Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Mystery: Is Taylor Swift the Uncredited Voice on "Bodyguard"?

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Cala Rogashawk Media. Welcome to Taylor
Swift Today, your daily dose of all

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things Taylor. Let's dive into the
latest news and gossips surrounding our favorite pop

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icon. First up, Despite rumors
circulating among fans, Taylor Swift does not

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appear on Beyonce's new album, Cowboy
Carter. After the release of Queen Bay's

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eighth studio album on Friday, swifties
began speculating that Taylor provided uncredited background vocals

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on the track Bodyguard, but People
has confirmed this isn't the case. Full

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credits for Bodyguard, the eighth track
on the album, have not yet been

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made available on Beyonce's website at the
time of publishing. However, Swift and

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the Texas Holdham singer have been showing
each other a lot of public support recently.

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Both held massive stadium tours in the
United States last summer and attended the

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premieres of Your each Other's concert films
Taylor Swift, The Aristour and Renaissance,

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a film by Beyonce. In a
December interview with Time, Swift gushed about

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Beyonce, saying she's the most precious
gem of a person, warm and open

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and funny, and she's such a
great disruptor of music industry norms. She

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taught every artist how to flip the
table and challenge archaic business practices. Beyonce's

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press release for Cowboy Carter revealed an
impressive list of vocalists, musicians, and

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orators on the album, including Dolly
Parton, Willie Nelson, Linda Martel,

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Stevie Wonder, Chuck Barry, Miley, Cyrus Post Malone, John Batiste,

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Rhiannon Giddons, Niall Rogers, Robert
Randolph, Gary Clark, Junior, Willie

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Jones, Britney Spencer, Shaboozie,
Rena Roberts, Tanner, Adele, and

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Tierra Kennedy. Moving on to some
adorable news, Swifties are celebrating Easter,

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a holiday that centers around one of
Taylor's favorite pastimes, dropping Easter eggs.

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On Sunday, Taylor's management team,
known as Taylor Nation, shared a throwback

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Easter clip on Instagram featuring a baby
Swift wearing a bunny suit in her mother,

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Andrea's arms. In the soundless video
dated March fourteenth, nineteen ninety Swift's

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first Easter season, Andrea appeared to
coop at her daughter, now thirty four,

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The baby pop star stared at the
camera and waved her little arms around,

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dressed in what seemed to be a
pink and white fuzzy suit complete with

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bunny ears. Easter egg has become
a term for hidden messages in pop culture

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that reference other projects or offer hints
about upcoming events, in addition to being

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a colorful shell, sometimes filled with
candy or money to celebrate the holiday.

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Swift has been famous for dropping Easter
eggs in her songs and videos since early

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in her career. Her earliest ones
were hidden messages she wrote to fans in

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the liner notes of her albums,
using capital letters to explain what songs are

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about dropping Easter eggs since nine teen
eighty nine. What's your favorite that you

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found through the eras read the caption
on the Instagram post. More recently,

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she teased the release of her upcoming
album, The Tortured Poets Department, before

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officially announcing its existence and release date
at the twenty twenty four Grammy Awards on

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February fourth. In the music video
for her song Bejeweled from the album Midnights,

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Swift held a clock that said exile
ends with the numbers two and three

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on it. In retrospect, fans
realized that two three marked the day before

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she announced her new era. Another
hint came in October twenty twenty three,

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when Swift and longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff
held up eleven fingers in photos that the

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singer posted of the pair in the
studio looking back. They were likely hinting

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at her upcoming release, her eleventh
studio album. As for how she spends

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the actual Easter holiday, Swift shared
in a twenty nineteen Instagram story post that

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she and her brother Austin Swift enjoy
passing the time by having Easter egg breaking

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contests. After spending time on the
West Coast, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey

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reportedly flew to Nashville for some family
time. According to Dumois, the couple

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visited Soho House with Taylor's family on
March thirtieth. An eyewitness told the pop

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Culture account they were absolutely adorable and
lovey dovey. No photos are allowed at

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Soho House, which is a member's
only club. Taylor and Travis have both

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had breaks from work in recent weeks, allowing them to spend a significant amount

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of time together. After Taylor's March
ninth concert in Singapore. The pair returned

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to Los Angeles to attend an a
list Oscars party on March tenth. Then

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they enjoyed a few days in the
Bahamas on a tropical vacation. Days after

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they returned from the trip, photos
surfaced showing the lovebirds packing on the PDA,

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in the ocean and on the beach. They both rocked swimsuits as they

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soaked up the sun on their getaway. Following their return to the States,

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Taylor and Travis were photographed enjoying lunch
at Nobu Malibu on March twenty fourth.

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Four days later, Travis went golfing
with friends in California. Taylor's Eras tour

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doesn't resume until May ninth in Paris. She'll then spend the summer touring throughout

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Europe. With Travis's football training schedule
not expected to pick up until July,

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the duo will have plenty of time
to spend together over the next few months.

