Maple Leaf Rihanna & Drake at the BRITs There was a Page Six report earlier this week speculating that the real reason Rihanna bailed on the Grammys is because she saw the quality of the other performances and decided hers was sh-t and she was too embarrassed. Another Page Six source insists she really did have bronchitis. Sure. By Lainey • Feb 25, 2016 09:41 am
Music Adele wins 4 BRITs I posted about Adele partway through the BRIT Awards yesterday – click here if you missed that. At that point she’d won, I think, two awards and publicly supported Kesha. By the end of the night it was four. And she was overcome while collecting the last one, sobbing during By Lainey • Feb 25, 2016 09:23 am
Music Adele is not in black!!! I may have puked out a few too many exclamation points there but it’s Adele and she’s not wearing black and it was a surprise for me and I thought that, maybe, it might be a surprise for you too and also I’m all jacked up because By Lainey • Feb 24, 2016 03:58 pm
Douchebags Justin at Au Fudge TMZ reported today that Janet Jackson has been confirmed to perform at the first major sporting event since, well, you know. Apparently she’ll be singing at the Dubai World Cup, “the world’s richest horse race”. I’m so happy to learn this. Because there are new shots available By Lainey • Feb 23, 2016 01:29 pm
Music Rihanna & Drake in London Rihanna and Drake celebrated the release of the Work videos yesterday in London. Work trended for much of the day at #1 on Twitter and the song now occupies the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. And it’s not even close to being the best song on the By Lainey • Feb 23, 2016 11:50 am
Music Taylor Swift on the First Monday In May It’s a little early to be talking about the MET Gala but we haven’t yet mentioned this year’s theme or the celebrity co-chairs. Joining Anna Wintour this year for the event will be Nicolas Ghesquiere, Karl Lagerfeld, Miuccia Prada, Idris Elba, Jonathan Ive, and, yes, Taylor Swift. By Lainey • Feb 23, 2016 10:13 am
Maple Leaf Rihanna + Drake v3.0 Or is it 4.0? I can’t remember. But let’s come back to that in a minute. First, the videos. Two videos for Rihanna’s Work were released today. And I say this with full bias – because she came to Toronto to shoot at The Real Jerk, where By Lainey • Feb 22, 2016 03:50 pm
Music Beyoncé & Kendrick: Courtside statements Saturday night at Staples Centre. Golden State vs the Clippers. Beyoncé, Jay Z, and Kendrick Lamar all seated courtside, together. Two weeks prior, Beyoncé stomped the Super Bowl fists up with Formation, showcasing the power of #blackgirlmagic on a field that celebrates the privilege of the male. One week after By Lainey • Feb 22, 2016 09:11 am
Music It’s You by Zayn Zayn Malik made his television debut as a solo artist last night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Instead of performing Pillowtalk, he chose It’s You, apparently written about ex-fiancee Perrie Edwards. I was surprised by how much I liked Pillowtalk. I was surprised that Zayn delivered. Because, By Lainey • Feb 18, 2016 11:17 am
Quiveration Charlie Hunnam and Jake’s high notes Here are these new-ish shots of Charlie Hunnam. And he looks hot. So I wanted to post them yesterday. But then, beyond that, I didn’t have anything to say. I still don’t. Then, this afternoon, a few readers have sent over video of Jake Gyllenhaal last night at By Lainey • Feb 17, 2016 05:51 pm
Music “That song is about that guy” During the Grammys, Gwen Stefani shot a live video for her new song Make Me Like You as a commercial for Target. It was like mini-Grease. And it went off beautifully. I mean there are some dodgy lighting and camera focus transitions here and there but they were by no By Lainey • Feb 17, 2016 11:41 am
Music No one shows up against Beyoncé That protest that they tried to stage against Beyoncé in response to her Super Bowl performance, remember? It was supposed to happen yesterday at NFL headquarters. Nobody showed up against her. There were more people there who were FOR her though. Meanwhile, on Monday, there was a shooting in Tennessee. By Lainey • Feb 17, 2016 10:26 am
Music Adele’s Grammy audio Producers of the Grammys confirmed last night that the problems with Adele’s audio were on their end. Apparently a mic got dropped when they were positioning the piano and when they tried to go to a backup feed, there was a sound delay. So, no, it’s not on By Lainey • Feb 16, 2016 01:15 pm
Music Your dad’s garage band The Hollywood Vampires made their big network television debut last night at the Grammys, performing a tribute to Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister. The Hollywood Vampires, as you know, consist of several proper rock legends, and Johnny Depp, a rock legend in his own mind who’s ostensibly been hiding his By Lainey • Feb 16, 2016 11:55 am
Music Kendrick Lamar: Grammys best performance As Duana just mentioned in the previous post about Hamilton – and yes, Duana, you are right about Hamilton, but does that mean she has to text me, literally, EVERY SINGLE DAY, like, 8 times about it? – the back-to-back Hamilton-Kendrick Lamar pieces last night during the Grammys was glorious evidence that By Lainey • Feb 16, 2016 11:26 am
Music Hamilton at the Grammys Last night the opening number of Hamilton, “Alexander Hamilton”, was performed live from their home stage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. If you know Hamilton, you squealed along at seeing it in ‘real life’, instead of just 15-second sound-ups in the 60 Minutes specials, and then checked to see if By Duana • Feb 16, 2016 11:04 am
