Music Intro for April 12, 2018 Dear Gossips, There are two artists dominating music at the moment: Cardi B and Drake. Drake’s God’s Plan is, so far, the biggest song of 2018. It’s been #1 for 11 weeks straight now. Every week there’s a new think-piece or three about why God’s By Lainey • Apr 12, 2018 09:11 am
Maple Leaf Drake does it again He’s so f-cking good at this. By “this” I mean everything. During a weekend that belonged to Cardi B, Drake still managed to drop a hit song and viral video without looking like the dick who was trying to hijack Cardi B’s moment. Drake’s Nice For What By Kathleen • Apr 09, 2018 02:48 pm
Music Drake walks it Pharrell (via N.E.R.D) released the Lemon remix featuring Drake on Saturday night. I was excited for this in theory because I love Lemon but as soon as Drake’s voice kicked in on the first verse of the remix, I realised that the thing I love about By Kathleen • Mar 20, 2018 03:12 pm
Music Intro for March 15, 2018 Dear Gossips, When I woke up this morning at 5am ET, Drake was trending worldwide on Twitter. I thought, initially, that he’d dropped a new single overnight. But that would be an old reason to go viral. And Drake, as we’ve seen, is the artist most suited to By Lainey • Mar 15, 2018 09:10 am
Maple Leaf Drake “lost a J.Lo” But can you lose something you never had? Drake dropped two surprise songs over the weekend and one of them, Diplomatic Immunity, contains the lyric: 2010 was when I lost my halo 2017 I lost a JLO We’re dealing with one of two scenarios here. One is that Drake By Kathleen • Jan 22, 2018 03:03 pm
Relationship Assumption JRod is not engaged … yet It’s a new year. And while people have been waiting for it, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are not engaged. They did, however, work out together on New Year’s Eve. And had to each post about it on Instagram. A post shared by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo) on Jan By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 12:28 pm
Jennifer Lopez Intro for December 20, 2017 Dear Gossips, Do you remember what we were doing a year ago? Do you remember what we were talking about a year ago? Lopizzy. It never took. Both the portmanteau and the relationship, if it really was a relationship. But exactly a year ago this week, it was the second By Lainey • Dec 20, 2017 08:40 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Hollywood post-Harvey and a pair of fox print tights This week on the Show Your Work podcast, which also happens to be the first episode of Season 2: We come back to a Hollywood in crisis – across all entertainment divisions. Many of you have written to ask about Sarah Silverman’s response to the Louis CK revelations and that By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 04:11 pm
Maple Leaf Hero Drake We’ve come to know a lot of Drakes over the years. There’s Sensitive Drake, Heartbreak Drake, Fangirl Drake, Petty Drake, Mogul Drake and my favourite: Hopelessly Devoted Drake. That’s not including the many alter-egos Drake has given himself, like Champagne Papi, Chaining Tatum and 6 God, just By Kathleen • Nov 16, 2017 03:59 pm
Sexiest Man Alive 2017 Drake: SMA Odds 2017 Arguments for: - If Adam f-cking Levine can be the Sexiest Man Alive, why not Drake? - Drake is a bigger superstar than Adam Levine who is, so far, the only musician to ever have been named SMA. - Drake sells. - Drake just showed up on the cover of By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 04:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Drake hypes The Florida Project I am and always have been a really bad sleeper. Turns out Drake may be too. And we may have more in common - we both loved The Florida Project, and were thinking about it at 2 a.m. This may be too inside baseball but here goes: Lainey and By Joanna • Sep 13, 2017 10:07 am
Top Reads Angelina: TIFF and hot dogs The Toronto International Film Festival held a press conference today to confirm additional events during the festival and the list of artist attendees. Most of the names were expected considering they all have projects at TIFF. A couple of standouts though which we’ll address closer to when the festival By Lainey • Aug 22, 2017 02:09 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Kardashian Decade If you’re surprised that the Kardashians are the lead story on this week’s episode of Show Your Work, you’re not alone. Duana was expecting a fight when she pitched it to me last week after The Hollywood Reporter featured them in their latest issue, an oral history By Lainey • Aug 21, 2017 04:04 pm
Top Reads Kendrick on Drake… and Team Taylor Swift Kendrick Lamar is undeniably the best rapper of his generation. You won’t find many hip-hop heads or music critics who would disagree with that statement. On this month’s cover of Rolling Stone, they call him the “greatest rapper alive.” Even after Jay’s 4:44 or considering Kanye’ By Kathleen • Aug 10, 2017 11:50 am
TV Updates Blessed be the (Passion)fruit I’m SORRY. I HAD TO. I couldn’t stop myself. And you’ve just groaned. And I don’t blame you. But… it was too corny not to! We’re about a week away from the Emmy Award nominations. The Handmaid’s Tale is expected to be a major By Lainey • Jul 06, 2017 10:09 am
Jock Smut Drake hosts the NBA Awards The first ever NBA Awards happened last night in New York. Drake was the host. Drake, as you know, from the Junos and the ESPYs and Saturday Night Live, is a very good host. This is a skill he has on top of his other skills and a skill that By Lainey • Jun 27, 2017 11:23 am
