Music The Britney Effect 2015 Buzzfeed posted a piece on Britney yesterday. Duana texted it to me. Many of you forwarded it to me. The article is about how this week, Britney’s been performing at a higher level than we’ve seen from her in a long time. We’ll get to that in By Lainey • Aug 14, 2015 10:10 am
BFFs Intro for August 10, 2015 Dear Gossips, The Taylor Swift Friend Collection seemed to be on pause for a couple of weeks. Or at least it was a lot less spectacular. She came back hard this weekend in Seattle though. Fetty Wap joined her on stage because you know, YOU KNOW, she thinks she’s By Lainey • Aug 10, 2015 09:01 am
Music Hailee Steinfeld’s Love Myself If you’ve seen Pitch Perfect 2, you know Hailee Steinfeld has a good voice. It’s a little scratchy and it sounds full. Also she can act. This is not a case of a talented person with one arm that’s stronger than the other, like JLO. We can By Lainey • Aug 07, 2015 03:07 pm
Music Spice 20? The Spice Girls are trending on Twitter. That’s because UK gossips are reporting that they’re reuniting to go on tour for the 20th anniversary next year… Without Posh. At least that’s the rumour. Mel B is the one who’s supposedly working on it. Before you pull By Lainey • Aug 07, 2015 11:44 am
Music Intro for August 7, 2015 Dear Gossips, Thursday night overload. I watched 5 hours of TV last night which is more than I sometimes watch in an entire week. The Canadian leaders’ debate was on. The Republican presidential debate was on. Jon Stewart said goodbye… And Dr Dre dropped his new album, Compton. It’s By Lainey • Aug 07, 2015 09:29 am
Music Drake vs a wedgie Drake and Meek Mill have been at it for a couple of weeks now. Or more like Drake has been pretty much destroying Meek ever since last week when he dropped two diss tracks and Meek could only manage a weak response. Click here for a refresher. This weekend at By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 09:41 am
BFFs Vanity Fair and the Swift Sisterhood The interview with Vanity Fair happened in London a few weeks ago, well before Nicki Minaj gave her some real talk on Twitter. At the time, if you recall, she was girl squading all over her stage. Serena Williams was there. Cara Delevingne and the model crew were there. At By Lainey • Aug 04, 2015 03:48 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession One Direction: Babies and broken engagements Zayn Malik has ended his engagement. You’ll recall, the mess first started when Zayn was still with One Direction, on tour in Asia, accused of cheating on Perrie Edwards. That resulted in him tapping out of the tour, rushing back to England to be with Perrie, and then subsequently By Lainey • Aug 04, 2015 02:33 pm
Girly Throw Downs Intro for July 31, 2015 Dear Gossips, Is that a world tour or your girl’s tour? This is the lyric from Drake’s Back To Back that everyone keeps talking about. But I prefer this one: I don’t wanna her about this ever again Not even when she tell ‘em that they better By Lainey • Jul 31, 2015 08:47 am
Maple Leaf Intro for July 30, 2015 Dear Gossips, Can’t go a day right now without hearing Where Are U Now at least a dozen times. So far, on my drive to work this morning, it’s already been twice. Justin Bieber told Ryan Seacrest he has a new track called What Do You Mean dropping By Lainey • Jul 30, 2015 09:40 am
Girly Throw Downs Taylor, Katy, and the “left shark” Taylor Swift played Boston this weekend. And during Bad Blood, a shark showed up over her left shoulder. As you know, Bad Blood is widely believed to be about Katy Perry. And the bad blood was over tour dancers. And Katy had two sharks dancing with her on stage at By Lainey • Jul 27, 2015 11:36 am
Music Janet wall-dancing Few people do slow jam wall-dancing better than Janet Jackson. And that’s how she opens the video for No Sleeep. That’s the gift we’ve been given this week after 5 days of great gossip… New Janet! But familiar hair! And that familiar sexiness. So that it’s By Lainey • Jul 24, 2015 11:31 am
Music Beyonce’s 5 Beyonce stepped out yesterday after MTV nominated her for 5 VMAs, including Video of the Year. And they’re saying she’s a co-frontrunner in the category with Taylor Swift, of course. And, well, that just reminds us all of 2009, doesn’t it? I’ve asked you this already By Lainey • Jul 22, 2015 11:22 am
Music Bitch I’m Madonna, the remix Madonna released a new video for Bitch I’m Madonna, the remix. More like redo. This is what she should have done in the first place, instead of what we got the first time around, when the launch was f-cked up by Tidal and all we ended up seeing were By Lainey • Jul 14, 2015 03:46 pm
BFFs Taylor’s DC collection Taylor Swift played the first of two shows in Washington DC last night. And her friend Lorde was there as the special guest. Then they told each other how much they love each other over Instagram: When your friend flies across the world to surprise your crowd with 'Royals& By Lainey • Jul 14, 2015 11:45 am
BFFs Taylor Swift: the New Jersey collection Last week I wondered whether or not Smutty Swift Collecting should be a daily feature on this blog. I feel like there is totally enough material to make it happen. Taylor played two shows in New Jersey this weekend. And, as expected, she collected. Everything counts in large amounts. (I By Lainey • Jul 13, 2015 11:38 am