Music Intro for August 30, 2021 Dear Gossips, For weeks now people have been waiting on Kanye West’s album, Donda, with speculation mounting that he was holding the drop to compete with Drake, whose own album, Certified Lover Boy, is also expected to come out soon. After yet another listening event last week, the most By Lainey • Aug 30, 2021 09:32 am
Music BTS covers Billboard No other artist this year has spent as much time on the top of Billboard Hot 100 as BTS with their back-to-back hits “Butter” and “Permission to Dance”. After reading their new Billboard cover feature in the new issue of the magazine… I’m not sure Billboard is all that By Lainey • Aug 27, 2021 01:54 pm
Amazingness Intro for August 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, Lil Nas X is great on Twitter – he’s to the point, he’s defiant and confrontational, and he expertly trolls his haters. He went viral yesterday for precisely that reason: now that tony hawk has released skateboards with his blood painted on them, and there was no By Lainey • Aug 26, 2021 09:14 am
Top Reads Megan Thee Stallion Fights for Her Career By Billboard Hot 100 standards, the biggest song of 2021 so far is BTS’s “Butter”. It has topped the chart for more weeks than any other track this year, is still consistently landing in the Top 10, and the band intends to extend that success even further by releasing By Lainey • Aug 25, 2021 10:55 am
Music Olivia’s Brutal Surprise Olivia Rodrigo dropped a surprise music video for her song “brutal” yesterday: Despite Olivia hinting that it may be around the corner, we didn’t know the corner was a random Monday. But stunts like this keep things fresh, especially since her album has been out for a few months By Anastasia • Aug 24, 2021 11:14 am
Amazingness Intro for August 23, 2021 Dear Gossips, The We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert was supposed to be broadcast on CNN this weekend. Unfortunately, due to Hurricane Henri, the show was cancelled, although several artists stayed backstage in their tents hoping that it would happen. I’m not saying anyone has to feel for wealthy By Lainey • Aug 23, 2021 09:10 am
Relationship Assumption Shawn’s “Summer Of Love” Shawn Mendes’ new single and music video dropped this morning: Shawn’s been hyping “Summer Of Love” on social media the past few weeks, including on TikTok so it seems like he’s starting to get a hang of it!. @shawnmendes #SUMMEROFLOVE OUT FRIDAY & MERCH AVAIL NOW 🧡 ♬ Summer Of By Anastasia • Aug 20, 2021 10:14 am
Music 10 Years of Little Mix Today marks a whole decade of Little Mix, and what better way to celebrate than a new album? Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock made the announcement this morning. The album, a testament to the ten year milestone they’ve reached, is titled Between Us and will include their By Anastasia • Aug 19, 2021 12:51 pm
Music Lizzo & Cardi B Confirm the Rumors In 2019, Lizzo was championed by the internet as a frontrunner to play Ursula in Disney’s live-action adaption of Little Mermaid, but that role ended up going to Melissa McCarthy. Then in 2020, reports emerged that Disney was eyeing a live-action Hercules and Twitter said please cast Lizzo as By Cody • Aug 13, 2021 10:42 am
Music Beyoncé: The Ruby Jubilee Begins Beyoncé’s 40th birthday is on September 4 and as I wrote the other day, it means we’re approaching the Queen of Culture’s Ruby Jubilee. To kick off the Ruby Jubilee, Beyoncé is releasing Ivy Park Rodeo, a western-themed collection, on August 19th. A promotional video or the By Lainey • Aug 10, 2021 12:40 pm
Style Jennifer Hudson’s Purple Veil Cynthia Erivo has been nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of Aretha Franklin in the series Genius: Aretha, and now another Aretha Franklin performance could contend during award season – Jennifer Hudson plays Aretha in Respect, which opens this Friday. Aretha herself wanted Jennifer to play her which is both By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 02:02 pm
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
