to his girlfriend through a phone call. He acted defensive as his girlfriend yelled at him, and said to her, No, I tried to call you right back. Out of the sympathy she felt towards him in the situation, together, they developed a story line, which described Swift being in love with the male friend and her having the desire for him to break up with his current girlfriend for her. Swift described the concept as basically about wanting someone who is with this girl who doesnt appreciate him at all. You like this guy who you have known for your whole life, Swift recalled, It was really fun for us to write the line, She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts. You Belong with Me is a Country pop song with a length of three minutes and 52 seconds, according to Kate Kiefer of Paste magazine, it is a straight-up pop song
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Swift performing "You Belong with Me" at rehearsals for the
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"You Belong with Me"
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Driven by non-country radio airplay, "You Belong With Me" established the largest crossover radio audience since
Faith Hill 's "
Breathe".
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Swift portrays the
antagonist, a popular, brunette
cheerleader, in the music video for "You Belong with Me"
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Fifteen (song)
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Fifteen is a country pop song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Swift self-penned the song and co-produced it along with Nathan Chapman, Fifteen was released on August 30,2009 by Big Machine Records, as the fourth single from Swifts second studio album, Fearless. The song was inspired by Swifts freshman year of school at Hendersonville High School. After writing it, Swift asked Anderson for authorization to record the song, Anderson affirmed, Fifteen is a ballad, which has Swift reminiscing on events that occurred to her and her best friend at the age of 15 and cautioning teenagers to not fall in love easily. Fifteen peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over a digital downloads in the United States. The music video for Fifteen was directed by Roman White and it was filmed using a green screen and is heavily accentuated with special effects. The video features Swift walking through a garden, where she relives many memories with Anderson and it received a nomination for the Best Female Video category at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, but lost to Lady Gagas Bad Romance. Fifteen was promoted with performances, including many that were part of Swifts first and second headlining tours, the Fearless Tour. Swift partnered with electronics retailer Best Buy for @15, a program that allowed teens to decide how funds would be distributed among various charities. The song was written about Swifts freshman year of school at Hendersonville High School. I just decided I really wanted to tell that story about our first year of school because I felt in my freshman year, I grew up more than any year in my life so far. The events it focused on were how both Swift and Anderson fell in love for the first time, but both suffered of heartbreaks. Aside from reminiscing on the events she and Anderson experienced, Swift wrote cautionary lyrics and she described it as incorporating things she wished someone would have told her in a song when she was younger. The thing about high school, you dont know anything and you dont know anything, but you think you know everything, Swift said. After the completion of composing Fifteen, Swift became very nervous to show Anderson the song and it was a really personal song, especially from her angle of it. And it really doesnt just because of the way Taylor and I feel about it, if one girl can kind of learn from it or connect to a song like that, its totally worth it. With Andersons consent, Swift recorded Fifteen with producer Nathan Chapman, Recording the highly personal track caused Swift to cry. Swift attributed the event to the fact that she is most likely to cry over when her loved ones undergo pain, as she witnesses it and she went to say Fifteen usually gets her every time
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Swift performing "Fifteen" during the
Fearless Tour in 2009.
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"Fifteen"
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Swift and her best friend Abigail Anderson reliving memories in the music video for "Fifteen"
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Swift performing "Fifteen" during the Fearless Tour.
