The Eagles Pay Tribute to ‘Brother, Friend, Brilliant Collaborator’ J.D. Souther: ‘He Was An Extraordinary Man’

The Eagles paid loving tribute to their late friend and collaborator J.D. Souther on Wednesday (Sept. 18) in a heartfelt message posted just a day after the singer/songwriter/actor died at 78. “We have lost a brother, a friend and a brilliant collaborator, and the world has lost a great songwriter, a pioneer of the Southern California sound that emerged in the 1970s,” the veteran easy rocking band wrote. “J.D. Souther was smart, talented, well-read, and in possession of a wicked sense of humor.  He loved a good meal, a good movie, and a good Martini … and he loved dogs, adopting many, over the course of his lifetime.”

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The band — whose current lineup includes founding singer/drummer Don Henley, as well as guitarist Joe Walsh, bassist Timothy B. Schmit and guitarist/vocalists Deacon Frey and Vince Gill — continued with an homage to the versatile Souther’s many loves and contributions to their legendary songbook.

“Born in Detroit and raised in the Texas Panhandle, he was a student of the deep roots of the best American music – from country, to jazz, to classical, as well as ‘Standards’ from the Great American Songbook – and that knowledge and appreciation informed his work,” they wrote. “He was a crucial co-writer on many of our most popular songs, including, ‘The Best of My Love,’ ‘New Kid in Town,’ and ‘Heartache Tonight.’ J.D. also collaborated on many of Don Henley’s solo works, including ‘The Heart of the Matter,’ ‘Little Tin God,’ ‘If Dirt Were Dollars’ and ‘Talking to the Moon.’”

According to a statement on his official website, John David “JD” Souther — also known for his collaborations with Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, Bonnie Raitt, Roy Orbison and for his acting roles in My Girl 2 and Postcards From the Edge — died peacefully at his home in New Mexico on Tuesday. Souther’s longtime friendship with Frey resulted in his collaborations on many Eagles songs, including “James Dean” and “Doolin-Dalton,” helping to make Souther — whose voice bore an eerily similar tone to Frey’s — a staple of the 1970s California country-rock scene.

“We mourn his loss and we send our condolences to his family, his friends, and his many fans around the world,” the Eagles added. “He was an extraordinary man and will be greatly missed by many. Adios, old friend. Travel well.”

Former Eagles guitarist/vocalist Don Felder also posted a tribute, writing, “It is with heavy heart to start the day with the news of JD’s passing. The invisible Eagle has left the nest. His writing contribution and vocal contributions to the music industry has been a blessing to the whole world. He will be missed but his songs will live on forever.”

Souther was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013, but never reached the pinnacle of success with his solo work as the Eagles’ lofty heights, landing his biggest chart success wit his 1979 No. 7 Billboard Hot 100 single “You’re Only Lonely.”

Donations in Souther’s honor can be made to the Best Friends Animal Society.

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Nashville Event Prompts Indie Agents to Flag FTC About New Ticket Scalping Tech

The Federal Trade Commission is being urged to investigate technology companies that create tools for ticket scalpers that violate existing laws and drive up the price of concert tickets.  

The warning and call to action comes by way of a letter signed by National Independent Talent Organizations president Jack Randall and executive director Nathaniel Marro, taking aim at the World Ticket Summit. Held in Nashville earlier this month, the annual conference is organized by the National Association of Ticket Brokers, the country’s largest member organization for professional ticket resellers and individuals who list and resell tickets on sites like StubHub and SeatGeek. 

At this year’s summit, members of NITO – which represent independent talent agencies and management companies including Arrival Artists, High Road Touring, Paladin Artists, Q Prime, Red Light Management and TKO – “observed a sold-out exhibition hall filled with vendors selling and marketing products designed to bypass security measures for ticket purchases, in direct violation of the BOTS Act,” a Sept. 9 letter to Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan reads. 

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That technology includes web browser extensions that set up multiple tabs masking a user’s IP address, proxy services that allow users to be logged in to multiple ticketing accounts from one location and virtual credit card services that bypass geographical restrictions on ticket sales, which are often put in place by event organizers to ensure fair access for local fans. 

