The 1989 World Tour: The Guests.

CONTINUING our look back at The 1989 World Tour, which followed the release of the album 1989, the tour was not only a showcase for the music of and the number of costume changes by Taylor Alison Swift, but also the guest list.

One of Taylor's guests, Selena Gomez, is pictured here on the Tour.

More guests, coming soon.

Until then, enjoy.

★ Taylor Swift's 'New Romantics' ★

TAYLOR Alison Swift closed what became 'The 1989 Era' of her career - Fans have segmented her career into 'eras', named after her albums - with a video for the song 'New Romantics', taken from her most recent album, 1989.

The video, featured above, has been compiled from footage of Taylor's performances of the song on The 1989 World Tour.

The 'era' began with a change of style, following the completion of the previous tour to support the album Red. The new style began with a beach photo shoot for Rolling Stone magazine, which was covered here on RFTFT. I shall leave you with an edited image from that shoot, I hope you enjoy the video too.

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Are we Out Of The Woods yet?

FIRST of all, may I welcome you to the first post of Twenty-Sixteen here on Reporting From The Fox Tower! I do hope you had an enjoyable Christmas and New Year.

It was during the New Year's Eve celebrations in the United States that Taylor Swift premiered the video for the song 'Out Of The Woods', taken from her album '1989'.

I do hope you enjoy the video and I would like to wish you all the best for 2016.

Wallpapers, Sunday 11 October 2015.

CELEBRATING the fabulous Taylor Swift with three wallpapers this week. The first one, above, is Taylor taking a selfie with Alan Carr during her visit to his show Chatty Man, which was broadcast Friday 24 October 2014, prior to the release of the album 1989, which was released the following Monday.  The second image was taken by Getty Images and is a beautiful shot of Taylor performing live:

The third image takes us back to 22 April 2014 and an image Taylor posted across her social media, when she was 'Looking for Easter eggs.....':

My goodness. Enjoy your week.

Wallpaper of the Week, 13 September 2015

THE next few weeks will lead up to the first anniversary of the release of 1989, Taylor Swift's album, written, recorded and produced with Max Martin and Johan Shelback.

The above image, this week's Wallpaper of the Week, is Taylor performing Welcome To New York, in New York, on the eve of the album release.

This week, Taylor tweeted that during the ongoing 1989 World Tour, she was honoured to perform Love Story in St Paul, on what was the seventh anniversary of the release of the song.

Enjoy.

He only saw her in his dreams.

MISS Taylor Alison Swift has released her latest single from her album '1989' and here is the accompanying video. This is 'Wildest Dreams', which, as of the evening of Monday 7 September, had amassed 36.1 Million views since the video was published on Taylor's official Vevo video channel on Sunday 30 August.

Enjoy.

Baby now we got Bad Blood.

ONE week has passed since Taylor Swift released the Music Video of  Bad Blood, taken from the album 1989.

I'll bring you the video at the close of this post, before that I will bring you the cast list of the short film - But first, meet Catastrophe, Arsyn and Mother Chucker :

The cast list of Bad Blood is as follows :

TAYLOR as Catastrophe

Selena Gomez as Arsyn

Cindy Crawford as Headmistress

Cara Delevingne as Mother Chucker

Mariska Hargitay as Justice

Ellen Pompeo as Luna

Martha Hunt as Homeslice

Jessica Alba as Domino

Serayah as Dilemma

Karlie Kloss as Knockout

Kendrick Lamar as Welvin Da Great

Lena Dunham as Lucky Fiori

Hailee Steinfeld as The Trinity

Ellie Goulding as Destructa X

Gigi Hadid as Slay-Z

Hayley Williams as The Crimson Curse

Zendaya as Cut-Throat

Lily Aldridge as Frostbyte.

I have whet your appetite more than enough, so here is Bad Blood!

Enjoy.

Never go out of STYLE.

FOLLOWING the post to mark the 21st Birthday of Harry Styles on February 1st, I present the official music video to 'Style', released Friday 13 February by Taylor Swift, the track taken from her album '1989'.

Enjoy.

