Music Beyoncé is ready As mentioned earlier, Beyoncé kicks off the Formation World Tour tonight in Miami. Tickets would have been considered a major get a few weeks ago. But now? With the release of Lemonade? Well, she knows how to drive up the interest. It’s Beyoncé. It was always planned this way, By Lainey • Apr 27, 2016 03:32 pm
Beyoncé Intro for April 27, 2016 Dear Gossips, Nope. Still haven’t run out of things to say about Beyoncé. I still have 5 think-pieces I haven’t gotten to yet. And each think-piece has 5 links that I add to the read list which keeps growing. Some scholars are saying that Lemonade will By Lainey • Apr 27, 2016 09:47 am
Music Intro for April 26, 2016 Dear Gossips, I can’t stop reading all the think-pieces about Beyoncé’s Lemonade. This one was my favourite from yesterday. And there will be more. Because, again, there’s just so much to unpack. Which, again, is a testament to the singular force that is Beyoncé. No one By Lainey • Apr 26, 2016 10:01 am
Music Lemonade: Beyoncé’s Black Feminist Declaration It is important that the word ‘black’ is in this headline. A few outlets have omitted that word from the bolded titles of their respective Lemonade reviews. They’ve focused on the visual album’s Southern Gothic influences, the fashion, and Becky. Yes, all of those things are worthy of By Kathleen • Apr 25, 2016 09:31 am
Music Lemonade: Beyoncé’s Black Feminist Domination Please note: Kathleen’s piece on Beyoncé will follow mine. Because there’s just so much to unpack. You could write a think-piece on every single frame of Lemonade and it almost still wouldn’t be enough. Lemonade, of course, as you know now, is Beyoncé’s visual album, By Lainey • Apr 25, 2016 09:09 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for April 25, 2016 Dear Gossips, Middle fingers up Put them hands high Wave it in his face Tell him… Boy bye Like, what else is there to talk about today? Because, really, there is only Beyoncé. And we will definitely be talking a lot about Beyoncé. In at least two posts. But first By Lainey • Apr 25, 2016 07:30 am
TV Updates Lemonade & Dragons Are you ready? It's a big weekend. I've been waiting for Saturday for days, maybe even all year. Beyoncé's "world premiere event", Lemonade, premieres on HBO tomorrow at 9pm. HBO has confirmed it's an hour. But there are reports that By Lainey • Apr 22, 2016 03:59 pm
Music Intro for April 18, 2016 Dear Gossips, Saturday. It was 4.16.16. 4, 4x4, 4x4 And on this day she spoke. I didn’t write about Beyoncé last week. I wanted to. I wanted to every day, especially on Thursday, with the release of Ivy Park. And I wanted to on Friday, after Ivy By Lainey • Apr 18, 2016 09:02 am
Beyoncé Intro for April 8, 2016 Dear Gossips, Ohhhhkayyy. It’s Friday. It’s been another week. And still no album from Beyoncé. That’s what I check, every morning when my alarm goes off. So maybe it’s next Thursday? Ivy Park goes on sale April 14. That’s 4-14. And it’s hype By Lainey • Apr 08, 2016 09:32 am
BFFs The Perfect Interview starring Jennifer Lawrence Earlier this week I was preoccupied by how Beyoncé has redefined what an “interview” with her really means. An “exclusive” interview with Beyoncé (for ELLE) means that the writer, a family friend, is given the opportunity to observe Beyoncé at a photo shoot. And then present her with a series By Lainey • Apr 07, 2016 11:15 am
Top Reads Beyoncé’s ELLE takeover: the interview The exclusive ELLE interview with Beyoncé was released digitally today – have you read it yet? I did this morning. As I wrote yesterday, Beyoncé was supposedly “in conversation” with Tamar Gottesman, presumably the daughter of billionaire hedge fund manager Noam Gottesman – the Carters are tight with him. Click here for By Lainey • Apr 05, 2016 04:09 pm
Media Manipulation Beyoncé Park: Perfectionism and Purpose ELLE Magazine has released more images from the Beyoncé ELLE worldwide takeover to promote Ivy Park. Excerpts from the “interview” have also been published, with the full piece going digital tomorrow. The magazine is calling it a “rare in-depth interview”. And we know this is remarkable because Beyoncé doesn’ By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 04:27 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for April 4, 2016 Dear Gossips, The Weeknd was the big winner last night at the JUNO Awards in Calgary going 4/5, accepting one of those awards from Buffy Sainte-Marie, the coolest ever. No one is cooler than Buffy Sainte-Marie. No f-cking one. The Weeknd’s performance was also simulcast By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 07:33 am
Music Taylor falls Yesterday Beyoncé gave us a shot of herself running on the treadmill, in WEDGE HEELS. That’s the Beyoncé brand. Of course she runs and works out in wedge heels. Practically it makes sense, since when she’s on stage, she’s handling choreography in heels all the time. Non- By Lainey • Apr 01, 2016 01:08 pm
Beyoncé Intro for April 1, 2016 Dear Gossips, You didn’t think I’d be opening the blog today with anyone other than Beyoncé, did you? It’s my husband’s birthday, and I’m STILL opening on Beyoncé. Because while we were all waiting for this album to drop, yesterday Beyoncé decided to give us By Lainey • Apr 01, 2016 09:37 am
Media Manipulation Beyoncé speaks for Ivy Park Beyoncé on the cover of both ELLE USA and ELLE UK. It’s the long-awaited athleisure line. It’s called Ivy Park. The album? Not sure. Maybe tomorrow? But you can see now that it’s all converging. The album is coming. The tour is coming. Ivy Park goes By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 12:57 pm