According to the letter, the use of this type of technology to procure concert tickets is a violation of the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act of 2016 which prohibits scalpers from using technology that circumvents “a security measure, access control system, or other technological measure used to enforce ticket purchasing limits for events with over 200 attendees.” 

Put more simply, most ticketing companies place a cap on how many tickets a fan can buy for a concert and the use of automated bots, proxy servers, VPNs and phantom credit cards to exceed purchase limits is a violation of the BOTS Act. 

“The presence of these vendors at a conference specifically for ticket brokers strongly suggests that a substantial portion of attendees either currently use these services or are likely to do so in the near future,” the letter reads. “This widespread availability and apparent demand for tools that can circumvent ticket purchasing limits indicates that many, if not most, scalpers are operating in violation of the federal BOTS Act.” 

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The NATB’s executive director Gary Adler issued a lengthy statement in response to NITO’s letter, writing “The vast majority of technology exhibitors at the conference were inventory management systems that help ticket companies organize their tickets, offer them for resale, and help with pricing.” 

“There are many friction points in ticketing,” Adler continued “and high-tech ways that players in the system try to monopolize every dollar spent on ticketing and to prevent the resale of tickets. For more than half of events there are lower cost options on the secondary market and some in the primary market don’t like seeing their previously sold tickets being offered for resale at deep discounts. Artists, venues, and primary ticketers abuse technology every day to create fake scarcity and deceive consumers into paying higher prices when really, they are secretly holding back tickets to slowly drip more on sale over time to cheat and fool the fan. This is most likely an illegal deceptive marketing and advertising practice, driven by artists, venues, and primary ticketing companies, that the FTC should immediately investigate.” 

Adler notes that the NATB “advocated for the passage of the BOTS Act in 2016 as we fully support the banning of bots. There is no place in the system for illegal bot use. We stand for doing resale the right way and passing strong laws to protect fans and competition across the ticketing industry. If any exhibitors were offering technology that violates the BOTS Act, we want to know as they will not be welcomed back.”   

Since its passage in 2017, the BOTs Act has only been enforced one time, in 2021, when three New York-based ticket brokers were charged with violating the law. The government’s enforcement of the BOTS Act has been an “abysmal failure” writes songwriter and music industry analyst Chris Castle, noting that StubHub’s scheduled IPO this fall was a tell-tale sign that the BOTS Act was “under-enforced.” 

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“Let’s face it – if there were no bots and no boiler room operations, StubHub probably wouldn’t have much of a business,” Castle wrote. Lawmakers including Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have introduced legislation like the Mitigating Automated Internet Networks for (MAIN) Event Ticketing Act of 2023 which would force ticketing companies to be more proactive about reporting BOT usage, but those efforts have largely stalled in Congress. 

NITO’s letter includes eight recommendations for rights holders and the FTC, calling for the regulator to subpoena the customer lists of “companies offering services that fall into the categories likely to facilitate BOTS Act violations” as well as increased enforcement actions, prioritizing “investigations into large-scale ticket reselling operations, focusing on those using multiple technologies to circumvent purchasing limits.” 

By implementing these recommendations, the letter explains, “rights holders and the FTC can take significant steps towards curbing BOTS Act violations and ensuring fairer access to event tickets for consumers.”

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Maria Becerra, Fuerza Regida, Xavi & More Set to Perform at 2024 Billboard Latin Music Awards

Billboard and Telemundo have unveiled the first wave of performers set to take center stage at the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Awards on Sunday, Oct. 20.

Bringing their latest collaborations and hit singles to the awards ceremony are confirmed acts Fuerza Regida, Grupo Niche, Luis Alfonso, Maria Becerra, Xavi and Yandel. The announcement comes one week after the Billboard Latin Music Awards revealed its 2024 finalists.

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With eight entries, including artist of the year, Fuerza Regida is one of the top finalists at the awards show. Xavi is a seven-time finalist, and both Grupo Niche and Yandel have one entry.

Karol G leads the list with 17 entries in categories including artist of the year, tour of the year, Global 200 Latin artist of the year, and top Latin album of the year for Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season). 

The Colombian superstar is followed by Bad Bunny and Peso Pluma with 15 nods each. Bunny competes, among others, for artist of the year, global 200 artist of the year, and tour of the year. While La Doble P is also up for artist of the year, global 200 artist of the year, in addition to songwriter of the year, and regional Mexican album of the year for Éxodo. 

