Boy Sh-t Intro for August 9, 2021 Dear Gossips, Kanye West held another listening event last week at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta for the second week in a row to promote his upcoming, highly anticipated album, Donda. Not sure how surprising it is that even though he’s been camping out there for weeks now to By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 09:13 am
Music Olivia’s Pop Culture Knowledge As Lainey mentioned yesterday, the September issues are rolling now. GQ has The Weekend on the cover but also a feature inside the magazine on Olivia Rodrigo, one of the biggest emerging artists we’ve seen this year. Olivia’s album, SOUR, dropped in May after her single “driver’s By Anastasia • Aug 05, 2021 12:28 pm
Music Billie is Happier Than Ever Billie Eilish’s new album has told us that she’s got a lot to say. Every track on her sophomore album, Happier Than Ever, introduces new emotional layers, because, obviously, she’s growing up. And in that process, she takes us on a journey through her traumas, fears, and By Anastasia • Aug 04, 2021 12:44 pm
Music Lady Gaga: Stand Tall and Sing Lady Gaga is at home in New York and was seen yesterday exiting Milk Studios in a fitted black dress with those monster heels. Like literally a foot tall, right? We’ve seen them on her before, on many occasions, but I’m not sure I’ve talked specifically about By Lainey • Jul 27, 2021 12:09 pm
Music Intro for July 27, 2021 Dear Gossips, We are living in Bennifer Summer. At the same time, we are also living in BTS Summer. For the last nine weeks, so basically the ENTIRE summer, and even before, if we’re counting from the solstice, BTS has been on top of the Billboard Hot 100. Their By Lainey • Jul 27, 2021 09:32 am
BFFs The Return of Kanye West We’ve heard a lot about Kanye this year, from his high profile split from Kim Kardashian to a new romance with Irina Shayk and Netflix reportedly paying $30 million for the rights to a documentary full of 21 years worth of unseen footage, but we haven’t heard from By Cody • Jul 23, 2021 11:17 am
Music BTS: Permission to Travel Yesterday in my opening post about BTS, I wrote about their success over the last year: they’ve just unseated themselves at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, knocking out their own song “Butter” with their new song “Permission to Dance”, their fifth #1 in ten months. And yet, By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 02:15 pm
Music Camila Cabello: Music and Movie Ambitions Camila Cabello was at JFK yesterday with her mama and her boo, Shawn Mendes, ahead of her music debut this Friday. All of these photos of them together recently have made me ship them hard. I know they’re just walking beside each other in these, but knowing that TikToks By Anastasia • Jul 21, 2021 01:49 pm
Music Intro for July 20, 2021 Dear Gossips, At this point, it was expected, although it’s never a guarantee. Maybe it is now? After seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Butter”, BTS has knocked their own song out of the top spot with their new song, “Permission to Dance”. Billboard made By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 08:52 am
Music Ariana’s Virtual Concert Series Okay, so this isn’t officially called Ariana’s concert series, but after being concert-less for so long, that’s how I’m treating them. Ariana Grande’s series of official live performances with Vevo have been a treat. Even though other singers have done official live performances before, including By Anastasia • Jul 16, 2021 01:39 pm
Music Normani Shows Her “Wild Side”, finally It’s been two years since Normani released “Motivation”, with an eye-catching nostalgic music video and splashy live performance at the MTV VMAs. We all thought it was her first single from her debut solo album, but then there was no follow-up single and subsequently no album. Basically just crickets. By Cody • Jul 16, 2021 10:45 am
Music Billie’s “NDA” We are three weeks away from Billie’s Happier Than Ever album release and today she dropped another song. Here is “NDA”: I have to admit, when I first listened to the song, the first minute felt like it was something we’ve heard from her before. The layered voices By Anastasia • Jul 09, 2021 03:09 pm
Music BTS Gives You “Permission to Dance” In the opening scene of BTS’s new video for their new song, “Permission to Dance”, a plate of pancakes with butter on top is being handed off and the metaphor is unmistakable: “Butter” is BTS’s current hit single, #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six straight weeks, By Lainey • Jul 09, 2021 12:16 pm
Gorgessity JLo’s “hips don’t fail her” Jennifer Lopez and Rauw Alejandro released a new single earlier this week, “Cambia el Paso” – in English “change the step”. And, well, it’s not subtle what the song is about, but if you need an explainer, this is what she told Pitbull a few days ago: “The song is By Lainey • Jul 09, 2021 10:46 am
Music Intro for June 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, Pitchfork asked the question yesterday “What will the 2021 Song of the Summer Be?” with a list of candidates including songs from Saweetie, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, and more. There’s a lot that goes into a Song of the Summer. It’s By Lainey • Jun 29, 2021 09:04 am
Music Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” Ed Sheeran is back with a new single, “Bad Habits”, and the music video dropped this morning: Ed has taken a break from music for a couple of years. After No. 6 Collaboration Project came out in 2019, he went on hiatus, and became a parent with wife, Cherry Seaborn By Anastasia • Jun 25, 2021 12:40 pm
