Maple Leaf The Weeknd: Best VMAs performance According to Kanye West and those of us who represent Scarborough, Ontario, The Weeknd delivered the best performance last night at the VMAs. Kanye was really feeling it. The Weeknd brought out the Taylor Swift in Kanye West: This is what you're missing if you're not By Lainey • Aug 31, 2015 09:14 am
Music JT cried too Justin Timberlake didn’t bend over and start heave-sobbing after a performance at the VMAs. But his weeping did get a shout out last night – and not because Ashton Kutcher punked him while he was high. As mentioned earlier, Kanye referenced JT’s tears during his Vanguard acceptance soliloquy. Here’ By Lainey • Aug 31, 2015 08:22 am
Maple Leaf What Do You Mean, Justin Bieber? His new song, What Do You Mean, came out today. He’ll be performing it at the VMAs on Sunday. And the video will be released right after the show. Here’s a teaser for it that he just posted on Instagram: you got the song and the lyric video. By Lainey • Aug 28, 2015 03:03 pm
Music Adele coming soon? Everyone was hoping Adele’s next album, at the time titled 25, would have been ready last year. Obviously that didn’t happen. But Billboard reported yesterday that her label is working towards a November release. Wait. That totally deserved an exclamation point. Let me do that again. A new By Lainey • Aug 28, 2015 09:30 am
Music Miley’s Australian accent Miley Cyrus was on Jimmy Kimmel last night to promote the MTV VMAs airing on Sunday. As you know, she’s the host. It’s been a while since the VMAs have had a host who’s this big of a deal. She told Kimmel that they’re basically letting By Lainey • Aug 27, 2015 10:36 am
BFFs Taylor’s Staples finale: Selena, JT, Smelly Cat It was predicted that Justin Timberlake would show up on stage at some point during Taylor Swift’s 5 show Staples Centre run… And of course he had to be last. I’ll throw the video up right now because they’ve been pulling them down so fast you have By Lainey • Aug 27, 2015 10:09 am
Music More JLO by Slum Bear Check out JLO last night in New York shooting a video with Alvaro Soler. This woman is ridiculous. She looks better now than she did 20 years ago, it’s crazy. You know what else is crazy? Several things, actually. First, Casper Smart is choreographing. I keep saying – you want By Lainey • Aug 25, 2015 03:04 pm
Music Kanye’s timely Vanguard MTV announced today that the recipient of this year’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award to be presented at the VMAs on Sunday is Kanye West. This per the announcement: Throughout his career, West has blended musical and visual artistry to powerful effect. From his trilogy of videos for “Jesus By Lainey • Aug 25, 2015 01:36 pm
Maple Leaf Taylor at Staples: night 3 Natalie Maines. Ellen DeGeneres. And Alanis. Alanis! Here’s how Taylor Swift introduced her: “She defined the music of her decade. She inspired a generation of confessional female singer-songwriters who all of a sudden felt like you could actually say these raw feelings that you had. You could actually sing By Lainey • Aug 25, 2015 10:04 am
Music Intro for August 25, 2015 Dear Gossips, At the beginning of the summer, I was all about Brandon Flowers. Posted about him whenever I could. Jacek would come upstairs and find me in bed, watching old BFlow videos. But I’m fickle. My crushes aren’t self-sustaining. They need to be fed. And when they By Lainey • Aug 25, 2015 09:30 am
BFFs Taylor Swift: a banner weekend and a bad decision Two shows down, three to go… By the time it’s all over on Wednesday night, it’ll be 16 sold out shows in a row for Taylor Swift at Staples Centre – the first artist to do so. Which is why Kobe Bryant showed up and presented her with a By Lainey • Aug 24, 2015 04:33 pm
Music Taylor Swift answers Today’s open was about how Beyonce has gone all Greta Garbo on us, becoming more and more inaccessible, because Beyonce would rather be an enigma than (pretend to) be your friend. That’s not the Taylor Swift approach. One of Taylor’s fans posted this GIF on her Tumblr By Lainey • Aug 20, 2015 10:17 am
TV Updates Selena on Gwen’s team It was announced yesterday that Selena Gomez will guest on The Voice as an advisor on Gwen Stefani’s team when the new season starts next month. Makes sense. Her album, Revival, comes out October 9. Rihanna has also been confirmed as an advisor without allegiances. This is why people By Lainey • Aug 18, 2015 11:20 am
Music Britney’s Teen Choice Smiles Last Friday I posted an article about Britney Spears, how she’d been performing in Vegas, and some are saying she’s hitting her dance moves harder than she has in years, and is even real-smiling on stage now too. Click here for a refresher. Yesterday Britney was at Teen By Lainey • Aug 17, 2015 03:04 pm
BFFs Joan & Julia: collected! (and Julia’s Amal shoes) Taylor Swift played two shows in Santa Clara this weekend, getting ever closer to the five performances she’ll put on at Staples Centre in LA starting on Friday where the Friend Collecting is expected to be major…if Santa Clara was any indication. Because Joan Baez and Julia Roberts By Lainey • Aug 17, 2015 09:50 am
Music “The way you dismiss me will turn into missing me” FKA twigs released her third EP yesterday called M3LL155X along with a short film that includes four of the five songs. It’s 17 mesmerising minutes that don’t feel like a commitment at all because, well, she’s not James Franco. twigs directed the film herself to illustrate what By Lainey • Aug 14, 2015 12:44 pm
