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Although Taylor Swift is slated to drop The Tortured Poets Department later tonight, yesterday evening, a leak of the record appeared to make the rounds online — causing the internet to go into a frenzy.

Specifically, the lines “You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth / Should be a bigger artist / I scratch your head, you fall asleep / Like a tattooed Golden Retriever,” which are reportedly from the title track, raised speculation that it was actually about Matty Healy. (Upon the album’s initial announcement, many had figured it would center around her breakup with Joe Alwyn.)

Here’s what else is making listeners think this, at least from the suspected leak.

Is Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department Album About Matty Healy?

Later in the same song, Swift apparently namedrops both Lucy Dacus and Jack Antonoff as those that she and Healy had told about their relationship. She points out that The 1975 lead singer left his typewriter at her house.

Others on Twitter have hinted that this also might not be the only Healy-themed track on the new album, as there are a lot more than listeners initially thought there would be.

Shortly after Swift’s split from Alwyn, she was spotted out with Healy during May 2023. However, the two were reportedly over by June. Since then, Swift has been dating football player Travis Kelce for a few months.

The Tortured Poets Department is out 4/19 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

GloRilla’s recent arrest for driving under the influence might have some fans worried about her future on “Wanna Be” collaborator Megan Thee Stallion’s upcoming tour, but there is one person who seemed delighted by the news. Kay’La Lillard, NBA star Damian Lillard’s ex-wife, joked about the arrest on Instagram, posting a report from The Shade Room into her Instagram Story, and including the caption “Free GloLillard.” She also threw in the hashtag, “#sisterwife.”

Her jokes stem from the recent NBA All-Star Game this past February, where Glo got a few photos with Dame. She later posted them on her Twitter page (I am never going to call it “X,” not sorry), taking the opportunity to shoot her own shot. ““Who n**** dis is?” she wrote. “Cause I want him #GetEmGlo.” In a later tweet, she trolled, ““Whoever she is can’t whoop me so I really dgaf.” While Dame and Kay’La filed for divorce in October 2023, just after Dame was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks, it seems she didn’t appreciate Glo’s comments — or like most people, just found them hilarious.

Meanwhile, when Shannon Sharpe asked Glo if anything happened between her and Damian on his show Club Shay Shay, she played coy. “The halfcourt shot?” she mused, falling back on her now-infamous catchphrase. “You know, at the end of the day, the day gon’ end.”

(Mega-spoilers for Killing Eve will be found below.)

Killing Eve viewers might be scratching their heads over Internet speculation about a fifth season. What gives?

The cat-and-mouse spy-thriller series originally ran on BBC America and simulcast to AMC. The first few seasons qualified as certifiable bangers, and as shows sometimes do, the gimmick ran its course. Still, the series did rally towards the end of its fourth season, and we heard about an an in-the-works spinoff about a younger version of messy MI6 officer Carolyn Martens, but then something strange happened in 2022: that series finale.

Let’s just say that comparisons to the Game of Thrones finale were afoot. That’s not ideal, and it was kind-of deflating to see the show allow Eve and Villanelle to reach a state of legit happiness together, only for Villanelle to suddenly be killed via a sniper shot.

This development should lead to the natural conclusion that producers and writers intended to put a definitive end to the series, given that — let’s face it — the Villanelle-Eve relationship was the glue that held everything together. You can’t really kill off Jodie Comer’s irresistible assassin and expect Sandra Oh’s character to be consequently driven onto a collision course with a greater purpose or bound for vengeance. It’s simply not that type of story. However and as noted already, there has been some speculation that the story could continue, and there’s a semi-logical reason for this…

Killing Eve landed on Netflix this week. Netflix tends to resurrect shows that gain new life on the streaming service. That includes Manifest and, in a way, Suits, since the Meghan Markle Show Of Yesteryear will now spin off into an LA-based offshoot on NBC. So, is it possible that this would (somehow) happen for Killing Eve?

At this time, there has been zero concrete inkling or confirmation from Netflix on the subject. Yet we can always dream of a world where Villanelle (and even Konstantin) did not die, and they go on a long road trip together with Eve, who is driving and has had about enough of their backseat gigglefests. Admit it, that might be worth watching, but for now, it’s not happening.

Stephen Colbert had some strong words for Donald Trump after the former president attacked Jimmy Kimmel earlier this week and oddly confused him for… Al Pacino? For who knows what reason, Trump decided to rant about Kimmel’s performance as this year’s Oscar host, and Colbert was not having it.

