{"id":2445770,"date":"2019-06-27T07:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=852919"},"modified":"2019-06-27T07:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:33:45","slug":"taylor-swift-to-headline-amazon-prime-day-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/taylor-swift-to-headline-amazon-prime-day-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift to Headline Amazon \u2018Prime Day\u2019 Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Taylor-Swift.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a> will headline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/amazon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amazon\" data-tag=\"amazon\">Amazon<\/a>\u2019s 2019 \u201cPrime Day\u201d concert, which will stream live July 10th at 9 p.m. ET on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07TB15FHX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Prime Video<\/a>. The New York show at an undisclosed location will also feature performances from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sza\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sza\" data-tag=\"sza\">SZA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dua-lipa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dua-lipa\" data-tag=\"dua-lipa\">Dua Lipa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/becky-g\/\" id=\"auto-tag_becky-g\" data-tag=\"becky-g\">Becky G<\/a>, while Jane Lynch will host the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last year, Amazon hosted a similar concert for Amazon Music in New York City that featured Ariana Grande, Alessia Cara, Kelsea Ballerini and Julia Michaels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swift is gearing up for the release of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-lover-album-announcement-848089\/\">new album, <em>Lover<\/em><\/a>, which arrives August 23rd and follows her 2017 effort, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/reputation-review-taylor-swift-ditches-tabloid-drama-on-most-intimate-lp-yet-124674\/\"><em>Reputation<\/em><\/a>. So far, the singer has released two singles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-taylor-swift-katy-perry-you-need-to-calm-down-video-848857\/\">\u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-brendon-urie-me-826952\/\">\u201cMe!,\u201d<\/a> the latter featuring Panic! at the Disco\u2019s Brendon Urie. Swift offered a few details about <em>Lover<\/em> during a recent Instagram Live appearance, saying the record would feature 18 tracks along with voice memos from her songwriting and recording sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As for the other performers, Becky G has released a handful of singles this year, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/becky-g-digital-farm-animals-davido-next-to-you-part-two-839070\/\">\u201cNext to You Part II,\u201d<\/a> with Digital Farm Animals, Rvssian and Davido, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/becky-g-green-light-go-music-video-inglewood-821662\/\">\u201cGreen Light Go.\u201d<\/a> Dua Lipa is coming off a massive 2018 that saw her notch hits with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-dua-lipa-dance-battle-herself-in-kinetic-idgaf-video-202822\/\">\u201cIDGAF\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-dua-lipa-and-silk-city-electricity-722733\/\">\u201cElectricity\u201d<\/a> with Silk City (the latter won the Grammy for Best Dance Recording), while she recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dua-lipa-grammys-music-2019-779203\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> that her goal for this year is to finish the follow-up to her 2017 self-titled debut. And SZA has been relatively quiet since releasing her acclaimed debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/50-best-albums-of-2017-123296\/sza-ctrl-124201\/\"><em>Ctrl<\/em><\/a>, in 2017, though she recently teamed with the Weeknd and Travis Scott for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-sza-travis-scott-game-of-thrones-power-is-power-video-831442\/\">\u201cPower Is Power,\u201d<\/a> which appeared on the <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> compilation <em>For the Throne.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-amazon-prime-day-concert-852919\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift will headline Amazon\u2019s 2019 \u201cPrime Day\u201d concert, which will stream live July 10th at 9 p.m. ET on Prime Video. The New York show at an undisclosed location will also feature performances from SZA, Dua Lipa and Becky G, while Jane Lynch will host the event. Last year, Amazon hosted a similar concert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 15:23:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}