Taylor Swift Announces New Leg Of Fearless Tour

Just as Taylor Swift was set to wrap up her Fearless tour on October 11 in Minneapolis, comes word that the singer will hit the road once again for a second leg of the tour starting in February 2010. The new leg will kick off in Australia before coming stateside for a slew of dates, her rep confirmed to MTV News. Swift will hit 29 cities in the U.S. and Canada after she wraps up five shows in Australia, which will begin on February 4 in Brisbane. Her stateside tour begins in Tampa, Florida, on March 4.

Once again Swift will be hitting the road with opening acts Kellie Pickler and Gloriana.

"I'm so excited to take the Fearless tour back out on the road again in 2010!" Swift said in a statement. "This year's tour has been so much fun and even more unforgettable than I ever imagined. The fans have been so amazing, and I'm thrilled to play in new cities and see ]even more of my fans on the 2010 Fearless tour!" Shows on the first leg of the Fearless tour - named after her album released last November, which has gone platinum nearly four times - sold out in minutes, and Swift hopes that she'll do the same this time around. She said her fans' response to her tour has been like she "won the lottery of dreams coming true," according to The Associated Press. "I always expected to have to do a lot of stressing out about selling tickets. And then I went on my first headlining tour, and everything just sold out," she said. "I've never expected that kind of success. I've never just felt entitled to my shows selling out or things like this happening to me, but the fact that they've happened to me has been wonderful." Although we're sure she's welcoming a bit of a break from months of touring, she does say that seeing this leg of the tour wrap up this week is a bit sad. "It's going to be so sad knowing that we're not going to see each other for a while, everybody on the tour from the lighting to the crew, the dancers and the band, and everybody that have just become even more of my family in the last couple of months," she said. Here is the schedule for Swift's 2010 leg of the tour. Venues will be announced in the coming weeks.

• February 4 - Brisbane, Australia
• February 6 - Sydney, Australia
• February 8 - Newcastle, Australia
• February 10 - Melbourne, Australia
• February 12 - Adelaide, Australia
• March 4 - Tampa, FL
• March 5 - Orlando, FL
• March 7 - Sunrise, FL
• March 10 - Austin, TX
• March 11 - Dallas, TX
• March 12 - Corpus Christi, TX
• March 18 - Philadelphia, PA
• March 19 - Philadelphia, PA
• March 20 - Charlottesville, VA
• March 26 - Detroit, MI
• March 27 - Detroit, MI
• March 28 - Cincinnati, OH
• March 31 - Oklahoma City, OK
• April 1 - Wichita, KS
• April 2 - Kansas City, MO
• April 6 - Denver, CO
• April 7 - Denver, CO
• April 10 - Fresno. CA
• April 11 - San Jose, CA
• April 15 - Los Angeles, CA
• April 16 - Los Angeles, CA
• April 29 - Lexington, KY
• April 30 - Columbia, SC
• May 1 - Raleigh, NC
• May 6 - Des Moines, IA
• May 7 - St. Paul, MN
• May 8 - Moline, IL
• May 12 - Newark, NJ
• May 13 - Newark, NJ
• May 14 - Uniondale, NY
• May 15 - Uniondale, NY
• May 20 - Ottawa, ON
• May 21 - Toronto, ON
• May 22 - Toronto, ON
• May 25 - Houston, TX

Lady Gaga new release album The Fame: Monster

As she said in recent interviews, the forthcoming re-release of Lady Gaga's debut album,
The Fame: Monster, will feature almost an album's worth of new material.
According to a press release sent out by the singer's label, the album, which hits stores on November 24,
will include eight new songs, including the lead single, "Bad Romance," the finished version of which
was premiered on Tuesday at Alexander McQueen's runway show in Paris, and which Gaga played briefly
during her piano medley on Saturday Night Live last weekend.
"I wrote about everything I didn't write on The Fame," Gaga said in the release.
"While traveling the world for two years, I've encountered several monsters, each represented by a different song on the new
record: my 'Fear of Sex Monster,' my 'Fear of Alcohol Monster,' my 'Fear of Love Monster,' my 'Fear of Death Monster,' my 'Fear of Loneliness Monster,' etc.
" She did not further specify the exact titles of the new songs, except for "Bad Romance" and one called "Speechless."
"Bad Romance" was produced by RedOne, who produced much of The Fame (including "Just Dance" and "Pokerface"),
while Gaga worked with Teddy Riley, Rodney Jerkins, Ron Fair and Fernando Garibay on other tracks.
The singer, who spent much of the summer promoting her album, found inspiration while on the road.
"I spent a lot of nights in Eastern Europe, and this album is a pop experimentation with industrial/Goth beats, '90s dance melodies,
an obsession with the lyrical genius of '80s melancholic pop and the runway," she said in the release.
"I wrote while watching muted fashion shows and I am compelled to say my music was scored for them."
She also noted that "Speechless" is dedicated to her father;
judging by her description, it's also one of the songs she briefly played during the medley on "SNL."
"I also composed a ballad for the album, 'Speechless,' a song for my father, and it's my favorite work of all,
" she said in the release. "I wrote every piece on the road - no songs about money, no songs about fame.
I wrote it for my fans, so I wrote everything in between."