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 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 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
Baby and Bump Obsession Justin Timberlake, the Innovator Justin Timberlake the musician? No problem. His talent as an entertainer, in that respect, has never been disputed here. So if he lives here, at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, as a living legend, yeah, of course. I mean, what a “journey”, you know? Like when you consider all that he’ By Lainey • Mar 30, 2015 09:55 am
BFFs Taylor Swift: wins more, collects more Taylor Swift tried to clarify for us that it’s not “Starbucks lovers” in Blank Space last night at the iHeartRadio Music Awards when she won for Best Lyrics but it all just ended up sounding like promotion for her upcoming tour. Right? Every time she was on stage, speaking, By Lainey • Mar 30, 2015 09:39 am
Quiveration The Desired Effect of Brandon Flowers I think I’ve mentioned a few times that I have a thing for Brandon Flowers? I say the same thing every time: He’s SO beautiful. God he’s so beautiful. Look at him! And when he sings… Those first two Killers albums? Our car is so old is By Lainey • Mar 27, 2015 04:58 pm
Music Katy Perry’s isolated Prismatic While Taylor Swift continued her friend collection enemy isolation in Nashville last night, Katy Perry was in LA at the premiere of her concert film The Prismatic World Tour. Does it make you side with her more? The fact that Taylor seems to be systematically picking everyone off around her, By Lainey • Mar 27, 2015 12:18 pm
Hook Ups Taylor Swift & Calvin Harris: it’s on Yesterday I wondered about why Taylor Swift would take Calvin Harris to Nashville if they were *just* recording. Click here for a refresher. Last night Taylor was at the Kenny Chesney show. So she will, actually, get back together with country. At one point she joined Chesney on stage. Off By Lainey • Mar 27, 2015 11:30 am
