Music Tori Kelly and curly hair We had Tori Kelly as a guest on The Social at Disneyland a few weeks ago. Such a warm soul! Thanks for celebrating #TheSocialatDisney with us! Repost from @torikelly -- Catch me on @thesocialctv today! Such sweet + lovely ladies. A photo posted by The Social (@thesocialctv) onMay 21, 2015 at By Lainey • Jun 29, 2015 11:30 am
Music 20 Years of Bad Boy “10 years from now we’ll still be on top” Well it’s been 20. And Puff Daddy’s almost a billionaire, with a net worth of $735 million, making him the richest man in hip-hop, ahead of Dr Dre. (Source) Which is apparently why the athletics department at UCLA By Lainey • Jun 29, 2015 09:25 am
Music Intro for June 29, 2015 Dear Gossips, Younger, faster, stronger? Most of the time, I guess. But if you watched the BET Awards last night and the tribute to Janet Jackson, that choreography not only still holds up, it’s a challenge for the new generation. And the drop-step-walk from Rhythm Nation will never, ever, By Lainey • Jun 29, 2015 08:38 am
Music One Direction at Glastonbury Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson were photographed at Glastonbury today. People freaked out. This surprised me because I didn’t think there would be any One Directioners at Glastonbury. You remember what Nick Grimshaw said about One Direction and Glastonbury a couple of years ago? "I don't By Lainey • Jun 26, 2015 03:28 pm
Music Am I supposed to be looking at what I’m looking at? Am I supposed to be looking at what I’m looking at? The video for Selena Gomez’s Good For You has been released online. The song is basically a four minute moan and tease. She’s telling her lover that no one else can f-ck him like she f-cks By Lainey • Jun 26, 2015 01:03 pm
Music Taylor & Calvin > the Carters? Forbes will release its Celebrity 100 list on Monday, ranking entertainers by annual income. In advance of the list coming out, Forbes posted a preview yesterday: World’s Highest Paid Celebrity Couples. Last year it was Beyonce and Jay Z. This year? Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris with combined earnings By Lainey • Jun 26, 2015 10:06 am
Music Janet: Ultimate Icon As previously rumoured, BET confirmed yesterday that Janet Jackson will indeed appear at Sunday’s BET Awards and she’ll be the first recipient of the Ultimate Icon: Music Dance Visual Award with a tribute featuring Tinashe, Jason Derulo, and Ciara. "This is Janet Jackson, people! We are excited By Lainey • Jun 24, 2015 12:59 pm
Music Janet. No Sleeep. BET. Monday morning. And a bonus. A surprise bonus. Isn't it better this way? Instead of all kinds of teasing, followed by technical f-ckups, don't you love it when it just happens without warning? Janet Jackson has a new album coming. She's going on tour. By Lainey • Jun 22, 2015 12:38 pm
Girly Throw Downs Taylor Swift vs Apple If you hate Taylor Swift and have been waiting to see the end of her world domination, well, today is not your day. Last week, Taylor’s management confirmed that 1989 would not be offered on Apple’s new streaming service. Taylor, currently the most influential, most powerful recording artist By Lainey • Jun 22, 2015 09:40 am
Maple Leaf Intro for June 22, 2015 Dear Gossips, Drake showed up at the Much Music Video Awards last night in Toronto, hosted by Ed Sheeran. It was a surprise. He was there to honour and celebrate his boy P Reign who really didn’t expect Drake to show, as he said afterwards that: “I honestly didn’ By Lainey • Jun 22, 2015 09:00 am
Music Intro for June 18, 2015 Dear Gossips, I bought Janet Jackson tickets on presale yesterday. Set my alarm for it at 10am to click on the AMEX Front Of The Line link. September 15 in Toronto. During TIFF. I thought that would be my highest Miss Jackson point of the day. But then I listened By Lainey • Jun 18, 2015 09:36 am
Music Bitch I’m Madonna: the video Let me just tell you, again, how it was when I was growing up, OK? Old people do this. We have to mansplain to the new generation about the superiority of our world. Back then, a Madonna video and/or performance was a major event. It was tight. It was By Lainey • Jun 17, 2015 12:56 pm
BFFs Taylor & Selena’s fight song Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez went out for lunch yesterday. And there were a lot of paps around to document the event. Conveniently this happened just after Madonna released the poster for her new video – which has finally dropped on Tidal (so, naturally, I’m waiting for it to be By Lainey • Jun 17, 2015 11:01 am
Music Intro for June 17, 2015 Dear Gossips, Madonna’s new video, featuring Beyonce and Katy Perry and Minaj and Miley was promised to us yesterday. SHE was the one who promised it. On Instagram last week – her words, not mine. Click here to see. Yesterday she released the poster. It felt like Taylor Swift. OK By Lainey • Jun 17, 2015 09:55 am
Girly Throw Downs Madonna’s Bad Blood Taylor Swift put together a video featuring all of her friends for Bad Blood. And you know the song is supposedly about Katy Perry. Now Madonna is …well… Kinda doing the same… WITH Katy Perry. Here’s what she posted on Instagram: Video coming soon! Just tryin to make it By Lainey • Jun 16, 2015 10:42 am
Music Miss Jackson…you’re back! This just in… Janet Jackson announced on her website this morning that there’s a new tour. We already knew about the new album coming in the fall. And to support it, she’ll be going live. She’s coming for us live. She’s coming BACK for us… live. By Lainey • Jun 15, 2015 10:44 am