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’80s Pop Star Tiffany Reflects on Fame, Mall Tours, and Redefining Success in Her 50s

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You can’t think of the 1980s without thinking of the mall, and you can’t think about the mall or music without thinking of Tiffany, one of the, if not the, decade’s most-popular teen performers, who honed her skills in shopping centers all over America, becoming synonymous with big hair , jean jackets, and screaming teen girls.

At just 16, she earned two US number-one hit singles with “I Think We’re Alone Now” and “Could’ve Been,” and set a record as the youngest female artist to top the Billboard charts with her debut album.

“There was something so fun about the mall tour and just being able to hang out with people and talk to kids my age,” Tiffany tells Glamour of that time in 1987 before the crowds became so enormous that she was “forced” into arenas. “We [eventually] were getting yelled at from store owners. So it was a nice thing to say, ‘Well, now we have to go to arenas.’”

Thousands of young pop fans gather at the Bull Ring Shopping Centre for pop singer Tiffany (pictured center, on a small stage), in Birmingham, West Midlands on January 19, 1988.

But before there was ’80s mall queen and pop star Tiffany, there was young Tiffany Darwish, who almost embarked on a career in country music before the age of 10. “My parents were from Los Angeles, but they knew nothing about the music industry. I was kind of the oddball,” she says. “I just really loved singing and performing, so when I was nine, and my mom married my stepdad, he recognized that in me and was like, ’I don't know what I'm doing, but if you really want to sing, we'll give it a shot.’”

Give it a shot they did. Tiffany’s stepdad would pay local country bands in Norwalk, California, $50 if they’d let her sing with them. They’d say, “It’s a little weird because she has this huge voice, but she’s this little girl,” Tiffany recalls. Regardless, the red-haired youngster impressed the local musicians enough that they told her parents where she needed to go and who she needed to meet. “And that led us to Nashville,” she says.

Years later in the early ’90s—after the mall tours, the so-called overnight stardom, and the challenges that come with staying at the top of the charts—Tiffany returned to Nashville for six years. “I was a new mom, and I wanted to slow it down a bit, really work on my songwriting,” she says. “I knew that Nashville is where you cut your teeth, and if you can hang here, you’ve really made it.” When she returned to the country music capital in the early aughts, she decided this time it was for good. “I was determined. You get to meet a lot of great people and grow as a songwriter and as a performer.”

That tenacity paid off. The now 52-year-old has called the outskirts of Nashville, where she lives with her fiancé, home for the last 17 years. “I love it,” she says. “I live in the countryside and I’m very hippie-dippie. I love glamour, but when I’m not doing that, I love nature."

Ironically, it was there that Tiffany got the latest “Hollywood” opportunity in her colorful career. Her mutual friends, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Steve Dorff, and Michael Jay and Steve McClintock, asked her to record a theme song they’d written, and voilà, “here we are.”

That song is for the new movie, Ladies of the ’80s: A Divas Christmas , coming to Lifetime on December 2 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT. Starring icons Loni Anderson, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Gray, Donna Mills, and Nicollette Sheridan, the film centers on five glamorous ’80s soap stars who reunite to shoot the final Christmas episode of their long-running daytime drama.

“Considering all the women involved and the ’80s history and the ’80s flair…I wanted to be a part of it,” Tiffany says. “They’re all my favorite ladies. It was a full circle, big honor for me.”

Ahead of the film’s premiere, Glamour chatted via phone with the singer-songwriter about revisiting that pivotal decade, her thoughts on Taylor Swift, and redefining success in her 50s.

Glamour : Your ’80s mall style was so iconic. Did you save any of your jean jackets?

Tiffany: I still have those. I work with Children’s Miracle Network and sometimes I’ll do a selected piece to help raise money for them. But I still have all my stuff. All my jean jackets are collector’s items and they go to my son. I have all my first tour earrings. I have some of my cool boots from the ’80s, the old-school stuff. And of course, all my jumpers. Once in a while I’ll auction something off for charity. I know that one of my jackets went into the Hard Rock Cafe, and then it went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for a minute, which was really cool.

You even had your own boutique at one point in Nashville, right?

Yes, which was so much fun. We carried vintage clothing, from funky finds to one-of-a kind pieces. I always loved being a part of the community. And I still have it now, but it’s online and called Radikal Redz . I couldn’t commit to the labor involved with having a [brick-and-mortar store], because when I decided to go back to music full-time, that takes you away from Nashville. My music is my first love.

So my sister and I kind of run Radikal Redz together. Of course, I’m the mall queen, so I knew a thing or two about shopping. Makeup artists and stylists would say, “Your collection’s really cool. Can I borrow this?” And my pieces ended up in a few magazines on shoots, and then my girlfriend was like, “You should really start to maybe rent some stuff out.”

Meanwhile, you mentioned your son earlier. He’s 31 now. Is he into music or fashion?

No. He is a structural engineer. He has a really good job. As a kid, he loved dinosaurs and Hot Wheels. And I was a tomboy, so I loved all of that, and I still love all of that. And I would come and start to play with him because he’d have all his stuff on the floor, doing his thing, but he’d say, “No. No, no, no.” And he’d put it back in a line. I was like, “Loosen up, Elijah!”

Too funny. Where does he live now?

He lives in Louisville, which is only three and a half hours from me. He and his girlfriend have been together nine years now and are just doing great.

A few years ago I was in Ogden, Utah, and as I was looking up information about the city, I discovered the Ogden City Mall was where you recorded the music video for “I Think We’re Alone Now.” How did that come about?

That was at the time when I was doing the mall tour, which started out because I recorded the album when I was 14. It came out when I was 15, right before my 16th birthday, and they were sending me to New York. I was doing clubs, but I was only 15. So I’d go out the door, back into the limo, back to the hotel, and that’s it. My label was like, “This is just not going to work.” So they thought of the mall. My rep said, “They have hair shows here and fashion shows, so why can’t we put her on a stage and just have her sing? And this is where her age group hangs out.”

What did you think of that idea at the time?

I thought it was a great idea because the ’80s. Hello? I was already hanging out at the mall. So that’s how the mall tour began, and it just started taking off. “I Think We’re Alone Now” hit number one. No one thought of videos or fashion for me or how we were going to really work this. We just rode the wave. And I was in Ogden, Utah, and they said, “We need a video. Come on, let’s do it.” And of course, we wanted to do what was real, which was the mall.

That’s amazing. What are you favorite memories from the mall tours?

