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What a comeback!  Taylor Swift  debuted her highly anticipated "Look What You Made Me Do" music video at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, August 27.   The Singer's talked-about music video is filled with symbolic references, and eagle-eyed fans are eagerly decoding its hidden meanings Check out 13 of the hidden messages you may have missed! Nils Sjoberg Tombstone A zombielike Swift, 27, stumbled through a graveyard in the opening scene. One of the tombstones had the name Nils Sjoberg, the pseudonym that Swift used for a songwriting credit on her ex-boyfriend  Calvin Harris ' 2016 single "This Is What You Came For." The Nils Sjoberg tombstone in the opening scene.  As many will remember, Nils Sjoberg was the pseudonym that Swift used for a songwriting credit on her ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris' 2016 summer hit, "This Is What You Came For." When it was revealed that Swift was, in fact, the creative mind behind...

A classic academy award winning movie and 1st Academy winner for an African-American's.  The film's most recent screening at the theater was on the night of the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. A Memphis movie theater’s announcement that it will discontinue its annual screening of “Gone With the Wind” over concerns that the film is insensitive has prompted a heated discussion online. The Orpheum theater has shown that 1939 film each of the past 34 years, as part of its classics series. It won 10 Oscars, including one for Hattie McDaniel as best supporting actress for her portrayal of a slave named Mammy. (She became the first black actor to win an Academy Award.) After the film’s screening on Aug. 11 — the same evening as a march in Charlottesville, Va., by white nationalists ahead of the “Unite the Right” rally on Aug. 12 — the theater received complaints online from patrons and commenters, who denounced the film’s portrayal of blacks a...

VIDEO OF THE YEAR Winner: Kendrick Lamar – “HUMBLE.” Bruno Mars – “24K Magic” Alessia Cara – “Scars To Your Beautiful” DJ Khaled ft. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller – “Wild Thoughts” The Weeknd – “Reminder” ARTIST OF THE YEAR Bruno Mars Kendrick Lamar Winner: Ed Sheeran Ariana Grande The Weeknd Lorde BEST NEW ARTIST (Presented by Taco Bell®) Winner: Khalid Kodak Black SZA Young M.A Julia Michaels Noah Cyrus BEST COLLABORATION Charlie Puth ft. Selena Gomez – “We Don’t Talk Anymore” DJ Khaled ft. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller – “Wild Thoughts” D.R.A.M. ft. Lil Yachty – “Broccoli” The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey – “Closer” Calvin Harris ft. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean – “Feels” Winner: Zayn & Taylor Swift – “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” BEST POP Shawn Mendes – “Treat You Better” Ed Sheeran – “Shape Of You” Harry Styles – “Sign Of The Times” Winner: Fifth Harmony ft. Gucci Mane – “Dow...

Floyd Mayweather  squares off against  Conor McGregor  Saturday night in Las Vegas in the much-hyped fight that is one-part boxing and four parts spectacle.  Most boxing experts gave McGregor little chance, but the one sure bet Saturday night  was  both fighters pocketed massive paychecks for their at-most 36 minutes of work in the ring. McGregor cleared at least $100 million with Mayweather in line for more than $200 million, pushing his career earnings close to $1 billion. Mayweather’s road to $1 billion was paved by shrewd marketing and a prescient $750,000 bet on himself.  Notorious gambler Mayweather didn’t wager on himself in the ring, but outside of it by splitting from Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum a decade ago.  Mayweather figured he could make more out on his own than under the thumb of the promoter who worked with Muhammad Ali, Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao. Arum promoted Floyd under his Pretty Boy moniker dur...