Soccer Mommy Covers a Taylor Swift Fan Favorite, ‘I’m Only Me When I’m With You’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “I don’t know when we decided to let people write songs about things that they don’t do,” says country star Ashley McBryde. “As far as the singer-songwriter sentiment, I don’t know when we stopped demanding that of ourselves.

Spanish soccer player Alejandro Balde, currently in the running for a prestigious soccer prize called the Golden Boy, has attracted the ire of Taylor Swift fans over comments dismissing the singer's music that he may not have even made. Every year, the Golden Boy is awarded to a young footballer that a panel of experts are tipping to excel in the future. Balde, who plays for Barcelona and the Spanish national team, is among this year's nominees but has seen his chances of winning take a hit after a group of Swifties launched a social media campaign aimed at harming his place in the contest.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A sophomore jinx would be a terrible thing to suffer before you’re old enough to have a legal drink to slug down the disappointment. It’s not something Olivia Rodrigo has to worry about. “Guts,” her second album, does feel at times like “Sour, Too” — a picking-up-right-where-we-left-off extension of her Grammy-winning 2021 debut — but that can only be counted as a good thing, if the spark is still there.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic CMA Awards voters love Lainey Wilson. The singer ran far ahead of the pack as nominations for the 57th annual Country Music Association Awards were announced Thursday, picking up nine nods, nearly twice as many as the nearest finisher, Jelly Roll, who got five.

UPDATE, AFTER EXCLUSIVE: AMC is reporting that the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film has clocked a mindblowing $26M for the circuit in presales in its first 24 hours, beating their previous first day presales record for Spider-Man: No Way Home which did $16.9M. Let’s write that again — this massive presales figure is only for AMC. It’s not for the entire industry and other circuits like Regal, Cinemark and Harkins — which means the figure is significantly bigger. Realize, though, AMC reps the largest footprint for movie theaters at the domestic B.O. with 568 locations.

Some Taylor Swift fans are feeling left out after the star made a huge announcement about The Eras Tour.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Anyone who couldn’t procure tickets for Taylor Swift’s record-breaking stadium tour in the U.S. may be about to have their wounded feelings assuaged, a little — and everyone who did can get primed for some instant nostalgia. A filmed rendering, “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour,” will hit movie theaters nationwide this fall, with opening day set for Friday the (of course) 13th of October.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Zach Bryan has a fair amount of Bruce Springsteen in him. But not just a single Bruce. When the newly minted superstar headlined L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena last week (in a single sold-out gig at a venue he probably could have filled several times over), it felt like he is veering toward having his own “Born in the USA” moment, reviving that familiar mixture of populism and substance and making a new generation of fans scramble to get a scarce ticket.

Taylor Swift’s live show was actress Sandra Oh.The moment took place at one of Taylor Swift’s recent US shows during her extensive ‘Eras’ tour, when two fans asked another audience member to snap a picture of them together to mark the occasion.It was only after the gig that it dawned on them that the person who they asked was none other than famous actress and Grey’s Anatomy star, Sandra Oh.Sharing a brief clip of the moment on her TikTok page, concertgoer Neen (@secondhandshroom) wrote: “I will never ever get over this… Asking a super nice lady to take our picture at the bottom of our section before the Eras Tour.”In the footage, a live video is shown of someone taking a photo of Neen and her friend at the show. The video then cuts to images of Oh in her medical scrubs while on the set of the hit medical drama, with the text overlay reading “She looks so much like Cristina Yang from Grey’s Anatomy!”The video has since gone viral and accumulated over seven million views on the platform.

