Taylor Swift Today

Taylor Swift is now the most-awarded artist in MTV VMA history. At the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 27 she won Video of the Year for "The Fate of Ophelia," Best Direction for "Opalite," and the first-ever MTV VMA Artist Director Honors — then premiered the "Patient Zero" video she directed herself. Lyla breaks down the full night, the Dolly Parton dedication that stopped the room, and Travis's one-word reaction from Kansas City.

🏆 She passed Beyoncé, who she'd been tied with at 30 Moon Persons

🎬 Video of the Year for "The Fate of Ophelia" — extending her own record in the category, after "Bad Blood," "You Need to Calm Down," "All Too Well: The Short Film," "Anti-Hero" and "Fortnight"

🎥 Best Direction for "Opalite," plus the inaugural Artist Director Honors, presented by Dakota Johnson, who called her an architect of emotional landscapes

💔 She dedicated Video of the Year to "the ultimate showgirl," Dolly Parton, praising the vividness of her storytelling

🎞️ The "Patient Zero" video premiered live — directed by Swift, starring Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell, shot by two-time Oscar winner Emmanuel Lubezki

👑 Madonna had the other huge night: seven wins including Artist of the Year, from a career-high 13 nominations. Snoop Dogg hosted; Nirvana took the Video Vanguard

🏈 Travis watched from Kansas City and posted one word: "Legendary"

👗 Still no wedding dress photos, now past three months. Dior says the first look comes from Taylor's own Instagram.

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Taylor Swift surprise-released four new songs this week on The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, and the reaction is genuinely split — some critics calling the new material sharper than the original album, others calling a surprise deluxe a cash-in after she insisted the record was complete. Tonight she premieres the "Patient Zero" video, which she directed, at the MTV VMAs, where one win would make her the most-awarded artist in the show's history. Lyla breaks down all four tracks, the reviews, and a very good week in the football stands. 🎵 Four new songs: "Patient Zero," "Cleveland!," "Pink Clouding" and "Babylon," written in Sweden with Max Martin and Shellback.

🎬 The "Patient Zero" video — directed by Swift, starring Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell, shot by Oscar winner Emmanuel Lubezki — premieres tonight

🏆 Nine nominations, plus the first-ever MTV VMA Artist Director Honors for her work behind the camera

📺 The VMAs air live from Los Angeles, hosted by Snoop Dogg, with Madonna opening the show and Nirvana receiving the Video Vanguard Award

💬 The reviews, honestly: "Cleveland!" is the fan favorite, "Pink Clouding" is taking the hits, and Taylor's own answer to mixed reviews is that she welcomes the chaos

🏈 Tom Cruise says Taylor schooled him on football at the season opener — and told Jimmy Fallon he thinks she's a genius

💍 "That's my husband" — the touchdown celebration heard round the internet, wedding ring and all

👗 Still no wedding dress photos, nearly three months out. Dior says the first look comes from Taylor's own Instagram.

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Football is back and Taylor Swift was at Arrowhead Monday night, watching the Chiefs open their season with a 31-10 win over Denver — sitting in a suite with Tom Cruise, who was a guest at the July wedding. Lyla gets into the return, plus Mariska Hargitay on Jimmy Kimmel saying she's "still floating" from that night, and a new detail from Joe Buck about how Travis reacted when he first saw Taylor coming down the aisle. And the countdown to September 27, when one VMA win makes her the most-awarded artist in the show's history. Below the fold: 🏈 Monday Night Football at GEHA Field at Arrowhead. Travis pulled in a 59-yard catch; Patrick Mahomes returned from last season's knee injury. Taylor watched with her parents and her mother-in-law.

🎬 Tom Cruise in the suite — the NFL posted the clip themselves.

💍 Mariska Hargitay to Kimmel: the vows were her favorite part of the whole wedding. She also hosted the Primetime Emmys, the first woman to do so in fifteen years, and won two of her own for her documentary about Jayne Mansfield.

😭 Joe Buck says Travis was "a puddle" when Taylor appeared in the Dior gown.

🏆 Nine VMA nominations. She's tied with Beyoncé at 30 career wins. One more breaks it. Voting is still open; the show airs September 27.

👗 Still no wedding dress photos.

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Taylor Swift's concert film went zero for five at the Creative Arts Emmys on September 5 — and she wasn't in the room. Instead she was on the East Coast, out to dinner with Travis Kelce the following night in a Stella McCartney dress that Stella herself posted about. Lyla gets into what that choice says, plus the Oscar campaign that's quietly starting, an entire genus of insects named Swiftiephylus, and Alanis Morissette on why the most-loved artists catch the most criticism. 

