Music Intro for December 4, 2024 Dear Gossips, Billboard has spent the back half of this year counting down the greatest pop stars of the 21st century. This week was the official confirmation, or coronation, if you will, even though the reveal came last week when the artist in the #2 spot was announced. Naturally, everybody By Lainey • Dec 04, 2024 09:30 am
Music Beysus at Christmas This is why it’s pointless to speculate on what Beyoncé is doing. Because when we find out what she’s been doing, it always comes out of nowhere and on no one’s bingo card. There have been no visuals. Not for act i, RENAISSANCE, and not for act By Lainey • Nov 18, 2024 10:35 am
Beyoncé A Beyoncé distraction Millions of Americans – and non-Americans – are white-knuckling today which is why our Queen decided to gift us with a distraction: BEYWATCH. Seriously, I know I’m an annoying stan but I will never stop delighting in the creative ways she uses her name. This, of course, is a tribute to By Lainey • Nov 05, 2024 09:31 am
Top Reads Beyoncé at the rally? Back in August ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepting her party’s nomination for the presidency, social media exploded with speculation about whether or not Beyoncé would show up to either introduce VP Harris or perform on the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Those rumours ended By Lainey • Oct 24, 2024 01:09 pm
Music Intro for September 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Country Music Association Awards nominations were announced yesterday and you’ll never guess, Beyoncé was not nominated in a single category despite having released the country music masterpiece that is COWBOY CARTER. Shaboozey, however, received two nominations – for New Artist of the Year and Single of the By Lainey • Sep 10, 2024 09:36 am
Beyoncé Beyoncé: A Whiskey Birthday Today is a Global Cultural Holiday. For the Fourth of September is also known as B’Day, and though you know her without having to hear her name, her name is spoken as a blessing. We were blessed on the fourth day of the ninth month in the year 1981 By Lainey • Sep 04, 2024 11:49 am
TV Updates Intro for August 28, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday this space was dedicated to the DNC production team’s Show Your Work in how they put together a political event that was also a four-day television miniseries. We’re sticking with that today because Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, aka the showrunner and director, did an By Lainey • Aug 28, 2024 09:16 am
Top Reads Beyoncé: Whisky with no “e” Beyoncé has some news today: she’s just launched her own whisky, SirDavis. B’s whisky is a collaboration with Moët Hennessy, she’s been working on it for at least a couple of years, and as she does, there have been hints about it along the way. What’s By Lainey • Aug 20, 2024 02:02 pm
Beyoncé Intro for August 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, Five months ago – howwwww was it FIVE months ago?! – Beyoncé released COWBOY CARTER, another masterpiece of an album; she was in Japan on the day, and actually held a meet and greet there. Since then, there have been a few sightings here and there but the Queen has By Lainey • Aug 19, 2024 09:14 am
Music Shaboozey is King Billboard released its chart results yesterday and topping the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Country Song chart is Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”. This is history as he becomes the first Black male artist to simultaneously reach #1 on both charts. And of course it’s been record By Lainey • Jul 09, 2024 03:13 pm
Music Intro for June 26, 2024 Dear Gossips, Images from Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER vinyl boxset are being shared online and by now we should all know… Beyoncé does not play when it comes to photo shoots. Here’s another spectacular image that could have been another cover for the album. Beyoncé for #COWBOYCARTER 🐎 pic.twitter. By Lainey • Jun 26, 2024 09:46 am
Music Intro for May 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé has no idea I exist but still, I am taking her recent Instagram posts very personally. The last time I posted about her in this space she was sharing photos and videos from her trip to Japan. And last night there was more. Our Queen arrived in By Lainey • May 02, 2024 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Carter Movie Credits Nobody’s in the mood to talk about the holidays since we’re just about to start May and the summer blockbuster season in North America but there is a movie coming out for the holiday season that’s expected to be a huge blockbuster and the first trailer dropped By Lainey • Apr 29, 2024 10:34 am
Beyoncé Intro for April 24, 2024 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé has me freaking out, as usual. Her latest Instagram posts, have you seen them? She’s posing on trucks with Chinese and Japanese writing all over them. She’s hanging out in a Japanese convenience store. People are assuming this footage was taken from when she was By Lainey • Apr 24, 2024 09:11 am
Top Reads Beyoncé shows her hair Since Beyoncé launched CÉCRED, her haircare line, there’s been a lot of excitement and praise but also some side-eying and criticism. Most women, most people, have a deep relationship with their hair – it’s mood and identity, it’s expression and it’s presentation. For Black women in particular By Lainey • Apr 22, 2024 10:47 am
Style Intro for April 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, “Denim on denim on denim on denim” is what Beyoncé is showing us in her latest Instagram post. This, after all, is the dominant fabric of act ii and, given how organised Beyoncé usually is, these fits were probably sourced weeks if not months in advance which, as By Lainey • Apr 17, 2024 09:05 am