The 31st annual ceremony will be broadcast at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, Oct. 20 via Telemundo. It will simultaneously be available on the Spanish entertainment cable network Universo, on Peacock and the Telemundo app, and in Latin America and the Caribbean through Telemundo Internacional.

The Billboard Latin Music Awards — the only awards that recognize the most popular albums, songs and performers in Latin music, according to Billboard‘s weekly charts — coincide with Billboard Latin Music Week, which returns to Miami Beach Oct. 14-18 with a roster of star speakers including Alejandro Sanz, Gloria Estefan, Danny Ocean, Peso Pluma and many more. Get your tickets today for the Billboard Latin Music Week 2024 here.

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Juice WRLD Posthumously Debuts Two Songs on Billboard’s Charts

Juice WRLD (born Jarad Higgins) died on Dec. 8, 2019 at age 21 due to an accidental oxycodone and codeine intoxication. Since then, his estate has consistently released new music from the late musician to the degree that he’s charted more songs since he died than he did while he was alive.

Juice WRLD’s estate released two new songs on Sept. 9 packaged together as part of the rapper’s The Pre-Party, titled “World Tour (Aquafina)” and “Lightyears” featuring Young Thug.

Both songs debut on Billboard’s latest Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (dated Sept. 21) at Nos. 34 and 39, respectively. He’s now charted 87 total songs on the chart. Of those, only 29 debuted while he was living.

Juice WRLD teased both songs on social media while he was still living. In 2018, he previewed “World Tour (Aquafina)” on Instagram Live, rapping “I’m a real n—a, nah, I’m not an actor/ Double cup with that red lean, I’ma sip classy/ Dior on my feet, I feel classy.” Juice and Young Thug both teased “Lightyears” before the COVID shutdown in February 2020.

Both songs are slated to appear on Juice’s forthcoming The Party Never Ends album, which Billboard reported is expected to be the rapper’s third and final posthumous album. His first posthumous LP, Legends Never Die, spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in July 2020. His second, Fighting Demons, debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart in December 2021. While he was alive, Juice earned three top five albums on the Billboard 200: Goodbye & Good Riddance (No. 4; 2018), Future & Juice WRLD Present…WRLD on Drugs with Future (No. 2; 2018) and Death Race For Love (No. 1; 2019).

On the Billboard Hot 100, Juice has charted 80 total songs, most recently with “Lace It,” with Eminem and Benny Blanco, in December (No. 85 peak). Of those, 25 debuted while he was alive.

Of course, many other artists have posthumously debuted on Billboard’s charts. Eight artists even earned posthumous Hot 100 No. 1s, including: Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Jim Croce, John Lennon, The Notorious B.I.G., Soulja Slim, Static Major and XXXTentacion. On the Billboard 200, the late Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke landed his second No. 1 album in 2021 (with Faith) after he was murdered in 2020. 2Pac, who was murdered in 1996, earned eight top 10 albums following his death, including three No. 1s.

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Bresh Partners With Carroll Street Capital to Launch Bresh Global

In a bid to further grow its operation and expand its international footprint, Bresh — the brand behind the Fiesta Bresh parties — has partnered with New York based investment firm Carroll Street Capital.

The two companies will launch Bresh Global, an international media and branded live events platform. Carroll Street will provide an infusion of cash as well as strategic access and support to continue growing the Bresh brand, whose global presence has multiplied in the past two years. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Bresh’s leadership will remain in place, with Tomás Allande as CEO, Alejandro “Bröder” Saporiti as artistic director, and founder Jaime James involved in all operations.

Eduardo García Fernández, co-founder and managing partner of Carroll Street Capital will now also be chairman of Bresh global.

Bresh Global will establish its headquarters in Miami, with additional offices in Los Angeles. The company currently has offices in Buenos Aires and Madrid.

“Our mission at Bresh Global is to create human connections through entertainment and collective experiences,” said Jaime James in a press release. “In a world increasingly dominated by digital interactions, live events have the unique power to bring people together and transcend cultures. With this expansion, we aim to bring moments of joy to new audiences on a global scale.”

