Music Beyoncé mingles! As we have seen over the years, February, Black History Month, is a big month for Beyoncé. When she was pregnant with the twins she announced it in February. “Formation” dropped in February, right before the Super Bowl, and then right after the Super Bowl she announced the tour. Last By Lainey • Feb 21, 2024 10:34 am
Music JLo: No Exaggeration As we saw when the trailer dropped and as we learned when her Variety cover was released this week, there were a lot of people in Jennifer Lopez’s life, everyone in her life, who thought her idea for her musical film, This Is Me Now: A Love Story, was By Lainey • Feb 16, 2024 02:00 pm
Music That’s Beyoncé’s best friend Last night was the premiere of Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa, which stars Kelly Rowland. Beyoncé went to the premiere to support her, along with Jay Z, Miss Tina, and Angie Beyince. Bey and Jay skipped the red carpet, but Queen Bey still let her support of her best friend By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 09:31 am
Music JLo: Chairing and Touring Jennifer Lopez is in New York today, continuing to promote the release of her new album, This is Me…Now, and the accompanying musical film, streaming tomorrow on Amazon, followed by the documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, on February 27. That title, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, By Lainey • Feb 15, 2024 01:35 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for February 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week I interviewed Camille Dundas for ETALK. Camille is a public speaking and corporate diversity consultant, a television producer, a writer, and the founder and editor-in-chief of ByBlacks.com, an award-winning online magazine covering stories of interest to the Black Canadian community, spotlighting the efforts and By Lainey • Feb 15, 2024 10:04 am
Music Time Travelling with Beyoncé Music has always taken me places. When I was teaching or working over Zoom full-time in the first couple of years of the pandemic, I had to start with a playlist. Los Angeles Azules & Natalia Lafourcade’s “Nada es suficiente” helped me connect with students and colleagues as we By Violeta • Feb 14, 2024 12:11 pm
Music Intro for February 14, 2024 Dear Gossips, “Earned all this money, but they never take the country out me” – I know I don’t have to tell you who said that and when and where she did it. And now we know that that was a promise. Eight years later Beyoncé is about to release By Lainey • Feb 14, 2024 10:03 am
Music JLo vs Everyone Not that I want to you send you away from our site to read at another but this new Variety cover story with Jennifer Lopez is DELICIOUS. If you’re still here, though, please stay with us until the end of this post at least before you rush off and By Lainey • Feb 13, 2024 03:00 pm
Music A Proclamation by the Queen I wondered last week if we were clowning ourselves because where Beyoncé is concerned, well, we clown ourselves a lot. But this was not a false alarm. The Queen of Culture was indeed planning a Super Bowl takeover – we are blessed with new music, a new album, and the beginning By Lainey • Feb 12, 2024 11:56 am
Quiveration Intro for February 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, As I wrote last week, for some of us, and we are not a small number, we watched last night’s tv show for a concert and the Queen’s announcement – both of which, by the way, were critical to the actual event, labelled as part of the By Lainey • Feb 12, 2024 10:13 am
Music Usher: Coming Home to Halftime I will be approaching the Super Bowl the way I always do – because I don’t care about the game, and if there is any TNT content, I can catch up on Monday morning. Sunday, for me, is a 13-15 minute concert, this year headlined by Usher. And he’s By Lainey • Feb 09, 2024 12:18 pm
Jock Smut TNT: Media Day and Other Distractions It’s Super Bowl week aka Swift Bowl week, which means that for the players involved, part of their work this week was off the field, for media day. I’m starting here with Travis Kelce for a couple of reasons. First, he is such a natural with the media By Lainey • Feb 08, 2024 01:36 pm
TV Updates Ayo and JLo work it out Or do they? I’m a few days late on this because Grammys and Barney but I also think it’s been overlooked by the gossip ecosystem at large because of the Grammys, even though there really could be some interesting gossip here. Let’s start with Ayo Edebiri who By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 02:49 pm
Music Taylor Swift: A Flex and a Fumble I posted about this on Sunday – most experts were already predicting that Taylor Swift’s Midnights would win the Grammy for Album of the Year, making her the only artist in history to win the Recording Academy’s highest honour four times. One more than Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, and By Lainey • Feb 05, 2024 12:23 pm
Music Miley Cyrus’s Butterfly Miley Cyrus won the first broadcast award of the evening at last night’s Grammy Awards, beating out Doja Cat, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift, to win Best Pop Solo Performance for “Flowers”. It’s her first ever Grammy (although she won another later in the evening) — which By Cody • Feb 05, 2024 11:19 am
Music Grammys: SZA takes 3 out of 9 SZA walked into this year’s Grammy Awards as the most nominated artist, with 9 nods, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Unfortunately, she didn’t leave with the most wins, predictably shut out by the likes of Taylor Swift and Billie By Cody • Feb 05, 2024 09:26 am
