{"id":82,"date":"2020-12-11T05:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T05:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/?p=82"},"modified":"2020-12-11T05:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T05:05:35","slug":"surprise-announcements-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/2020\/12\/11\/surprise-announcements-all-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Announcements All Around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome back to POP! Of Culture Weekly, where we discuss the highlights of all things entertainment for the week! This week, we cover\u00a0Taylor Swift&#8217;s surprise new album and Marvel&#8217;s announcement of new content!\u00a0Check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Taylor Swifts Surprises Fans with a New Album<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s done it again! American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift announced this week that she will be coming out with another album titled <em>Evermore<\/em>. The album will be released on Friday at midnight. Swift refers to this album as the &#8220;sister record&#8221; of her previous album <em>Folkore<\/em> which she released earlier this July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift wrote in an Instagram caption &#8220;Ever since I was 13, I&#8217;ve been excited about turning 31 because it&#8217;s my lucky number backwards, which is why I wanted to surprise you with this now. You&#8217;ve all been so caring, supportive and thoughtful on my birthdays and so this time I thought I would give you something!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CInk1QnDdul\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/tswift-1024x658.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/tswift-1024x658.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/tswift-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/tswift-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/tswift.png 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>photo from Taylore Swift&#8217;s Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Marvel Announces New and Upcoming Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Marvel Entertainment announced a bunch of new and upcoming projects that are currently in the works. Marvel Entertainment dropped news about upcoming movies such as <em>Fantastic Four<\/em>, <em>Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania<\/em>, <em>Captain Marvel 2<\/em>, and a<em> Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many new original series will also be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe including <em>I Am Groot<\/em>, <em>Armor Wars<\/em>, <em>Ironheart<\/em>, <em>Secret Invasion<\/em>, <em>Moon Knight<\/em>,<em> She Hulk<\/em> and <em>Ms. Marvel<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marvel\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_7256-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_7256-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_7256-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_7256.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>photo from Marvel&#8217;s Instagram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just when fans couldn&#8217;t get enough content, Marvel Entertainment also dropped a few new trailers for the Marvel series that have been announced a few months back including <em>WandaVision<\/em>, <em>Loki<\/em> and <em>Falcon and the Winter Soldier<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe legacy of that shield is complicated.\u201d Marvel Studios\u2019 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, an Original Series, starts streaming March 19 on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DisneyPlus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DisneyPlus<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fVJ7Bd60aS\">pic.twitter.com\/fVJ7Bd60aS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marvel\/status\/1337196575697772544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to POP! Of Culture Weekly, where we discuss the highlights of all things entertainment for the week! This week, we cover\u00a0Taylor Swift&#8217;s surprise new album and Marvel&#8217;s announcement of new content!\u00a0Check it out! Taylor Swifts Surprises Fans with a New Album She&#8217;s done it again! American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift announced this week that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/2020\/12\/11\/surprise-announcements-all-around\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surprise Announcements All Around<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49986],"tags":[308471,1443622,1444801,1443821,811381,1446509,1443464,1347392,1444106,1444438,1445091,1446396,101521,1446627,1443171,1445453,1445691,1445263,1445572,970520,777512,1445999],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-album","tag-ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania","tag-armor-wars","tag-captian-marvel-2","tag-evermore","tag-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier","tag-fantastic-four","tag-folklore","tag-guardians-of-the-galaxy-holiday-special","tag-i-am-groot","tag-ironheart","tag-loki","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-marvel-entertainment","tag-moon-knight","tag-ms-marvel","tag-secret-invasion","tag-she-hulk","tag-surprise","tag-taylor-swift","tag-wandavision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}