Music Dirty (K)Pop Megan Thee Stallion is taking her talents to the small screen once more. This time she is teaming up with PSY, who you’ll remember from his OG viral smash “Gangnam Style”, on a new west-meets-east reality music competition that is appropriately titled KPOPPED. The show which will By MC • Feb 07, 2025 01:28 pm
Music Intro for February 6, 2025 Dear Gossips, Big announcement for Blinks yesterday – BLACKPINK announced that a tour is coming this year. The announcement and accompanying promotional materials were updated across the group’s various social media accounts and a teaser was posted to the BLACKPINK YouTube channel. But… honestly? It’s a bit confusing. BLACKPINK, By Lainey • Feb 06, 2025 09:23 am
Music Drake is far away Drake is keeping his distance right now, conveniently on the other side of the world, far from the Grammys, and the upcoming Super Bowl in New Orleans where, as we all know, Kendrick Lamar is the headliner. And we also all know that he will for sure perform “Not Like By Lainey • Feb 04, 2025 04:14 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Musical Trilogies and Whitney-Keke As the old saying goes, “good things come in threes”, so it should come as no shock that when the rule of threes gets applied to music, the result can be great. Beyoncé being the most current example, the Album Of The Year winner is on album #2 of her By MC • Feb 04, 2025 12:33 pm
Music Cynthia and Janelle: Quincy Jones and Grammys for Oscars Cynthia Erivo and Janelle Monae were two of the artists who performed at the Grammys last night as part of the Quincy Jones tribute. We’ll begin at the end, as it was Janelle who shut it all down with a performance of “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 02:17 pm
Music Gaga, Miley, and Billie: Shōgun at the Grammys I was in flight for the first part of the Grammys so I’d only seen a few looks when Emily our site manager texted me to say that there was a lot of Shōgun at the Grammys. I knew Miley Cyrus was one of them, but then she added By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 01:39 pm
Music Beyoncé All Weekend There was already so much Beyoncé to talk about even before she won all her Grammys last night. So we’ll start there and jump around the timeline. Beyoncé was supposed to make an announcement on January 14 which she ended up postponing due to the wildfire situation in LA. By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 12:03 pm
Music Grammys 2025: Year of the Rookie "Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels, we got you – but do you got us?” - Chappell Roan, 2025 Grammy Awards. It was the year of the “new” artist at this year’s Grammy Awards. Every single By MC • Feb 03, 2025 10:13 am
Music Intro for February 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, Kendrick Lamar, on volume, was the Grammys biggest winner last night, sweeping all five categories in which he was nominated, including two of what’s considered to be the big four Grammys, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The song, obviously, is “Not Like Us” By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 08:59 am
Music The Biebers in New York When Justin and Hailey Bieber are papped, the large majority of the time it’s in LA. This is the first time they’ve been spotted in NYC since last summer. And before last summer, it had been almost a year in between. The Biebers spent the early part of By Lainey • Jan 30, 2025 01:12 pm
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 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