I really had a good time. I made lifelong friends. I sang for 30 minutes and got to eat all the pizza I wanted without it affecting my waistline at all. Hang out and then go do another 30 minutes. And then I’d sign autographs. But then we got out of the mall tour because people couldn’t shop the mall anymore and we were getting yelled at by store owners. So it was a nice thing to say, “Well, now we have to go to arenas.” But there was something so much fun about the mall tour and just being able to hang out with people and talk to kids my age and walk around.

That's where my love of fashion really began…going into the mall and seeing all these shops and just trying on things. I mean, I was trying on things that I would never be able to afford. And then I started to be able to afford things. I was like, "Well, I want the funky purple pants over there." Growing up in the '80s, you took fashion risks.

Is there any part of the ’80s that you miss or you wish you could revisit?

I’m always about being in the moment, but when I look back on the ’80s, I think there was some kind of spark in the air that I wish we had [today]. I don’t really know what that was. It was in the music. It was in the fashion. It was in the discovery. It was in the technology. We hadn’t really had things before and we were rapidly getting them, but we weren’t spoiled like we are now. Our attention span is about half a second now, where before we really rolled out things and we waited for things. And I remember waiting for a Michael Jackson tour and it was on all the billboards in LA. And you waited for the album. That buildup was just crazy and fun. But now we just don’t have the patience for that.

Yes, things are more convenient now, but…I think we’ve gone too far. I used to go to the Topanga Mall all the time [outside of LA] or the Glendale Galleria, which was also where we filmed some of “I Think We’re Alone Now.” The mall was communal. You met your friends there. It was an event. And I don’t know when that stopped. I will say I went to Singapore in the last few years and the malls still rock there. So I was very encouraged. I was like, Oh, this is my soil; thank you.

This summer has been all about Taylor Swift and the records she’s broken which made me think about how you set a record in the ’80s as the youngest female artist to top the Billboard charts with your debut album. Do you often think about that?

It’s not something I really think about a lot, but yeah, as I see a lot of other artists currently changing the rules or breaking records, of course, I think, Oh, I did that, too—that was cool.” But I’m always a “what’s next for me?” kind of person. Not to be selfish, but I think it’s weird. People go, “Well, you accomplished all of this and yet why aren’t you doing records now?” And it’s like, Well, the industry changed and I changed.

But also being a child star, for some reason, that becomes a default. I don’t know when that happened. I’m pleasantly hopeful that we’ve changed that. I see a lot of these young artists now that have changed that. Some have had to do things that I don’t think were appropriate for me at the time, but being a girl one day and then being an adult woman the next, and having a very sexy image. I don’t know if you can really do a real gradual transition.

The industry, especially back then, was very good at pigeonholing talent.

It was just like, “Oh, Tiffany, isn’t she 15?” It’s like, “Well, no, she’s 20 now and she’s still doing music, and why is this a problem?” So I feel like somewhere in there, there was a hiccup. I left my manager at the time because I didn’t feel like I was growing in the direction that my fans were. And I tried a couple different things where I dyed my hair black, but they didn’t recognize me. I had to learn that I’m iconic as a redhead, and fans didn’t want me to change. But that takes trying. That takes a failure. That takes doing it because you want to do it.

I’ve done more rock now in the last couple of years. I’m an ’80s rocker. I love pop music, don’t get me wrong, but I had all the rock bands cut out on my walls, like Eddie Van Halen, Iron Maiden. And I love Stevie Nicks, Pat Benatar, and Ann Wilson from Heart. These were the people that I was jamming to in my room before I got a record deal. I wanted to be the girl in front of a band. And that girl still exists. So in the last five years, I’ve been doing more rock music.

How’s that been?

I’m with Deco Records. They’re a small label. We have minimal radio play because again, you have all the other amazing people killing the charts. So I’m happy with my lane and I am really great. I’d love to do other things. And of course, you want your music to succeed, but as long as I’m out there touring and growing, I am very happy. And that’s what’s been happening the last year and a half.

And you’re engaged now too.

Going back to the ’80s, I just didn’t get into trouble [with] guys. I didn’t marry another musician. I didn’t want the drama. I took my own path and I became a young mom, gosh, when I was 21. So it kind of grounded me, thank goodness. I worked on being a songwriter and doing other things. I have my own studio at my house called Red Brand Show, and I do a lot of recording here with my fiancé. I love the romance of [an engagement], so I’m not in a rush [to plan a wedding]. We’ve already been together seven years. We live together.

He’s my producer and co-writer, and we write with a lot of other people. So it’s just a real creative place, my home now. I’ve made all these things kind of my environment, finally. It’s really cool when I hear people say, “You’re really a lifer. You’re a true musician. There’s so much more to you than ‘I Think We’re Alone Now.’” I mean, again, it’s always been about the music. It’s always about that somebody liked it, of course. It’s why you do it. So when I have it now and it’s the new stuff and I wrote that, and it’s in this style where I feel I’m maybe shining my best, I feel like, “Woo-hoo, we’re accomplishing something.”

The music industry is fickle, but you have powered through and are still doing it. That’s success.

I appreciate that. I really do because so many times you’re just like, “Okay, what now?” Or you put your heart into something and it doesn’t get a chance. Or you have all these obstacles or people don’t want to give you opportunities…it’s truly heartbreaking. Because you’re just like, “Okay, well, I didn’t even get a fair shot.” But I’ve learned to overcome that and enjoy [what I can control]. I’ve always been a live performer. I love the live music experience, and I just take it to the road. I let the people decide. That’s what I’ve been doing with [my album] Shadows .

Tiffany performs at Rewind South on August 17, 2019, in Henley-on-Thames, England.

Who do you look up to and admire now?

I just recorded “Cardigan” from Taylor Swift. Cleopatra Records is doing a big Taylor Swift greatest hits album with a bunch of artists, and asked me to participate. I love “Cardigan,” so I was like, “I know which one I want to do.” And it’s really cool. I’ve watched her just take off and continue to grow into all things Taylor. That’s exciting because I think the first woman to really start to do that a little bit on my end that I looked up to was Madonna. She owned her own label and she got into fashion and was always pushing the boundaries a little bit.

And how did that inspire you?

I just didn’t take no for an answer. I was like, “Well, this is what I’m meant to do. I’m very young at 21, 22. So I’m not going to retire. I’m just going to keep doing music, and it’ll find its way and grow my fan base and do other things in between and try to enjoy my life.” That’s kind of been the plan.

I want Taylor Swift to sing one of your songs on her tour and then you join her for one of hers. Two women that truly broke records.

That would be fun. We could definitely rock out to “I Think We’re Alone Now.” That would be a lot of fun.

