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, 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, 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
Music Intro for April 18, 2024 Dear Gossips, As I mentioned the other day in my post about Taylor Swift, her fans have been trying to piece together clues about the upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, dropping tonight at midnight, using QR codes and there’s also something going on at Apple Music were a By Lainey • Apr 18, 2024 09:08 am
Music Taylor’s Ticking Clock Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is dropping in two days, technically three, but probably every Swiftie on the planet will be listening to it at exactly midnight when Thursday becomes Friday. Which is why, with just over 48 hours to go, it’s getting to the frenzy point By Lainey • Apr 16, 2024 02:56 pm
Music Intro for April 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, I have listened to almost nothing else for the last two weeks but Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER. And I know I’m not the only one. There are hundreds of videos like this on TikTok: the fact that we all can mostly do this only after 3 weeks By Lainey • Apr 16, 2024 09:51 am
Music Gwen still can Out of all the footage I saw from Coachella this weekend, the most exciting to me was Gwen Stefani and No Doubt. That is generational, I’m sure. No Doubt came up when I was growing up. I will know those songs forever. But also it’s about staying power, By Lainey • Apr 15, 2024 12:52 pm
Music TNT take Coachella This weekend felt hilariously nostalgic. Six months ago we could almost count on a Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce sighting during the NFL regular season, also known as season one of TNT. They’ve been much more quiet during season two, quite smartly, so their joint appearance at the first By Lainey • Apr 15, 2024 11:22 am
Music Taylor Swift: TikTok and the times Taylor Swift has been pretty strategically quiet the last few weeks ahead of the release of her next album, The Tortured Poets Department next Friday. We’re close… which means we should be hearing more from her. And it’s happening already. As Variety reports, several of her songs are By Lainey • Apr 11, 2024 03:07 pm
Music Lady Gaga: New Music, New Movie, and Migraine Lady Gaga stepped out in LA the other day and she was wearing a big ass ring on her finger so most of the discussion around her has been about whether or not she’s engaged. She’s a rich bitch. Rich bitches wear big rings. That’s all there By Lainey • Apr 09, 2024 03:13 pm
Music “Blackbiird”, Tattoos, and Cowboys Tanner Adell, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts, and Brittney Spencer presented together at the CMT Music Awards last night. They are the four emerging country artists featured on Beyoncé’s “Blackbiird” off her most recent masterpiece album, COWBOY CARTER. Since the release of COWBOY CARTER all four of these women have By Lainey • Apr 08, 2024 12:52 pm
Sports Intro for April 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, Happy Eclipse Day…? It’s a question mark because I know there are those out there who are wary of this celestial event and the strange things that might occur. I have two eclipse preoccupations: how our dogs will react and Beyoncé, of course. Veterinarians are saying that By Lainey • Apr 08, 2024 09:38 am
Music Beyoncé: Stocks, Boosts, and a Countdown? The rumour for days has been that there would be some kind of announcement today. It is 10am ET at the time of this writing, all my alerts are on… and so far, nothing. Well, not nothing. But not a confirmation of anything either. Still, we have some new developments. By Lainey • Apr 05, 2024 11:45 am
