Music Does Drake need Kanye’s help? Let me specify: does Drake need Kanye West’s help to write a love song for Rihanna? Because this is what IN TOUCH Weekly is trying to tell me in its latest issue. The headline: Kanye is helping Drake write a love song for Rihanna I don’t believe that By Lainey • Sep 14, 2016 03:43 pm
BFFs Taylor’s Friday night Taylor Swift’s post-Swoki media strategy/standard media strategy – friend armour – was played on Friday night at NY Fashion Week as she stepped out to support Gigi Hadid at the Tommy Hilfiger show. Gigi collaborated on a line with Hilfiger and Taylor sat front row, hootin’ and hollerin’ in her By Lainey • Sep 12, 2016 04:16 pm
Music Gaga’s look of Perfect Illusion Do you like the song? Lady Gaga’s Perfect Illusion? I can’t decide. I know I don’t hate it. But I don’t know if love it. I don’t know if it’s major banger for me. With Gaga, with every release, there’s always an aesthetic, By Lainey • Sep 12, 2016 01:50 pm
Music Intro for September 12, 2016 Dear Gossips, This weekend, Emma Stone was named Venice Film Festival Best Actress for her performance in La La Land. La La Land screens at TIFF today and, as of this morning, Emma and Ryan Gosling are expected at the premiere tonight. As mentioned last week, La La Land appears By Lainey • Sep 12, 2016 08:03 am
Music Mimi in the bath Did you need this today? I know you did. Mimi wants to tell us that she’s working on new music. What better way to communicate this message than to get in the bathtub, full hair and makeup, 8 sets of eyelashes, full up on the jewels, with bubbles strategically By Lainey • Sep 09, 2016 04:41 pm
Music Soul Train Bey Day Bey weekend, actually. As you know, some people treat Beyoncé’s birthday like it’s a holiday. I’m not sure any other celebrity birthday is acknowledged the way hers is. But, then again, as we saw at the VMAs last week, Beyoncé is singular. So she spent some time By Lainey • Sep 06, 2016 11:01 am
Music Britney on sushi and bad dates Britney Spears covers the new issue if Marie Claire UK as she continues to push the new album, Glory. Glory is expected to come in 3rd in its first week of sales, behind #1 Florida Georgia Line and #2… Barbra Streisand! This surprised me. Did it surprise you? So far By Lainey • Sep 01, 2016 03:52 pm
Music Kanye West, Thought Leader If you didn’t know Teyana Taylor before last night, now you know. I’m starting with Teyana because the VMAs belonged to black women. Kanye’s free-reign speech was Peak Kanye but the video he debuted for Fade was ALL Teyana. Goddamn. A refresher on Teyana’s credentials before By Kathleen • Aug 29, 2016 09:02 am
Music No show Taylor? Taylor Swift heading to the gym today in New York. New York, also the site of this year’s VMAs on Sunday. But, according to PEOPLE, she won’t be there citing sources connected to MTV and Taylor who insist she’s not going and never intended to go, regardless By Lainey • Aug 26, 2016 04:09 pm
Music Britney’s Glory weekend Britney’s new album, Glory, dropped today. Last night she was on Carpool Karaoke with James Corden. Those hits, they stand up, don’t they? I will never not love the line, “that is just so typically me”. Ever. A few years ago, as you know, this would not have By Lainey • Aug 26, 2016 01:41 pm
Music Rihanna’s “holy crap” Rihanna will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award on Sunday at the VMAs, held for the first time at Madison Square Garden. And she will be performing in celebration of the honour. It’s expected to be one of the most memorable moments of the show, perhaps what we’ By Lainey • Aug 26, 2016 11:33 am
Music Beyoncé before the VMAs The MTV VMAs are happening on Sunday. In New York and, for the time, at Madison Square Garden. Beyoncé's Lemonade leads all nominees. And with less than a week to go before what's expected to be a total domination, she's been posting behind-the-scenes Lemonade By Lainey • Aug 23, 2016 01:36 pm
Music FRANK!!!! He was worth the wait. Was it even a question if he would be worth the wait? Frank Ocean, or FRANK in all caps with multiple exclamation points as I like to call him, finally, FINALLY gifted us with his artistic genius in the form of a visual album, a By Kathleen • Aug 22, 2016 11:40 am
Music It’s Britney…at the VMAs This shouldn’t have been a surprise. Britney Spears’s new album, Glory, drops August 26th, just a couple of days before the MTV VMAs and, as mentioned last week, there are no conflicts in her schedule. Britney and MTV confirmed yesterday that she will indeed be performing with this By Lainey • Aug 17, 2016 10:48 am
Music Super Bowl Adele? There was a rumour that started last week that the NFL was “desperately” trying to get Adele to perform at the next Super Bowl. On Saturday during her show at Staples Center in LA, Adele told the audience that she was indeed asked and that she said, no thanks: Adele By Lainey • Aug 15, 2016 10:01 am
Music Intro for August 10, 2016 Dear Gossips, The article that made me laugh the most yesterday was written by Allie Jones at The Cut about how JC Was Always The Hottest. Correct. The article that made me fist-pump the most yesterday was written by Wesley Morris for The New York Times about Janet Jackson. Thirty By Lainey • Aug 10, 2016 10:19 am