What’s it like when fans recognize you now? Do you ever say it’s not you if they ask?

I never really lie, but I always walk away thinking, “Why do you recognize me now? I have no makeup on. My hair is not amazing.” But I guess it is a compliment in some way. There’ve been times that I take myself through the grocery store after an interview and I’m all zhuzhed up and thinking, “I’m something,” and people just can’t be bothered. They cannot be bothered. And then I’m there literally running out to get Drano or something in my sweats with no makeup and they go, “Aren’t you Tiffany?” I’m like, “Okay, this is a humbling time.” [ Laughs. ]

Finally, what’s on the horizon for you in 2024?

I tour full-time. I also have a food club on Instagram . I love going to mom-and-pop places, or high-end restaurants and singing. It’s an acoustic experience, and then being on the road allows me to learn dishes from the local places. I do Tiff Takeovers, where you buy tickets and come to the restaurant. It’s just a different side of me. I am doing a cookbook coming next year with Chef Alicia Shevetone , who’s a big chef in Las Vegas. She’s kind of my mentor, and I love it.

I also get to travel next year. Germany and France and Italy are on the horizon, the UK, Scotland. I love cooking. I love working with people. I love learning different types of cultures and foods and the whole experience because I think food and music really unites people. We’re not so different when we start talking food and music.

Jessica Radloff is the Glamour senior West Coast editor and author of the NYT best-selling book The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series .

7 Totally Radical 1980s Mall Events

Mall traffic may be down in recent years, but during their 1980s heyday, shopping centers had everything. Food courts, edgy clothing stores with racks full of JNCO jeans , and centrally-located water fountains.

Malls had something else, too: An event schedule. With reliable foot traffic, show organizers found malls ideal places for promoting entertainment properties and other attractions. Take a look at some of the more memorable spectacles from the ‘80s shopping mall era.

1. Tiffany in Concert

The epicenter of sweet teen bops in the ‘80s was the mall. Not only were record stores full of albums by acts like Debbie Gibson and New Kids on the Block, but some patrons were treated to live performances. Singer Tiffany is credited with helping to popularize mall tours, appearing live to perform hits like “I Think We’re Alone Now” and sign autographs. Her Tiffany Shopping Mall Tour ’87, which was conceived by MCA Records then-vice president Larry Solters and spread over 14 sites, helped bolster sales of her self-titled debut album. Solters said that the mall appearances helped her hit demographics beyond the teen market. (After the tour, Tiffany entered her junior year of high school. She was just 15 years old at the time.)

2. Nintendo Demonstrations

When the Nintendo Entertainment System arrived in the United States in 1985, the video game market was in shambles. Atari had flooded the market with subpar games and retailers were wary of investing in a new console. To help stir interest in the NES, Nintendo focused on the New York City area first. Their strategy included a tour of malls in both New York and New Jersey, where shoppers could sample games like Duck Hunt or Baseball . The event also included R.O.B., the robot packaged with the first wave of systems (though he moved too slowly to impress anyone). Nintendo rival Sega also launched a mall tour in 1988 to promote their slate of games.

3. Costumed Character Appearances

Kids in the ‘80s who dreamed of meeting their pop culture heroes or heroines could depend on their local mall to come through. A number of characters like He-Man and Barbie made personal appearances, posing for photos and signing autographs. Fans could also catch the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Doctor Doom, and Ariel from The Little Mermaid .

4. Nick at Nite’s TV Land Mall Tour

For people in the ‘80s nostalgic for the ‘50s and ‘60s, Nickelodeon had a solution. The channel’s Nick at Nite programming block of vintage sitcoms got a big push when the TV Land Mall Tour was launched in 1989. Visitors could check out trivia as well as a replica car from Car 54, Where Are You? and a Mr. Ed puppet.

5. The NBA Mall Tour

Hoops fans could get their fix in malls when the NBA promoted an event in 1988 that allowed visitors to compete against one another in everything from foul shots to tying their sneakers. Video highlights of slam dunk contests were also on hand.

6. The Jedi Adventure Center

Though it hardly needed any more promotion, the Star Wars saga got the mall tour treatment in 1983, when the Jedi Adventure Center began moving around the country to support the release of Return of the Jedi . Attendees could view original production artwork and other material related to the making of the films as well as backdrops for photos and costume contests. Fans could also walk through a miniature Ewok forest, though using Stormtrooper helmets as drums likely wasn’t permitted.

7. Patrick Duffy

Actors from both primetime and daytime soaps were frequent visitors to malls; the appearances were good publicity for their series and third-party promoters might pay $2000 and up for a few hours of work. Dallas star Patrick Duffy went on a mall tour in 1982 and was apparently besieged by amorous fans. “Oh my God, he’s gorgeous,” admirer Aggie Usedly told The Detroit Free Press . “He has beautiful dark hair, wore cowboy boots and jeans, and is taller than I ever imagined. I was just as exited as any other fan in meeting him.” Another attendee was said to have sat in Duffy’s lap and began kissing him before being removed by security.

How mall tours helped launch the career of pop star Tiffany

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Mall tours may not be a common thing today, but it was integral to the career of artists back in the day. Take pop star Tiffany for example, who says that embarking on a mall tour marked the beginning of her career. "There's such magic to the mall tour," she says. 

In a new q series called Road Story , Tiffany looks back on her time on the road, promoting her hit single, "I Think We're Alone Now."  

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History Highlight:

Today in 1987, 16-year-old Tiffany started her Mall Tour at Paramus Park Mall in New Jersey, performing her No. 1 hit, "I Think We're Alone Now." Tiffany's producer came up with the mall tour idea when it became clear that her record company, MCA, was not going to promote her effectively.

Also, Today In:

1962 - Ray Charles started a 14-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music .

1965 - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles' classic "The Tracks Of My Tears" was released by Motown.

1965 - The Kinks played a show in Springfield, Illinois that they later learned was organized by John Wayne Gacy, who later became a notorious serial killer.

1966 - The Rolling Stones departed London for their third U.S. tour just two weeks after Mick Jagger was hospitalized for exhaustion following extensive tours of Australia and Europe.

1967 - Arthur Conley received a Gold record for his memorable "Sweet Soul Music," his first and biggest hit.

1973 - George Harrison started a five-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with Living in the Material World , his second No. 1.

1975 - Alice Cooper broke six ribs after falling off the stage at a concert in Vancouver, B.C.

1976 - At the conclusion of the Paul McCartney "Wings Over America" tour in Los Angeles, Ringo Starr appeared onstage to present former band mate Paul with a bouquet.

1984 - Duran Duran started a two-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "The Reflex," the group's first No. 1 single in the U.S.

