Katy Perry Intro for June 15, 2017 Dear Gossips, It’s been a week now since Katy Perry released her new album, Witness. Witness will most likely get to #1 on the Billboard 200. But the reviews haven’t been great. Which might explain why it started at #1 on iTunes but then fell to #5 by By Lainey • Jun 15, 2017 10:22 am
Top Reads Katy Perry's "performative wokeness" In support of her new album Witness and its upcoming tour, Katy Perry is doing a lot of talking. She talked about her exes. She talked about Taylor Swift. She talked about religion and sex and cooking and oh yeah, she talked about a few of the times she put By Kathleen • Jun 13, 2017 10:22 am
Music Orlando Bloom’s silver medal As I mentioned in the previous post about John Legend, some celebrities show up at award shows as professional presenters. Here’s Orlando Bloom at the Tony Awards. And they sent him out there alone. Like he’s on the same level as Tina Fey. Which is hilarious because just By Lainey • Jun 12, 2017 12:05 pm
Music Girl Sh-t: never a coincidence, always a conspiracy There are certain phrases and expressions that I’ve been using on my site for years and that, if I may be self-indulgent for a minute, I’m very proud to have branded. Some examples: MiniVan Majority, Girl Sh-t Is The Best Sh-t (stolen from my friend Lara), and Coincidence By Lainey • Jun 09, 2017 11:02 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Katy, Orly, and Butters Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom broke up a few months ago. Earlier this week there was a report about how he hooked up with a waitress at Chiltern Firehouse and she got fired as a result. Here he is arriving at LAX yesterday with a dog. It’s apparently Katy By Lainey • May 26, 2017 03:02 pm
TV Updates Katy Perry: beef and pay Girl Sh-t first. So, as you know, Katy Perry’s Swish Swish was released last week. And she says that it’s not about Taylor Swift. Or at least that’s what she told Jimmy Fallon the other night, explaining the song like this: “I think it’s a great By Lainey • May 23, 2017 11:10 am
Music Intro for May 19, 2017 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week I posted about Katy Perry being a judge on the American Idol reboot and whether or not it’s a good move. It’s becoming more clear now why she and her team think it’s a good move. Unlike previous hits from previous albums, By Lainey • May 19, 2017 09:34 am
TV Updates Katy Perry’s Witness and American Idol As you know, they’re rebooting American Idol on ABC. Last week, it was reported that Kelly Clarkson was supposed to be one of the judges but she’s going to The Voice instead. Now it’s Katy Perry. According to TMZ the deal is almost done and they’ll By Lainey • May 15, 2017 03:15 pm
Music Don’t come for Katy Perry Katy Perry was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly this week to promote her new album but it still doesn’t have a title. Or, from what I can see, an official release date? No release date was mentioned in the EW article and I find this to be an interesting strategy, By Lainey • May 09, 2017 01:17 pm
MET Gala 2017 Katy Perry: MET Costume You’re lucky, Katy Perry. You’re the co-chair of the event, which is also called the Costume Institute Gala, and that article about you in Vogue inspired a super-ranty episode of Show Your Work where we complimented you for being interested in learning more and being more. You’ve By Duana • May 02, 2017 09:49 am
Show Your Work Podcast The Show Your Work mini-egg: Katy Perry’s references and the MasterClass As mentioned in today’s open, Duana and I were planning to skip this week’s Show Your Work because of Easter weekend but we, to borrow from Shonda Rhimes, wanted to lay some track. The work is the track. More on that later. First up… this: This video of By Lainey • Apr 17, 2017 04:52 pm
Ryan Phillippe Katy Perry & Ryan Phillippe Maria posted about this in Smutty Social Media yesterday - someone tried to start a rumour that Katy Perry and Ryan Phillippe were dating. It was bullsh-t. But the paps started following him and he posted on Twitter that they don’t really know each other and could they please By Lainey • Apr 11, 2017 03:38 pm
Douchebags John Mayer’s performative contrition John Mayer has a new album coming out. It’s called The Search For Everything. And it’s his return to, as he calls it, “blockbuster” music. Basically he says he was on a self-imposed exile from big pop because he hated himself after being a douchebag so he went By Lainey • Mar 24, 2017 11:16 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Social Media, March 6, 2017 Does Sarah Hyland have friends? Here’s what they should tell her: you are famous. Your boyfriend, also an actor, is not. He is walking that red carpet because of you, as your guest. You are there for work. So perhaps he could pull out his totes adorbs act another By Maria • Mar 06, 2017 04:42 pm
Break Ups Katy Perry’s breakup haircut Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom confirmed earlier this week that they’re not together anymore – for now – because they’re taking some “loving space”. Supposedly it was amicable, although PEOPLE reports that Orlando “didn’t want things to get more serious” and has recently been behaving like “he had one By Lainey • Mar 03, 2017 10:10 am
Hook Ups Katy and Orlando’s “loving space” A rep for Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom today released a statement saying, "Before rumors or falsifications get out of hand, we can confirm that Orlando and Katy are taking respectful, loving space at this time." There’s lots to unpack here as the breakup comes right after By Maria • Mar 01, 2017 03:12 pm