“We are excited about the opportunity to elevate Bresh to new heights,” added Eduardo García Fernández. “This partnership brings additional resources to Bresh to accelerate its growth and introduce new verticals and formats worldwide.”

Bresh, whose slogan is “The most beautiful party in the world,” is an entertainment company known for parties targeted at Gen Zs around the world and built on the concept of inclusivity rather than exclusivity. Bresh tickets are eminently affordable — in Miami, the cheapest ticket is $25 — and there is no doorman denying entry based on gender or looks. Instead of hiring celebrity DJs for its parties, all Fiesta Bresh DJs are Bresh-trained. Perhaps because of its inclusivity DNA, the parties have become magnets for Latin celebrities, including the likes of Lionel Messi, Emilia and Tini, Rauw Alejandro and Bizarrap, who have all been spotted at Bresh parties.

Bresh, which began hosting parties in Argentina, has expanded its operations to over 20 countries, and now puts together some 500 annual events, including in the U.S. and Spain.

Sources say Bresh and Carroll have been in conversations for the past two years and share the vision that “happiness and connections are essential, regardless of who you are or where you live.”

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LISA to Perform at Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

LISA is heading to the runway.

The BLACKPINK superstar is set to take the stage and perform at the highly anticipated return of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. The announcement comes amid an exciting year for LISA, as the K-pop icon stepped into a new phase of her solo career outside of BLACKPINK with “Rockstar,” which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Global 200 and became her first-ever No. 1 hit on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S.

“The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is such an iconic night in fashion and I’m so excited to be part of its return with so many incredible and powerful women being part of the show! It’s going to be a great night,” LISA said in a press statement.

The news arrives after the lingerie and clothing retailer announced that Tyla will also perform and Cher will headline the show, which will feature an all-women artist lineup for the first time ever. The 2024 show will take place on Oct. 15 in Brooklyn, New York, marking its grand return after a six-year hiatus. Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez and more have all performed at previous VS shows.

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was canceled in 2019 following backlash to the brand’s lack of inclusivity and depiction of unrealistic beauty standards. In 2023, the company tried out a “new version” of the program with Victoria’s Secret: The Tour ’23, a one-time Prime Video special featuring footage of Adriana Lima, Gigi Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, Hailey Bieber and more modeling in different cities around the world.

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Kylie Minogue Sets ‘Tension II’ Album, World Tour

The Kylie locomotive is gathering steam.

The Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue will drop the sequel to Tension on Oct. 18, and will support the release with a major world tour, including stops in her homeland, Asia and the United Kingdom.

Tension II will collect 13 new songs, and is led by the first single “Lights Camera Action,” due out Sept. 27. The set also houses the previously-released dance cut “Edge of Saturday Night” with The Blessed Madonna plus collaborations with Orville Peck, Bebe Rexha and Tove Lo, and Sia.

“I am beyond excited to announce the Tension Tour 2025,” she says in a statement. “I can’t wait to share beautiful and wild moments with fans all over the world, celebrating the Tension era and more! It’s been an exhilarating ride so far and now, get ready for your close up because I will be calling Lights, Camera, Action … and there will be a whole lot of Padaming!”

Kylie kicks off her homecoming tour of Australia with a concert Feb. 15 at Perth’s RAC Arena. That leg should help make up for the disappointment of this year’s Splendour In The Grass cancellation, where Kylie was booked to headline what would have been her first concert Down Under in five years, since her seven-date run in support of Golden in 2019.

Kylie’s career is on fire. Tension hit No. 1 in the U.K. and Australia, and yielded the global hit “Padam Padam,” which cracked the U.K. top 10 and won an ARIA for best pop release.

Earlier this year, she collected the Global Icon Award at the BRIT Awards, becoming just the second woman to win it following Taylor Swift in 2021, and backed it up with the Billboard Women in Music Icon Award.

Also, Kylie nabbed a Grammy Award (best pop dance recording) for “Padam Padam,” completed her inaugural Las Vegas Residency, and signed with United Talent Agency (UTA) for live representation in the U.S. and Canada and acting roles worldwide.

The Melbourne-raised, London-based artist has amassed over 80 million record sales worldwide, 5 billion streams and nine No. 1 albums in the U.K., where she is the only female artist to score an albums chart leader in five consecutive decades.