1986 - The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead is released in the U.S.

1990 - Gary Busey, who had portrayed Buddy Holly in the film, The Buddy Holly Story , paid in the neighborhood of $240,000 for one of Holly's guitars at a New York auction.

1995 - Dan Rather appeared onstage with R.E.M. for a photo session at Madison Square Garden as the band rehearsed "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" The song was, of course, a reference to the bizarre incident several years earlier where the veteran CBS news anchor was mugged when he couldn't come up with an answer to that question when asked by his assailants.

2002 - Yoko Ono, accompanied by her son, Sean, showed up at Club Universe in San Francisco, where she deejayed well into the morning. The day before, Ono had hosted the opening of her exhibition, Yes Yoko Ono , at the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art.

2004 - St. Andrews University in Scotland presented Bob Dylan with an honorary doctorate in Music.

2010 - Gregg Allman, aged 62 at the time, underwent a successful liver transplant operation at the Mayo Clinic's Jacksonville, Fla., location.

2013 - American Blues and Soul legend Bobby "Blue" Bland died at the age of 83. Bland was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame described him as "second in stature only to B.B. King as a product of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene"

June Carter Cash was born today in 1929.

Stu Sutcliffe, the Beatles' original bassist, was born today in 1940. Sutcliffe died of a brain hemorrhage in 1962, at age 22.

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See '80s Teen Idol Tiffany Now at 50

The "i think we're alone now" singer has had an interesting life as a former child star..

Tiffany Darwish, better known to 1980s babies as just Tiffany , is best known for her iconic cover of the Tommy Janes and the Shondells song “I Think We’re Alone Now.” It was a huge hit, spending two weeks in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts in 1987. Thanks to that instant hit and a mall tour—back when malls were actually a thing—Tiffany became a household name. Her self-titled debut album produced more great singles, including “Could’ve Been” and “I Saw You Standing There,” but none have endured as long as her famous cover.

The pop star released another album in 1988, Hold an Old Friend’s Hand , and while it did go platinum, it didn’t see the same success as her first album. She released two more albums throughout the '90s, New Inside and Dreams Never Die , but again, she failed to recreate that same magic fans felt when they crowded mall plazas to hear her sing.

But while Tiffany might be classified as a one-hit wonder to some, she continues to make music, act, and entertain fans on her Instagram page. Here’s what else the now 50-year-old has been up to.

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Tiffany tried to emancipate from her mom.

Many might remember that, at the height of her fame, Tiffany tried be legally emancipated from her parents. Her mother and father split early in her life, and her mother admitted during the trial that she was in recovery for alcoholism. Tiffany and her mother settled , as reported by  The Los Angeles Times , with Janie Williams remaining her daughter's legal guardian and Tiffany being allowed some financial freedom. The two eventually personally reconciled, before Williams died.

In 2018, when Tiffany was on the reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! , she explained the situation. “I wanted to go live with my grandmother because when I got famous, going back to that environment was toxic ," she said, via news.com.au. "When I got my record deal, my mum was still struggling a little bit so the entertainment industry took advantage of that. My mum needed money, and so she signed a contract.”

She's still making music.

After a seven-year hiatus, Tiffany returned with another album in 2000, though it didn’t garner any of the same success she enjoyed in the '80s. Since then, she’s recorded six more studio albums, including her latest, 2021's Shadows . And though they weren't huge mainstream hits either, Tiffany is still important to the fans who grew up with her. In 2019, she was a part of the nostalgic Mixtape Tour, with New Kids On The Block (who used to open for her in the '80s), Debbie Gibson , Salt-N-Pepa, and Naughty By Nature. She then kicked off her own solo tour, which, according to her official website , was met with “rave reviews.”

That tour made headlines for an unfortunate reason in November 2021. As reported by TMZ , Tiffany was on stage in Florida when she started to berate the crowd, cursing at them and telling them to get out. She also mumbled her way through her biggest hit.

She later posted a video apologizing and chalking the strange behavior up to a simple panic attack.

She's acted and done lots of reality TV.

In addition to music, Tiffany has delved into other parts of the entertainment industry. Her first acting job was voicing Judy in Jetsons: The Movie in 1990. Around the start of the 2010s, she appeared in a handful of Syfy TV movies, including  Mega Piranha . She's also appeared on a handful of reality shows, such as Celebrity Fit Club ,  What Not to Wear ,  Celebrity Wife Swap , and Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling . Back in 2002, she posed for  Playboy , and she told Billboard  13 years later that she didn't have a single regret about it. "It was a confidence booster," she said, adding that she received more offers for projects after the issue came out.

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She has her own cooking club.

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While she's still heavily involved in performing, Tiffany has other projects, too. (Including being the mother of 29-year-old Elijah .) On Instagram, the singer runs a cooking club . She shows off her recipes on social media and then hosts events in which she takes a famous restaurant menu item and “zhuzh’s” it up. Given her long career in the public eye, it’s just one other way for Tiffany to connect with fans both old and new.

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2016 After a trial in which the three living members of Led Zeppelin testified, a jury rules that they are not guilty of plagiarizing the intro of " Stairway To Heaven " from the 1968 song " Taurus " by the band Spirit. In 2018, the case is sent back to trial on a technicality, but is upheld in a 2020 ruling.

1994 The stage musical Copacabana (based on Barry Manilow's song ) opens in London.

1984 Duran Duran's " The Reflex " hits #1 in America. This version is a remix of the album cut done by Chic 's Nile Rodgers.

1979 The Charlie Daniels Band release " The Devil Went Down To Georgia ." Daniels plays the fiddle parts for both Johnny and the Devil; he says the Devil part is "just a bunch of noise."

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2021 Britney Spears asks a court to end her conservatorship, which is controlled by her father. "This conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good," she says. "I deserve to have a life." Despite her passionate plea, her request is denied, but she gets her wish five months later when her conservatorship is terminated.

2019 Dave Bartholomew, who co-wrote many of Fats Domino 's hits, dies at age 100.

2016 Alanis Morissette and husband Mario "Souleye" Treadway welcome their second child, a daughter named Onyx Solace.

2013 Bobby "Blue" Bland dies of an undisclosed illness at age 83.

2006 Kevin Richardson of Backstreet Boys leaves the group to pursue other interests.

2004 St. Andrews University in Scotland presents Bob Dylan with an honorary doctorate in Music.

2003 Diana Ross pleads not guilty to drunk driving charges in Tucson after being discovered with a 0.2 BAC, claiming that the arresting officer threatened her with injury if she didn't take the breath test.

