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
Music Kelis speaks up Beyoncé’s latest album, Renaissance, has officially dropped. And for the most part, it’s getting rave reviews. But there’s a sideshow happening casting a grey cloud over the highly-anticipated album release. And it’s causing quite the storm. Kelis, a singer-turned-chef, took to social media Thursday night, before By Stephanie • Jul 29, 2022 11:52 am
Music Beyoncé: CLUB RENAISSANCE is open A few hours before the release of Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE last night, her label, Parkwood, released a statement confirming that there will be NO VISUALS, for now, to accompany the album. “The originator of the visual album format, and the preeminent visual artist, decided to lead without visuals giving fans By Lainey • Jul 29, 2022 10:22 am
Music Intro for July 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, As I said yesterday in What Else?, I did not listen to the Beyoncé leaks, didn’t even try to find them. I’m not entirely innocent, though, because I did check online to find out more about the 28-page booklet that comes with the CD. I am By Lainey • Jul 28, 2022 09:35 am
Music Intro for July 26, 2022 Dear Gossips, We are now three days from the beginning of a new era. The RENAISSANCE will arrive in three days … are you ready? Beyoncé, the new album, July 29 – at which point she will take over ALL the timelines. I’m actually considering opening the site that morning with By Lainey • Jul 26, 2022 09:38 am
Music Adele in Vegas… finally As Maria has been covering in Celebrity Social Media all summer, it’s celebrity yacht season in Italy and Adele and Rich Paul spent the weekend on a boat in Sardinia. They looked close, sitting next to each other on the boat with his hand casually resting on her leg By Lainey • Jul 25, 2022 01:56 pm
Music Beyoncé is “That Girl” I posted about Beyoncé in the site open yesterday, looking ahead to the release of her new album, RENAISSANCE, and everything we don’t actually know about anything. Later on, Beyoncé gave us the tracklist on Instagram stories… https://twitter.com/BeyLegion/status/1549851335159422978?s=20&t=p8DficqbXeuSPA0oxsxuYg …so By Lainey • Jul 21, 2022 10:33 am
Music Intro for July 21, 2022 Dear Gossips, Remember all those headlines about BTS going on a “break”?!?! LOLOLOLOLOL What f-cking break? As a fan of BTS, I am having a harder time keeping track of all their updates now than it used to be before this non-existent, not-happening break! And it’s not just because By Lainey • Jul 21, 2022 09:32 am
Music Intro for July 20, 2022 Dear Gossips, What do you think will happen on July 29, 2022? I think about this every day. That’s the day, of course, when Beyoncé’s new album, act i, RENAISSANCE, will be released. Obviously it will be a takeover, a cultural reset – we already know this – but …like… By Lainey • Jul 20, 2022 09:14 am