“You keep my friend Jimmy Kimmel’s name out of your weird little wet mouth, OK?” Colbert warned Trump. “I’m mad. Jimmy Kimmel is my podcast brother from Strike Force Five. And I have vowed to defend him until my death or until the next ad for Mint Mobile.”

Of course, Colbert couldn’t resist taking his own jab at the Oscars.

“For the record, sir, Jimmy did an incredible job as host,” Colbert said. “Oscar viewership was up four percent. That’s right. This year, four more people watched.”

The late night host then took aim at Trump’s grasp of the real issues facing Americans.

“That’s right, in the middle of a presidential campaign and countless federal indictments, he’s obsessed with the Academy Awards from five weeks ago,” Colbert quipped before presenting Trump with a special award.

“In the category of Outstanding Achievement in Syphilitic Ramble in a Social Media Post, the winner is… whale!” Colbert said while holding up a card with a drawing of a whale, a deep cut reference to Trump bragging about how great he is at taking cognitive tests. He sure knows his animals.

Of course, Kimmel didn’t take Trump’s Social Media rant lying down. He devoted a portion of his Wednesday night monologue to roasting Trump for somehow confusing him with Pacino.

“Now don’t get me wrong, I wish I was Al Pacino,” Kimmel quipped. “He’s Al Pacino, I’m me. You’d think [Trump would] know that because I’m pretty sure, ‘Say hello to my little friend’ is what he said to Stormy Daniels that got him in all this trouble.”

You can watch Colbert’s defense of Kimmel above.

(Via The Independent)

Netflix‘s latest buzzy reality show is Unlocked: A Jail Experiment, which follows a very real experiment in the Pulaski County Regional Detention Center.

The series, which dropped last week, chronicles what happens when a group of detainees is given more freedom to work towards being a community. In order to do so, the deputies are taken away and the detainees are given more freedom inside their own “pod.” They had six weeks to see how the experiment played out.

The idea came from Arkansas sheriff Eric Higgins, who wants to aim for a more community-oriented structure for incarcerated people. Higgins also confirmed that at any given time, they had the option to leave the experiment, and they always knew that production were following them.

Higgins told Tudum, “Pulaski County Regional Detention center is a direct supervision facility, which means the deputies are inside the unit with detainees. We thought, ‘What can we do to create some ownership for those detainees in that unit?” Higgins says. “How do we make the facility safer, and what can we do to still hold them accountable but empower them at the same time?’”

While the show might seem controversial, Higgins hopes the series will change the way we view incarcerated people. “In this country, we have a certain perception of someone who goes to jail — the assumption being that they’re guilty,” Higgins says. “But they deserve dignity. These individuals, they’re fathers, they’re uncles, they’re sons. People care about them… they’re not just a number. I believe that if you treat people right, and you hold them accountable… I think they take that with them when they walk out of this facility. I think we have proven that people will rise to the expectation.”

Unlocked: A Jail Experiment is now on Netflix.

(Via Tudum)

Only two months ago, Taylor Swift announced her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, during her acceptance speech for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for her 2022 album Midnights. Her eleventh studio album — which will feature appearances from Florence And The Machine and Post Malone and is produced by longtime collaborators Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner — arrives after a monster 2023 that saw the singer-songwriter release two re-recorded albums and a tour film. The question on many a Swiftie’s mind right now, though, is:

When will The Tortured Poets Department be available to stream on Apple Music?

With a release date of April 19, the album should be hitting DSPs like Apple, Spotify, and Tidal in a little over 12 hours as of this writing. Most albums that drop on New Music Friday are usually available to stream at midnight, Eastern Time (or 9 PM Pacific) to allow for the maximum number of streams.

If physical media is more your thing, though, The Tortured Poets Department will also be released in a variety of limited-edition vinyl, as well as cassette tapes and CDs. With the album just hours away from release, it doesn’t seem Taylor-Mania is going away anytime soon.

The Tortured Poets Department is out 4/19 via Republic. You can get more info here.

It has only been two years since the last round of Taylor Swift mania swept the nation (arguably, that wave kept going through 2023 as well) and she’s already plotting the release of a new album, The Tortured Poets Department — the singer-songwriter’s eleventh studio album. Produced alongside Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, the album is said to heavily reference the five stages of grief model of human behavior and feature appearances from Florence And The Machine and Post Malone.