2000 Michael Jackson is sued by a German promoter for $21 million after the singer cancels two once-in-a-lifetime millennial New Year's concerts.

1990 During their headlining set at the Glastonbury Festival, The Cure pause during a performance of " Fascination Street " so a police helicopter can rescue a woman who's nearly been crushed to death by the overzealous crowd.

1990 Actor Gary Busey, best-known for his lead role in the controversial 1978 biopic The Buddy Holly Story , purchases one of Buddy 's guitars, complete with tooled leather case made by the rocker, in auction for approximately $240,000.

1984 Duffy (Amie Ann Duffy) is born in Gwynedd, Wales. Her 2008 album, Rockferry , is a worldwide smash, but her 2010 follow-up, Endlessly , is a disappointment, and she retreats from the public eye. More

1980 The Rolling Stones release Emotional Rescue .

1979 Supertramp 's LP Breakfast In America hits #1.

1977 Jason Mraz is born in Mechanicsville, Virginia.

Tiffany Begins Her Mall Tour

15-year-old Tiffany starts her Mall Tour at the Bergen Mall in Paramus, New Jersey, performing what in November will be her #1 hit, " I Think We're Alone Now ."

Tiffany recorded her self-titled debut album a year earlier with her producer/manager, George Tobin. She was signed to MCA records, who released the album but didn't know how to promote it, since radio stations had little interest in unknown teenaged singers. They come up with a novel idea: a mall tour. It makes sense, since the mall is where you are likely to find 15-year-old girls, and it's where Tiffany can find an audience. "Mall Tours" have been around for a while, but they are promotional vehicles for products, with marketers setting up stations in the hubs to peddle their wares. One of these tours, "The Beautiful You: Celebrating The Good Life Shopping Mall Tour '87," is already on the road, so MCA arranges for Tiffany to join. She does three sets a day every weekend, singing over pre-recorded backing tracks for about 20 minutes, then doing interviews and greeting onlookers. Her first weekend in Paramus, she sells about 60 copies of the album and intrigues the media, which starts covering her story at every stop. She makes 10 stops on the tour before heading back to high school in Norwalk, California, for her junior year. By the last stop in Littleton, Colorado, she is a featured attraction and "I Think We're Alone Now" is starting to garner airplay. On November 7, the song hits #1 in America, and in January 1988, the album hits the top spot, making her the youngest woman (at 16) ever to top that chart. During the tour, Tobin shoots footage that is used to make the music video for "I Think We're Alone Now," which gets a lot of attention on MTV. Tiffany follows up with " Could've Been ," which also climbs to #1 in February. In June, she starts a 6-week arena tour. Her opening act: New Kids on the Block .

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Live Nation Singapore is thrilled to announce that the popular K-pop pop-rock band,  DAY6 , will be bringing their highly anticipated  <FOREVER YOUNG>  3 rd  world tour to Singapore this coming November!

This world tour marks DAY6’s first in nearly four years and eight months since their <GRAVITY> tour, which included 32 shows across 26 cities worldwide. Riding on the anticipation and support for their new album, <Band Aid>, DAY6 is set to deliver performances that resonate with youthful energy and inspiration.

DAY6 3RD WORLD TOUR <FOREVER YOUNG> in SINGAPORE  will take place at  The Star Theatre  on  22 November 2024  (Friday). Mastercard cardholders have special access to presale tickets in Singapore. Mastercard Presale starts on 3 September (Tue), from 2pm to 11:59pm. Check out  priceless.com/music  for details. Live Nation members can secure tickets during the Live Nation presale on 4 September (Wed), 2pm to 11:59pm. Visit  livenation.sg  for free membership signup and presale access. Tickets for the general public will go on sale on 5 September (Thu), from 2pm onwards via  ticketmaster.sg .

About DAY6: DAY6 is a South Korean pop-rock band under JYP Entertainment. The group debuted on September 7, 2015, with their EP <The Day>, which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s World Album Chart just a week after its release. The band consists of four members: SUNGJIN, Young K, WONPIL, and DOWOON. Unlike typical bands, three members of DAY6 contribute as both instrumentalists and vocalists.

DAY6’s music spans a wide spectrum and is not confined to any single genre. Their sound seamlessly blends elements of pop, rock, hip-hop, and more, all while maintaining the unique identity that sets DAY6 apart. Known as the “trustworthy band” for their consistent delivery of quality music, every album they release receives widespread acclaim from both the public and critics. In 2024, DAY6 made a highly anticipated comeback with their album <Fourever> after all the members completed their military service, bringing a refreshing and energetic sound that continues to resonate deeply within the evolving landscape of the Korean music scene.

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I took the tour again recently, because I had been told that it had improved since my last visit.

The result?  Yes, it is improved.

They addressed all of my earlier complaints about the  tour guides:

• I had complained that it was sometimes hard to hear them speak, so they now pass out individual headphones that allow guests to easily hear the guide under all conditions.
• I had noted that it was strictly a walking tour, and that all that walking could be a bit tiring for some members of the group.  So now they shuttle guests around in golf carts that hold about six people each - making for small, intimate tour groups, and making it easy for the less hardy to easily traverse the lot.
• I had also complained that the tour guides' training seemed lacking, when it came to knowing the history of the studio.  But if the guide on my latest tour was typical, they have solved that problem as well.  Our guide, Travis, seemed well-versed on both the history and current activities of the studio, as well as being personable & professional.  He couldn't have done a much better job, given the natural limitations of the tour.  They have also outfitted the guides with iPads, which allow them to show guests photos and short videos illustrating the subjects under discussion.

And unless I'm imagining it, the studio lot itself (or at least its southern edge, around the Paseo) seems to look better, more gentrified, than on my previous trips - almost resembling a college campus in spots.

All in all, those are some nice improvements, and make for a much better tour than what I experienced in my earlier visits to the studio.

However, what they couldn't fix are the problems inherent to the Paramount lot itself.

Don't get me wrong, Paramount Studios is one of the most historic studio lots in town (and in fact, the only major studio still officially inside the Hollywood borders).  They made the very first movie to win an Academy Award ("Wings"), and on this lot they have shot such classics as  "The Godfather", "Forrest Gump", "Titanic", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Going My Way", "Sunset Blvd", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "King Kong", "Braveheart", "Grease" and the "Star Trek" series, to name just a few.

But what it lacks is a traditional big back lot, full of permanent standing outdoor sets.  This was a staple of the major studios back in the Golden Age, filled with faux residential neighborhoods, jungles, mock railroads, Western towns, and Paris streets.  These big back lots were always the most colorful and interesting aspects of any movie studio, at least from the standpoint of a visitor.  MGM had a huge back lot, before they tore it down in the '70s.  Warner Bros. still has theirs.  As does Universal, of course.

