Cheating Loins Amy and T.J. try to make a comeback On Tuesday, T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach teased their much-awaited (ok, maybe just to me and some other messy people) upcoming podcast that drops next week, Amy and T.J. It's hard to believe that it has been an entire year since their scandal. And it' By Melayna • Nov 30, 2023 03:48 pm
Douchebags It’s not just Diddy For the past week, Diddy, aka Sean Combs has been embroiled in one of the biggest scandals to ever hit hip-hop. As Stephanie wrote, Cassie’s allegations against Combs were shockingly detailed and horrifying. Particularly the accusations of sexual assault, human trafficking, and domestic violence. And then it was another By Melayna • Nov 23, 2023 09:56 am
Dumbass Lena and Donald get into it (again) Donald Glover and Lena Dunham got caught in an awkward f-ck up that probably was supposed to fly under the radar, but we should talk about it. While presenting a Writers Guild Award to Paul Simms last weekend, Donald made a joke about Lena saying the n-word, which was promptly By Melayna • Mar 10, 2023 12:54 pm
Dumbass Selective Outrage: The Same Old Chris Rock Chris Rock's new comedy show, Selective Outrage, aired Saturday on Netflix. It was Netflix’s first live show ever (they are also shooting the SAG awards like this next) and Chris’s first standup special since The Slap. The special confirms what many of us already anticipated: Rock By Melayna • Mar 06, 2023 03:30 pm
Top Reads Remembering tWitch (Please note that this post is about mental health and please mind the trigger warning.) It was confirmed yesterday that beloved professional dancer, actor, television producer, and television personality Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss died by suicide. He was 40 years old. In 2008, tWitch finished in second place on So You By Melayna • Dec 15, 2022 11:26 am
Jock Smut Brittney Griner's devastating sentence Yesterday, in a Russian courtroom, WNBA star Brittney Griner was sentenced to 9 years in prison on drug smuggling charges, a shocking and devastating piece of the months-long saga of her detainment. Griner was arrested in February, and in March grainy images from the Sheremetyevo International Airport showed Brittney in By Melayna • Aug 05, 2022 12:55 pm
Music Kelis: Pharrell is not immune Earlier this week Beyoncé announced that she has pulled the sample of Kelis’ legendary anthem “Milkshake” from the end of her “Energy” track off her most recent studio album RENAISSANCE. According to Rolling Stone, Tidal and Apple have appeared to have “removed an interpolation of “Milkshake” that appeared at the By Melayna • Aug 04, 2022 12:22 pm
Top Reads Amber Heard's legal defeat is an enormous loss for victims Last week, Johnny Depp won his defamation civil lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. It was a highly publicized and publicly consumed trial that played out live for weeks on the internet, resulting in a verdict that legal experts called strange and unexpected. “She’s begging for total global humiliation. By Melayna • Jun 07, 2022 10:10 am
Trevor Noah Trevor Noah does the job The White House Correspondents Dinner took place on Saturday after an almost three year hiatus. The point of the dinner is to celebrate American journalists, and watch the president and the host make speeches (or roasts). For a while there it was almost a rite of passage for late night By Melayna • May 02, 2022 09:54 am
Equality Issues Why Megan Thee Stallion Has to Keep Defending Herself Megan Thee Stallion’s interview with Gayle King aired yesterday on CBS. While the interview began with Megan outlining her childhood dreams of being a rapper and close relationship with her parents, the focus and bulk of it was focused on the 2020 shooting incident between her and Canadian rapper, By Melayna • Apr 26, 2022 12:36 pm
TV Updates Insecure: Preparing for Goodbye What a time. It still seems unreal, but HBO’s Insecure is actually coming to an end with the series finale airing December 26. No one's prayer worked. The more the show winds down (or Wine’s down 😉), I’m realizing exactly why it’s my favourite show. By Melayna • Dec 21, 2021 10:37 am
TV Updates Saying Goodbye to Insecure The current fifth season of Insecure is also the final season, and everyone has been in their feelings about it. Our emotional responses (and tweets) about the characters and their stories have kept Insecure as a fav show and topic of conversation (and arguments) since the show premiered back in By Melayna • Oct 27, 2021 01:41 pm
TV Updates Love Is Blind: After the Altar Love is Blind: After the Altar started streaming yesterday on Netflix and gave us exactly what we needed. I am not even interested in any new cast members or seasons – these people are too good for TV. The three episodes had us celebrating two married couples, untangling the single lives By Melayna • Jul 29, 2021 12:30 pm
Long Reads Britney Spears: The New Yorker report Almost two weeks ago, the world heard Britney Spears tell her story. A story of abuse, exploitation, gaslighting, emotional trauma, resilience, and power. She finally put her own voice to a narrative that did not belong to her. In her own words, she just wanted her life back. Over 20 By Melayna • Jul 06, 2021 01:23 pm
TV Updates There will be more of A Black Lady Sketch Show This past Friday, Robin Thede’s A Black Lady Sketch Show concluded its second season on HBO. Experiencing the show during this horrendous time for humanity has definitely been a relief. The cast stuck with what made us fall in love with the series and turned up what really worked By Melayna • May 31, 2021 11:42 am
Music Anticipating the Kanye documentary While we really haven’t heard much from him directly in a while, Kanye West seems to be having a great year, at least professionally. He was recently named the wealthiest Black man in American history with an alleged net worth of $6.6 billion and now it’s been By Melayna • Apr 08, 2021 12:03 pm
