Equality Issues Intro for November 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, How are we at the second last month of the year? Already?! Since it’s that time of year, the annual best and “…of the year” lists are now coming out. WSJ. Magazine has released its Innovators issue last week and hosted a celebration, with several of their By Lainey • Nov 02, 2021 09:53 am
Style American Music Awards Nominations: Olivia Rodrigo and BTS The American Music Awards nominations were announced today. The show will air on Sunday, November 21. And it’s no surprise that Olivia Rodrigo, one of the breakout stars of 2020/21, leads all artists with seven nominations, followed by The Weeknd with six. Olivia’s biggest hit is “drivers By Lainey • Oct 28, 2021 02:25 pm
BFFs Intro for October 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, Billboard yesterday confirmed the inevitable – Adele’s “Easy On Me” has topped the Hot 100 and is also the #1 song in the world. As I’ve been saying, this is Adele season and she’s only just getting started, because the album won’t be out for By Lainey • Oct 26, 2021 08:56 am
Style Intro for October 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, The last time BTS performed in concert for a live audience it was October 26, 27, and 29, 2019 in Seoul, the grand finale of their Love Yourself: Speak Yourself World Tour, the highest-grossing tour ever by an act performing mostly in a language other than English. By Lainey • Oct 25, 2021 09:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beyoncé is coming for the Oscar I posted earlier about Adele and how she manages to work Beyoncé into all of her interviews. Even for Adele, as it is for the rest of us, Beyoncé is always top of mind. On November 19, the day that her album drops, Adele might actually be listening to something By Lainey • Oct 22, 2021 02:40 pm
Top Reads At Home With Adele A couple of years ago, The Cut interviewed Joe Sabia who is the creator and the voice of Vogue’s 73 Questions series. It’s an insightful Show Your Work discussion about how he makes it work. Like at this point I’m pretty sure most people know that this By Lainey • Oct 22, 2021 11:13 am
Top Reads Adele and Oprah Adele was courtside at the Lakers game with Rich Paul on Tuesday night. It’s not the first time they’ve been seen at a basketball game. It was a big story back in the summer when she and Rich showed up during the playoffs and confirmed their relationship. Adele By Lainey • Oct 21, 2021 01:21 pm
Music Intro for October 18, 2021 Dear Gossips, So how many times did you listen to Adele’s “Easy On Me” this weekend? Pretty sure some of you, at the very least, because it’s broken all kinds of streaming records which was inevitable…even if Adele didn’t think so. Remember what she said in By Lainey • Oct 18, 2021 09:03 am
Music Adele: “Easy On Me” Well, we expected a ballad and we got a ballad. Adele’s new single, “Easy On Me”, her first song in six years and the lead track off her upcoming album 30, due out November 19, dropped last night – and as she revealed in her double Vogue interviews, she’s By Lainey • Oct 15, 2021 12:10 pm
Music Chris Martin’s Universe Coldplay just announced a world tour today. Music Of The Spheres World Tour #MOTSWT 💚❤️ https://t.co/OsnkikGE4m pic.twitter.com/aDdE9i3Wak — Coldplay (@coldplay) October 14, 2021 This is coming off the success of their collaboration with BTS on the song “My Universe” which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot By Lainey • Oct 14, 2021 02:57 pm
Music Olivia & Alanis Rolling Stone is rolling out their annual Musicians on Musicians issue this week. Yesterday they revealed the first of four cover stories featuring Madonna and Maluma (not a piece I was eager to read because they’ve known each other for years and we’ve already heard them talk about By Cody • Oct 13, 2021 02:17 pm
Music Chlöe Has Our Attention At the end of Chlöe’s performance of her debut solo, “Have Mercy”, on Jimmy Fallon last night, she looks straight into the camera and says, “You better be f-cking paying attention”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXHEvcpee6E&ab_channel=TheTonightShowStarringJimmyFallon We should be f-cking paying By Anastasia • Oct 13, 2021 11:27 am
Top Reads Adele’s Two Vogues Apparently this has never happened until now: Adele covers both American and British Vogue in the same month. And you can understand why – editorially magazines don’t want to do the same thing, feature the same people. But you can also understand why they made this exception: not only because By Lainey • Oct 08, 2021 10:44 am
Music Justin Bieber ft. Diane Keaton Justin Bieber in a movie with Diane Keaton would be weird casting news. Diane Keaton appearing in one of Bieber’s music videos is even weirder… but here we are. The Oscar winner plays Bieber’s grandmother in his “Ghost” visual, out today. In the video, following the death of By Cody • Oct 08, 2021 10:00 am
Top Reads Here Comes Adele The buzz – more like a roar, given who we’re talking about – started a few days ago when “30” started showing up on landmarks around the world: Billboards presumed to be teasing Adele's comeback have been displayed in various locations and landmarks around the world, including the Colosseum By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 10:57 am
Music Intro for October 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, Billboard yesterday confirmed the inevitable: .@Coldplay and @BTS_Twt rocket onto the Billboard #Hot100 at No. 1 with #MyUniverse. 💯 https://t.co/mEXavQW7eL — billboard (@billboard) October 5, 2021 It was inevitable because of BTS and their ARMY, currently the most powerful fandom in pop culture. BTS’s collaboration By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 08:58 am