sideways glance?A Taylor Swift fan claims she unknowingly asked Emmy-nominated actress Sandra Oh to take her photo with a friend at the “Cruel Summer” singer’s Los Angeles concert this month.“I will never ever get over this,” the Swiftie captioned a viral TikTok showing off the snap the 52-year-old “Killing Eve” star took.The TikToker, who goes by Neen online, says she asked “a super nice lady to take our photo at the bottom of our section before the Eras Tour” show on Aug. 9.She then highlighted a Google Image search of Oh’s “Grey’s Anatomy” character, Dr.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The classic Harold Lloyd comedy “Safety Last” is turning 100 years old this year. But with its heavy dollops of action and a superstar’s real-life derring-do, it doesn’t seem a day over 10, even if it does date back to the silent era. The film screens this Sunday as the climax of the Academy Museum’s “Silent Sundays” series, with a live score from a 24-piece orchestra helping heighten the suspense in the ultimate fear-of-heights movie.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Even though he is through with mathematical album titles, Ed Sheeran is still practicing the art of addition. The suddenly prolific recording artist will soon be adding to his catalog the second new album he’s released in 2023… the second in six months, in fact. Sheeran announced Thursday that “Autumn Variations,” a collection he’s been teasing on social media, will be out Sept.

Cats Protection Animal Charity issued a statement telling fans that they need to calm down.“At no point should an animal deliberately be put in a position to feel fear, anxiety, frustration or experience pain for the benefit of human entertainment,” Central Behavior Officer Daniel Warren-Cummings told Metro. “Cats in particular will experience extreme stress by being swung or spun around and it could even cause them physical harm.

Soccer Mommy has shared a Taylor Swift cover and announced new covers EP ‘Karaoke Night’.Sophie Allison’s new EP will land on September 22 via Loma Vista and also feature versions of tracks by Slowdive, R.E.M. and Pavement, alongside a recently released cover of Sheryl Crow’s ‘Soak Up The Sun’.To announce the EP, Soccer Mommy has covered Taylor Swift track ‘I’m Only Me When I’m With You’, and said: “I really wanted to cover this song because it’s one of my favourites from Taylor’s first album.“I listened to that record so much when I was a kid and I think it had a lot of influence on me then.”Listen to the cover and see the tracklist for ‘Karaoke Songs’ below.1. ‘Here’ (Pavement cover)2. ‘Soak Up The Sun’ (Sheryl Crow cover)3. ‘Dagger’ (Slowdive cover)4. ‘I’m Only Me When I’m With You’ (Taylor Swift cover)5. ‘Losing My Religion’ (R.E.M. cover)The new EP follows Allison’s most recent studio album, ‘Sometimes, Forever’, which arrived last summer.Last year, she also released a demo version of the song ‘Darkness Forever’, which featured a nod to Taylor Swift by dubbing it ‘Sophie’s Version’.

said on “The Greg Hill Show.” “She is tough, man. She just stood out there and played right through [the rain].”The eight-time Super Bowl winner isn’t quite sure whether he can label himself a Swiftie yet, though.“Officially?” Belichick asked when prodded about if he was in fact a Swiftie.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic It’s been a few years since Rhiannon Giddens did anything remotely in the ballpark of a “pop” album, and it’s not hard to come up with reasons for that: Besides her having a full dance card, you could almost argue she’s overqualified for the job. The recipient of both a MacArthur “genius grant” and a Pulitzer, the banjo-wielding balladeer has sustained herself for a while at the intersection of earthy and highbrow, most recently winning acclaim for her opera, “Omar,” and she looks at least at much at home fronting the LA Phil as she used to leading the old-fashioned string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Viral sensation Oliver Anthony has spoken — or rather written — at length for the first time since his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” became a nearly overnight national phenomenon, going into his circumstances and background and saying he has no intention of rushing into any record deal. “People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers,” he wrote in a 730-word message posted to his Facebook account Thursday morning. “I don’t want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet.

Canadian Taylor Swift fans are desperate to get their hands on “Eras Tour” tickets for the Toronto dates, but many have been left disappointed.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The 50th anniversary celebration for the Roxy in West Hollywood this September is picking up some added components, including an additional appearance by Neil Young and Crazy Horse; a recreation by Stephen Marley of his father Bob Marley’s “Live at the Roxy” album; and a compilation album that will draw on performances from the nightclub’s five-decade history. Young was already announced to appear at the Roxy on Sept. 20, the 50th anniversary of the night he officially opened the club with a multi-night engagement.

Ticketmaster has given Canadian Swifties no chance but to take action against the online ticketing company.