Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Alicia’s VMA face Didn’t matter to me what she was wearing. Because it’s what she wasn’t wearing on her face that caught my attention: nothing. Which is her policy now. And she looks SO good. SO pretty. By Lainey • Aug 29, 2016 09:59 am
Music Kanye West, Thought Leader If you didn’t know Teyana Taylor before last night, now you know. I’m starting with Teyana because the VMAs belonged to black women. Kanye’s free-reign speech was Peak Kanye but the video he debuted for Fade was ALL Teyana. Goddamn. A refresher on Teyana’s credentials By Kathleen • Aug 29, 2016 09:02 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Serena’s VMA LBD It’s a good black dress. Is it too big though? I feel like she could have gone a size down. And this is from me, a body-con hater. But the gap from the mid-section down the thigh is generous and I feel like a smaller size would By Lainey • Aug 29, 2016 08:43 am
MTV VMA 2016 Coverage The placement of Britney Spears How do we properly assess the performance of Britney Spears last night? Knowing what she’s gone through, is it the gentle approach? Do we make an exception on standard and collectively agree that it was a decent return to the VMAs? It was a decent return to the VMAs. By Lainey • Aug 29, 2016 08:36 am
MTV VMA 2016 Coverage Nick Jonas’s Bacon That’s not a euphemism. Nick Jonas performed a song called Bacon last night at the VMAs. His performance opened with him in a kitchen, holding a fresh plate of bacon. This is how most of my daydreams about Nick also open. The performance went downhill from there. Nick goes By Kathleen • Aug 29, 2016 08:08 am
MTV VMA 2016 Coverage I Can’t No Pastries Next week will be two years since we lost Joan Rivers. And it’s true, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. Because the Joan Rivers random amazingness on a red carpet can never be replaced. Sometimes during an interview, she straight up forgot By Lainey • Aug 29, 2016 07:20 am
MTV VMA 2016 Coverage Alessia Cara is cooler than all of us Alessia Cara is 20 years old. She’s 20 years old and she already oozes so much confidence and charisma it’s unfair. It’s unfair to her peers (she’s so real she makes Ariana Grande look like a Madame Tussauds wax figure) and it’s unfair to us By Kathleen • Aug 29, 2016 06:55 am
MTV VMA 2016 Coverage Intro for August 29, 2016 Dear Gossips, “But for people to understand just how blessed we are. It was an expression of our now. Our fame, right now. Us on the inside of the TV…This is FAME, bro”. Duana texted me, like, 5 seconds after those words came out of Kanye West’s mouth By Lainey • Aug 29, 2016 06:33 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: On Femininity, Frenchness, and Farting Rats Hi Duana! I am French, not pregnant and not intending to be anytime soon, but I like to read your column about name nerding as the cultural differences are always interesting to me. I particularly enjoyed the last one (that I've read, at least) about Vivianne, Vivienne, Vivian, By Duana • Aug 26, 2016 04:15 pm
Music No show Taylor? Taylor Swift heading to the gym today in New York. New York, also the site of this year’s VMAs on Sunday. But, according to PEOPLE, she won’t be there citing sources connected to MTV and Taylor who insist she’s not going and never intended to go, regardless By Lainey • Aug 26, 2016 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pete’s Dragon: a reason to go to the movies So far, it’s been kind of a sh*t year for film. The highlights have been incredibly high (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Green Room, Swiss Army Man, Captain America: Civil War), but they’re vastly outnumbered by a slew of utter dreck, and more than once this year, I’ By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 03:54 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, August 26, 2016 Shawn Mendes gave an interview to Billboard and is claiming he was misquoted about his fans not knowing him. I want to shake these young popstars and tell them not to pander to their fandoms. It’s OK if they don’t “know” you. You can love and appreciate your By Maria • Aug 26, 2016 03:38 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Finds: Natural Deodorant It’s been the hottest summer on record in Toronto, well, who the f-ck are we kidding here, AROUND THE GLOBE….but hey, this is a beauty post so I’m not gonna get too real on your asses. But I will say that the rising temperatures have put By Sasha • Aug 26, 2016 03:29 pm
Music Britney’s Glory weekend Britney’s new album, Glory, dropped today. Last night she was on Carpool Karaoke with James Corden. Those hits, they stand up, don’t they? I will never not love the line, “that is just so typically me”. Ever. A few years ago, as you know, this would not have By Lainey • Aug 26, 2016 01:41 pm
Equality Issues Amy Schumer, Again It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Amy Schumer. Just as her first book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, was being released, a writer on Inside Amy Schumer, Kurt Metzger, went off on social media about rape survivors and rape culture. Schumer, as Metzger’s high- By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kubo and the Two Strings: Who is watching this? The animation house Laika makes beautiful jewel-box movies, all done in distinctively macabre stop-motion animation, and even when their aesthetic leans into “ugly on purpose” territory—as in their two previous films, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls—their films are visually stunning. Their latest is Kubo and the Two By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 12:06 pm
