Music Beyoncé… “TBD”? The Lion King soundtrack was announced yesterday. Elton John has written a new song called “Never Too Late” for the movie and… most curious… there’s song #14, currently without a title. They’re listing it right now as “TBA”. You know what that probably means, right? In an interview By Lainey • Jun 25, 2019 09:40 am
Beyoncé Intro for June 24, 2019 Dear Gossips, A clever “choose your own adventure” Beyoncé thread went viral on Twitter this weekend. Thanks to all of you who thought of me. This is a true compliment. Of course I made it to the end on my first try. This is my dream job and I’m By Lainey • Jun 24, 2019 09:07 am
Music Can you hear the Beyoncé? The Lion King comes out on July 19 so less than a month now. Which means they’re moving into the final stages of promotion and releasing the primetime goods, what everyone is most curious about – which, of course, is mostly Beyoncé. Earlier this month we finally heard Beyoncé speak By Lainey • Jun 21, 2019 10:04 am
Top Reads The new Beyoncé “interview”?!? I came across this headline on the weekend: “For the First Time in Six Years, Beyoncé Has Done an Interview” People online were talking about it too. You can imagine the reaction. WHAT?! It’s well-known by now that Beyoncé doesn’t give interviews anymore. When she has something to By Lainey • Jun 18, 2019 09:46 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Beyoncé: a rebuke and a surprise As covered yesterday, the Beyhive swarmed Nicole Curran, who was sitting beside Beyoncé at the Oracle for Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Toronto Raptors (#WeTheNorth) and the Golden State Warriors, after their interaction the sidelines. Nicole was STUNG. She says that the Video Assumption was way off-base By Lainey • Jun 07, 2019 10:58 am
Photo Assumption When you sit beside Beyoncé Beyoncé, our Queen, is the all-knowing. She knows how to signal the Beyhive – and she knows what happens when the Beyhive receives the Bey Signal. They activate. The question for today is whether or not Beyoncé was actually deploying the Signal. Because, well, sometimes the Beyhive is triggered whether or By Lainey • Jun 06, 2019 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beyoncé, The Lion This weekend Miss Tina and her husband, Richard Lawson, presided over the Wearable Art Gala in support of WACO Theatre Centre. It’s an annual event and it draws a lot of big names, the biggest name being Beyoncé, obviously. Beyoncé did not walk the carpet. But she did show By Lainey • Jun 04, 2019 12:03 pm
BFFs Omari Hardwick talks about Beyoncé When Omari Hardwick kissed Beyoncé twice on the cheek at this year’s NAACP Image Awards, the Beyhive lost its goddamn mind. The online backlash ran the gamut anywhere from Beyoncé looked uncomfortable and the interaction lacked consent (which I kind of believed) to Hardwick is ready to risk it By Melayna • May 21, 2019 04:32 pm
Game of Thrones Intro for May 20, 2019 Dear Gossips, SPOILERS AHEAD There have been several series this year that have stuck their landings: Crazy Rich Girlfriend and Broad City first, then Veep last weekend. Did Game of Thrones stick the landing? Did it have to? Maybe the better question is what they thought a stuck landing looked By Lainey • May 20, 2019 09:59 am
Music Beyoncé’s Challenge By now you’ve watched Homecoming on Netflix, right? And if you didn’t catch the livestream last year, now you know. Well, we all knew. But that’s what Beyoncé does – she lets you think you know, and then she lets you know that you didn’t actually know By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 03:13 pm
Equality Issues Sandra & Beyoncé Sandra Oh was honoured last night at the TIME 100. She’s on one of the magazine’s covers, making the list of the world’s most influential people in the “Pioneer” category. We disagree on many things in these times. But Sandra Oh, I think, is someone who is By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 10:16 am
Game of Thrones Intro for April 22, 2019 Dear Gossips, Many of us got what we wanted on Game of Thrones last night: a glimpse of Ghost. But what does Ghost get in return? Not much. Our very good boy isn’t even acknowledged! And then there’s the bigger problem: Ghost is bonded to a dumbass. Seriously. By Lainey • Apr 22, 2019 08:32 am
Music Intro for April 18, 2019 Dear Gossips, Well? Did you watch #BeyoncéHomecoming? Were you transported? Beyoncé Day generated half a million tweets yesterday and universal critical acclaim. Homecoming: The Live Album soared to the top of the charts. And, once again, Beyoncé is trailblazing. You’ll recall, when she surprise-dropped her self-titled album, Beyoncé, in By Lainey • Apr 18, 2019 08:55 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work LIVE: Beyoncé Homecoming Edition If you’re on the internet at all today, #BeyoncéHomecoming is all there is, but just in case you’re somehow avoiding all of it except this post, SPOILERS abound below: Lainey and I are joined by very special guest/official provider of waterworks Kathleen for what might be our By Duana • Apr 17, 2019 03:09 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Beyoncé for Michelle Obama Earlier this morning, after we’d wrapped the Show Your Work podcast, #BeyoncéHomecoming special episode, Duana, Kathleen, and I were still high off of what we’d just watched and talked about and Kathleen kept saying, “What a time to be alive”. Duana and I kind of giggled – but it’ By Lainey • Apr 17, 2019 11:33 am
Music Intro for April 17, 2019 Dear Gossips, I’m writing this at 2am ET. Kathleen just got to my place and Duana is on her way – she texted to ask us if we wanted drive-thru, LOL. We are gathering, OBVIOUSLY, for #BeyoncéHomecoming, joining hundreds of thousands of others around the world (millions, probably?) who are By Lainey • Apr 17, 2019 08:29 am