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Mean (song)
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Mean is a song written and recorded by American country singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her third studio album, Speak Now. Produced by Swift alongside Nathan Chapman, the song was sent to radio in the United States on March 13,2011. Mean garnered mixed reviews from critics for its detail and profound country sound. The song received commercial success in the United States and Canada, debuting at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song also appeared on the Australian Singles Chart at number 45. The songs accompanying video was directed by Declan Whitebloom, who developed the concept together with Swift. It received mixed reviews from critics who perceived ambivalent messages in the video, despite the prevalent self-empowerment, Mean was performed for the first time by Swift at the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 3,2011. The song won the Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards, in an interview with E. News, Swift said that Mean is a response to people who criticize whatever she does. She said, theres constructive criticism, theres professional criticism, and theres a line that you cross when you just start to attack everything about a person. In a later interview with 60 Minutes, Swift revealed that the critic was someone who attacked her performance with Stevie Nicks at the 52nd Grammy Awards and this critic is reputed to be Bob Lefsetz, who gave a critical review on his blog, The Lefsetz Letter. Two exclusive packages were released to Swifts official online store, the first included a T-shirt, an individually numbered Mean CD single, and an autographed lithograph. This package is no longer available, the second package contained just the T-shirt and CD single. Only 2,500 copies of the CD single were made, the single was later included in another package that is exclusive to Taylor Swifts official store. The package includes the Target exclusive deluxe edition of Speak Now, a pair of headphones. According to Theon Weber of The Village Voice, the song is made of handclaps, amiable banjo strums, matt Bjorke of Roughstock commented that the song is the most country with an extremely down-home, almost bluegrass sound. The song is written in the key of E major, and Swifts vocals span an octave, jon Caramanica from The New York Times noted the song for its rootsy sound, where Swift sings over a bluegrass-influenced acoustic track unlike anything else she’s yet recorded. The chorus has a chord sequence of C#m/G#—B/F#—A/E. The songs lyrics address those who question Swifts ability to sing and this is echoed by Jill Serjeant from Billboard, who wrote that appears to take aim at critics who slammed Swifts shaky vocal performance at the 2010 Grammy Awards and at other live shows last year. Its a song that really could become part of the campaigns for schools everywhere
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Taylor Swift's dress from the music video "Mean"
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"Mean"
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Sparks Fly (song)
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Sparks Fly is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her third studio album Speak Now. Swift wrote the song when she was 16 years old, prior to the release of her debut single Tim McGraw in 2006, following a 2007 live performance of the song, Sparks Fly grew in popularity among Swifts fanbase. While Speak Now was under production, she received requests from fans to include the song on the album. Produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman, the song was serviced to radio in the United States by Big Machine Records on July 18,2011. A CD single was released on Swifts official store for a time on August 10,2011. Sparks Fly received generally positive reviews by critics, who praised it for its upbeat tempo. Others praised Swifts lyrics of the song and have claimed that the song is a crossover between country and pop. Following the release of Speak Now, the song debuted at number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and at number 28 on the Canadian Hot 100, after the song was released as a single, it re-entered the US Billboard Hot 100 at 84. It peaked at one at the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over 1,000,000 copies. Sparks Fly was used as the song for the Speak Now World Tour. A music video for the song was released, featuring clips of performances during the Speak Now World Tour. Swift began work on her studio album Speak Now two years prior to its release in 2010. Sparks Fly was written by Swift when she was sixteen years old and she performed the song live during several bar shows of forty and fifty people. A recorded live performance of the song during one of her concerts made its way onto the internet in 2007. The song became a favorite among Swifts fans, leading Swift to rework the song, of the song, Swift said that, This is a song I wrote a few years ago and I have been working on it ever since. Its been awesome to see it change over the years, the fans have heard it before in concert, but there have been some really cool changes that I am very proud of and cant wait for them to hear. The song was sent to music radio stations on July 18,2011. An exclusive package was released to Swifts official store including a Speak Now necklace, only 2,500 copies of the CD single were made and the package was made available for a limited time
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"Sparks Fly"
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Fearless (Taylor Swift song)