🏆 The Eras Tour: The Final Show lost all five: Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), Directing, Picture Editing, Sound Mixing, and Technical Direction and Camerawork. The Muppet Show took Variety Special.

🎬 Director Glenn Weiss was double-nominated — he also directed the 78th Tony Awards.

🎤 Next up: an expected Oscar campaign for "I Knew It, I Knew You" from Toy Story 5.

👗 Stella McCartney called seeing Taylor in the design "an amazing early birthday gift."

🐛 Researchers in Australia named a new genus Swiftiephylus, with species honoring Taylor, Lover, Fearless and The Tortured Poets Department.

👗 Still no wedding dress photos.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have a dog, and after more than a year of keeping her under wraps, Wendy has arrived — a white Samoyed who made her public debut lounging on a sofa at the Plaza Hotel in Tommy Hilfiger's Fall 2026 campaign. Travis confirmed her name on New Heights and told Vogue she "crushed it." Lyla gets into the reveal, the name theories, and what Travis has now said about the wedding two months on, including why a thousand guests at Madison Square Garden still felt intimate. Below the fold: 🐕 Wendy is a little over a year old. When Hilfiger's team floated casting a dog, Travis volunteered his own — "we figured, why not her?" She appears alongside Carmelo Anthony, Frances Tiafoe, Jisoo, Gigi Hadid and Peggy Gou.

📸 The secret nearly held. Travis says they "got sniped at the airport" — paparazzi caught Wendy coming off their jet.

💍 Travis on the wedding: no phones allowed, so everyone was present. He thanked Adam Sandler for getting ordained in New York to officiate, "Sand-man style."

🏈 A scheduling collision on September 14 — awards night in LA, Chiefs season opener in Kansas City.

👗 Two months on, still no wedding dress photos.

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Taylor Swift gave her first performance since marrying Travis Kelce, and she did it at the Grammy Museum's Icon Sessions — a twenty-year retrospective, a long conversation with Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr., and then a surprise mashup at the flower-painted piano from the Eras Tour. She wove "I Knew It, I Knew You" from the Toy Story 5 soundtrack into "August" and "All Too Well," and reworked both endings so they landed somewhere hopeful instead of where they usually land. Lyla gets into what that means, plus the green dress that has Swifties convinced her re-recorded debut is close.

🎹 The performance was recorded August 18 at the Clive Davis Theater and released on YouTube August 24. Fewer than 200 people were in the room.

💚 The dress is Dôen's Nelida in "green jasper" — 1930s-inspired, cascading ruffles, crimson floral at the shoulder. Fans and outlets have linked the shade to the seafoam gown from her "Teardrops on My Guitar" era.

📅 Her self-titled debut turns 20 on October 24. She confirmed in a May 2025 letter that the re-recording is finished. No release date has been announced.

🏀 Caitlin Clark debuts a "Friendship Bracelet" colorway of her Nike signature shoe, inspired by the Eras Tour trend.

🕊️ Nashville is still mourning Dolly Parton, and Taylor talked about feeling more loyal than ever to her country roots.

👗 Still no wedding dress photos.

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Taylor Swift Today now has an official Facebook community! Connect with fellow Swifties to discuss all the incredible revelations from Taylor's New Heights appearance. Search "Taylor Swift Today" on Facebook or check out instagram and be sure to follow us to join thousands of fans worldwide. Whether you're analyzing lyrics, sharing concert memories, or just celebrating Taylor's new era, our community is the perfect place to connect with people who love Taylor as much as you do.

Dolly Parton died Tuesday in Nashville at 80, after what her representatives called a brief battle with cancer. Her nephew, Bryan Seaver, announced it in a video on her official Instagram; her team said she spent her life bringing joy, laughter, hope and integrity to everything she touched. This week's episode sets the usual show aside. Lyla looks at what Dolly meant to Taylor Swift specifically — the Nashville songwriter who kept her publishing, ran her own business, and made it possible for a girl with a guitar and a notebook to imagine doing the same. Dolly turned down Elvis rather than give up half of "I Will Always Love You." Decades later, Taylor re-recorded six albums to get hers back. And one more thing, which nobody could have known at the time. A few weeks ago Taylor and Travis gave $2 million to Dolly's Imagination Library, and Dolly answered with a video — thanking them, making a joke, and singing a line of her most famous song. It turned out to be one of her last public moments. Taylor's full tribute is on her Instagram, and it's worth reading in her own words.

