Music Intro for May 6, 2016 Dear Gossips, Two deeps dives from yesterday to recommend if you haven’t already: Barry Avrich is a Canadian filmmaker who was trying a few years ago to put together an unauthorised documentary about Harvey Weinstein. According to Barry, Harvey Weinstein wasn’t exactly supportive. Barry details the experience in By Lainey • May 06, 2016 09:30 am
Music JT’s Feeling is coming Justin Timberlake tweeted yesterday that he’s releasing a new single called Can’t Stop The Feeling tomorrow. 🤔...#CantStopTheFeeling 2 more days. https://t.co/2mquRXMsUy— Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) May 4, 2016 So when he tweeted this last weekend: Everybody... It is ACTUALLY GONNA BE MAY!#canyoumemeyourself Probably not, right? By Lainey • May 05, 2016 12:29 pm
Music Intro for May 5, 2016 Dear Gossips, The read of the day yesterday was definitely the New York Times article on Britney Spears titled: Is Britney Spears Ready To Stand On Her Own? CLICK! Immediately! Britney has been showing more and more personality on social media over the last few months. She’s also been By Lainey • May 05, 2016 10:00 am
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber’s engagement party Justin Bieber is not engaged. His father, Jeremy, is engaged. And Justin was in Toronto on Saturday to attend his dad’s engagement party, held at a mansion in one of Toronto’s most expensive neighbourhoods where, bizarrely, an art show was also taking place. There was a tiger. The By Lainey • May 02, 2016 08:31 am
Maple Leaf Drake’s biggest week Drake’s new album, Views, dropped on Friday and reportedly sold 630,000 units in its first day exclusively on iTunes. They’re projecting as low as 800,000 for a full week and, possibly, as high as over a million. Which could put him in Adele and Taylor Swift By Lainey • May 02, 2016 08:12 am
Music Taylor Swift’s hidden messages A couple of weeks ago, Taylor Swift posted a photo of herself on Instagram with bleached hair – her best hair ever – from Coachella. Here’s a refresher: BLEACHELLA ⚡️ A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) onApr 15, 2016 at 1:09pm PDT That image on the back of her jacket… By Lainey • Apr 29, 2016 11:25 am
BFFs Kelly Rowland won’t talk about Lemonade We’ve been obsessing over Lemonade all week. Lainey has written about it every day. We won’t stop obsessing. Its importance is not up for debate. I might go back to school just to take all the classes that will inevitably be taught on Lemonade. Anyway, a local morning By Kathleen • Apr 28, 2016 10:43 am
Music “Boycott Beyoncé” She performed Formation at the Super Bowl and they tried to be mad about it by organising a protest at NFL headquarters. The only people who showed up were members of the BeyHive ready to protest the protestors. And there was some talk of a police boycott? This is what By Lainey • Apr 28, 2016 10:14 am
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 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, 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
