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
Sports 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
Music Intro for February 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, As I wrote on Friday, f-ckery is what we have come to expect from the Grammys so, no, it was not a surprise last night that the most nominated artist of the year, SZA, did not win in any of the major categories and the Grammys she did By Lainey • Feb 05, 2024 08:55 am
Music Intro for February 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Grammys are happening this weekend. SZA leads the way with the most nominations this year, including Album of the Year for SOS. But over the last few days, I’ve seen experts from Variety to Vulture publish “will win/should win” lists that predict that while SZA By Lainey • Feb 02, 2024 09:28 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake in his Villain Era Justin Timberlake celebrated his birthday last night in New York with a performance at Irving Plaza. It was the second of his “One Night Only” concert series which, sorry, but that makes no sense to me because if he already did one in Memphis and did it again in NYC, By Lainey • Feb 01, 2024 02:23 pm
Sports TNT: The Big Scary Rom-Com When I initially pitched Sarah last night about this post it was supposed to be fun. Page Six, which has been serving up double and triple daily TNT content, posted yesterday about the “87” ring that Taylor Swift was wearing on Sunday at the AFC Championship. This, of course, is By Lainey • Jan 31, 2024 12:34 pm
