{"id":2448000,"date":"2019-08-26T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T00:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=876340"},"modified":"2019-08-26T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T00:24:29","slug":"watch-taylor-swift-open-2019-vmas-with-you-need-to-calm-down-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-taylor-swift-open-2019-vmas-with-you-need-to-calm-down-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Taylor Swift Open 2019 VMAs with \u2018You Need to Calm Down,\u2019 \u2018Lover\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taylor Swift<\/a> performed the two most recent singles off her seventh album Lover<\/em> at this year\u2019s MTV Video Music Awards<\/a>: \u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d and \u201cLover.\u201d Swift is nominated for 12 awards at this year\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n

Swift opened the performance on a lawn chair alongside Todrick Hall doing a slightly reimagined, more rock-centric version of \u201cYou Need to Calm Down.\u201d Much of the video\u2019s cast joined her onstage<\/a>, including the RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> stars who portrayed various pop stars like Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande in the clip. The superstar then pivoted to \u201cLover,\u201d where she owned the stage solo with her pink guitar while the audience swayed to the single. The stage lit up with blue lights while a giant moon hovered over her.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udcf9| Taylor Swift durante \u201cLover\u201d no #VMAs<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/SdSz5YEkM3<\/a><\/p>\n

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The singer-songwriter is nominated for 12 awards at this year\u2019s Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year and Song of the Year for \u201cYou Need to Calm Down.\u201d Her most recently won Best Collaboration in 2017 for \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Live Forever\u201d with Zayn.<\/p>\n

Swift released Lover<\/em> on Friday. The album\u2019s launch came shortly after she revealed that she would re-record her first six albums following the purchase of her masters by Scooter Braun and his company Ithaca Holdings. \u201cI knew [Scott Borchetta] would sell my music; I knew he would do that. I couldn\u2019t believe who he sold it to<\/a>, because we\u2019ve had endless conversations about Scooter Braun. And he has 300 million reasons to conveniently forget those conversations,\u201d Swift told CBS Sunday Morning<\/em><\/a>. Swift had been signed to Borchetta\u2019s label Big Machine for 13 years. Her contract expired in 2018, when Swift decided to sign with Republic Records while Big Machine retained the rights to her masters.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taylor Swift performed the two most recent singles off her seventh album Lover at this year\u2019s MTV Video Music Awards: \u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d and \u201cLover.\u201d Swift is nominated for 12 awards at this year\u2019s ceremony. Swift opened the performance on a lawn chair alongside Todrick Hall doing a slightly reimagined, more rock-centric version of […]<\/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-2448000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 19:58:33","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'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\/2448000","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=2448000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}