Amazingness Queen Bey announces Black is King Last week I wrote about Beyoncé flexing her brilliance on the surprise Juneteenth song, “Black Parade”. Who knew that a such an important piece of her discography would set the stage for ‘something way bigger? After being honoured with the Humanitarian Award at Sunday’s BET Awards, Beyoncé used her By Cody • Jun 29, 2020 09:26 am
Music Beyoncé’s “Black Parade” (Lainey: This post has been written by Cody Kreller, our newest contributor. I know Cody from Etalk through his work as a producer. And I had originally planned to introduce Cody later but then Beyoncé dropped a new song, without warning, as she does, and it accelerated our initial rollout. By Cody • Jun 22, 2020 11:24 am
Michelle Obama Ranking the speeches of Youtube’s “Dear Class of 2020” Recently, I ranked some virtual commencement speeches given by celebrities to the class of 2020 as they miss out on their traditional commencements during quarantine. Then, on Sunday, Youtube hosted (another) online commencement, “Dear Class of 2020”, for the class of 2020 which brings us a whole new crop of By Sarah • Jun 08, 2020 01:07 pm
Equality Issues Beyoncé & Jay-Z call for action Beyoncé posted a video on Instagram this weekend encouraging her followers to sign one or all of the petitions being circulated demanding justice for George Floyd. The petitions can be accessed through her website. Beyoncé, as we know, has been supporting front line workers during the pandemic and has donated By Lainey • Jun 01, 2020 10:02 am
Music Intro for May 13, 2020 Dear Gossips, History was made this week on the Billboard Hot 100. Doja Cat and Nicki Minaj’s “Say So” remix has topped the chart, the first #1 of their careers. And the first #1 of Nicki’s career. The #2 song on the Hot 100 is Megan Thee Stallion By Lainey • May 13, 2020 08:54 am
Music Intro for April 30, 2020 Dear Gossips, Guess who just showed up out of the blue, no warning, and sent the internet into panic last night? Who else? The Queen, of course. Megan Thee Stallion dropped the remix for her song “Savage” yesterday, which has been going viral on TikTok, and it features THREE verses By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 09:15 am
Top Reads What Beyoncé’s been doing We’ve been talking about how quiet Beyoncé’s been, for months now, on social media, even before the pandemic lockdown, as she often is when she’s in architect mode. But especially, during this time, when so many celebrities are announcing charitable endeavours or showing their asses, Beyoncé has By Lainey • Apr 23, 2020 12:40 pm
Celine Dion Intro for April 20, 2020 Dear Gossips, Did you watch the One World: Together at Home concert this weekend? Even before it started, Lady Gaga and her team had reportedly raised $50 million, stressing repeatedly to viewers that the point of the event was not for the audience to give but for people around to By Lainey • Apr 20, 2020 08:47 am
Beyoncé Intro for April 17, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s the question we’ve been asking since pandemic lockdown began: what is Beyoncé doing? Beyoncé was self-isolating even before everyone else started isolation. She’s half self-isolated most of the time anyway – as we all know, our Queen keeps it undercover, emerging only when she’s By Lainey • Apr 17, 2020 08:18 am
Amazingness Intro for March 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, “Let’s go get ‘em.” Did you join the Beyoncé Homecoming viewing party last night? That’s what I was doing, along with a few friends on group chat, and hundreds of thousands others, if not more, on social media, which is why #Homecoming was trending worldwide for By Lainey • Mar 19, 2020 09:02 am
Top Reads Beyoncé: no photos at Kobe and Gianna tribute Back in 2013, when Beyoncé headlined the Super Bowl halftime show (the first time), Buzzfeed heard from her publicist demanding that “unflattering” photos of her be taken down. It was the beginning of Beyoncé’s press shutdown, when she stopped giving interviews, stopped engaging with the media. At the time, By Lainey • Feb 25, 2020 11:50 am
BFFs Beyoncé’s “XO” for Kobe The Kobe Bryant memorial is happening right now and Beyoncé opened. Not much is known about the relationship between the Bryants and the Carters but it was evident today during B’s performance that they were close – and that’s not a surprise; Vanessa Bryant, even before Kobe’s passing, By Lainey • Feb 24, 2020 03:39 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for February 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé has been pretty quiet since the IVY PARK x adidas drop. That’s the way of our Queen. She never lets us know what she’s doing until she’s good and ready to let us know what she’s been doing. If she’s doing anything. By Lainey • Feb 21, 2020 09:39 am
Beyoncé Intro for February 12, 2020 Dear Gossips, You know that photo of Adele at Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Oscar party, which has become the Oscar party that everyone most wants to get into? It was posted to Instagram by a Polish television host called Kinga Rusin who, in addition to sharing her picture with Adele By Lainey • Feb 12, 2020 09:00 am
Penelope Cruz Intro for February 6, 2020 Dear Gossips, Our Annual Contest – you predict the award winners and I send you a prize (a designer bag) – is still happening either today or tomorrow so look out for it! The Academy yesterday announced its final round of presenters. Jane Fonda is on the list and if you include By Lainey • Feb 06, 2020 08:46 am
Top Reads Jay-Z tries to explain Jay-Z tried to explain his partnership with the NFL in the days leading up to the Super Bowl. Then he went to the Super Bowl and was seen sitting during the US national anthem. After that Love B Scott reported that he and Roc Nation were pressuring Jennifer Lopez to By Lainey • Feb 05, 2020 12:05 pm