“The Tension era has been so special to me,” Kylie adds. “I can’t possibly let it be over just yet! Welcome to ‘Tension II’.”

Visit kylie.com for tour dates. More countries and dates will be announced over the coming weeks, reps say.

Tension II tracklist:

  1. Lights Camera Action
  2. Taboo
  3. Someone For Me
  4. Good As Gone
  5. Kiss Bang Bang
  6. Diamonds
  7. Hello
  8. Dance To The Music
  9. Shoulda Left Ya
  10. Edge Of Saturday Night (with The Blessed Madonna)
  11. My Oh My (with Bebe Rexha & Tove Lo)
  12. Midnight Ride (with Orville Peck & Diplo)
  13. Dance Alone (with Sia)

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Green Day Celebrate ‘Dookie’ Going Double-Diamond: ‘Thank You To Everyone Who Has Loved This Album’

Welcome to history, Green Day. The pop-punk trio celebrated a major career milestone this week when their breakthrough third studio album, 1994’s Dookie, was certified double-diamond. With that honorific, the group’s major label became just the 13th album ever to be RIAA certified for sales of more than 20 million units in the U.S., joining such iconic LPs as Michael Jackson’s Thriller, AC/DC’s Back in Black, Led Zeppelin IV, The Beatles, Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Shania Twain’s Come On Over, among others.

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The group were presented with the award by label Warner Records and their team at Crush mgmt at their sold-out show at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA last Saturday. In an Instagram post earlier this week, singer Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool proudly showed off their Diamond awards backstage at Sofi and thanked their die-hards for helping them make history.

“Thank you to everyone who has loved this album as much as we have over the past 30 years and to all of you who have made it possible to live out our dreams,” they wrote.

Green Day have been celebrating the 30th anniversary of Dookie — as well as the 20th anniversary of their beloved 2004 politi-punk concept album American Idiot — on their sold-out stadium-rocking Saviors Tour all summer. The explosive two hour-plus shows open with a 15-song run through such Dookie standards as “Longview,” “Welcome to Paradise,” “Basket Case” and “When I Come Around,” followed by a mini-set of other classics and a final blitz through Idiot favorites including “Holiday,” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Jesus of Suburbia,” the title track and “Holiday,” among others.

The concerts, which include a Borsch Belt-style dance interlude from Cool, as well as a fly-over from a giant inflatable airplane amid copious pyro and other eye-popping effects, will run down to Australia in 2025 for a run of three March stadium shows with openers AFI.

Check out Green Day’s double-diamond celebration below.

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Metallica Announce 2025 M72 World Tour North American Tour Dates

The road goes on forever for Metallica. The veteran rockers announced on Thursday morning (Sept. 19) that their M72 world tour will stretch into a third year when they play 21 North American dates from April-June.

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The shows will kick off on April 12 in Las Vegas with a festival gig at the NV Sick New World @ Las Vegas Festival Grounds before a run up north for a two-night stand in Toronto, then back down for a double-down stand at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, a pair of appearances at the Sonic Temple festival in Columbus, OH, followed by stadium shows in Philadelphia, Charlotte, Atlanta, Tampa (their first visit to the city in 15 years) and Houston before winding down with gigs on June 27 and 29 at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver. The run will also include a pair of Bay Area hometown shows on June 20 and 22 that will be their debut gigs at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.

Openers on the run will include Pantera, bass player Robert Trujillo’s former band, Suicidal Tendencies, as well as Limp Bizkit and Ice Nine Kills. Two-night tickets for the new No Repeat Weekends and tickets for single-night gigs will go on sale on Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. local time, with a fan presale kicking off on Sept. 23 at 10 a.m. local time; click here for ticketing information.

The M72 tour kicked off in Amsterdam in 2023 and has played to more than three million fans to date, highlighted by their No Repeat Weekend tradition, in which each night of their two-night stands feature totally different setlists and support acts.

