BFFs Cyndi’s farewell Cyndi Lauper was honored with a hand and footprint ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theater yesterday. Bebe Rexha and Cher turned up to support her. Iconic friendship! Cher and Cyndi have been turning up for each other for decades, including Cyndi singing for Cher at the Kennedy Center Honors in By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 10:15 am
Music Bennifer Weekend I’ve been writing about the Friday gossip dump and lately having to be on high alert for Bennifer because of all the speculation that their marriage is in crisis. As it happens, there WAS actually an announcement on Friday, just not the one people have been bracing for. Still, By Lainey • Jun 03, 2024 01:10 pm
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: Coming back to us now If you haven’t yet watched the first trailer for Celine Dion’s upcoming documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, let me just give you a heads up – you’re going to need some time to recover. I’m hosting a luncheon today, I’m about to leave in half an By Lainey • May 23, 2024 12:34 pm
Music Lil Nas X reflects on country As Lainey linked to yesterday in What Else?, Lil Nas X is reflecting on his experience in the country music industry and its current state. And it’s worth unpacking more of his thoughts after the developments of the last couple of months following the success of Beyoncé’s COWBOY By Stephanie • May 22, 2024 03:12 pm
Music RM: BTS, Beef, and the MCU converge As anticipated earlier this week, RM dropped a new single with a music video, “Come Back To Me”, today, collaborating with an all-star team behind and in front of the camera. Pachinko’s Kim Minha is his co-star, and the short film was directed by Emmy winner Lee Sung Jin By Lainey • May 10, 2024 09:56 am
Music Anya and Chrissy: Met Gala Could Have Beens? Anya Taylor-Joy was not at the Met Gala. I guess they thought Chris Hemsworth being one of the co-chairs this year would have been enough promote Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Until he showed up in the most nothingburger suit and did nothing for the conversation. But, you know, the By Lainey • May 08, 2024 01:40 pm
Music Intro for May 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, BTS’s leader, RM, announced a couple of weeks ago the release of a new album Right Place, Wrong Person. On Friday he’s dropping a new single, “Come Back To Me” and the art work for the track, revealed yesterday, is especially beautiful. These are made to By Lainey • May 08, 2024 08:53 am
Music Intro for May 6, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Met Gala is tonight… but whatever anticipation for it that may have been building over the weekend was completely overshadowed by another gossip story. I actually didn’t remember the Met Gala until Sarah messaged me about it last night because most of our WhatsApp over the By Lainey • May 06, 2024 09:13 am
Music Intro for May 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé has no idea I exist but still, I am taking her recent Instagram posts very personally. The last time I posted about her in this space she was sharing photos and videos from her trip to Japan. And last night there was more. Our Queen arrived in By Lainey • May 02, 2024 09:17 am
TV Updates Intro for May 1, 2024 Dear Gossips, I was feverish on and off yesterday, tried to stay in bed as much as I could, and when I was awake, much of that time was spent binge-finishing the second half of Queen of Tears and sobbing my way through this cold. The series has now ended By Lainey • May 01, 2024 09:53 am
Music RM: Right Place, Wrong Person… curious timing? There’s been major drama happening in K-pop this week at the executive level. And amidst all this, it was announced yesterday that RM’s second album will drop in May. We’ll come back to this in a minute. Let’s talk briefly about the mess within HYBE, which By Lainey • Apr 26, 2024 01:36 pm
Break Ups Taylor Swift: Twins and Double Dates The bait and switch of Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, is that everyone thought it would be a Joe Alwyn breakup album but it ended up being a Matty Healey breakup album, revealing that when she and Matty were together last year, it was much more By Lainey • Apr 25, 2024 12:58 pm
Music How do we talk about Billie Eilish “Billie is f-cking me up” is the text our site manager Emily sent me today in response to Billie Eilish’s new cover interview in Rolling Stone. Then she added that “the lesbians are freaking out”, and I know, I know, not all lesbians, but at least Emily is, and By Lainey • Apr 24, 2024 03:06 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s bloat and gloat It was, not surprisingly, a huge weekend for Taylor Swift. The Tortured Poets Department is breaking all kinds of records everywhere. The streaming numbers are massive, even by her standards, and her standards for streaming and consumption are already extraordinary. But also? As Billboard reports, 1.4 million copies were By Lainey • Apr 22, 2024 12:37 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song” Poetry professors, sorry. I may have pissed you off by invoking Sylvia Plath in connection with Taylor Swift. But this is one of two poems that came to mind when I was listening to Taylor’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department. “Mad Girl’s Love Song” was Plath calling By Lainey • Apr 19, 2024 11:17 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Rihanna works the carpet It’s kinda old school, the way Rihanna works a carpet at one of her events. So many celebrities these days, whether it’s at movie premieres or product launches, even though it’s to promote their own projects, do the posing but don’t stop to talk to the By Lainey • Apr 18, 2024 11:07 am