A Birthday and a Beach

SITTING in front of the keyboard and the screen on the December evening of Saturday the thirteenth, I reflect upon another phenomenal year for Miss Taylor Alison Swift, pictured above, who is celebrating her Birthday on this day. This blog celebrated Miss Swift's Birthday on this date in 2013 too, which is the marker from where we will take a look at Taylor's incredible year. Miss Swift had performed at the 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, where she smashed it with a live performance of I Knew You Were Trouble. Taylor Alison was in the final stages of the RED Tour in Australia as 2013 became 2014, the Tour visiting the O2 Arena in London for four sold out nights, as well as a whistle stop tour of Europe, as Winter became Spring.

At this point, Taylor was, as we now know, busy working on the new album, whilst taking a beach holiday, which was featured here on RFTFT recently - The 'Looking for Easter Eggs' photograph. It was Taylor's much anticipated Yahoo! Livestream web broadcast in early August that gave Taylor the moment to shine in front of her international audience, unveiling the album 1989 and the single, Shake It Off. The single became available to purchase, whilst the album became available on pre-sale. The television and radio promotional tour followed, including UK visits to BBC Radio 1, The Graham Norton Show on BBC 1 and Alan Carr: Chatty Man on Channel 4, as well as The X Factor on ITV 1. 1989 was released worldwide in late October, the packaging of the physical CD includes a cover slipcase and a set of 'Photo's from Taylor'. The album entered the charts at number one.

To complete the circle, Taylor performed at the 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, performing Blank Space and Style, whilst dressing appropriately for the occasion, that is, short, skimpy and sheer.

#HappyBirthdayTaylorSwift

Townsend's Mexico - Part Four!

MISS ROXANNE Townsend visited Mexico in Spring 2014 and here is another image that she shared on social media, which received a very true comment of  "Why is this face and body not on every billboard poster, coffee table magazine cover and TV show?"

I think you would agree; Red Hot Roxi is so sexy.

Enjoy.

Townsend's Mexico - Part One!

REPORTING FROM The Fox Tower is celebrating the amazing Roxanne 'Roxi' Townsend, a British model, stylist, make up artist and singer - More of which in upcoming posts on this blog. In the Spring of 2014, Roxi enjoyed a hot holiday in Mexico, from which the above image was taken. To learn more about Roxi, follow her on Twitter. The above image was one of the first she posted on social media in April 2014, from Mexico, which shows how very different April in Mexico is, compared to April in the UK!

TAYLOR SWIFT - The 'Blank Space' Video

September 2014 featured the 'Welcome To 1989!' post here on RFTFT, which celebrated Taylor Swift's Yahoo! Livestream broadcast, in which Taylor announced the arrival of the album '1989' and the first single from it, 'Shake It Off'. The blog post in September featured the 'Shake It Off' video, so I would like to follow up by bringing you the official music video of track two from '1989', I present 'Blank Space'.

Enjoy.

Welcome to 1989!

ON THE EVENING of Monday 18 August, Miss Taylor Alison Swift hosted a long awaited Livestream (webcast) via Yahoo! As pictured above. The above image was taken during the final ten minute countdown to the half-hour broadcast, live from the Empire State Building, New York City, at 5pm Eastern Standard Time, which was 10pm British Summer Time. Taylor wore a white crop top with matching white skirt, as you can see in the next image, taken during the Livestream broadcast:

Oh yes, Taylor did look rather tanned and gorgeous during the broadcast too, in the run up to which Taylor Tweeted that is was "Time to reveal some secrets" and we weren't disappointed. First was the announcement of the new track 'Shake It Off', which was played as an audio track during the broadcast. That was followed quickly by the announcement of the new album, '1989', which is to be released Monday 27 October. The cover of the album was also unveiled during the broadcast:

The broadcast also included a live audience at the Empire State Building and groups of fans at Livestream parties at international locations, such as Canada and Norway. Taylor took questions from social media, which had been submitted prior to the broadcast, one of which asked if any videos would accompany the new tracks. It was at this point Taylor aired the video for 'Shake It Off':

The broadcast was rounded off with the news that '1989' is available to pre-order via Taylor's website and 'Shake It Off' is available to purchase and download. Taylor closed the broadcast with the words "There's no sale like a pre-sale" as social media went into overdrive and all the details of the album and single were available on Taylor's website. The website page is here and link to Taylor's Facebook page here. Find out more about Taylor's UK chart positions via the Official Charts Company website. 

That's the latest news regarding Taylor Swift, I'm Martin Cowin.

Enjoy.