Taylor Swift Doesn't Consider Any Female Singers Her Role Models

Taylor Swift revealed that she doesn't have any female role models in the music industry! While talking to Time, she said that she can't find anyone whose career path she truly admires.

The "Shake It Off" singer admitted that it's partly a side-effect of her insane career.

"We’re taught to find examples for the way we want our lives to wind up. But I can’t find anyone, really, who’s had the same career trajectory as mine. So when I’m in an optimistic place I hope that my life won’t match anyone else’s life trajectory, either, going forward," she said.

Instead, she name-dropped actress Mariska Hargitay and celebrity chef Ina Garten as a few of the women she admires.

"In other industries, I have female role models. I just struggle to find a woman in music who hasn’t been completely picked apart by the media, or scrutinized and criticized for aging, or criticized for fighting aging—it just seems to be much more difficult to be a woman in music and to grow older. I just really hope that I will choose to do it as gracefully as possible."

We know she will! She's already done a lot of growing up in the public eye, and she's done an excellent job of doing it gracefully.

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Liam Payne Reveals His Most Mortifying Fan Experience

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Liam Payne's most mortifying fan experience happened on a beach in Australia! The One Directionsinger told Nova 96.9’s Fitzy and Wippa that he got stage fright from so many fans watching him.

“We went to the beach and it was so nice and peaceful and then we turned around and literally there were 800 people on the beach. I got stage fright! I was a bit scared.”

He says that he used to want to move to Australia, but his crazy fan experiences have made him reconsider a bit!

“I always thought Australia would be somewhere that I’d move to,” he said. “But then when I first got to Australia I didn’t expect it to be as crazy as it was.”

Since it's also the country where a girl stole his boxers, we can understand that he felt a little weird.

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Robert Pattinson Got the Most Bizarre Shaved Haircut You've Ever Seen

We're kind of speechless about Robert Pattinson's bizarre new haircut. The Twilight actor showed off a very unusual new 'do on the red carpet last night, and it features super long wispy curls in the front and shaved patches all around the sides... kind of like a bowl cut!

he back of R-Patz's new buzz cut is even stranger than the front! There is a mysterious unshaved patch on the back of his head.

Is it a reverse soul patch? We are so confused, but also incredibly captivated. There's no word yet if Rob's new undercut is for a movie role or he was just feeling inspired during his last trip to the barber, but we give him major props for pulling off the unconventional look with superstar confidence.

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Zayn Malik Looks So Different After Shaving His Facial Hair

Zayn Malik Looks So Different After Shaving His Facial Hair

It has been proven: Zayn Malik looks like an entirely different human minus his facial hair and with new long locks. The One Direction star debuted a new look for a visit with the British royal family in London, and we barely recognized him!

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Taylor Swift Set to Perform on This Year's Thanksgiving Day Parade!

Taylor Swift Set to Perform on This Year's Thanksgiving Day Parade!

Great news for all the swifties – Taylor Swift was just announced as a performer for the Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS!

CBS’ Thanksgiving Day Parade has been a tradition for 54 years, and will also feature portions of the 88th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, all live from New York City on Thanksgiving Day (November 27).

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Interesting Facts About One Direction's New Album 'Four'

Interesting Facts About One Direction's New Album 'Four'

Their first single from the album "Fireproof" made history!

It is currently the most downloaded track within 24 hours, with 1.1 million downloads.

Niall Horan didn't write any of the songs on the album.

He was on bed rest after his knee surgery and couldn't join the guys in the studio.

Ed Sheeran wrote 1D's song "18" in the bathroom.

"It's the first record I've actually specifically written for them," he said. "The other ones were my records that just didn't make it only my album, just because I had too many slow songs."

"Night Changes"was written after 1D's song writers got into a fight.

“One of the songs on the record came from myself falling out with Julian Bunetta and John Ryan," Jamie Scott said. "One night, I came down to the studio, and three songs that I thought were sounding amazing when I left had been changed drastically through the night.”

Zayn Malik wrote three songs but none of them made the final cut.

He was reportedly pretty upset about the whole thing.

The song "Illusion" was written entirely about Sophia Smith — and Liam didn't even write it!

"I was having a chat with Julian, we were both talking about our girlfriends and I left him at it and he wrote all the words based on mine and Soph’s relationship. It’s all based on things about us," hesaid.

The 1D guys got into a major argument while writing one of the songs on Four.

"Honestly, when I was in the studio with some of our boys, it just exploded into this massive four-part row with everybody," Liam said.

"Me and Louis were just sat there, then we started joining in as well! It was over one word...'it' or 'you'!"

Niall Horan came up with the album title.

There were a lot of title names floating around and Niall decided that Four made the most sense since they've been together four years and this will be their fourth album.