To the average tour guest, all sound stages look more or less the same: distinguished only by the large numbers painted on their sides.  When they're in use, they are usually off-limits to tours.  When they are not in use, they are usually empty or filled with folded flats and lighting equipment.  So the guides are mostly limited to driving past these faceless barns, and telling us the history of each one, with tour guests catching an occasional glimpse of their dark, mostly empty interiors through the occasional open door.

( I noticed that they have added plaques to the outside of each sound stage, listing the notable movies & TV shows made inside.  That's great, except that the tour tram usually doesn't get close enough, or stop long enough for guests to read them. )

I realize that they can't, in practical terms, let the guests watch while movies are being made.  But they could (and should) show us more of the behind-the-scenes process.  Guests need to see things like the costume department, the prop houses, the recording studios, the dressing rooms, the mini-factories where they build the sets - and it sure wouldn't hurt to show guests at least one movie camera somewhere along the tour.

In short, they keep guests on the outside far too often, looking at exterior walls passing by, and listening to the guide's spiel.  Granted, the general buzz of the studio (its streets cluttered with white production trailers, and buzzing with the bikes and golf carts used to get around the lot) can be interesting in its own right, but a little of that goes a long way.

During my most recent tour, we only went inside twice: once to step into a tiny, empty, corner space in the New York set (that was once used for filming a scene from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"), and a second time to visit the empty set of "The Doctors" (a daytime TV talk show that I honestly never heard of).

Still, the tour is indeed better than it used to be, and I have to give them high marks for making an effort. And it remains superior to the Sony studio tour , which is just downright boring.  However, it still doesn't measure up to the Warner Bros. tour , with its huge back lot and more comprehensive tour.

But there are legitimate reasons why someone might opt for the Paramount tour.

As the photo on the left shows, Paramount is the only major studio where you have a view of the Hollywood Sign from inside the lot. OK, let's get into the details of what you'll see:

The Paramount tour takes a full two hours, and barely scratches the surface of the numerous buildings and sound stages that make up the 65-acre studio.

When he does, your first stop will be the Paramount gift shop, where they will give you some time to wander around the small store (where they no doubt hope you will spend your money on one of their t-shirts or coffee mugs, all bearing the familiar Paramount mountain logo).  You can also get a cup of coffee here, and relax for a moment under an umbrella at a patio table just outside.

They will then head east along the south edge of the studio lot, along the Paseo, the tiled walkway that runs parallel to Melrose, inside the studio.  On the right (south) edge of this broad walkway is a small strip of lawn, called Marathon Park, that is often also used for filming (due to its convenient location and relatively low cost), and the guide will tell you about a few of those productions.

Then it is on to the iconic Bronson gate (the one featured in "Sunset Blvd", "The Artist", and many other films), where you'll be given the chance to pose for photos near that famous arch.  (It is indeed a very photogenic spot.)

This brief history lecture (visually aided by the guide's iPad) seems to replace the short film about Paramount that used to be shown to tour guests before the start of the tour.  That's a mixed blessing, since its hard for a single person, no matter how talented, to compete with a professionally-made documentary film featuring the highlights of the studio's 100-year history.

Back outside on the Paseo, you'll be shown the original bench from "Forrest Gump", and regaled with stories about how Tom Hanks showed up one day to sit on the bench and pass out chocolates to passersby.

Then it's back on the tram, and through the Bronson gate into the actual working studio.

From here on in, the tours are somewhat played by ear.

As an example, on my visit, the guide ran into an unexpected problem.  While taking us to see the New York set (usually the highlight of the tour), he found his way blocked by a giant white tent, erected for some special event (you can rent the New York set for just such events, if you have the $10,000 a day it costs).  As a result, we ended up having to take a roundabout route and ended up seeing only a small section of the large New York set (portions of which mimic several East Coast cities).

We got out and were allowed to step inside the empty shell of a small storefront that our guide told us was used as the interior for Alex's boutique, called "Xela" on the TV sitcom "Happy Endings".  Since I never watched the show, that didn't mean much to me.

We were shown clips (via the guide's iPad) of a scene shot there from "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

We were also shown a very small alleyway just outside with fake bricks, and with fake sewers that could be rigged to emit steam, to add to that east coast ambiance.

Along the way, there was a lot of talk of the current TV shows filming on the lot: "NCIS", "Glee" "Happy Endings" and "Rizzoli & Isles".  There are also a lot of Nickelodeon kid shows filming at the studio, with names like "Big Time Rush" and "Marvin Marvin", which didn't ring a bell with most of the adults on this tour.

Tourists always hope to see a celebrity on a tour like this, but that is always a longshot chance.

We also saw a number of little kids spill out of a bus, and were told they were the cast of an upcoming Nickelodeon show called "Haunted Hathaways".  But since the show hasn't aired yet, that didn't mean much.

Likewise, our guide later pointed out a tween girl in a colorful dress, and identified her as Ryan Newman, an up-&-coming star (according to our guide) appearing with Tony Danza on his latest sitcom, "See Dad Run".

But, as expected, the better-known stars of "NCIS", "Glee" or even "Happy Endings" were nowhere in sight.

Finally, we headed to the southwest corner of the Paramount lot, which used to be RKO Studios, and later DesiLu (before Paramount absorbed it).

Our guide showed us Lucy Park (and an adjacent childcare center built by Lucille Ball for her employees).

We took a look at (the exterior) of Stage 21, where RKO filmed the original "King Kong", and then it was back to the studio cafe (seen on "Glee" as "Breadsticks"), where we disembarked and dispersed (after more encouragement to spend money in the studio gift shop).

The bottom line?  The studio tour is better than it used to be, and well worth the time, when you're in Hollywood.  But it could still be better.  And the historic Paramount lot, while it has a lot to offer, isn't the ideal movie studio for a tour.

Parking : Parking is available across the street from the famous Bronson gate, in a paid lot at the corner of Bronson & Melrose. (The cost for parking was a flat $10.00 on my last visit.)

Admission Price : $53 for the two-hour guided tour. (No one under age 10 is allowed on the tour.) Advance reservations are required (at 323-956-1777, or online at www.paramountstudiotour.com ).

(They also offer a special  4 1/2 hour VIP tour, once per week – on weekday mornings at 9:30 AM, and weekday afternoons at 1 PM. The cost is $178, and reservations are necessary .)

 [ Prices are current as of December 2014.]