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This summer, they'll also celebrate their
one year anniversary. Their romance began

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after Travis attended the Airas Tour in
July twenty twenty three and gave Taylor a

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shout out on his New Heights podcast. Afterward, we started hanging out right

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after that, the Blank Space singer
revealed in December twenty twenty three. However,

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the beginning of their relationship was kept
under wraps and they did not go

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public until September twenty twenty three.
The big reveal came at a Kansas City

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Chiefs game, where Taylor sat with
her boyfriend's mom, Donna Kelce, in

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a private suite. She went on
to attend several more NFL games throughout the

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season, and was in attendance when
Travis and his teammates won the Super Bowl

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in Las Vegas on February eleventh.
When you say a relationship is public,

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that means I'm going to see him
do what he loves, Taylor explained,

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we're showing up for each other.
Other people are there and we don't care.

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The opposite of that is you have
to go to an extreme amount of

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effort to make sure no one knows
you're seeing someone, and we're just proud

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of each other. If Taylor Swift
ends up becoming a famous Hollywood filmmaker,

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actress Laura Dern won't be surprised.
During the Friday March twenty ninth episode of

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The Rap's Unwrapped podcast, Dern was
asked if she thought Swift could have a

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career beyond music. She is a
real deal, Dern gushed upon hearing the

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question. On top of everything else, amazing that she does and is a

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real deal filmmaker, which I got
to experience firsthand. I'm excited to watch

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that part of her journey wherever she
continues to take it amongst everything. Dern

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was referring to twenty twenty two's Bejeweled
music video, in which she appeared alongside

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Swift, who also served as the
director. The Bejeweled music video, a

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retelling of the Cinderella Fairytale, starred
Swift as Cinderella, Dern as the wicked

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stepmother, and the Hame Sisters as
her evil stepsisters. After working with Swift,

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Dern proclaimed on the podcast that she
would happily collaborate with her again.

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Listen wherever she wants to go.
I'll show up. I love her,

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The Oscar winner said. While Swift
herself hasn't signed on to star alongside Dern

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in her new Apple TV Plus series
Palm Royal, the actress and her production

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partner Jamie Lemmons would have no problem
entertaining the idea of teaming up with Swift

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on a completely new project. Lemons
and Dern even pitched a TV or movie

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collaboration called jay Walker Taylor's version,
a nod to the duo's production company,

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Jaywalk Pictures, as well as Swift's
re recorded versions of her earlier albums.

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Although Swift and Dern have no known
collaborations on the horizon, it was announced

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in December twenty twenty two that Swift
would make her directorial film debut with Searchlight

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Pictures. While details surrounding the cast, plot, and release date of the

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project have been kept under wraps,
it was revealed that Swift had written an

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original script. Taylor is a once
in a generation artist and storyteller. Searchlight

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presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield said
in a statement at the time, it

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is a genuine joy and privilege to
collaborate with her as she embarks on this

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exciting and new creative journey. Until
then, Swift is focused on continuing her

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Eras tour, which will kick off
again in Europe in May. In addition

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to touring, Swift has been working
on new music with her eleventh studio album,

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The Tortured Poet's Department, set to
drop on April nineteenth. More In

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a moment Finally, Hollywood director Rob
Reiner would give anything for Taylor Swift to

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publicly endorse President Biden for reelection.
I'm in the midst of shooting a sequel

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to This is Spinal Tap. As
much as I'd like Taylor Swift to do

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a cameo in the film, I'd
give anything for her to endorse Joe Biden,

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Reiner wrote on x she would virtually
single handedly save American democracy. Reiner

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has been vocal about politics and social
issues over the last few years. His

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new documentary God and Country looked at
the implications of Christian nationalism and how it

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can distort the constitutional Republic of the
US and Christianity itself. The Spinal Tap

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director, a longtime Democratic Party supporter, previously praised Biden as a decent,

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law abiding person and called former President
Donald Trump a pathologically lying criminal. Swift

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has not made an official endorsement,
but there's no question it would be Biden

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if and when she makes that public. The pop star supported Biden in twenty

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twenty and has been strongly critical of
Trump. A January report from The New

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York Times revealed Biden's aids are hoping
to earn an endorsement from the pop Icon

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and have even floated the idea of
sending him to a stop on her Heiras

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tour. However, the report noted
it was partly in jest. The Times

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reported that one of Swift's Instagram posts
from twenty twenty two led to thirty five

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thousand new voter registrations. Fundraising appeals
from Miss Swift could be worth millions of

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dollars for mister Biden. The report
read, as the president seeks to pump

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energy into his reelection bid. Earlier
this month, Swift urged people to head

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to the polls on Super Tuesday,
but did not endorse any candidates or party.

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Today, March fifth, is the
presidential primary in Tennessee and sixteen other

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states and territories. I wanted to
remind you, guys to vote the people

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who most represent you into power,
she wrote in an Instagram story. If

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you haven't already, make a plan
to vote today, whether you're in Tennessee

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or somewhere else in the US,
check your polling places and times at vote

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dot org. She added, Swift
has encouraged fans to vote before and there

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