BFFs Taylor Swift: The Return of Kaylor and 1989 Taylor Swift wrapped up the US leg of The Eras tour with her sixth and final show in Los Angeles last night. She’ll now have a couple of weeks off before heading to Mexico and then another couple of months off until South America in November. And after that By Lainey • Aug 10, 2023 10:58 am
Music Intro for August 8, 2023 Dear Gossips, It was a long weekend in most of Canada and for those of us who are BTS fans, the weekend experience was ALL THE FEELINGS: euphoria, nostalgia, pride, exhilaration, heartbreak, and then all the way back to excitement. This band has technically been on a group pause for By Lainey • Aug 08, 2023 09:18 am
Maple Leaf Intro for August 4, 2023 Dear Gossips, It’s been an excellent week of PR for Taylor Swift. There was the news that she’s given out bonuses amounting to $55 million to the people working the US leg of her The Eras tour. And she’s just made history, again. .@taylorswift13 simultaneously charts 11 By Lainey • Aug 04, 2023 09:43 am
Maple Leaf Taylor Swift is coming… to Canada? Everyone in Toronto is buzzing about this this morning. As I mentioned the other day, DeuxMoi posted a tip about Taylor Swift: that she will perform ten shows in Toronto at Rogers Centre in November 2024, an extension of The Eras tour. The person who sent in the tip also By Lainey • Aug 03, 2023 09:49 am
Music Taylor’s Big Bonuses Taylor Swift’s The Eras tour is in LA this week for six sold-out shows at SoFi Stadium starting tomorrow until next Wednesday which will mark the end of the U.S. leg of the tour, at least for now. As mentioned on Monday, there is now a rumour By Lainey • Aug 02, 2023 02:16 pm
Music Drake has a “Meltdown” As mentioned in today’s open, Travis Scott’s new album, Utopia, includes features with over a dozen other high-profile artists. Beyoncé obviously is the biggest get but the biggest gossip, so far, coming out of the collaborations is, not surprisingly, because of La Flame’s new song with By Lainey • Jul 28, 2023 02:19 pm
Music Intro for July 28, 2023 Dear Gossips, Travis Scott released his highly anticipated new album yesterday, Utopia. The album features collaborations and contributions from over a dozen big name artists… including the greatest entertainer of our time, the Queen herself, Beyoncé. The track is called “Delresto (Echoes)” and while, as usual, because Beyoncé locks her By Lainey • Jul 28, 2023 09:56 am
Music Simu Singing: A Chinese Tradition Simu Liu currently stars as a Ken in Barbie, the #1 movie in 55 markets around the world. By now many if not most of you reading this have seen his performance – he’s a frenemy Ken, a villain and a BFF, he dances, he sings, he poses, he pumps, By Lainey • Jul 25, 2023 12:54 pm
Music Intro for July 25, 2023 Dear Gossips, Yesterday I posted about BTS’s Jungkook taking the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for his song “Seven” ft Latto. There’s no overstating just how close it was – and while I wrote yesterday that BTS fans, like me, had been refreshing all day waiting for By Lainey • Jul 25, 2023 09:40 am
Music Jungkook > Jason Aldean BTS’s fans, myself included, have been waiting all day, refreshing Billboard for this week’s charts to see if Jungkook’s “Seven” featuring Latto could top the Billboard Hot 100. This is JK’s first time with a #1 as a solo artist, and he’s the second member By Lainey • Jul 24, 2023 03:18 pm
TV Updates Selena Gomez is big business Selena Gomez celebrated her 31st birthday this weekend. There was a party for her at a private residence in Malibu that was covered by Vogue and included celebrities like Christina Aguilera, Karol G, Diplo, Saweetie, and Paris Hilton. And there was also a private screening of Barbie with family and By Lainey • Jul 24, 2023 12:57 pm
Sports Victoria sings again It was a big weekend in Miami as Lionel Messi suited up in his first match with his new team and scored on a free kick in the 94th minute to lead Inter Miami in a win over Cruz Azul. If you’re into all things Messi and MLS right By Lainey • Jul 24, 2023 11:45 am
Douchebags Intro for July 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, Not that I really want to but we have to talk more about Jason Aldean. Last week the video for his song, “Try That in a Small Town” was pulled from rotation on CMT because the song and video are racist. Variety’s chief music critic Chris Willman By Lainey • Jul 24, 2023 09:19 am
Douchebags Jason Aldean's propaganda got pulled This week, Billboard reported that CMT made a huge move, pulling Jason Aldean’s controversial new music video for his song, "Try That In A Small Town", from its rotation after its release on Friday. Despite the song being released back in May, the accompanying music video became By Stephanie • Jul 20, 2023 01:06 pm
Music The BTS Barbie Crossover I just gloated about this during our morning meeting at The Social – the BTS fanbase, aka ARMY, is so desirable to marketers that even the Barbie press tour is trying to engage them. And that’s why Ryan Gosling is trying to talk to Jimin. Ryan gosling send a message By Lainey • Jul 20, 2023 11:34 am
Music Intro for July 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, I first posted about NewJeans right at the beginning of the year. It was six months after their debut – and it’s still only been exactly a year since they came on the scene – and they’d already exploded in popularity with “Hype Boy”. That momentum continued with By Lainey • Jul 20, 2023 09:22 am
