Phoebe Bridgers and Taylor Swift’s NYC Dinner. Oysters, Scallop Delights, and Rhubarb Sophie.s"

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Calaugas, Shawk Media, Hi,
and Welcome to Taylor Swift Today. A

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short roundup of all the headlines around
Taylor's music, tours, movies and life.

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Taylor Swift exuded fall vibes as she
stepped out for dinner at Minetta Tavern

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in New York on Friday. The
Bad Blood hit maker looked effortlessly chic in

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a brown Gucci sweater, dark flared
pants, and trendy Penny loafers with a

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chunky block heel as she headed into
the French eatery. The twelve time Grammy

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winner accessorized her outfit with a matching
brown purse slung across her arm was a

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brown blazer in case the weather got
chilly. Later on. The superstar wore

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her blonde tresses in a straight style
for the occasion and rocked her signature red

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lipstick. She was pictured arriving at
the restaurant with singer pal Phoebe Bridgers.

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British restaurateur Keith McNally, who owns
Minetta Tavern among other NYC hotspots. He

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gave fans insight into Swift's decadent dinner. Swift and Bridges were served baked oysters

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and foigras amuse bousche, which McNally
says Swift really liked. I was near

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the table when Taylor Swift ate the
oyster, and she opened her eyes and

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said, my god, she really
liked it, he wrote to Instagram,

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adding that the ladies also had scallops
to share. Next, Swift dined on

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Dover Soul and the fried Lobster volume
on Vaunt, and she and Bridges drank

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two Rhubarb Sophie cocktails. They skipped
dessert. McNally claims that the duo were

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at the restaurant until around twelve fifteen. Not present for Taylor's night out in

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NYC was her NFL BO Travis Kelcey, who was asked earlier during a press

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conference whether he was in love with
Swift and answered by saying he wanted to

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keep his personal relationship personal. In
music news, Taylor Swift's nineteen eighty nine

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Taylor's version is rewriting the record books
once again, this time on the vinyl

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front. The re recorded version of
her pop masterpiece nineteen eighty nine, released

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just a week ago, has broken
the all time record for the largest sales

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week on vinyl in US history,
according to Billboard which cites data from Luminate.

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Nineteen eighty nine, Taylor's Version achieved
the remarkable feat of selling five hundred

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eighty thousand copies on vinyl in its
first six days of availability. That's the

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largest sales week for a vinyl album
since Luminate began tracking sales in nineteen ninety

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one. The previous modern era of
vinyl sales record was previously held by Swift,

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so the singer songwriter breaks her own
record. Before the arrival of nineteen

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eighty nine Taylor's Version, that honor
was held by her most recent album of

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all original material Midnights. The set
sold five hundred and seventy five thousand copies

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in its opening week in late October
twenty twenty two. What may be even

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more impressive is that nineteen eighty nine
Taylor's version total first week sales sum isn't

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clear just yet. The numbers reported
are only as of the first six days

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the title was available. That five
hundred eighty thousand some will likely climb,

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raising the record even higher. In
the first six days following its release,

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nineteen eighty nine, Taylor's Version sold
over one point one million copies in the

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United States alone, including all formats. When considering total equivalent album units earned

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including streaming activity as well, that
figure climbs to over one point three million

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copies. In tour news, Taylor
Swift's Eras tour dominated the US in the

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spring and summer, and the movie
version became the highest grossing concert film of

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all time this fall, with over
two hundred million dollars at the worldwide box

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office. Now, the tour is
getting ready to kick back off in real

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life, as Swift performs three concerts
in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November

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ninth, ten and eleven. Iheard
Swift fans with general admission tickets have taken

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their love for the Grammy winner to
a whole new level by camping out in

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tents near the Estadio river Plate Stadium
in hopes of securing spots as close to

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the stage as possible. We've been
in this tent for five months, a

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twenty one year old Swifty told Pitchfork
on the condition of anonymity so that her

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father doesn't find out. I usually
tell my dad I'm at a park,

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drinking mate with somebody, or visiting
a friend of mine who lives near the

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stadium. According to Pitchfork fans have
been occupying four tents outside the stadium,

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taking turns in carefully planned rotations.
An internal spreadsheet, created by two organizers

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and updated by assigned administrators keeps track
of around sixty folks per tent. Most

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of them are young women, but
no one under eighteen is allowed. Based

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on a ranking system gathering everybody's total
time, the longer you've been in a

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tent, the higher the chances of
being one of the first in line.

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The fact that there are so many
people makes things easy. A twenty year

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old named Arena told Pitchfork, adding
that her mother is comfortable with her camping

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out as long as she doesn't get
bad grades in college. We all have

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different schedules, and you fit yours
amongst them. Sleepovers are now mandatory at

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least once a month, alongside a
minimum of sixty monthly hours to maintain one

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spot. People are very upset with
us camping for some reason. A fan

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named Carmen said, sometimes you're lying
down and you hear someone scream go to

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work at two am. It's like
you're the one who's outside of a tent

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shouting at two in the morning.
Aren't you supposed to work tomorrow. Does

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it really affect you that much?
I'm the one who's sleeping on the street,

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not you more Taylor in just a
moment. When law professor Sean Camer's

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friends told him they were skeptical about
the seriousness of his upcoming course focused on

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Taylor Swift at the University of South
Dakota, it was his chance to do

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what any swifty would do. Shake
it off. I understand this sounds ridiculous,

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at least at first glance, said
Camer, a self avowed swifty,

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but it's not. Camer's course,
The Taylor Swift Effect, planned for the

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spring semester, looks to be the
first law school class based on the sequined

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musical icon. After attending a Swift
concert in Minneapolis in June, Camer said

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he was inspired to develop the Writing
Intensive class, available to second and third

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year law students. The course will
look at the musicians' interactions with the law,

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such as her re recording of six
albums and related copyright issue. Camer

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said it will also examine how individual's
own experiences and beliefs shape how they interpret

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the law, much like how they
interpret her song lyrics. Pop culture focused

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law classes are not uncommon, and
they can create a public relations buzz for

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the schools that offer them. The
gritty television show The Wire inspired a number

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of criminal law focused classes over the
years, and the University of Virginia School

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of Law in twenty twenty two offered
a class on corporate law based on the

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show Succession. Law classes centered on
a single public figure are harder to come

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by, though, Georgia State University
College of Law is currently running a class

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based on the legal life of rapper
and music executive Rick Ross. Boston University

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law professor Jessica Silbey, who co
authored a textbook on pop culture and the

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Law, said students tend to be
more engaged when they study subjects such as

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sports, new technology, and celebrities. Sylby covers the singer's album re Recordings

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in her copyright class to teach about
contract law in the music business. She

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said Swift's success story and her bumps
along the Way provide opportunity for lessons in

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us out. I'm Annaly Sidel. Thanks

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to Mark for Anceist and John McDermott. This is Taylor Swift today. Callaroga

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