You enter through the new double-arch Paramount gate on Melrose, just west of the older Bronson gate. There is a pedestrian walkway on the right (east) side of this entrance. Stop at the booth there.

Hours : Guided tours of the studio are given every day (except some holidays), every half hour from 9:30 AM to 2 PM.  (Weekend schedule may vary.) The tours last two hours.

[For more information on this subject, you can access Paramount's official website at: http://www.paramount.com .]  

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Concert review: Magnetic presence of rising jazz-pop star Laufey

Laufey – Bewitched: The Goddess Tour (Asia & Australia)

Singapore Expo Hall 7 Sept 4

Long gone are the days when Laufey, whose music is a deft meld of jazz, pop and classical, was a cult act.

In the past year, the half-Chinese, half-Icelandic singer has seen a meteoric rise in global popularity, and has almost single-handedly made genres from the 1940s and 1950s cool again among young adults and teenagers.

Playing to an audience of 7,000 who were overwhelmingly Gen Z, with a sprinkling of Gen Alphas, all tickets to the sold-out show were snapped up within minutes after they went on sale in May.

The 25-year-old multi-instrumentalist, whose name is pronounced “lay-vay”, seemed genuinely stunned that the crowd was much bigger than the audience at her previous gig a little over a year ago in Singapore at Pasir Panjang Power Station.

Here are three takeaways from her latest show here:

1. She sounds better live than on record

It would have been ideal to hear her music in a venue designed for optimum acoustics - the Esplanade Concert Hall or Theatre, for example.

Singapore Expo Hall 7 is decent, but during the hushed moments, you could hear noise bleeding in from the outside, which was a distraction.

Still, the singer managed to turn the 90-minute show in the cavernous venue into what felt like an intimate performance, charming her way into the hearts of the fans with her magnetic presence.

There was a lot of heart in the banter between songs, when she regaled the audience with the stories behind her songs, mostly centred around her experiences as a young adult navigating romance in the 2020s.

She prefaced the encore, Letter To My 13 Year Old Self, with a feel-good story about chasing her dreams, despite growing up feeling like a “nerd” who always felt out of place.

“I grew up always feeling really like I didn’t belong, you know?,” she quipped. “I grew up in Iceland, and I’m half Chinese, so I didn’t look like everyone else.”

Her alto voice was velvety smooth, and she nimbly switched among a Steinway grand piano, acoustic and electric guitars, and cello. Backed by a four-piece band and a string quartet, she also brought on twin sister Junia to play violins on bossa nova tune From The Start.

2. Her fans understood the assignment

“You’re so beautiful and so cute, and you all sing really well too,” she praised the crowd, many of whom wore classy dresses and had ribbons and bows in their hair, a staple look at Laufey shows worldwide. Some young men even wore suits.

Popular tracks like Dreamer from Bewitched (2023), the album that won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 2024 Grammys, elicited screams that could rival any K-pop show.

But there was also hushed reverence during quieter songs such as Second Best.

Tracks like Valentine and Falling Behind, both from her 2022 debut album Everything I Know About Love, sparked massive sing-alongs that almost drowned out her voice.

3. Her music is not all light and airy

Most of her repertoire harks back to a time before rock ‘n roll became a driving force in popular music, designed to be sung by female characters in old black-and-white Hollywood films.

But her setlist did include contemporary touches. Heartbreak song Lovesick, and its thumping drums, crosses over into pop-rock territory.

And while many of her tunes are laced with humour - Bored is an amusing take-down of men who only talk about themselves - she is capable of taking on darker tones in her music too.

The melancholic and cinematic Goddess, for example, with its post-rock undertones, is a raw rumination on a former lover who only desired Laufey the pop star, and not the normal human underneath all the glamour.

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Lily Allen accused of ‘starting campaign’ against ‘boring’ 00s pop star

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Noughties popstar Corinne Bailey Rae has accused Lily Allen of ‘starting a campaign’ against her that contributed to her reputation as a ‘boring’ artist.

Corinne, 45, hit the big time in 2006 when her hit single Put Your Records On went all the way to number two in the UK charts, with her self-titled debut album going to number one.

Put Your Records On was kept off number one by Madonna ’s big mid-2000s comeback at the time, but it was a fellow Brit who went to war with Corinne in the press.

Lily and Corinne were both nominated for the 2007 best British female award at the Brits , and in the run-up to the ceremony Lily fired shots at the Like a Star singer.

Hoping to win the award, Lily – who herself had just burst onto the scene with her number one single Smile and her debut album Alright, Still – didn’t mince her words.

She told The Mirror : ‘Corinne Bailey Rae? I think she’s a bit boring, sorry. She’s a lovely girl but I don’t think her music stands out and I’d be a bit annoyed if she won.’

Lily carried on: ‘When you do get nominated it’s really nice, but at the same time I’m going to have to put on my “Oh, I’m really happy Corinne won” face.’

The Fear singer needn’t have worried, because Amy Winehouse won the award that year after the massive success of her second and final album Back to Black.

But reflecting on that time, Corinne told The Independent that she was disappointed to hear Lily had such a negative assessment of her music.

‘In the British press, I was seen as boring and straight. I was making acoustic music, wearing these kinds of old-fashioned dresses. I was also married. I was so not interesting to them.’

She continued: ‘I remember Lily Allen started this campaign against me. She had started talking about me like that, but I wasn’t going to engage. Stevie Wonder liked me, so it wasn’t okay that Lily [didn’t].’

Another star of the mid-2000s who took aim at Corinne was Lady Sovereign, who also spoke to The Mirror at the time and referred to her contemporary as ‘Corinne Boring Rae’.

Put Your Records On proved to be Corinne’s first and last major hit in the UK but her albums continued to perform well, reaching the top 10 in 2010 with her follow-up The Sea.

Just two years after her breakthrough success, her husband Jason died aged just 32 – the pair had been married for seven years at the time of his death.

Six years later, Corinne married her long-time friend and producer Steve Brown – the couple currently live in Leeds and have two children together.

After a few years out of the spotlight, she has recently enjoyed renewed success and interest, with her 2023 album Black Rainbows nominated for Thursday’s coveted Mercury Prize Award for 2024.

For the award, she’s up against Charli XCX’s Brat, Ghetts’ On Purpose With Purpose, and the debut album from The Last Dinner Party, Prelude to Ecstasy.

Metro.co.uk have reached out to Lily Allen for comment.

