Girly Throw Downs Taylor Swift shuts down Amos Wintrip TMZ has done a great job in recent weeks providing us with Archie White’s side of the breakup with Taylor Swift. First, she was “too Hollywood” for him and he wasn’t about that life. Then she may or may not have cheated on him with Tom Hiddleston. This By Lainey • Jul 13, 2016 01:32 pm
Music The Queens of Hip Hop “Who you calling a bitch?” This line. It’s one of my favourite hip-hop lines of all time. With it, Queen Latifah cemented herself in hip-hop history. She was not a bitch or a ho. She was just the Queen. Last night, VH1 resurrected their Hip-Hop Honours By Kathleen • Jul 12, 2016 01:35 pm
Music Ashanti 2016 Ashanti was everywhere in the mid-2000s, right? And then it went quiet for a few years. I will never not be happy when Always On Time comes on. And Ashanti with Nelly, I’ve always liked them together. Until she told us last year that he cheated on her. By Lainey • Jul 12, 2016 10:59 am
Music Gwen & Blake in the shadow of Swoki Gwen Stefani covers the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar. And it’s a good interview too because, as the writer notes right off the top of the article, Gwen is candid. She will later say that she really has no choice because "I'm not here to By Lainey • Jul 06, 2016 03:30 pm
Music Intro for July 6, 2016 Dear Gossips, Billboard posted an article yesterday about the Song of the Summer, one of the signs that monoculture isn’t quite dead yet. The Song of the Summer is usually crowned by Labour Day, although I don’t even know why we have to have this discussion this year By Lainey • Jul 06, 2016 10:09 am
Music Love Make The World Go Round Lin-Manuel Miranda cannot quit Twitter. So that’s where he posted yesterday morning that he would soon have music that “you don’t need tickets to hear”. Because he’s not busy enough and doesn’t have enough jobs. Turns out it’s a charity single with JLo, Love By Duana • Jul 05, 2016 12:52 pm
Music Beyoncé & Kendrick’s opening Freedom Beyoncé was not announced to perform at the BET Awards last night. As we’ve seen, surprise is her thing. And the song she chose to surprise with to open the show was Freedom. If you’ve been to the Formation tour, you know this performance. It comes near the By Lainey • Jun 27, 2016 10:04 am
BFFs Batman Taylor Swift We’ve heard Taylor Swift described as many things, in many ways. But Batman? I did not see that coming. Dave Grohl was in Cannes for a private performance, and before he played his song he told a long anecdote about being at a party with Paul McCartney. Paul gets By Maria • Jun 23, 2016 03:21 pm
Music What The World Needs Now… You know when something’s somehow better than you expected? The Broadway for Orlando charity single is exactly what they promised it would be –Broadway’s brightest and most legendary voices coming together to cover What the World Needs Now is Love. 100% of the sales go to the LGBT By Duana • Jun 21, 2016 12:34 pm
Sports The Beyoncé delay Beyoncé’s took Formation to Detroit on Tuesday. She now has a couple of weeks off before the tour heads to Europe. With that gap in her schedule, she and Jay Z were in Cleveland last night for Game 6 of the NBA Finals. Cleveland won, forcing a Game 7 By Lainey • Jun 17, 2016 02:14 pm
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber needs his fans As you may have heard, Justin Bieber doesn’t do meet and greets on tour anymore. And he has declared that he will no longer be taking photos with fans. On the one hand, I can understand how it all might feel oppressive to him. I don’t say this By Lainey • Jun 16, 2016 01:14 pm
Music Beyoncé & Gabrielle Here are some new shots of Beyoncé today and yesterday in New York. She takes Formation to Detroit tonight and then it's a two week break before the tour heads to Europe until early August. And then it's a month off between Europe and the final By Lainey • Jun 14, 2016 12:22 pm
Music Zayn’s anxiety Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid stepped out together in New York the other day, confirming that they’d gotten back together. On Saturday Zayn was supposed to perform at Capital FM’s Summertime Ball back home in London. He was in London but cancelled the performance. This was his explanation By Lainey • Jun 13, 2016 12:46 pm
Music Sam for Taylor? Maria wrote to me last night. Title of email: Taylor’s Blank Space. Message: She should write Sam Hunt in... Calling the gossip genie. I can see why that would make sense. Sam Hunt is 31 years old, probably the biggest rising star in country music right now. If you By Lainey • Jun 09, 2016 01:02 pm
Music Intro for June 2, 2016 Dear Gossips, I played one song over and over and over again last night at home. Because Kathleen sent me an article about it. About its 20th anniversary. Twenty years ago this week, a song was released that we ALL know. All of us. You know every part of it. By Lainey • Jun 02, 2016 09:02 am
Music Radiohead, Thom, Kate Last Thursday Jacek and I had dinner listening to Radiohead on all album shuffle. We’ve lived with the new album, A Moon Shaped Pool, for a few weeks now. It’s so f-cking good. It’s so f-cking gorgeous. That night, Radiohead played The Roundhouse in London, By Lainey • May 30, 2016 03:47 pm
