Music For the Gays: Two Queens Reconcile One of pop culture’s most high profile beefs has been squashed. High profile because there are two legendary artists: Elton John and Madonna. And they’ve been nasty to each other for over 20 years. Or, rather, Elton’s been nasty to Madonna. For the most part, she’s By Lainey • Apr 08, 2025 12:54 pm
Music Elton’s Farewell with Rina Elton John’s retirement tour is wrapping up soon. He just completed ten shows at the O2 in London and headlined at Glastonbury this weekend which marked his final performance in the UK. Ahead of the show there was all kinds of speculation about who’d join him on stage By Lainey • Jun 26, 2023 12:33 pm
Mariah Carey How will Mimi set it up? And can BTS be a part of this? The iHeart Radio Music Awards were supposed to happen this coming Sunday, March 29th. That’s obviously not a possibility anymore because of COVID-19 lockdown. Instead Elton John will be hosting the iHeart Living Room Concert for America, a one hour commercial-free special to raise money for Feeding America and By Lainey • Mar 25, 2020 03:09 pm
Award Season Campaigning Taron Egerton and Elton John won’t let you forget about Rocketman It wouldn’t be awards season without a big splash, and who’s splashier than Elton John?! Following the release of his juicy memoir Me this week, he’s putting the spotlight not just on his life story on the page, but on the screen too. Last night, he and By Joanna • Oct 18, 2019 12:13 pm
Relationship Assumption David and Victoria kiss I’ve worn down my nails already on the word count for the blog, it’s only Monday, and the VMAs are tonight so can I just throw some pictures at you right now and call it a post? The Beckhams are on holiday with Elton John. All their kids By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 03:16 pm
Royals Will Prince Andrew be deposed? Buckingham Palace and Prince Andrew may have thought that they’d put this Jeffrey Epstein business behind them. Even after Andrew was seen with Epstein following his jail sentence on “charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution”, he managed to not have to account for his By Lainey • Aug 20, 2019 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rocketman: The queer-positive rock biopic we deserve It is impossible to talk about Rocketman, the Elton John biopic, without mentioning its sibling, Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen biopic. Both are about rock icons who came up in the 1970s, whose combination of glam, rock, and pop led to total chart dominance. Both feature iconic vocalists with a library By Sarah • Jun 03, 2019 02:30 pm
Music Taron Egerton’s strong (and golden?) Rocketman launch Taron Egerton brought his mom and his very much on-again girlfriend Emily Thomas to the London premiere of Rocketman last night, days after they proudly stood by his side at the film’s world premiere in Cannes. One thing I really like about Taron? In spite of all of his By Joanna • May 21, 2019 12:04 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Kate Mara’s pregnancy announcement Kate Mara prefers to share her personal and relationship milestones on her own terms. And when she does, we get just a taste. When she and Jamie Bell tied the knot about 18 months ago, the wedding snap caption read simply, "Nuptials." And now, she's confirmed By Joanna • Feb 26, 2019 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rocketman is not hiding its icon Earlier this week, we got a featurette from Rocketman meant to sell us on Taron Egerton’s Elton John karaoke. Now, we have the first full trailer to get our best feel yet for Rocketman and its potential. I am most curious about the dance numbers and fantasy sequences, which By Sarah • Feb 21, 2019 04:07 pm
Music Can Rocketman do better than Bohemian Rhapsody? We’ve already gotten a look at Taron Egerton playing Sir Elton John in Rocketman, but here comes a new featurette meant to convince us he is not just doing Elton karaoke but is FULLY INHABITING THE SPIRIT OF SIR ELTON. This featurette is dedicated to showing off his singing— By Sarah • Feb 19, 2019 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taron Egerton’s Elton John karaoke Last month we saw Taron Egerton on the set of Rocketman dressed as Elton John, and Kathleen dubbed him “Hot Elton”. Well, now we have a teaser trailer for Rocketman that shows Egerton in action as Sir Elton and I’m less into the hotness of it and more struck By Sarah • Oct 01, 2018 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taron Egerton is Elton John Elton John is finally getting the biopic treatment, and as a sign of some goodness remaining in the universe, Justin Timberlake is not going to portray him. The movie is called Rocket Man (for now), and it will star charm machine Taron Egerton as Elton John. The project originally centered By Sarah • Apr 20, 2018 03:15 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, April 18, 2017 Jessica celebrates Jennifer. Happy Birthday, Shirley! Love, Laverne 📷 @marieclairemag A post shared by Jessica Biel (@jessicabiel) onApr 17, 2017 at 7:22pm PDT Lainey’s Obsession undresses. Happy Birthday @bella_freud A post shared by Artist & Director (@samtaylorjohnson) onApr 17, 2017 at 12:48pm PDT Derek Blasberg, Diane von By Maria • Apr 18, 2017 04:32 pm
Amazingness Mimi: more millions Mimi and Elton John and Mark Ronson performed at some Russian billionaire’s granddaughter’s wedding this weekend. Because… money. So much money. Supposedly Mimi made £2.5 million from the night. You can see some of the videos from the event below. You’ll note that Mimi is wearing By Lainey • Jan 17, 2017 03:37 pm
Elton John Mimi gets that money! But who’s missing? I posted the other day about Mimi’s Christmas classic, All I Want For Christmas. Even though you can’t escape the song for weeks every year starting November, it’s never charted in the top 10. This year though, according to Forbes, it has a chance. Mimi is everywhere By Lainey • Dec 16, 2016 04:12 pm