Check out the dates for Metallica’s M72 2025 North American shows below:

April 12 — Las Vegas, NV @ Sick New World @ Las Vegas Festival Grounds
April 19 — Syracuse, NY @ JMA Wireless Dome *
April 24 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre *
April 26 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre +
May 1 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium *
May 3 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium +
May 7 — Blacksburg, VA @ Lane Stadium *
May 9 — Columbus, OH @ Sonic Temple @ Historic Crew Stadium
May 11 — Columbus, OH @ Sonic Temple @ Historic Crew Stadium
May 23 — Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field +
May 25 — Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field *
May 28 — Landover, MD @ Northwest Stadium *
May 31 — Charlotte, NC @ Bank of America Stadium *
June 3 — Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium *
June 6 — Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium +
June 8 — Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium *
June 14 — Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium *
June 20 — Santa Clara, CA @ Levi’s Stadium +
June 22 — Santa Clara, CA @ Levi’s Stadium *
June 27 — Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High +
June 29 — Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High *

* Pantera and Suicidal Tendencies support
+ Limp Bizkit and Ice Nine Kills support

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Lincoln Project Slams Trump in Taylor Swift-Themed ‘Bad Blood’ Ad: ‘Not the First Successful Woman Donald Trump Has Attacked’

The Lincoln Project has spent the better part of five years warning Americans about what they see as the danger of second Donald Trump administration. The political action committee made up of moderate conservatives and former GOP members — including George Conway, ex-husband of Trump’s former senior counselor, Kellyanne Conway — will release its latest broadside against twice-impeached, convicted felon Trump on Thursday morning (Sept. 18).

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And in keeping with the raft of headlines over the past few weeks, it involves Taylor Swift. Specifically, the minute-long “Bad Blood” spot — which Billboard is exclusively previewing today — paints Trump’s recent rant against the pop star as being in line with what the group says is Trump’s long-running contempt for successful women.

The ad — whose landing page features the all caps subtitle: “THE MISOGYNISTIC PRESIDENTS’ DEPARTMENT” in a nod to the title of Swift’s most recent studio album — is titled “Bad Blood,” a reference to Swift’s 1989 single of the same. It opens with a shot of Swift accepting an award at last week’s 2024 MTV VMAs as a voiceover notes, “Taylor Swift isn’t the first successful woman Donald Trump has attacked… she’s just the most recent.” The screen then fills with a shot of a post from Trump’s Truth Social account from Sunday in which he said in all caps: “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”

The rest of the spot is a super-cut of Trump’s most well-known put-downs of famous and prominent women over the years, including his reference to what he called comedian Rosie O’Donnell’s “fat, ugly face. The narrator continues, “Trump has a problem with women… disrespectful…insulting…even violence,” over images of Trump during his contentious 2016 presidential debate with former Senator and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, in which he referred to her as “the devil.” It also includes the time the reality TV host insulted Celebrity Apprentice contestant Brande Roderick with the crude oral sex reference, “must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”

“It’s ugly,” the female narrator says over footage of a smiling Trump telling ABC reporter Cecilia Vega, “I know you’re not thinking, you never do.”

“It’s cruel,” the narrator adds as the subject turns to a 2016 MSNBC interview in which then-candidate Trump said “there has to be some form of punishment [for women],” for having an abortion; the Supreme Court reversed the half-century-long constitutional right to abortion two years ago after Trump’s appointment of three conservative justices, a ruling he called “the biggest win for life in a generation.“

“One thing he’s proven is that he’ll never change,” the narrator says over footage of Trump signing a document on the back of a bent-over woman as well as putting his signature on the upper half of a female supporter’s dress. It also includes the infamous leaked Access Hollywood tape in which Trump bragged that when you’re a celebrity women allow you to “grab ’em by the p–sy,” which surfaced before election day in 2016.

“Is this how you would want a man to treat your daughter?” the narrator asks over Trump’s crude description of former Fox News anchor and 2016 debate moderator Megyn Kelly having “blood coming out of her whatever” after she pressed him on his past history of referring to women as “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.”

“You know the answer, you know the truth,” the ad concludes as Swift fills the screen again, along with audio from a recent Fox News segment in which Trump said he was never a fan of the billionaire pop star and predicted that her endorsement of rival Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris will find her “pay[ing] a price for it” in the marketplace.

“He says he hates Taylor… but the truth is he hates all of us.”

Watch the Lincoln Project’s “Bad Blood” ad below.

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