Music Intro for February 29, 2024 Dear Gossips, CR Fashion Book announced last night that it would be releasing the first of nine new covers starting today, and posted a tease: We all know that silhouette. For me, though, it’s always the hands. I can always tell by Beyoncé’s hands that it’s her, By Lainey • Feb 29, 2024 09:23 am
Music Intro for February 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, There’s a song that I can’t get away from (not complaining!) since Beyoncé decided it was time to remind them that she’s always been country: “Buckle Bunny”! “I’m a buckle bunny Ate the whole cake, left ‘em no crummies” Tanner Adell’s song has By Lainey • Feb 22, 2024 08:59 am
Music Beyoncé mingles! As we have seen over the years, February, Black History Month, is a big month for Beyoncé. When she was pregnant with the twins she announced it in February. “Formation” dropped in February, right before the Super Bowl, and then right after the Super Bowl she announced the tour. Last By Lainey • Feb 21, 2024 10:34 am
Music That’s Beyoncé’s best friend Last night was the premiere of Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa, which stars Kelly Rowland. Beyoncé went to the premiere to support her, along with Jay Z, Miss Tina, and Angie Beyince. Bey and Jay skipped the red carpet, but Queen Bey still let her support of her best friend By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 09:31 am
Maple Leaf Intro for February 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week I interviewed Camille Dundas for ETALK. Camille is a public speaking and corporate diversity consultant, a television producer, a writer, and the founder and editor-in-chief of ByBlacks.com, an award-winning online magazine covering stories of interest to the Black Canadian community, spotlighting the efforts and By Lainey • Feb 15, 2024 10:04 am
Music Time Travelling with Beyoncé Music has always taken me places. When I was teaching or working over Zoom full-time in the first couple of years of the pandemic, I had to start with a playlist. Los Angeles Azules & Natalia Lafourcade’s “Nada es suficiente” helped me connect with students and colleagues as we By Violeta • Feb 14, 2024 12:11 pm
Music Intro for February 14, 2024 Dear Gossips, “Earned all this money, but they never take the country out me” – I know I don’t have to tell you who said that and when and where she did it. And now we know that that was a promise. Eight years later Beyoncé is about to release By Lainey • Feb 14, 2024 10:03 am
Music A Proclamation by the Queen I wondered last week if we were clowning ourselves because where Beyoncé is concerned, well, we clown ourselves a lot. But this was not a false alarm. The Queen of Culture was indeed planning a Super Bowl takeover – we are blessed with new music, a new album, and the beginning By Lainey • Feb 12, 2024 11:56 am
Beyoncé Intro for February 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé, the Queen of Culture, decided yesterday that break time is over. When she is active, it often happens in February, during Black History Month. It’s been long rumoured that she would be launching her own hair care line and the Queen of Culture confirmed yesterday that By Lainey • Feb 08, 2024 10:59 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Jay Z Drags the Grammys at the Grammys During Trevor Noah’s monologue at the beginning of the Grammys telecast he made mention that Jay-Z and Beyoncé would be in the house — which was weird after learning late last week Beyoncé’s rumoured participation in a Tina Turner tribute was not happening. So why were they there? Turns By Cody • Feb 05, 2024 01:00 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! I had a moment of disbelief just now as I created a new file on my laptop labelled “2024”. Really?! How are we already 24 years past the year 2000?! It just keeps speeding by, and there’s no time to waste, because we’re By Lainey • Jan 02, 2024 09:13 am
Beyoncé Intro for December 19, 2023 Dear Gossips, I am a clown. But at least I can say I’m not an only clown. Last night around dinner, something was up with Beyoncé’s website. You can imagine the reaction, the speculation. My feed was blowing up. The BeyHive was buzzing. What now? What next? BEYONCÉ By Lainey • Dec 19, 2023 09:18 am
BFFs Tay returns the favor Last night was the London premiere of RENAISSANCE: A Film by Beyoncé. Once again, Beyoncé did not walk her own premiere carpet, once again she posted her official photos to her own website, once again Michelle Williams was there, but this time, some things were different. Firstly, Beyoncé had two By Sarah • Dec 01, 2023 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Beyoncé Way RENAISSANCE: A Film by Beyoncé opens this Friday. The concert film’s premiere was held over the weekend in Beverly Hills, drawing a lot of important Black artists and creative industry talent despite the long holiday weekend in the US. Such is the power Beyoncé—she becomes the holiday. This By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 09:40 am
Music Beyoncé Day Parade The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is annual tradition of crass commercialism and letting Jimmy Fallon pretend he’s a rockstar, but this year, Beyoncé graced the parade with her presence, instantly elevating the parade for forty seconds. Beyoncé debuts new trailer for RENAISSANCE: A Film by Beyoncé on NBC’ By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 26, 2023 Dear Gossips, By Beyoncé standards, this has been an active week! As Maria mentioned the other day in Celebrity Social Media, she unveiled her new fragrance, CÉ NOIR, in time for the holidays. And yesterday, we all tripped over ourselves when she actually posted an unboxing video, casually in her By Lainey • Oct 26, 2023 08:56 am