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Fearless is a country pop song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was co-written by Swift in collaboration with Liz Rose and Hillary Lindsey and produced by Nathan Chapman, Fearless was released on January 3,2010 by Big Machine Records as the fifth and final single from Swifts second studio album of the same name. Swift composed the song while traveling on tour to promote her eponymous debut album and she wrote Fearless in regard to the fearlessness of falling in love and eventually titled her second studio album after the song. Musically, it contains qualities commonly found in pop music and. Fearless received acclaim from critics, many of whom complimented it for appealing to different age groups. Fearless also entered charts in Canada and Spain, Swift performed the song in various venues, some of which were included on the Fearless Tour. Footage from the Fearless Tour performances were used to comprise a music video for Fearless, the video features both footage of the tour itself and backstage. Fearless was written by Swift in collaboration with Liz Rose and Hillary Lindsey, Swift conceived the song while touring as opening act in order to promote her eponymous debut album, Taylor Swift. While writing the song, she was not dating anyone or even in the stages of dating anybody. She wrote the song after she analyzed the ideology of what was the best first date, the song was composed with two concepts in mind. Swift described the primary concept to be about the fearlessness of falling in love. The second, is about the best first date, which Swift stated she hadnt experienced at the time of writing Fearless, after completing the song, Swift deeply deliberated her personal definition of the word fearless. To her, fearless doesnt mean youre completely unafraid and it doesnt mean that youre bulletproof and it means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway. That influenced her to title the album Fearless, Fearless is four minutes and one second in length. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian described the genre as a kind of orthodontically perfect pop rock. He said the most country part of the song was a lyric that referenced a one horse town, the song is set in common time and has a moderate tempo of 100 beats per minute. It is written in the key of F major and Swifts vocals span two octaves, from F3 to C5 and it follows the chord progression F–C–Gm–B♭-C. Tom Ronald of Great American Country interpreted the message to be about taking courage on the dating circuit
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Swift performing "Fearless" during a concert included on the
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Ronan (song)
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Ronan is a charity single released on September 8,2012, by American singer Taylor Swift to the iTunes Store. Swifts lyrics are based on a blog she read about a boy, Ronan Thompson. Swift wrote the song by putting together quotes from blog creator Maya Thompson, Thompson is credited as a co-writer of the song. All proceeds from sales of the go to help fight cancer. Swift wrote the song after reading Maya Thompsons blog, Thompson is the mother of four-year-old Ronan Thompson, who died in 2011 of neuroblastoma. He had been treated at Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Childrens Hospital, Maya worked through her grief by continuing the blog, writing heartbreaking letters to her late son, whilst also raising money and awareness for childhood cancer causes. The pair met in October 2011, when Swift invited Maya to her concert at the Jobing. com Arena in Glendale, I wrote a song for Ronan, and she said The tears started pouring down my cheeks as soon as I heard her say those words. But her words didnt stop there, not only did she write a song for you, but she wanted to know if it would be alright to perform it on the nationally televised show. Swift credits Thompsons mother as the co-writer of the song and it was released to the US iTunes Store shortly after the Stand Up to Cancer telethon ended and all proceeds of the single go towards cancer charities. Ronan is mainly referred to as a country song, mark Hogan of Spin magazine describes Ronan as a soft rock ballad. Swift wrote the lyrics of the based on the blog entries by Maya Thompson. Rolling Stone called the song heartbreaking, bill Dukes of Taste of Country wrote, It was clear was just the voice for Maya Thompson. Ed Masley of The Arizona Republic said that Ronan may very well be finest hour as an artist, Ronan received 220,000 downloads in its first week, debuting at #2 on the Hot Digital Songs chart and #16 on the Billboard Hot 100. Digital download Ronan –4,25 Single at Taylor Swift official site Maya Thompsons blog Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Ronan"
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Red (Taylor Swift song)
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Red is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her fourth studio album of the same name. It was released on October 2,2012, in the US by Big Machine Records as the promotional single from Red in 2012. It was part of the released during the four weeks preceding the release of the album. Musically, Red is a song, and its lyrics uses colors and metaphors to describe an intense. The track received polarizing reviews from critics, who praised its lyrics. The song debuted at six on the US Billboard 100. It also debuted at two on the Hot Country Songs chart, behind Swifts previous single We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. Swift previewed the track on the October 1,2012 episode of ABCs Good Morning America, the song finds Swift playing with the idea of colors in relation to her emotions about a relationship. Swift explained that she decided to name this song as her album title, all those emotions – spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion – in my mind, all those emotions are red. Theres nothing in between, there is nothing beige about any of those feelings, I think the reason I said that was because I made the record exactly the same way I made the last three. I knew I hadnt jumped out of my comfort zone, which at the time was writing alone, the song was a real turning point for Red the album. When I wrote that song my mind started wandering to all the places we could go. If I were to think outside the box enough, go in different people. It is written in the key of C# minor and lasts three minutes and forty-one seconds and it is in common time with an approximate tempo of 125 beats per minute. Swifts vocals range from F♯3 to C♯5, a music video for the song was released on July 3,2013, the video features footage from Swifts Red Tour. Crowd cheers in the concert can be heard in the background as well. As of August 2016, the video has over 100 million views on YouTube. ”Grady Smith of Entertainment Weekly, joked, saying, Those are the colors the song — which Swift says is all about intense emotion — brings up. I’m being serious — I kept waiting for some other hue to pop up, and then, said, Lyrically, lines lack the crisp, powerful punch that Swift usually delivers
