Music Hip-Hop and Bad Bunny: The Grammys High Points Last night’s show wasn’t without its problems – one MAJOR problem, in fact, and I’m pretty sure you know what that is – but it would be unfair to say that there were no highlights, that it wasn’t really great at certain points…because it was, at a By Lainey • Feb 06, 2023 11:09 am
Music Shania won't stop evolving Queen of Me, Shania Twain’s second studio album in over 20 years was released today. In recent months, she’s been building momentum by ramping up her social media presence, performing at award shows and of course, switching up her look. This week, the long-time brunette stunned partygoers By Stephanie • Feb 03, 2023 01:41 pm
Music Missy and Wayne Kick Off Grammys Weekend The Grammys are on Sunday which means that the music industry will be the main story this weekend. Last night the Recording Academy and the Black Music Collective presented its Global Impact Award, now renamed after Dr Dre, to several recipients including music executive Sylvia Rhone, Missy Elliott, and Lil By Lainey • Feb 03, 2023 10:56 am
Music Intro for February 1, 2023 Dear Gossips, I’m writing this just before 8am on Wednesday, February 1. So far… nothing. But it’s supposed to be happening today. As mentioned yesterday in this space, Beyoncé is coming. It is now Black History Month. And social media has been buzzing for the last 24 hours By Lainey • Feb 01, 2023 08:47 am
Music Intro for January 31, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Grammy Awards are happening on Sunday. It was previously announced that Mary J Blige, Bad Bunny, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Sam Smith, and Luke Combs would be among the performers. Trevor Noah is back as the host and he and producer Ben Winston are doing press to promote By Lainey • Jan 31, 2023 09:45 am
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 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 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