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Nintendo Wants to Sell You an Amiibo Subscription Through Loot Crate

Nintendo Wants to Sell You an Amiibo Subscription Through Loot Crate

by Aaron Souppouris

engadget

Nintendo is evolving. Confronted with poor Wii U sales, it's slowly been embracing ideas introduced by other manufacturers years ago. Mario Kart's first major DLC (ignoring the Mercedes-Benz pack earlier this year) will arrive this Thursday; Super Smash Bros. will be the first Nintendo game to launch with digital pre-loads; it's said to be actively considering an end to region-locked hardware; and now it's teaming up with startup Loot Crate to try and market its amiibo NFC accessories in a new and fairly innovative way.

Loot Crate has seen success offering themed monthly packages of game / geek culture trinkets for a fixed monthly price. The Nintendo bundle works a little differently: anyone signing up is guaranteed three separate packages over the holiday season that will contain a total of 10 amiibos. Included will be Mario, Pikachu, Donkey Kong, Fox, Yoshi and five other characters to be revealed at a later date. What can you do with amiibos? Right now, not a great deal, but once Super Smash Bros. arrives they'll facilitate a host of interesting features. Those signing up are also promised "a few additional surprises," so it's likely there'll be some other accessories included in the packages.

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Taylor Swift Car-Dance and Lip-Sync to Her Own Song

Taylor Swift Car-Dance and Lip-Sync  to Her Own Song

Taylor Swift Car Dancing is always incredible, and now you can watch Swift give it her all to her own music, courtesy of BBC1 Radio.

Host Greg James and Swift break it down to her latest single, "Blank Space," and the moves are classic Taylor. Stay for her covering the drumbeat (outstanding!)

 when James takes the lead midway through the song and taylor dances its incredible.

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Does Taylor Swift Dream About Harry Styles?

 "All You Had to Do Was Stay" may even have been written from a dream about him. In an interview with Time, she revealed that the track was inspired by a dream she had about an ex, who we think mustbe the One Direction singer!

"I was having this dream, that was actually one of those embarrassing dreams, where you’re mortified in the dream, you’re like humiliated," she said.

"In the dream, my ex had come to the door to beg for me to talk to him or whatever, and I opened up the door and I went to go say, 'Hi,' or 'What are you doing here?' or something—something normal—but all that came out was this high-pitched singing that said, 'Stay!' It was almost operatic."

She says she wrote the song using that sound as a prompt for the rest of the track.

Since Taylor also wrote "Out of the Woods" about their tumultuous relationship, we think "All You Had to Do Was Stay" is probably about Harry too

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Pics That Prove Taylor Swift Rocks The Head Band Trend See

Pics That Prove Taylor Swift Rocks The Head Band Trend See 

For a shopping date with bestie Karlie Kloss on Wednesday, Nov. 12, in NYC, Taylor Swift topped off her tartan ensemble with a gold headband. And, because the "Blank Space" singer, 24, is known to love all things adorable, hers was accented with a petite golden bow so here are some more pics of taylor rocking the head band trend.

1. Just one word Wow! 

2. Love the yellow head band!

3. No one looks more cute in cat head band than taylor!

4. What's more pretty her hair or the hand band ? both!

5. Amazing Look !

6. Best Head Band For Summers

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Blackberry fans line up here: pre-orders for the new Classic are open

Blackberry fans line up here: pre-orders for the new Classic are open

Richard Lawler

Engadget

Platform loyal BBM addicts have a new device to consider -- other than the Passport -- now that Blackberry is taking pre-orders for its upcoming phone. The Classic (aka Q20) brings the design, keyboard and trackpad users are used to, plus a large square touch screen, the latest version of BlackBerry OS and support for Android apps. Currently only a GSM version is available (no Verizon, Sprint or US Cellular support here) in the US for $450 and shipments are expected to start in mid-December. Oddly, BlackBerry hasn't revealed more details or specs about the phone, but those should be revealed closer to its release. Our best look at the phone came from this leak, feel free to take a look back before deciding to whether to place an order.

Pre-order the #BlackBerryClassic today!

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Now all Walmart stores will match Amazon prices

Now all Walmart stores will match Amazon prices

Devindra Hardawar
Engadget 

Rather than going for an Amazon deal, Walmart wants you to nab that PlayStation 4 in its stores this holiday season. The world's largest retailer will start offering price matching for Amazon and other online stores starting tomorrow. That's actually something around half of Walmart stores are already doing, but now it's official policy for all 4,300-plus locations across the US. It follows on the heels of other aggressive moves from the company for the all-important holiday shopping season, including last year's plan to match competitors' Black Friday prices a week early. Online shopping is an undying threat for Walmart and other brick and mortar retailers, so an official online matching policy makes sense. If anything, we wonder what took Walmart so long to make it happen nationwide.
[Photo: Amazon]
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