Amazingness Queen of All Culture, Mother of the Meme You’ll note in my previous post about Beyoncé today, I did not address her reaction to winning the Grammy for Best Country Album. That post was meant to focus on her tour announcement and the Album of the Year Grammy that had eluded her up to this point. But By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 03:15 pm
Music Cynthia and Janelle: Quincy Jones and Grammys for Oscars Cynthia Erivo and Janelle Monae were two of the artists who performed at the Grammys last night as part of the Quincy Jones tribute. We’ll begin at the end, as it was Janelle who shut it all down with a performance of “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 02:17 pm
Music Gaga, Miley, and Billie: Shōgun at the Grammys I was in flight for the first part of the Grammys so I’d only seen a few looks when Emily our site manager texted me to say that there was a lot of Shōgun at the Grammys. I knew Miley Cyrus was one of them, but then she added By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 01:39 pm
Music Beyoncé All Weekend There was already so much Beyoncé to talk about even before she won all her Grammys last night. So we’ll start there and jump around the timeline. Beyoncé was supposed to make an announcement on January 14 which she ended up postponing due to the wildfire situation in LA. By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 12:03 pm
Music Intro for February 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, Kendrick Lamar, on volume, was the Grammys biggest winner last night, sweeping all five categories in which he was nominated, including two of what’s considered to be the big four Grammys, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The song, obviously, is “Not Like Us” By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 08:59 am
Relationship Assumption Kaia Gerber isn’t moping When it was confirmed a few weeks ago that Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler had broken up, I wrote that it wasn’t all that surprising given their ages. She’s 23 years old, in a totally different phase of her life. And after three years together, there might not By Lainey • Jan 31, 2025 11:33 am
Amazingness Reese Witherspoon gives good gossip January 2025 is almost over and this month has been a F-CK. Monsters in power, disasters and destruction, and a lot of celebrity gossip but, like, not really the fun kind – sorry but sexual harassment and counter lawsuits that set off right-wing pile-ons and wild and crazy conspiracy theories that By Lainey • Jan 31, 2025 09:51 am
Music The Biebers in New York When Justin and Hailey Bieber are papped, the large majority of the time it’s in LA. This is the first time they’ve been spotted in NYC since last summer. And before last summer, it had been almost a year in between. The Biebers spent the early part of By Lainey • Jan 30, 2025 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harris Dickinson and the new actor Beatles Fifteen years ago there were four actors from the UK and Ireland who happened to have once lived together and seemed to be in all the movies, taking over pop culture: Jamie Dornan, Andrew Garfield, Robert Pattinson, and Eddie Redmayne. All of them continue to have big careers. Just before By Lainey • Jan 30, 2025 10:42 am
What Else What Else? Over on our Substack, The Squawk, there was a conversation happening in the daily chats - which are always popping! - about the raids that have been going on around the United States as families are being torn apart and children traumatised and used as pawns. Here’s the intersection By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo: New Year, New Luck Hello there, if you are new to this site, you might be thinking… it’s January 28, why is this bitch talking about the new year? Well, this bitch is Chinese, and on the lunar calendar, the new year begins tomorrow. So this is your last minute reminder to clean By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 02:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bridget and All Her Boys We’re just two weeks away from the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the return of Renée Zellweger as Bridget, now a widow and single mother, having to manage the school run and the dating apps at the same time. She and Helen Fielding were at By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 11:42 am
Style Tuesday in Paris Paris Fashion Week continues today and Chanel is the main event, but let me just back it up because there are some looks from yesterday that I didn’t get a chance to cover. Like Gabrielle Union at Schiaparelli because… This is a showstopper! The perfect combination of dress to By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, When Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet was released in 1993, about a queer Taiwanese American man who marries a Chinese woman to get her a green card and hiding the truth from his family as they plan the wedding, it’s not like there were a lot By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 09:20 am
Style Demi & Pam: The Favourite and the Already Won Demi Moore popped up in London with Pilaf this weekend after her first Oscar nomination for her work in The Substance. She is, right now, the presumed favourite although by no means can she coast her way to the Dolby on March 2. That’s one of the reasons she’ By Lainey • Jan 27, 2025 01:05 pm
Music Timothée Chalamet: Completely Singular I’ve been writing for months during this press tour for A Complete Unknown, how thrilling it’s been as a student of pop culture to watch Timothée Chalamet resist doing celebrity by prescription. Maybe even describing it that way is a disservice itself to his celebrity and the way By Lainey • Jan 27, 2025 11:41 am
