World tours from Taylor Swift and Beyoncé might be inspiring an uptick in divorces.

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Hi, and welcome to Taylor Swift
Today. A short round level of aller

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headlines abound Taylor's music, tours,
movies in life. Taylor called out to

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fans to register on National voter Registration
Day last Tuesday, and swifties answered in

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droves. She posted an Instagram story
directing her followers to vote dot org,

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a nonprofit organization that offers voter registration
services. Vote dot org registered more than

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thirty five thousand voters after Swift's post, which was a twenty two and a

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half percent increase from the previous year. Organization CEO Andrea Hailey said there was

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a one hundred fifteen percent increase in
registrations by eighteen year olds when compared to

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last year. The organization also helped
fifty thousand people verify their registration status.

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Want to know something even more wild, We see an eight hundred forty nine

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percent increase here compared to twenty twenty
one eight hundred forty nine percent. This

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generation's eagerness to participate is a game
changer, Hailey said in a social media

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post. They are the future and
their energy will shape the outcomes of upcoming

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elections. Hailey described the numbers as
vote dot org's love letter to Swift for

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amplifying voter voices. If you cashed
in this summer by reselling tickets to Taylor

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Swift's Eras Tour or Leonel Messi's first
Games in a Bubblegum Pink Jersey, brace

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yourself to pay taxes and per the
Wall Street Journal, a new law requires

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ticketing platforms like Ticketmaster and stub hub
to give the Internal Revenue Service information on

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users who sold more than six hundred
dollars worth of tickets this year. The

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new requirements are taking hold amid a
banner year for live events in which Swifties,

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soccer buffs and members of Beyonce's beehive
paid sky high prices for a chance

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to see their favorite stars in the
flesh that drove huge markups in the secondary

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ticket market and delivered hefty profits to
one hawking hot tickets. The average price

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fort Taylor Swift tickets sold in the
US on stub Hub was one ninety five,

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with best seats going for thousands of
dollars. According to the company,

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which operates an online market for people
to resell them buy tickets. Averages for

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Beyonce and Harry Styles clucked in at
three eighty and four hundred, respectively.

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After Lionel Messi joined Major League Soccer, the price of tickets to into Miami

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CF matches shot up to two fifty
five apiece from thirty. There was an

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unusually high number of fan ticket resellers
this year. Stub Hub said fan sellers,

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as opposed to professional ticket brokers,
have accounted for about seventy percent of

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the US eras tour ticket orders,
double the proportion of what the company normally

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sees. The Blockbuster Barbie Movie and
World tours from Taylor Swift and Beyonce might

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be inspiring an uptick in divorces,
according to a divorce attorney to the stars

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this from People. Laura Wasser,
whose a list celebrity clients including Arian Grande,

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Kevin Costner, and Britney Spears,
to name a few, told Cosmopolitan

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she thinks those pop culture bermiths could
be linked to many recent breakups. The

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ongoing writers and actors strikes have also
played a part. She said, something

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going on with a lot of my
clients, and what I'm seeing here in

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southern California is that we're in the
middle of one of the worst strikes in

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history for the writers and actors.
So you've also got people who have more

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time on their hands. They're angry
about reproductive rights getting rolled back. They're

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feeling power by going to see Barbie
and Taylor and Beyonce, she continued,

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and they're like, I don't need
this. I'm the one making this money,

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and I'm not comfortable not working and
having this. Spouse's either also not

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working or never was working. Wassa
added, a lot of people have said

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I'm out, so it's compounded by
what's going on here economically. According to

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Forbes Advisor, about seven and ten
heterosexual divorces are initiated by the woman.

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A viral article in August compiled by
Huffington Post showed Barbie viewers claiming they broke

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up with their boyfriends after seeing the
movie. Back with more Taylor News and

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Just Moment, Summer has turned to
fall, but Taylor Swift's Cruel Summer continues

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going strong. Swift tied her longest
rule on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart as Cruel

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Summer rebounds for a seventh week at
number one on the ranking dated September thirtieth.

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She first dominated for seven weeks with
I Knew You Were Trouble in twenty

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thirteen. Cool Summer first hit number
one on the Pop Airplay chart dated August

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fifth, giving Swift sole possession of
the most leaders in the history of the

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survey, so passing the eleven each
four Maroon five, Katy Perry, and

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Rihanna. Cruel Summer was originally released
on Swift's twenty nineteen album Lover. Republic

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Records began promoting it as a single
in June, as Swift has performed it

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on her Eras tour, her first
in which she has been able to spotlight

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songs from Lover, which was released
shortly before the onset of the pandemic.

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Cruel Summer previously became her eleventh number
one on the Adult Pop Airplay chart,

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pushing her past Pink for the most
leaders among soloists. It has hit number

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three on the Old Genre mo teen
Metric Billboard Hot one hundred, extending Taylor's

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record for the most top tens among
women, a total now up to forty

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