Music BLACKPINK: VMA Weekend and That Rumour It’s been a week since BLACKPINK’s new song, “Pink Venom”, was released. This is the first track off their upcoming album, Born Pink, due September 16. Already “Pink Venom” is a smash hit, setting records on YouTube and Spotify: .@BLACKPINK's stunning "Pink Venom" visual By Lainey • Aug 26, 2022 11:05 am
Music Intro for August 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, The MTV VMAs are happening this Sunday, August 28 with LL Cool J, Nicki Minaj, and Jack Harlow as “emcees”. The reason that’s in quotations is because MTV is making a point of not calling them “hosts”: “This year’s ceremony will take a new and unique By Lainey • Aug 25, 2022 09:31 am
Music Understanding Chloe x Halle Halle and Chloe Bailey are on the front cover of the September/October issue of Essence. They dished about Halle’s upcoming starring role (yes, a Black Ariel) in The Little Mermaid, her relationship with YouTube star DDG, and they also discussed what it’s been like coming into their By Stephanie • Aug 23, 2022 11:18 am
Music “Pink Venom” In Your Area BLACKPINK’s new song and video, “Pink Venom”, dropped last night. It’s a good song, I’m bouncing in my chair right now with the chorus, “This, that pink venom, this, that pink venom”. But we open on the geomungo, a Korean instrument played in the video by Jisoo By Lainey • Aug 19, 2022 01:03 pm
Music Intro for August 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, BLACKPINK in your area… Not too long now. Tonight at midnight, the new single “Pink Venom” will be released along with the music video and the “Light Up The Pink” campaign has been announced in multiple cities around the world: In New York City the Brooklyn Bridge will By Lainey • Aug 18, 2022 09:44 am
Music Mariah Carey tries to trademark Christmas (kind of) If there is one thing in life that is certain, it’s that Mariah Carey is the Queen of Christmas. It’s only mid-August, but I find myself fighting the temptation to blow right past the end of summer, Thanksgiving, and get straight to the best holiday of the year. By Stephanie • Aug 17, 2022 01:10 pm
Music Adele Explains Adele covers the September issue of ELLE, which is a big get for the magazine. And for Adele, the timing is perfect…because Adele is on a reset right now having recently announced her new Las Vegas residency dates so we’re watching a superstar do the work of turning By Lainey • Aug 15, 2022 11:14 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Another Rihanna Rumour I guess it’s about that time… The rumour started earlier this week: people think there might be new Rihanna music coming. Because a song called “Righteous” has been registered and now there’s speculation, again, that she might be releasing a single soon ahead of her ninth album, commonly By Lainey • Aug 12, 2022 09:54 am
Music Intro for August 11, 2022 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week I posted about the BLACKPINK comeback announcement with the lead single, “Pink Venom”, releasing August 19 ahead of their second studio album, Born Pink, in September and a world tour starting in October. Tour dates have now been confirmed, with two shows in Canada: We By Lainey • Aug 11, 2022 10:41 am
Music Beyoncé: The Queens Weekend I got home early enough on Friday afternoon to take a nap before working out and heading to dinner with friends. Sleeping is my superpower – I can nap anywhere, anytime, and for a long ass period of time. I often wake up from a nap to find out that it’ By Lainey • Aug 08, 2022 12:02 pm
Music Intro for August 8, 2022 Dear Gossips, It is August 8, the 8th day of the 8th month, and in many East Asian cultures, today is considered the luckiest day of the year. Today also marks the 6th anniversary of the debut of BLACKPINK and to celebrate, they have confirmed their comeback which they’d By Lainey • Aug 08, 2022 09:27 am
Music Beyoncé is a tease It’s been a week since RENAISSANCE – how are we all doing? Has she been f-cking up your nights? For me it’s been night and day. RENAISSANCE is my soundtrack to everything right now. It’s in the car to and from work. It’s in the car on By Lainey • Aug 05, 2022 11:52 am
Music Kelis: Pharrell is not immune Earlier this week Beyoncé announced that she has pulled the sample of Kelis’ legendary anthem “Milkshake” from the end of her “Energy” track off her most recent studio album RENAISSANCE. According to Rolling Stone, Tidal and Apple have appeared to have “removed an interpolation of “Milkshake” that appeared at the By Melayna • Aug 04, 2022 12:22 pm
Music Intro for August 4, 2022 Dear Gossips, On Sunday night at Lollapalooza in Chicago, BTS’s j-hope became the first Korean artist to headline a major American music festival. In the process, he became the highest ticket-selling artist in Lollapalooza history. They added ten minutes to his set time, which started at 850pm ahead of By Lainey • Aug 04, 2022 10:19 am
Music Intro for August 2, 2022 Dear Gossips, “Beyoncé moves with intention” – I keep quoting this statement by music and culture expert Taylor Crumpton in my coverage of Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE because there are so many layers and layers to just how f-cking intentional she is. Renaissance means revival, a renewal, and this no doubt applies By Lainey • Aug 02, 2022 09:47 am
TV Updates Shania Twain and Behind the Music nostalgia Do you remember Behind the Music? It was a documentary series on VH1 that told you the story of an artist or band–how they rose to fame, the band and relationship breakups that would contribute to their success and/or failure, the loss of many an artist or band’ By Violeta • Jul 29, 2022 01:31 pm