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Taylor Swift is one win away from becoming the most-awarded artist in VMA history. She picked up nine nominations for the 2026 Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year and Artist of the Year, and she's currently tied with Beyoncé at 30 career wins — so a single Moon Person on September 27 breaks the tie for good. Lyla gets into the numbers, plus Dolly Parton's video thank-you for the $2 million the couple gave her Imagination Library, and Taylor's first Instagram post in over a month, which turned out not to be about her at all.

🏆 Nine nominations, second only to Madonna's eleven. Fan voting is open through September 25; the show airs live September 27 from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on CBS and MTV.

📚 Dolly Parton posts a video thanking Taylor and Travis for their gift to the Imagination Library and jokes she'd like to have their firstborn.

📱 The first post back: an Instagram story celebrating Phoebe Bridgers' birthday and her new album.

💍 Taylor attends audio engineer Laura Sisk's wedding solo, in navy embroidered with gold, with a new side-swept fringe.

👗 Still no wedding dress photos.

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Taylor Swift Today now has an official Facebook community! Connect with fellow Swifties to discuss all the incredible revelations from Taylor's New Heights appearance. Search "Taylor Swift Today" on Facebook or check out instagram and be sure to follow us to join thousands of fans worldwide. Whether you're analyzing lyrics, sharing concert memories, or just celebrating Taylor's new era, our community is the perfect place to connect with people who love Taylor as much as you do.

Taylor Swift's music quietly disappeared this week from TikTok posts by the White House and Team Trump accounts — no statement, no clapback, just silence where the songs used to be. Lyla gets into what that says about owning your own catalog, plus Travis Kelce's first public comments since the wedding, including why Madison Square Garden was a lifelong dream and what he says was the best part of the night. And Graham Norton reviews the wedding on UK radio, with the gentlest possible pinch of sass. Below the fold: 🎵 Songs including "August," "Red" and "Father Figure" came off White House and Team Trump TikTok posts. Swift hasn't commented, and it isn't publicly confirmed who initiated the removals.

💍 Travis Kelce on the wedding: "the best night of my life." On MSG: a childhood dream he'd always pictured as a Knicks playoff game. On the best part: the air conditioning.

🏈 Back at camp in St. Joseph for a 14th season he's called his sanctuary, with something to prove — and Andy Reid in his corner.

🎤 Graham Norton calls it "a lovely, lovely wedding," describes a shut-down New York and big black curtains, and admits there were one or two things he'd have done differently.

👗 Still no dress photos. When they come, they come from Taylor's own Instagram.

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Taylor Swift Today now has an official Facebook community! Connect with fellow Swifties to discuss all the incredible revelations from Taylor's New Heights appearance. Search "Taylor Swift Today" on Facebook or check out instagram and be sure to follow us to join thousands of fans worldwide. Whether you're analyzing lyrics, sharing concert memories, or just celebrating Taylor's new era, our community is the perfect place to connect with people who love Taylor as much as you do.

A month after the Madison Square Garden wedding, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are reportedly settling into Kansas City and building one life instead of two. Lyla gets into what's being reported about their first month, why Jason Kelce cried harder at his brother's wedding than his own, and the wedding rings that have Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid fielding marriage questions. Plus Andy Reid taking on a rumor that seems to have started with a fake video — and yes, we're still waiting on the dress. Below the fold: 💍 One month married. Reports say Kansas City is home base for now, with Taylor's New York place staying put.

💎 Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid were photographed in Paris on August 3 wearing Boucheron bands. Neither has confirmed a marriage, and their reps haven't commented.

😭 Kylie Kelce sets the record straight on her own podcast: Jason absolutely cried at their wedding — and their four daughters were Travis's flower girls.

🏈 Andy Reid says Travis looks the same as always and has been "playing like crazy," pushing back on a dad-body rumor traced to a video that appears to be AI-generated.

📺 The new season of Ted Lasso works in a Kansas City nod to the Taylor Swift effect — from a writers' room full of Swifties.

👗 Still no dress photos. When they come, they come from Taylor's own Instagram.

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Taylor Swift Today now has an official Facebook community! Connect with fellow Swifties to discuss all the incredible revelations from Taylor's New Heights appearance. Search "Taylor Swift Today" on Facebook or check out instagram and be sure to follow us to join thousands of fans worldwide. Whether you're analyzing lyrics, sharing concert memories, or just celebrating Taylor's new era, our community is the perfect place to connect with people who love Taylor as much as you do.