Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: January 28th, 2025 Collaborations can either hit really hard, or fumble even harder. Once an artist finds a winning formula though, there’s potential to create new trends and movements through the sounds established. Mariah Carey did it in 1995 when she invited ODB to hop on the remix for “Fantasy”, ushering in By MC • Jan 28, 2025 01:05 pm
Music Stan Wars: It's Gracie Abrams’ turn Gracie Abrams is speaking out after a fan started a petition to replace indie artist Dora Jar as the opening act in her upcoming tour. On Friday, Jar announced the gig on her social media, which led to a now-deleted petition appearing on Change.org, started by a Gracie Abrams By Stephanie • Jan 27, 2025 03:55 pm
Music Timothée Chalamet: Completely Singular I’ve been writing for months during this press tour for A Complete Unknown, how thrilling it’s been as a student of pop culture to watch Timothée Chalamet resist doing celebrity by prescription. Maybe even describing it that way is a disservice itself to his celebrity and the way By Lainey • Jan 27, 2025 11:41 am
Sports Intro for January 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, I waited to write this intro to see who won the AFC championship game, the Buffalo Bills, or the Kansas City Chiefs. Not because I have any personal investment—these are not my teams—but because I wanted to know how much misogyny would be projected into the By Sarah • Jan 27, 2025 09:16 am
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: January 21st 2025 The bond that an artist forms with their fans is unique and, depending on who you ask, it’s unbreakable. Some people may not be able to understand it, but for those who do, you know what it feels like to be understood by your favourite artist. You may not By MC • Jan 21, 2025 01:08 pm
Maple Leaf Endless Bieber Speculation The immediate impetus for this post is the internet popping off because Justin Bieber seemingly unfollowed Hailey Bieber on Instagram. And if this was an isolated incident, sure, there’d be cause for concern. In context though, it’s probably not as big of a deal. Because over the last By Lainey • Jan 21, 2025 10:40 am
Music Tiny Desk’s not so tiny power This week, Trinidadian musician Machel Montano made history by becoming the first soca artist to appear on NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series. He joined the ranks of musicians like Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, Usher, Babyface and the hundreds of others to grace the NPR Music headquarters – and more importantly, By Stephanie • Jan 15, 2025 11:41 am
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: January 14th 2025 We are officially two weeks into the new year, and the biggest news in music today was supposed to be Beyoncé’s announcement today which has now been postponed out of respect for the ongoing situation in Los Angeles. B is the It Girl all the it girls aspire to By MC • Jan 14, 2025 12:10 pm
Music Welcome to MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE (Message from Lainey: new year… new contributor! Meet Michael, who will tell you all about himself below. Michael can be reached via email at mc@laineygossip.com, on IG @mikecadoch, and TikTok @mikecadoch. He’ll also be posting on our Substack, The Squawk – so please subscribe and join him there! By MC • Jan 07, 2025 02:18 pm
Music Intro for December 4, 2024 Dear Gossips, Billboard has spent the back half of this year counting down the greatest pop stars of the 21st century. This week was the official confirmation, or coronation, if you will, even though the reveal came last week when the artist in the #2 spot was announced. Naturally, everybody By Lainey • Dec 04, 2024 09:30 am
Music The two Vs V from BTS, aka Kim Taehyung, aka Tae (ARMYs use these names interchangeably) released a new song today. “Winter Ahead” is a collaboration with Park Hyo-shin, a song that highlights V’s musical leanings. Each member of BTS has their own personal style sound and preference. Jin, for example, has By Lainey • Nov 29, 2024 11:55 am
Music Intro for November 21, 2024 Dear Gossips, This is Shaboozey at the CMA Awards last night where his fashion theme of the night was green. Repping Elphaba at the country show? He wore a mint green suit on the red carpet, with tricked out Crocs, lol. And then on stage for his performance it was By Lainey • Nov 21, 2024 09:38 am
Music Intro for November 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, Last summer Marcello Hernandez was featured as one of the stars in Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue alongside, among others, Sabrina Carpenter. I wrote about it at the time, calling him “my beloved” after a breakout season on SNL last year, hoping that he wouldn’t By Lainey • Nov 19, 2024 09:07 am
Music Beysus at Christmas This is why it’s pointless to speculate on what Beyoncé is doing. Because when we find out what she’s been doing, it always comes out of nowhere and on no one’s bingo card. There have been no visuals. Not for act i, RENAISSANCE, and not for act By Lainey • Nov 18, 2024 10:35 am
Music Shaboozey: Man of the Year, with the records Ha! That’s another double entendre! GQ hosted its annual Men of the Year party last night in LA, and we just need to talk about one of them – Shaboozey, who wore a sash with the title across his body, and it’s indisputable at this point. Because this week, By Lainey • Nov 15, 2024 11:38 am
BFFs Celine and JLo: Alive and Survive! I can hear my husband upstairs laughing uncontrollably right now as I’m writing this… through tears. That’s what he’s hearing: my sobs. Sobbing through Celine Dion’s performance at the Elie Saab show in Riyadh last night. But if you love her as I do, and I By Lainey • Nov 14, 2024 10:55 am