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Chappell Roan says she’s canceling scalper-bought tickets for Nashville-area show

Chappell Roan  is telling fans that her team has canceled tickets to an upcoming show in Franklin, Tenn., that they believe were bought by scalpers or bots — and she has put up a link to a special Ticketmaster page she said will allow “people who actually want to come” to have a shot at purchasing the recovered tickets.

“Hello, Franklin, Tennessee,” the rising pop star said in a video posted to her Instagram Stories. “My show at Firstbank Amphitheatre on Oct. 1 sold out really quickly and we figured out why: scalpers and bots just bought up all the tickets. So we went through and canceled all the scalper tickets we could, so from that we’re going to release a limited number of tickets to you, because I want to make sure that tickets go to people who actually want to come and, like, our fans.”

The new page she touted as an alternate way for real fans to possibly pick up tickets for the Oct. 1 show, Chappellroan.request.ticketmaster.com, is through Ticketmaster but is not to be confused with the standard Ticketmaster page for the concert, which continues to show the gig as sold out.

Tickets for the concert in Franklin, a city just south of Nashville, are of considerable national interest because Roan, indisputably one of the hottest artists in America at the moment, has only a handful of shows on the books in the U.S. at present, with any larger tour yet to be announced.

Roan says the tickets that were canceled will be reallocated to real fans, but didn’t specify how many will be made available. In any case, the demand is likely to be many, many times whatever supply will become available. So, with the new page that has been set up, potential buyers who make it through the queue will be asked to submit their information and informed later if they have been selected to get tickets.

As part of these submissions for what sounds effectively like a ticket lottery, fans are being required to submit payment information in case their requests do end up being processed. Roan indicated in her video statement that this will help keep scalpers from once again obtaining the reallocated tickets.

“You need to pick your preferred tickets and then put in a payment method,” Roan says in the video. “I know it sounds so weird but this is the only way we’re figuring out how to deal with it. You will only be charged if your request is fulfilled, so you’ll only get charged if you actually get tickets. This is the best solution that makes sense to me and my team. I know it’s confusing and it’s so annoying, but I genuinely am so pissed about the scalper situation and think that people actually deserve tickets to my show.

“This is a larger issue,” she concluded. “We’re dealing with it. But thank you for understanding, and I can’t wait to see people who deserve to be here. It means everything to me. So,  mwah  — thank you so much.”

There is not a great deal of precedent for artists announcing they have identified and canceled tickets bought for the intention of reselling, but Eric Church is one such singer who blazed this anti-scalper path prior to Roan.

In 2017, the country star announced he had canceled more than 25,000 tickets that had been sold for a tour, saying he was putting them back on sale with the hope of them going directly to fans. Church had previously done it on a small scale for individual shows. “They buy thousands of tickets across the U.S., not just mine, and they end up making a fortune,” Church said of resellers at the time. “They use fake credit cards, fake IDs. All of this is fraud.”

Although Roan made it sound as if she was curious about the quick sellout in Tennessee, it’s safe to say virtually any show she would put on sale now would blow out tickets quickly, with or without bots. Besides the Franklin, Tenn. concert, Roan currently has just four other stops on the books for the U.S., which will undoubtedly see fans flying in from other cities. Two of these are individual headlining shows, set for Oct. 2 in Rogers, Arkansas, and Oct. 3 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The other two are festival gigs, first at the All Things Go Festival in Columbia, Maryland, the weekend of Sept. 28-29, followed by two shows at the Austin City Limits Festival on Oct. 6 and 13.

Roan’s future touring plans are the subject of considerable speculation, with headlining arenas throughout 2025 an obvious possibility for an artist whose popularity has grown exponentially since she began touring as Olivia Rodrigo’s opening act in February.

Her debut album, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” got off to a slow start after being released in September 2023, but she has become the buzziest new pop star of 2024, with the album being a constant presence in the top 5 in recent weeks.

Roan is as hot in Europe as she is in America. She recently canceled one European gig and postponed two others in the run-up to the MTV Video Music Awards Sept. 11, on which she will have what is arguably the most anticipated performance of the night.

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Entertainment | teen arraigned on attempted murder in shooting of san francisco 49ers rookie says he is very sorry, entertainment, entertainment | travis kelce’s reps deny pr ‘strategy’ for taylor swift breakup on sept. 28, a los angeles-based p.r. firm that represents kelce has called in lawyers to identify the culprits of a ‘fabricated’ document that purports to outline the couple’s ‘gracious’ exit from their year-long relationship.

The alleged “Comprehensive Media Plan” for a supposed split between the Kansas City Chief’s tight end and the pop superstar gave the appearance of being created by Kelce’s representatives at the Los Angeles-based firm Full Scope, the Daily Mail and Page Six reported .

Bearing a Full Scope letterhead, the “plan” revealed a strategy to go public with the split on Sept. 28, accompanied by an announcement that would be “gracious, respectful and stress mutual respect,” the Daily Mail reported. Laying out what the statement could say, the document said, “Example: Travis and Taylor have decided to part ways after careful consideration. They both value and respect each other’s personal lives and appreciate your respect for privacy during this time.”

The plan also described three days “post-breakup” to allow “the initial media frenzy to settle and to ensure clarity.”

And, as the document circulated overnight Tuesday, it also suggested that the couple’s high-profile romance was itself fabricated for media attention, TMZ noted. 

On Tuesday, a representative for Full Scope issued a statement to the Daily Mail, saying that the “false” document was “not created, issued or authorized by this agency.”

The rep also said that the company has called in lawyers to identity the culprits and to “initiate proceedings against the individuals or entities responsible for the unlawful and injurious forgery of documents.”

A source close to the situation told Page Six that the document could have been a school project made by a die-hard fan. The “tell-tale” sign that the document was created by a student is that words like “objective” are frequently used — words that apparently are common in college homework assignments, the source explained. Furthermore, the source said, Full Scope’s logo is readily available online, including on the company’s website, potentially making it easy for a anyone to create a fake document to share on social media.

Contrary to the idea that Kelce and Swift are headed for a split, Page Six reported that internationally famous couple could be getting close to taking the next step in their relationship. People in the couple’s inner circle have revealed that “an engagement is on the table.”

Another insider told Page Six in August that an engagement was “happening soon.”

Kelce and Swift have been dating since July 2023 and went public with their relationship in September 2023 when she arrived at his NFL game against the Chicago Bears at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

The “Cruel Summer” singer became a fixture at Kelce’s games during the 2023-24 NFL season, including at the Super Bowl LVIII, when the Chiefs defeated the 49ers 25-22. Kelce, in turn, joined her at her Era’s Tour stops in Europe over the summer, including at London’s Wembley stadium, where the couple posed for selfies with Prince William and his children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.

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