Maple Leaf Drake’s 1, 2, 3 Drake has just accomplished something that no other musical act has ever done – he is now the first artist ever to release three songs in the top three spots of the Billboard Hot 100. “What’s Next” is #1, followed by “Wants and Needs” ft Lil Baby in the #2 By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 01:50 pm
Top Reads Prince Harry & Meghan Markle: Gayle Gives Us a Royal Update If you’re CBS, on the downside, there’s the mess with The Talk. And the Grammys ratings. On the upside though, the ratings from the Television Event of the Year, Oprah’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, are a huge win. And they’ve established themselves as By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 12:56 pm
Shout-Outs March 16, 2021 – Smutty Shout-Outs For Melanie and Snoopy who was curious, and naughty, and had so much personality – which is why he had his own photo shoot? Photo shoots?! These are like studio shots! Look at these shots! They are ART! And I’m looking at his little face, his eyes, all the love By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 09:41 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 16, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Oscar nominations yesterday revealed that the Academy still gets hard over movies like Mank (auteur, black and white, Old Hollywood) and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (film critic Rad Simonpillai told me yesterday on etalk that there could be a comparison here between Brokeback Mountain and By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 09:21 am
What Else What Else? Doja Cat wins the 2021 JLo Grammy because inevitably at every Grammys since JLo did it with her Versace, someone comes through with a dress plunge, and this is our version this year. I actually quite like the “Kill Bill” on top of this look. The skirt part kinda falls By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 05:06 pm
Grammy Awards 2021 BTS’s Endless Grammys Generosity If you’ve been paying attention to the Grammys, especially this past week, as noise about the Grammys’ lack of transparency and glacial rate of change were dominating the headlines, it shouldn’t have been a shock that BTS did not win on their first Grammy nomination. For the Recording By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 04:45 pm
Grammy Awards 2021 Taylor Swift’s Third AOTY Even though the Grammys tried to switch it up last night, announcing the Record of the Year category at the end of the show instead of Album of the Year, people still consider AOTY to be the most prestigious award in music – and it really shouldn’t have been a By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 03:23 pm
Top Reads Beyoncé Blessed the Building….and Left Like I said in the open today, I thought the Grammys were well-produced and I appreciate that they put in the effort to make good TV. But like I also said in the open, that was a long ass show. And while I can happily binge eight hours of a By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 11:49 am
Grammy Awards 2021 Intro for March 15, 2021 Dear Gossips, The people who produced the Grammys, as in the broadcast, are not the Recording Academy. They have to work with the Recording Academy, obviously, but they’re not responsible for how the Recording Academy manages the Grammys, like the actual awards. So you can have a conversation about By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 09:22 am
What Else What Else? Does it feel like it’s been ten years since Lady Gaga arrived at the Grammys as an egg? I remember, of course I do, and I’ll likely remember it forever, but I don’t feel like it was a decade ago. Just me? Katy Perry’s look, on By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 03:43 pm
Lady Gaga Lady Gaga: Outfits of the Week If you’ve been online this week, and if you’re here, you have, you cannot have missed all of Lady Gaga’s looks in Italy while shooting House of Gucci. Every day there’s been a new look, and I’ve either posted the previous ones or linked to By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 01:10 pm
Matt Damon Matt Damon on the Bridge Matt Damon and his family have been in Australia because he’s shooting Thor: Love and Thunder. For him to have brought the whole crew over to stay for weeks, if not months, it would have to be more than just a cameo right? Which was the case in Thor: By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 12:09 pm
Music Silk Sonic at the Grammys What’s the song you’ve been listening to the most lately? The one you hit on repeat? For many of us, since last Friday, it’s Silk’s Sonic’s “Leave the Door Open”, right? Silk Sonic is Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, a track that’s been steadily By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 10:59 am
Abel Tesfaye Intro for March 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Grammys are happening on Sunday and I’m excited about the show itself, about how they’re going to pull it off, or not. In all the promotion leading up to the event, show producers have gone out of their way to make it clear they’ve By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 09:13 am
What Else What Else? Oh well here’s a throwback – the premiere of Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in a movie that wasn’t Pretty Woman. She arrived with Benjamin Bratt. Remember Julia and Benjamin?! A FINE looking couple, they were together for four years. They were together when she won By Lainey • Mar 11, 2021 04:46 pm
Ben Affleck BenAna: The Gossip Anniversary Today is the one year anniversary of the World Health Organization officially declaring COVID a pandemic. Which means it’s been a year since life for most of changed and still hasn’t really changed back. Many of us are still working from home. Many of us are still not By Lainey • Mar 11, 2021 04:33 pm
