Music Taylor’s Country Music Milestone The Academy of Country Music Awards happened last night in Texas. Taylor Swift received the Milestone Award. She’s 25 years old. And she’s making pop music now. They made jokes about it, I think at the Country Music Awards, shortly after 1989 came out? Carrie Underwood? Something about By Lainey • Apr 20, 2015 10:17 am
Music More dancing this weekend? Here’s FKA twigs yesterday arriving at her show in LA. Afterwards, she and Robert Pattinson were seen heading to a party. Interestingly enough, Rick Rubin was spotted arriving at the twigs performance. What would (or will) that look like? A twigs-Rubin collaboration? Twigs is scheduled to be at Coachella By Lainey • Apr 15, 2015 04:35 pm
Music Engaged at Coachella Robert Pattinson was at Coachella this weekend. Not his first time. And if he wasn’t dating one of the performers, he might still have been there. But, as it happens, he’s engaged to FKA twigs. And she was there. And he was supporting. And then they held hands By Lainey • Apr 13, 2015 02:33 pm
Maple Leaf Madonna eats Drake Madonna joined Drake on stage at Coachella this weekend. At one point, while he was sitting in a chair, she approached him from behind and put her tongue in his mouth. This seems to happen to him a lot. When he’s in a chair. Like with Nicki Minaj in By Lainey • Apr 13, 2015 12:04 pm
Bad Style Britney & Iggy: Pretty Girls I feel compelled to repeat this whenever I write about Iggy Azalea: I am not a believer. The music does nothing for me. And the personality, I mean, I just don't care. Do you care? If you care, convince me why I should. Anyway, Iggy and Britney are By Lainey • Apr 09, 2015 04:08 pm
Music Madonna & Lucious Lyon’s Ghosttown Finally. Madonna’s Ghosttown video. As of this writing, I’ve only looked at it once so there may be notes to pick up later but you already know how I feel about the song – it’s one of the strongest, if not the strongest, on the album. A proper By Lainey • Apr 08, 2015 03:56 pm
Music Idris: no Bond yet Here’s an early Wednesday bonus – new photos of Idris Elba. I need this. Because the week, it’s just draggggging. Idris was in London last night at the premiere screening and Q&A for his documentary Mandela, My Dad, and Me. During the session, he was asked about By Lainey • Apr 08, 2015 09:59 am
Music Intro for April 8, 2015 Dear Gossips, Yesterday was supposed to be a big day for Madonna as the Ghosttown video was scheduled to drop at 1pm. I set the alarm. I couldn’t wait to see it after wrapping The Social at 2pm. Turns out I wasn’t missing anything. Because Meerkat, the app By Lainey • Apr 08, 2015 09:21 am
Music Pain & Pattinson Elysia just sent this over to me. Perfect way to end April Fool’s Day. But let’s get serious first, for real, no fooling. T-Pain is back. Without auto-tune. He tells Vulture that he struggled with depression for a while because of the criticism he received when the auto-tune By Lainey • Apr 01, 2015 04:29 pm
Music Robbie's horns All this Zayn Malik One Direction drama is making me think a lot about Spice Girls and Take That. Oh look. Here are new pictures of Robbie Williams performing in Paris this week. As I wrote the other day, after Ritchie reminded me, Robbie's breakup from Take That By Lainey • Mar 31, 2015 04:28 pm
TV Updates Keke Palmer for Dorothy - The Wiz on NBC Well, Deadline has apologized by not apologizing, so it’s time to pretend that the NBC musical that was announced yesterday, The Wiz, isn’t totally a reactive, opportunistic move to make them look like they’re on the side of the good guys. Last summer they said that The By Duana • Mar 31, 2015 02:43 pm
BFFs Taylor on Tidal Day As Maria noted in her Tidal post, Taylor Swift was probably THE biggest name not present and accounted for at the Tidal kickoff yesterday. I say THE biggest name because, love her or hate her, you cannot deny Taylor’s chart influence, not only with the latest album 1989 but By Lainey • Mar 31, 2015 11:31 am
Music Tidal’s Blank Space Yesterday was the launch of a new Jay Z-backed music streaming service, Tidal. It started with a social media takeover (which I’ll get to) and then a press conference. An awkward as hell press conference; I got the sweats watching it. Why was the crowd hollering, who did they By Maria • Mar 31, 2015 10:32 am
Girly Throw Downs Zayn won’t mind but Louis does One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson and producer Naughty Boy, who’s working with Zayn Malik on some new music, got into a fight on Twitter. Louis thought Naughty Boy (do we have to call him this???) was disrespecting the band and the fans and Naughty Boy (who can take this By Lainey • Mar 31, 2015 10:00 am
Music (Green) Bitch Better Have My Money So there’s the Taylor Swift way of doing things, which is to sit in the audience the whole time because they pretty much told her she was going to win everything. With as many friends as possible. And then there’s the Rihanna way of doing things. Which is By Lainey • Mar 30, 2015 12:20 pm
Music Destiny’s Child at the Stellar Gospel Music Awards This didn’t end up being a surprise since Michelle tweeted about it a couple of days before the event. But still. Still. When she, Kelly Rowland, and the Beyonce reunite? It’s still a big deal. The reunion happened Saturday night at the Stellar Gospel Music Awards in Las By Lainey • Mar 30, 2015 10:13 am
