Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Pop Goes International One of the greatest things to come out of the streaming era is our access to music from all over the world. If we rewound 25+ years when music was only in physical form, record labels had all the control over what we heard and which countries and markets would By MC • Mar 04, 2025 02:30 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: The Britney Agenda I feel like I’ve been living in a fever dream of different variations of Britney Spears when it comes to today’s pop girlies. Just this week alone, two big releases include some very clear nods to the OG princess of pop, channeled through Tate McRae and Coco Jones. By MC • Feb 25, 2025 01:26 pm
Music Jessica Simpson’s Second Act It’s been 17 years since Jessica Simpson was actively making music (with the exception of 2010’s Happy Christmas). She’s just returned with her new single “Use My Heart Against Me” – the first off her upcoming EP Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1 which drops March 21. The song is By MC • Feb 24, 2025 02:00 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: For The Lovers Valentine’s Day is a marketing dream in music. Love, relationships, it’s the human connection, that’s what music is all about isn’t it? Love songs have taken different forms over the years though. This week’s new releases are a collection of love professed across multiple genres. By MC • Feb 18, 2025 11:22 am
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: The Power of Three Trios are powerful. Whether it’s established girl groups like TLC and Destiny’s Child (from the Michelle era of course), or collaborations between individual artists, music compliments a trio immaculately. In an age where very few girl groups cross into the mainstream, it’s always nice to see women By MC • Feb 11, 2025 02:35 pm
Music Dirty (K)Pop Megan Thee Stallion is taking her talents to the small screen once more. This time she is teaming up with PSY, who you’ll remember from his OG viral smash “Gangnam Style”, on a new west-meets-east reality music competition that is appropriately titled KPOPPED. The show which will stream on By MC • Feb 07, 2025 01:28 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Musical Trilogies and Whitney-Keke As the old saying goes, “good things come in threes”, so it should come as no shock that when the rule of threes gets applied to music, the result can be great. Beyoncé being the most current example, the Album Of The Year winner is on album #2 of her By MC • Feb 04, 2025 12:33 pm
Music Grammys 2025: Year of the Rookie "Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels, we got you – but do you got us?” - Chappell Roan, 2025 Grammy Awards. It was the year of the “new” artist at this year’s Grammy Awards. Every By MC • Feb 03, 2025 10:13 am
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: January 28th, 2025 Collaborations can either hit really hard, or fumble even harder. Once an artist finds a winning formula though, there’s potential to create new trends and movements through the sounds established. Mariah Carey did it in 1995 when she invited ODB to hop on the remix for “Fantasy”, ushering in By MC • Jan 28, 2025 01:05 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: January 21st 2025 The bond that an artist forms with their fans is unique and, depending on who you ask, it’s unbreakable. Some people may not be able to understand it, but for those who do, you know what it feels like to be understood by your favourite artist. You may not By MC • Jan 21, 2025 01:08 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: January 14th 2025 We are officially two weeks into the new year, and the biggest news in music today was supposed to be Beyoncé’s announcement today which has now been postponed out of respect for the ongoing situation in Los Angeles. B is the It Girl all the it girls aspire to By MC • Jan 14, 2025 12:10 pm
Music Welcome to MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE (Message from Lainey: new year… new contributor! Meet Michael, who will tell you all about himself below. Michael can be reached via email at mc@laineygossip.com, on IG @mikecadoch, and TikTok @mikecadoch. He’ll also be posting on our Substack, The Squawk – so please subscribe and join him there! By MC • Jan 07, 2025 02:18 pm