So, when will you be able to listen to The Tortured Poets Department on Spotify?

The album, which is due on April 19, will probably be available on DSPs like Apple, Spotify, and Tidal at midnight ET / 9 PM PT. Swift runs a tight ship — unlike her perennial frenemy Kanye West — so barring any huge server catastrophes like the ones that struck Ticketmaster when she launched her Eras Tour tickets in 2022, Swifties will be getting their fix in a little over 12 hours as of this writing.

Taylor announced the impending release of The Tortured Poets Department during her Grammys acceptance speech for Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for her 2022 album Midnights after a short, esoteric rollout. Put her in the next Knives Out movie, seriously.

The Tortured Poets Department is out 4/19 via Republic. You can get more info here.

It turns out that Eminem‘s memorable “Stan” music video reportedly almost had a different lead actor.

Devon Sawa, who starred in it, did a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight where he revealed that directors Dr. Dre and Philip Atwell were aiming for another child star — but it didn’t work out.

“Full disclosure: they went out to Macaulay Culkin first, I believe,” Sawa said. “I think that they wanted him, and he wasn’t available, or didn’t want to do it or whatever.”

“Then Dre, who had just seen Final Destination and was a fan, suggested [me],” he added. “There happened to be somebody in the casting office that knew somebody who was friends with me, and they called me that way… and it ended up working out pretty good.”

Looking back on it, it seems wild to picture the Home Alone star playing a character that idolized and imitated Eminem in 2000. However, when Entertainment Tonight reached out to Culkin and Eminem’s representatives, they didn’t return a comment to confirm.

Although the part could’ve gone to someone else, Sawa did point out just how lucky he still feels to have been selected. “It’s also one of the proudest things I’ve been a part of,” he shared. “I’ll tell you one thing, I know it better now than I did that day. Because I’ve heard it millions of times since.”

Last Friday night, April 12, Shakira was a surprise guest during Bizarrap’s Coachella 2024 set, and her presence was not the only surprise. During the performance, Shakira announced her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. Earlier this week, Shakira unveiled the North American dates — then added dates due to demand — and ticket presales will be held ahead of the general on-sale on Monday, April 22.

How Much Are Tickets For Shakira’s Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour?

As of this writing, the Citi Cardmember Presale is underway. The Artist Presale, Live Nation Presale, Spotify Presale, and Ticketmaster Presale are scheduled to begin on Friday, April 19. But because the Citi Cardmember Presale is active, we can give an estimation for how much Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour tickets could cost.

According to Ticketmaster, tickets for Shakira’s opening night on November 2 at Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, Palm Desert, California are listed between $176.95 and $339.75. VIP Packages range from $1,000 to $1,019. Prices may vary depending on the date and venue, but Shakira’s November 2 show gives you a sense, at least.

Shakira’s Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour Dates

11/02 — Palm Desert, CA @ Acrisure Arena
11/03 — Palm Desert, CA @ Acrisure Arena
11/07 — Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
11/09 — Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum
11/16 — San Antonio, TX @ Frost Bank Center
11/17 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
11/20 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
11/21 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
11/23 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
11/25 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
11/30 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
12/05 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
12/06 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
12/08 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
12/10 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
12/14 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
12/15 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena

After delivering The Fablemans in 2022, Steven Spielberg has yet to lock in on his next feature film, but that might be changing very soon. While the legendary director is still developing a Frank Bullitt movie based on Steve McQueen’s iconic character, that project might have to wait as Spielberg is reportedly returning to his early roots.

According to Variety, Spielberg’s next movie will be a “UFO film based on his own original idea” and written by frequent collaborator David Koepp. There are no plot details as of this writing, but visitors from another planet have been a recurring theme for Spielberg. He directed the classic films Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra Terrestial before tackling a remake of War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise in 2005.

However, this is Spielberg we’re talking about, so of course, he’s got other projects he’s tinkering with in the meantime. Including one with his old play Martin Scorsese:

Also on the immediate horizon is a Scorsese collaboration with Steven Spielberg on a Cape Fear TV series for Apple TV+. The two legends will serve as executive producers of the project, based on the 1991 and 1962 Universal movies. (Scorsese directed the 1991 noir thriller, which Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment produced.)

Speaking of Scorsese, he’s looking to get a Frank Sinatra biopic off the ground starring Leonardo DiCaprio. What a neat little update on iconic directors this has been.

(Via Variety)