Music Beyoncé is ready As mentioned earlier, Beyoncé kicks off the Formation World Tour tonight in Miami. Tickets would have been considered a major get a few weeks ago. But now? With the release of Lemonade? Well, she knows how to drive up the interest. It’s Beyoncé. It was always planned this way, By Lainey • Apr 27, 2016 03:32 pm
Music Intro for April 26, 2016 Dear Gossips, I can’t stop reading all the think-pieces about Beyoncé’s Lemonade. This one was my favourite from yesterday. And there will be more. Because, again, there’s just so much to unpack. Which, again, is a testament to the singular force that is Beyoncé. No one else By Lainey • Apr 26, 2016 10:01 am
Music Ice Cube’s N.W.A Coachella Reunion Lemonade wasn’t the only musical event of the weekend. For the first time in almost 30 years, the four surviving members of N.W.A reunited to perform together at Coachella. Ice Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella and yes, Dr. Dre took the stage during Cube’s set on By Kathleen • Apr 25, 2016 01:17 pm
Music Lemonade: Beyoncé’s Black Feminist Declaration It is important that the word ‘black’ is in this headline. A few outlets have omitted that word from the bolded titles of their respective Lemonade reviews. They’ve focused on the visual album’s Southern Gothic influences, the fashion, and Becky. Yes, all of those things are worthy of By Kathleen • Apr 25, 2016 09:31 am
Music Lemonade: Beyoncé’s Black Feminist Domination Please note: Kathleen’s piece on Beyoncé will follow mine. Because there’s just so much to unpack. You could write a think-piece on every single frame of Lemonade and it almost still wouldn’t be enough. Lemonade, of course, as you know now, is Beyoncé’s visual album, which By Lainey • Apr 25, 2016 09:09 am
Music Rihanna’s Revenge Fantasies Rihanna’s nipples are not the most interesting things about her new music video for Needed Me. Sure, they look great and yes, the video does open with them in all of their glory but when it closes with Ri shooting a man in the face for no apparent reason By Kathleen • Apr 21, 2016 10:32 am
Music Taylor Swift’s 73 Questions As you know, Taylor Swift covers the May 2016 issue of VOGUE ahead of the MET Gala in a couple of weeks. She also participated in the magazine’s online 73 Questions feature. As we’ve seen from previous participants, this is highly rehearsed. They have time to figure out By Lainey • Apr 19, 2016 11:36 am
Music Rihanna & Leo at Coachella Rihanna had the weekend off from touring so she decided to drop in on Coachella for Calvin Harris’s set. Tonight she’s back on the road in Winnipeg. I saw her last week on Thursday in Toronto. Have we talked about this yet? There are some people who’ve By Lainey • Apr 18, 2016 11:29 am
Music Intro for April 18, 2016 Dear Gossips, Saturday. It was 4.16.16. 4, 4x4, 4x4 And on this day she spoke. I didn’t write about Beyoncé last week. I wanted to. I wanted to every day, especially on Thursday, with the release of Ivy Park. And I wanted to on Friday, after Ivy By Lainey • Apr 18, 2016 09:02 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 15, 2016 Dear Gossips, I mentioned in yesterday’s Drake post that he was in Toronto for Rihanna’s first concert in town. And they hung out together afterwards. And that, well, the expectation, and we were all expecting it, was that he would come on for night two. Which happened. But By Lainey • Apr 15, 2016 10:00 am
Maple Leaf Drake’s date drama Drake announced a couple of weeks ago that his new album Views From The 6 would be dropping April 29th. Yesterday a countdown clock appeared online for a new mixtape from Meek Mill. Also April 29th. After people started commenting about it, the clock disappeared, replaced by “coming soon”. And By Lainey • Apr 14, 2016 01:39 pm
Music Kendrick, NWA, and Gene Simmons You’re probably wondering what that irrelevant old dude is doing in the headline. Yes, I just called Gene Simmons irrelevant and old. KISS fans, come at me. We’ll get to the washed-up reality star and fan of Donald Trump in a minute. First, NWA was inducted into the By Kathleen • Apr 11, 2016 03:25 pm
Music JLO’s airport kiss Jennifer Lopez is getting some heat for her new song, Ain’t Your Mama. First of all, as I mentioned yesterday in Smutty Tingles, it’s a terrible song – written by Meghan Trainor and produced by Dr Luke. Which is the problem. Ain’t Your Mama is, supposedly, a feminist By Lainey • Apr 08, 2016 12:58 pm
Music Rihanna: reluctant “role model” In the previous post, Kathleen mentioned the Black Girls Rock event that aired last night. Rihanna was presented with the Rock Star Award. During her acceptance speech, she made a sassy comment about how “You know, role model is not the… title they like to give me, you know”. And, By Lainey • Apr 06, 2016 11:06 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Janet’s “family” break Back in December, Janet Jackson postponed her Unbreakable tour, telling fans that she had to have surgery. There followed all kinds of rumours about her being sick and a few weeks later she had to post a message on Twitter denying that she had cancer. Yesterday she posted yet another By Lainey • Apr 06, 2016 09:46 am
Music Miranda’s good Tush Carrie Underwood was SO good performing last night at the ACMs. And so was Miranda Lambert. She’d just been named Female Vocalist of the Year and then she joined ZZ Top for their song Tush with Keith Urban. And even still, she was the main event. Because Miranda is By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 02:24 pm
