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 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
Music Intro for June 10, 2015 Dear Gossips, So it wasn’t true. Katy Perry is not releasing a song called 1984 as a slap-back to Taylor Swift. Her managers confirmed to Billboard that the story was bullsh-t. There is a 1984 that has been registered but it’s not hers. Katy also retweeted By Lainey • Jun 10, 2015 09:42 am
Music Miley’s Nightmare A new Miley Cyrus song hit the internet this week. There’s no information about whether or not it’ll be on a new album or if Nightmare was supposed to be on Bangerz but never made it. Given that it’s a strong single though, I have a hard By Lainey • Jun 09, 2015 04:42 pm
Girly Throw Downs 1984 vs 1989 Katy Perry has reportedly registered a song called 1984. That’s when she was born. But, not surprisingly, and understandably, everyone’s wondering whether or not it’s a slap-back to Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood off her smash hit album 1989. Come on. This is not a reach. By Lainey • Jun 09, 2015 01:47 pm
Royals Harry & Gaga These pictures of Prince Harry and Lady Gaga, with Tony Bennett last night, crack me up. It’s the glitter eyebrows, which I totally want to try one day. And she’s standing there, with her glorious cleavage front and centre (and this is TAME by her standards!), next to By Lainey • Jun 09, 2015 10:13 am
Music Ring Of Keys I switched over to Game Of Thrones just before the Fun Home performance at the Tony Awards last night but Duana sent me a text making me promise to go back to Ring Of Keys after the dragons. Oh my God, Sydney Lucas. Your swagger… Your dungarees! Watch this one. By Lainey • Jun 08, 2015 08:58 am