Music Intro for June 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, Pitchfork asked the question yesterday “What will the 2021 Song of the Summer Be?” with a list of candidates including songs from Saweetie, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, and more. There’s a lot that goes into a Song of the Summer. It’s By Lainey • Jun 29, 2021 09:04 am
What Else What Else? I’m all for Megan Thee Stallion showing as much of her “Body oddy oddy” as she wants – but I think I’m finally able to articulate why these particular dresses look weird to me, the ones with the side completely cut out. And it’s that the effect, from By Lainey • Jun 28, 2021 04:00 pm
Bella Hadid Bella Hadid and the New Low Riders Remember the low-rise pants of the 2000s? Of course you do. So many famous female celebrities were wearing them at the time. From Keira Knightly… To Britney Spears… To Destiny’s Child… And Heidi Klum… And Jessica Biel… And more. You get the point – the pants were low! Low- By Lainey • Jun 28, 2021 03:23 pm
Issa Rae Issa, Insecure, and Impatience Though it hasn’t been nearly as long, I know, I feel like the wait for the fifth and final season of Insecure, to me, feels like the wait for Rihanna’s new album. Rihanna’s fans, aka Navy, are always on her about when new music is about to By Lainey • Jun 28, 2021 01:56 pm
Ben Affleck Bennifer: Dinner and a Sweat Suit Time for our weekly Bennifer update – and we should be celebrating the fact that we have weekly Bennifer updates, because it’s the Summer of Bennifer, they are giving us the Summer of Bennifer 2021, so let’s not think too hard about the other seasons and live in this By Lainey • Jun 28, 2021 01:02 pm
Hook Ups John Mulaney and Olivia Munn’s First Photo News broke back in May that John Mulaney and Anne Marie Tendler were divorcing and then three days later, PEOPLE reported that he and Olivia Munn are a thing. As Maria wrote at the time, it felt like a rollout. And it feels like the rollout is continuing now six By Lainey • Jun 28, 2021 10:54 am
Law Roach Zendaya and Law: A Tribute to Beyoncé I mean, this is why Zendaya is in a category of her own – because the standard that she and Law Roach have created together is impossible. Here’s Zendaya at the BET Awards last night: She’s unreal. And he’s unreal. And he takes credit for it… AS HE By Lainey • Jun 28, 2021 09:52 am
Queen Latifah Intro for June 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, Ladies First! The first lady of hip-hop, Queen Latifah, was presented the Lifetime Achievement at the BET Awards last night with MC Lyte, Lil’ Kim, Monie Love, and Rhapsody taking the stage in tribute while Latifah looked on and grooved to their performance. She was honoured and By Lainey • Jun 28, 2021 09:29 am
What Else What Else? Kanye West is suing Walmart because he says they ripped off his Yeezys. Side by size, the shoes do look really, really similar. And similarly ugly. Like… I’m down to wear some weird looking sh-t, but I don’t f-ck with alien feet, and this how they By Lainey • Jun 25, 2021 04:01 pm
Katie Holmes Katie Holmes: New Hair, New Prodco Katie Holmes just announced her own production company today, Lafayette Pictures, in partnership with Yale Productions. She has several projects already on the go: The Watergate Girl, a series she started shooting recently; she’s writing the film adaptation of Rare Objects the book by Kathleen Tessaro; and she also By Lainey • Jun 25, 2021 02:00 pm
Top Reads Who Rejects Rihanna? Yesterday I posted photos of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky out in New York at Barcade. There are two conversations coming out of these pictures, let’s start with the most WTF moment. Which is that at some point in the night, Rihanna and Rocky decided to go to a By Lainey • Jun 25, 2021 11:56 am
Shout-Outs June 25, 2021 – Shout-Outs S! Happy Birthday with love from R…aka B! Thank you for doing the Lord’s work and giving your best friend a BTS education to the point where she now can list her biases to me in detail. I understand you share a bias, V, and so here he By Lainey • Jun 25, 2021 10:54 am
Maple Leaf Intro for June 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, We started the week in this space by spotlighting two artists, Lesley Hampton and Joe Buffalo to mark National Indigenous People’s Day on Monday, June 21. And now the week is ending with another devastating discovery that’s putting Canada in the news around the world, yet By Lainey • Jun 25, 2021 09:43 am
What Else What Else? David Koma’s new collection is apparently Cher inspired, and you can tell. But now I’m thinking about who I can see wearing these pieces and one name came to mind first: Jennifer Lopez. I could see her in every single one of these pieces, from the first black By Lainey • Jun 24, 2021 04:01 pm
Top Reads Jennifer Aniston: On Brad and Marriage I was surprised to see Jennifer Aniston on the cover of PEOPLE this week because initially I wasn’t sure what this was promoting. But given that she, Courteney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow were all on Howard Stern this week, it seems like this is still Friends reunion promotion for By Lainey • Jun 24, 2021 01:51 pm
Relationship Assumption Rihanna and Rocky at the Barcade Good name, Barcade. It’s a bar and an arcade in New York and that’s where Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were last night, out for a date that included a few drinks, a few games, and a lot of affection. RiRi and Rocky are unanimous, right? Some celebrity By Lainey • Jun 24, 2021 01:04 pm
