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Kim Kardashian Hits Malibu Beach in Spectacular Beige One-Piece for SKIMS Photo Shoot
Kim Kardashian is again on a seashore famously populated by celebrities, and final Friday she was the undisputed queen of the Bu.
Kim was on the sands of Malibu for an additional photograph shoot … it appears it is for SKIMS swim line.
The 42-year-old billionaire mogul is in INSANE form … because of two-hours of day by day coaching. Her private coach, Melissa Alcantara, wants solely these pics to fill her shopper listing.
It is a tremendous attractive shoot … btw, she went again to the scene of the crime, the place she posed within the jaw-dropping pink bikini.
Now there are all the time naysayers … yeah, she’s wealthy, has the flexibility to set her personal schedule, rent a coach — yada yada yada — however it takes dedication and she or he’s clearly doubled down on that.
Now if L.A. will solely hit 70 levels …
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Taylor Swift set a new record this week with, well, records. The vinyl kind.
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Taylor Swift, the millennial pop goddess whose latest album is now the first to surpass one billion Spotify streams in a single week, has smashed her own record when it comes to the sales of her physical albums as well.
Her Tortured Poets Department, released on April 19, took only five days to make history on Spotify. And in a typical overachiever move, Swift not only also sold the most vinyl albums ever in a week, but took only three days to do so. And the record she broke was her own.
Tortured Poets Department has sold more than 700,000 physical albums so far. Last year, about a million vinyl records were sold in the US, in total. Nearly 10 percent of them were Taylor Swift’s.
Swift closed 2023 with five of the year’s top 10 best-selling vinyl records, leading with 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and Midnights. Each of them sold more than 500,000 physical copies.
These figures, it should be noted, have been hugely assisted by two factors. One is that LP sales were not rigorously tracked until the early 1990s by Soundscan. Before then, it’s possible that other artists may have sold more than 700,000 physical albums in a week, but there’s just no data to prove it.
The other factor is that Swift’s albums are released in multiple editions. Many hardcore Swifties make a point of collecting them all. So, for example, a clear vinyl version of Tortured Poets Department with a bonus track is available only at Target. Other versions are only available through Swift’s website.
Sales of all of them count towards Tortured Poets‘ total.
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She told TikTok she was lonely in L.A. What happened next changed her life
Avila isn’t the only one who built a community from LAF.
Frankie Osorio, 24, Oscar Alba, 31, and Sabrina Sandoval, 29, joined LAF in search of new friends. Last spring, after meeting each other individually at various LAF events, the three connected on Discord. Osorio said they bonded over their shared music taste and cynical, sarcastic humor.
By summer, their friendship had left the chat. The trio attended EDM concerts together and spent nights bar-hopping across the city.
At events, people would stop Osorio and Alba to ask if they’re brothers. It happened often enough that the friends decided to play along. Now all three of them tell people they’re siblings.
“At this point we’ve even tried coming up with a last name,” Sandoval said. “They’re my brothers. It really feels like they’re my brothers. “
Over the past few months, the trio has attended raves together, supported one another through breakups and celebrated New Year’s on a ski trip in Utah. Last weekend, Alba surprised Osorio and Sandoval with floor tickets to see Excision, a Canadian DJ and EDM producer, in concert. Next up on their calendar is a Tiësto and Illenium show for Sandoval’s birthday in July.
Music also connected self-proclaimed best friends Lili Jacob, 27, Eliana Mata, 34, and Erika Bernal, 33. Their love for musician Peso Pluma sealed their bond. And when they got to talking, they realized they had a lot more in common than that. Each of them was going through a life transition and had joined LAF looking to put themselves out there and form new friendships.
Like Osorio, Alba and Sandoval, the three women met separately on Discord and at various events before Bernal formed a group chat to unite their individual friendships. Now, Jacob and Bernal are roommates and Mata lives just five minutes away.
“People will say, ‘If you invite one, the other two will come.’ That is how tight-knit we are,” Jacob said. “I’ve heard people say, ‘They’re a package deal.’ I mean, you’re not wrong.”
Since becoming close friends, the three do everything together — Halloween costumes, college traditions, eating fistfuls of grapes on New Year’s for good luck. They’ve made some of their core memories in the mosh pits of emo concerts across the city. Sprained ankles haven’t deterred them yet.
“I cannot imagine going through big things in life without having them,” Jacob said. “I am so grateful to have them as my closest friends.”
Sometimes, Jacob, Mata and Bernal remember that they met through meetups inspired by a single TikTok and laugh.
“I was just thinking of a comment Lili made after we moved in. We’d settled in a bit and then one day she was like, ‘Do you ever just trip out how we just met online and then moved in together?’” Bernal said.
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Kim Kardashian Posts Photo with Taylor Swift's Frenemy Karlie Kloss
Kim Kardashian posted a photo with one of Taylor Swift‘s famous frenemies — none other than Karlie Kloss, who stopped being good pals with the Swiftster years ago … interesting.
The reality star posted a selfie that featured herself, Karlie, Khloe and W Magazine’s Sara Moonves … who were all cozied up around this dude named Derek Blasberg … just another socialite. It was his birthday and the girls here came together to help him ring it in.
It might seem like NBD on its face, but considering the history here between Kim, Karlie and Taylor — who recently took a fresh shot at Kim K — ya gotta read between the lines.
Fact is … Karlie and Kim are known to not be on great terms with Tay Tay these days — Kim’s a no-brainer, obviously … but Karlie actually used to be real close buds with T-Swift once upon a time … that is, until they weren’t.
This all dates back to about 2018 or so when they had some kind of falling out — which seemed to be related to Karlie hanging out with one-time Taylor foe Katy Perry … this after being super tight with Taylor in the mid-2010s, when she used to run in her squad regularly.
Of course, since then … Katy’s become cool with Taylor anew — and we even saw Karlie hit up one of Taylor’s concerts last year … so it’s hard to say if their relationship is still icy or not at this point.
Still, the fact that Kim is definitely not cool with Taylor and went out of her way to throw this photo up in the midst of her renewed feud with T-Swift certainly raises some eyebrows.
As you know … Taylor breathed new life into her years-long beef with Kim, subliminally labeling her a bully in one of her new tracks — dating back to the whole “Famous” saga.
Kim hasn’t said anything about it explicitly since Taylor’s new album dropped last week — but this could be interpreted as a subtle jab at arch nemesis … with the message possibly being, I’m with your old BFF, Taylor. Take that!
Read into the tea leaves if you must … lord knows a helluva lot people already are.
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