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
Music Intro for November 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, Welcome back to those of you in the US after American Thanksgiving. We were posting yesterday so please scroll down to get caught up. It’s now November 25th, exactly a month from Christmas and the Queen of Christmas (in culture if not in copyright) was at the By Lainey • Nov 25, 2022 09:39 am
Music JLo…Tomorrow? I wrote the other day about Jennifer Lopez’s most recent social media post– a video of her with Ben Affleck, calling him the “person that makes me the happiest I’ve ever been”. And then…she scrubbed her Instagram. All content has been deleted, the profile photo is black. By Lainey • Nov 24, 2022 11:22 am
Music Kelly Rowland shows grace, but does Chris Brown deserve it? Trigger warning: This post includes mentions of domestic violence, sexual assault. Please take care while reading. Kelly Rowland trended on Twitter after presenting the award for Favorite Male R&B Artist at the American Music Awards. After declaring that the winner of the award, Chris Brown, wasn’t there By Stephanie • Nov 22, 2022 10:00 am
Music Taylor Swift: More Trophies But No Tickets A week ago today I posted about Taylor Swift at the MTV EMAs and winning a lot of trophies, noting that when she shows up, chances are very good that she’ll collect some awards. In that post I wondered about Taylor and whether or not she’d show up By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 10:57 am
Music Rihanna goes back to dinner By now we all know it, right? Rihanna’s favourite restaurant it Giorgio Baldi and it’s not unusual to see her there multiple times a week, although she hasn’t been there as much since having her baby back in May. She was there last night though, in head By Lainey • Nov 17, 2022 02:28 pm
Music More Trophies for Taylor Taylor Swift was in Dusseldorf last night for the MTV EMAs and won several awards, including the award for Best Artist which… was obvious from the moment she arrived; Taylor Swift is too big to not win the big ones if she bothers to show up. Taylor, after all, has By Lainey • Nov 14, 2022 01:51 pm
Music Intro for November 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, Alanis Morissette was supposed to perform with Olivia Rodrigo at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony this past Saturday to honour Carly Simon. She was at rehearsal on Friday but was not on stage on Saturday night for the live taping; Olivia ended up performing alone. By Lainey • Nov 09, 2022 10:20 am
