Music Taylor Swift: The Archer and the Fish Taylor Swift announced last night that she’d be dropping the music video for “Lavender Haze” at midnight. This is the first track off Midnights and the third video she’s released from the album. Back in October she put together a teaser for all the videos she’d made; By Lainey • Jan 27, 2023 10:26 am
Music Beyoncé: Return of the Queen I was with Duana this weekend in Vegas – it was her first time. So we put her through a Vegas rite of passage: waiting in line, a long line, at the Wynn buffet. We spent part of it trying to watch the Beyoncé show on our phones, desperately scrolling Twitter By Lainey • Jan 23, 2023 10:57 am
Music Intro for January 23, 2023 Dear Gossips, I was in Vegas this weekend to see the Adele show and it just happened to be the one-year anniversary of when she made the announcement that the residency wasn’t ready yet and that she wouldn’t be kicking it off when she’d originally planned to. By Lainey • Jan 23, 2023 09:07 am
Music Intro for January 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, Over the last couple of days, Madonna fans have been refreshing their feeds every few minutes. A big announcement is imminent. Billboard reported on Friday that Madonna’s prepping for a massive world tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of her career, as her first album, Madonna, was By Lainey • Jan 17, 2023 10:13 am
Music Taylor Swift: First Time and a Flex Taylor Swift was quiet over the holidays. She’s much quieter these days than she was in her 20s, although Midnights was a big deal album release in 2022 and continues to be a force in the industry this year. Taylor has started rehearsing for The Eras tour and she By Lainey • Jan 13, 2023 01:32 pm
Music Rihanna: The Countdown Rihanna’s Halftime Show is now four weeks away. She took a timeout on Tuesday to attend the Golden Globes – and was shouted out multiple times during the night – but when she’s not with her baby, she is definitely spending most of her time right now rehearsing for the By Lainey • Jan 13, 2023 01:01 pm
Music Rihanna: Halftime and the Globes Just under five weeks to go now until Rihanna’s 12-minute concert. She posted a video on Sunday to start the countdown and, hilariously, didn’t put much into it. Because she doesn’t need to. It’s not like the anticipation isn’t already high. It’s been a By Lainey • Jan 10, 2023 10:21 am
Music A Quiet Bennifer Holiday As of the timing of this writing, we’ve yet to see Bennifer in 2023, but that’s only a matter of time. Their holiday seemed relatively quiet, although she did step out for work on December 29, seen arriving at a photo shoot. The work for Jennifer Lopez never By Lainey • Jan 04, 2023 12:13 pm
Music Beyoncé 2023 What will Beyoncé give us in 2023? I don’t want to ask for too much. We got a whole album in 2022, and it was another masterpiece, naturally. Renaissance made practically every “best” list of the year, with excellent sales and streaming numbers, and all kinds of nominations… although By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 12:24 pm
Maple Leaf Shania leads the way After a 15 year music hiatus, Shania Twain is back. This month, she is on the cover of PEOPLE, and her cover story details her resilience, dedication and what she describes as a “renaissance period”. It’s an interesting word choice, considering Beyonce’s claim over it since the release By Stephanie • Dec 21, 2022 01:43 pm
Music An Invitation from Beyoncé As mentioned yesterday in What Else?, the Hive was buzzing yesterday just after 3pm, when we all checked our inboxes and saw that we had an invitation from Beyoncé: And by “all”, I mean those of us who subscribe to Beyonce.com, obvs. So our phones were blowing up, and By Lainey • Dec 16, 2022 11:38 am
Music Intro for December 13, 2022 Dear Gossips, Today is an emotional day for those of us in the BTS fandom, aka ARMY. It’s been an emotional few days, actually. No, no, f-ck that …it’s been an emotional year! Because we’ve been anticipating this week since back in June, during FESTA (BTS’s By Lainey • Dec 13, 2022 09:44 am
Music Ashanti and the ongoing battle of women in music R&B singer Ashanti appeared on The Breakfast Club recently to catch up with the hosts and reflect on her 20-year long music career. She shared stories about her family, past experiences and current projects, but it was her recounting of a story she initially shared in 2018 that’ By Stephanie • Dec 02, 2022 12:22 pm
Music Bennifer’s “Would Never Happen in Hollywood” ending If you missed it (I mean how could you miss it?), Jennifer Lopez announced her new album on Friday by recreating the This Is Me…Then album cover and then transitioning to This Is Me…Now – because she has never been subtle, especially when she’s in love. And JLo By Lainey • Nov 28, 2022 11:34 am
Music Intro for November 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, Tomorrow marks five months since the sovereign Beyoncé released her latest masterpiece, Renaissance. “Break My Soul” was a major summer anthem. “Cuff It” became a social media anthem as people continue to do the dance challenge on TikTok. And yet. We are days away from the last month By Lainey • Nov 28, 2022 09:40 am
Music This is JLo…Now You can roll your eyes, and I’m sure of you are, but if you love gossip, you can’t not love this. COME ON. As I mentioned yesterday, Jennifer Lopez scrubbed her Instagram earlier this week, leading many, including me, to (correctly) speculate that a major announcement was coming. By Lainey • Nov 25, 2022 10:22 am