Taylor Swift attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Taylor Swift has booked her first TV appearance to promote her upcoming album. Unfortunately, it’s not in the U.S.

The pop star is set to appear on the BBC’s The Graham Norton Show on Oct. 3., with the description noting she’ll be “talking about her hotly anticipated new album,” The Life of a Showgirl, which drops the same day.

The night’s other guests include Cillian Murphy, Tron: Ares stars Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith, and The Paper’s Domhnall Gleeson. There will also be a performance by Lewis Capaldi.

In other Taylor news … Swift has announced a new The Life of a Showgirl sparkly orange cardigan, which is available to order until Sept. 19 at 11:59 a.m. or while supplies last. The Life of a Showgirl cardigan box set comes with an orange tonal lurex cable knit sweater that features 12 embroidered stars on the arms and a “TS” embroidered on the front. It also includes The Life of a Showgirl on CD. It’s all housed in an orange glitter gift box with a foil TS logo on top.

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Cover of ‘Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack’/(Verve/Republic)

For months, we’ve heard that the Wicked sequel, Wicked: For Good, would include two new songs specially written by original Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz for stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Now we have details on those songs.

Wicked: For Good — The Soundtrack arrives Nov. 21, and it includes “No Place Like Home,” performed by Erivo as Elphaba, and “The Girl In The Bubble,” performed by Grande as Glinda. The soundtrack also features a song not previously included in the Broadway cast recording of Wicked, called “The Wicked Witch of the East.“

“I’m especially happy that the soundtrack album for Wicked: For Good has so much new music on it,” Schwartz says in a statement. “In addition to two brand new songs, there is a lot that’s new in several other existing songs. So not only listeners coming to the score for the first time, but long-time fans of the original Broadway cast album, will have a great deal to discover.”

The soundtrack will be available digitally, as well as on CD, double vinyl and double picture disc. Plus, Target, Amazon, Walmart and Barns & Noble will all have exclusive versions or variants.

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Avril Lavigne’s ‘Complicated’ wine from Banshee (Skyler Barberio/Foley Family Wine & Spirits)

When Avril Lavigne started her music career, she wasn’t even old enough to drink — but now she’s launching her first-ever signature wine.

The wine, dubbed Complicated, of course, is a partnership with Banshee Wines. The limited-edition small batch pinot noir is described as “light and velvety,” with “notes of cherry and raspberry.” The wine, which costs $30 per bottle, is available exclusively on Banshee’s website and at Banshee’s tasting room in Santa Rosa, California.

“Over the last two years on my Greatest Hits Tour, I was rocking out with the Banshee bar set up backstage every night, ready for the afterparty, so teaming up on our own wine just felt right,” Avril says in a statement.

“I hope that everyone can crack open a bottle with their best friends, blast the music that started it all for me, and enjoy the moment. Life can be complicated, but a good glass of wine doesn’t have to be.”

The first 50 people to order can also get one of a limited-edition run of 50 “Sip and Spin” kits, which you can add to your wine purchase. Each kit includes a record player and a copy of Avril’s debut album, Let Go, on vinyl.

As part of the new partnership, Banshee will donate $10,000 to She Is the Music, which creates opportunities for women in the music industry.

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Sabrina Carpenter is billing herself as a “woman of my word” following the announcement that she’s headlining Coachella in 2026. She posted a video of herself onstage at the festival in 2024, singing, “Coachella, see you back here when I headline!” It seems Sabrina manifested the future: During that performance, she debuted her then-new single, “Espresso,” which helped shoot her to superstardom.

And speaking of Sabrina Carpenter, Lola Young has covered her hit “Manchild” for a performance on BBC Radio One’s Live Lounge. She told the deejays that she chose the song because she’s a Sabrina “superfan” and she thinks the song’s lyrics are “hilarious.”

Amazon Music will livestream the Washington, D.C., area installment of this year’s All Things Must Go Festival, set for Sept. 26-28 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion. You’ll be able to watch Noah Kahan, Doechii, Kesha, The Marías and more via the AmazonMusic channel on Twitch and Prime Video.

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Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas, Demi Lovato, and Kevin Jonas perform onstage August 10, 2025 at MetLife Stadium (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation)

Not long ago, Demi Lovato thrilled Disney Channel kids everywhere by appearing onstage with the Jonas Brothers to sing Camp Rock songs. In a recent interview she says being part of the Disney Channel taught her an important lesson — which wasn’t exactly positive.

Speaking to PAPER magazine, Demi says, “I learned that I had to hustle. Sometimes looking back, I wish that hustle culture wasn’t as big as it was, because I feel like I would have had an easier time. I was just under so much pressure and so much stress at such a young age that it just wasn’t healthy.”

“But in that, I learned that if you want, hustle culture sometimes does pay off. But it comes with a price,” she adds. “I think that was the biggest lesson for me. You can work yourself into the ground, but you’re going to have to sacrifice something, and that something might be your mental health.”

“It was a lot,” she admits. “But I also knew that at any given moment someone was there and they could take my place, so I worked really hard for it. It’s just, at what cost?”

When PAPER suggests that perhaps Demi and her fellow stars, like the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez, were the “last generation of that hustle culture,” she agrees.

“Yeah, I think we were,” she says. “I think there are better protections put in place for them now, or at least I’d hope so.”

Demi’s new album, It’s Not That Deep, due out in October, marks a return to pop music for her. Or, as she tells PAPER, “Popvato is back, and let’s have some fun. Period.”

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Chappell Roan performs at Sziget Festival in Budapest, August, 2025 (Joseph Okpako/WireImage)

Chappell Roan is using her upcoming limited series of concerts — dubbed the Visions of Damsels + Other Dangerous Things tour — to raise money for a cause near to her heart.

She’s playing in New York, Pasadena and Kansas City, and the night before the first show in each city there will be an official, ticketed preparty. The New York party will take place Friday at Gramercy Theatre. The Kansas City party is set for Oct. 2 at Switchback at Incline on 9th. The Pasadena preparty will be Oct. 9 at Echoplex in LA.

Each party will feature “all your fave Chappell tracks and iconic pop anthems,” as well as “music videos on the big screen,” “dancing on stage,” “giveaways you don’t want to miss” and, of course, “drag performances giving full damsel fantasy.” One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to organizations “dedicated to supporting and providing resources for trans youth.”

And so fans don’t get the wrong idea, the organizers are obliged to note, “Chappell Roan will not be in attendance, but her spirit sure will.”

The series of shows kicks off Saturday in Queens, New York.

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