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Mine (Taylor Swift song)
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Mine is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Produced by Swift along with Nathan Chapman, it was released as the single from Swifts third studio album. Following an unauthorized internet leak, the song was released on August 4,2010, Swift was inspired to write Mine after reflecting on one of her unnamed crushes and explained that the song is about her tendency to run from love. The song contains elements of power-pop and its lyrics speak of the ups, critical reception for Mine was mostly positive. Swift was praised for her ability to show a perspective on love, although some critics called the song formulaic for resonating her earlier works. The song was successful, as well, it became a top ten hit in Australia, Canada. The single was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association, the songs accompanying music video was directed by Roman White. The video chronicles the relationship between Swift and her love interest played by British actor Toby Hemingway which ends with a marriage. The music video was met with great appraise from contemporary critics who deemed it as rather sweet, the song was performed live at numerous venues to promote Speak Now. The music video received the coveted Video of the Year Award in the CMT Music Awards 2011, the song was featured on an episode of Glee titled The Break Up sung by Naya Rivera and was also covered by Maroon 5. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Swift revealed that Mine was inspired by a crush in mind. She also told MTV that the song is about what it would be if she actually let her guard down. During a live Ustream chat with fans on July 20,2010, Swift explained that the song is about her tendency to run from love after seeing many relationships end in goodbye and breakups. She continued, I think Ive developed this pattern of sort of running away when it time to fall in love. The song is sort of finding the exception to that and finding someone who would make you believe in love. Mine was one of the fourteen tracks in Speak Now that was solely by Swift. She also co-produced the song with Nathan Chapman, who co-produced all of Swifts studio albums, Swift commented that a leak is so out of my comfort zone, but it ended up good in the end. It made me so emotional that I started crying, Mine is a country-pop song with a length of three minutes and 52 seconds
Mine (Taylor Swift song)
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Tenerife Sea
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Tenerife Sea is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was co-written by Snow Patrol member Johnny McDaid and Foy Vance, the song was released on 20 June 2014 as part of his second studio album, x. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 93 despite lacking an independent release, Sheeran wrote Tenerife Sea while in Nashville, the capital of the US state of Tennessee. It was inspired by the following the 2013 Grammy Awards, wherein his single The A Team was nominated for Song of the Year. He lost the award to the American band Fun for its song We Are Young, along with his girlfriend, Sheeran attended the after-party where he, being in a new experience, felt uninterested participating in the conversations. According to Sheeran, neither of wanted to be there - you just want to be with one person. He also told The San Francisco Examiner, It was an odd atmosphere. And I found myself being competitive, as well, and pissed off that I didn’t win, Tenerife Sea is a love song, in which Sheerans vocals are multi-tracked. Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times likened the song to that of Eric Claptons 1977 ballad Wonderful Tonight, the songs title is a reference to Tenerife in the Canary Islands of Spain. According to Sheeran, the hue of his girlfriends eyes are as blue as the seas in Tenerife, seriously blue, the lyrics speaks of Sheerans girlfriend who he sees really pretty in her dress. Tenerife Sea was released on 20 June 2014 as part of Sheerans second studio album, x, however, the song had been performed live in both the US and Sheerans home country prior to the parent albums release. In the US, Sheeran performed Tenerife Sea in October 2013 at a concert in Madison Square Garden and he also sang Tenerife Sea at an intimate NYC-based Mercury Lounge show, where he performed two other new songs, although recording was not allowed. On 24 March 2014, Sheeran debuted the song at Londons Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust benefit show, few British media noted the song, which was thought of hinting at the same musical style Sheeran would be taking for his then-unreleased second album. The song was popular in streaming services on theme-specific playlists. In April 2015, commercial streaming company Spotify released a report of the most-streamed tracks worldwide under the category sleep, Tenerife Sea is placed at number 14, joining Sheerans other 6 songs ranked in the top 20. Sleep is one of Spotifys most popular categories that people use for general relaxation. In June 2015, Spotify compiled the most popular first dance songs based on an analysis of 400,000 wedding playlists worldwide, Tenerife Sea was the fifth most popular. Tenerife Sea was noted by critics and journalists, in an article written for Valentines Day, Marika Azzopardi of The Malta Independent compiled some great moments of love in the arts, including Tenerife Sea among other songs
Tenerife Sea
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Villaflor, Tenerife. Sheeran likened the hue of his girlfriend's eyes to that of the seas around Tenerife.
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