Music Intro for February 18, 2021 Dear Gossips, Probably most of you know about Universal Music Group (UMG), considered to be the biggest music company in the world. If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you may be getting more familiar with Big Hit Entertainment, the biggest music company out of South Korea, known By Lainey • Feb 18, 2021 09:18 am
Music Taylor Swift’s Version Taylor Swift’s fans starting making noise on Twitter last night when Good Morning America announced that she’d be appearing on today’s show – and when it comes to a star as big as Taylor, it’s never going to be a small thing. Immediately there was speculation that By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 10:52 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 11, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS has been pretty quiet the last few weeks. Not entirely off the grid, and still releasing treats for their fans, but in terms of major announcements that get circulated beyond ARMY awareness, it’s been pretty low-key. This week though, ahead of Lunar New Year, there is By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 08:56 am
Music Framing Britney Spears… and Ourselves Framing Britney Spears, the new documentary from The New York Times, is airing on Hulu in the United States now but is not available in Canada and I’m not sure of its accessibility in other parts of the world but more and more people, as they find ways to By Lainey • Feb 09, 2021 02:32 pm
Maple Leaf Super Bowl Weeknd The moment The Weeknd opened his mouth to scream “Tampa Bay,” as he kicked off his Super Bowl LV halftime performance, I thought to myself, I wonder who’s responsible for his audio levels because they’re about to lose their job. As he sung the first few bars of By Cody • Feb 08, 2021 09:43 am
Music The Weeknd’s Super Bowl Storytelling It’s been years since I’ve really been invested in the part of the Super Bowl that is about football. For me, the Super Bowl is the commercials and also the halftime show. This will be the second halftime show produced by Jay-Z after his creative partnership with the By Lainey • Feb 05, 2021 10:18 am
Music Cardi B is “Up” After “WAP” became a smash hit for Cardi B in 2020, she’s hoping to make an equally big impact on 2021 with the release of her upcoming sophomore album. Still no release date yet, but last night she dropped her latest single “Up.” So much eye candy. The music By Cody • Feb 05, 2021 09:39 am
Music TJ Osborne Comes Out Every November, apart from last year, Jacek and I go on holiday to the same resort in the Dominican Republic to celebrate our wedding anniversary. And we always watch the Country Music Association Awards. Or I watch, and he’s on the laptop streaming a soccer game. One year ago By Lainey • Feb 04, 2021 11:38 am
Music Megan & MGK: Not Engaged But Very Happy I was going to say “not engaged but very in love” but the phrase “very in love” is weird and awkward and also, is there such thing as “very” in love? In love is in love. And Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are in love. And also lust? Like By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 10:41 am
Aging Gorgessity Jennifer Lopez: 20th Anniversaries and Botox January 2001 was a big month for Jennifer Lopez and she’s been commemorating her anniversary moments on social media. Last week it was the 20th anniversary of her second album, J.Lo, and a “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” throwback. She recreated the video, sort of: What is By Lainey • Jan 27, 2021 12:33 pm
Music Adele’s Major Milestone You know what I like about Adele? After she hosted Saturday Night Live back in October, when so many people were speculating she’d be announcing a new album…and she didn’t (she just wanted to experience it for fun)… she signed off on Instagram – “peace out til next By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 03:03 pm
Music Olivia Rodrigo’s “Driver’s License” Drama Continues Olivia Rodrigo is currently atop the Billboard Hot 100 with her smash hit “Driver’s Licence.” If you don’t know the story of heartbreak behind the song, you can read my post from last week, but in short, it’s believed that Olivia wrote the song about a messy By Cody • Jan 25, 2021 11:25 am
Style Celebrities on Inauguration Day I’ve told this story a few times so I hope you don’t mind me repeating it but today I think it’s worth coming back to. Remember Aretha Franklin’s hat at President Obama’s inauguration? And how a lot of people laughed at it? I loved it By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 12:40 pm
Music The Story Behind Olivia Rodrigo’s “Driver’s License” Olivia Rodrigo’s heartbreak anthem, “Diver’s License,” is the year’s first runaway hit. It debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, with the best first week performance for a single since Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP.” These are pretty serious numbers considering I’ve never heard By Cody • Jan 20, 2021 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Justin Timberlake’s Baby News A year ago on Monday, January 20, 2020, was my first post about Justin Timberlake in the new year. He and Jessica Biel were sighted in New York two months after he was photographed super drunk and holding hands with a co-star at a bar in New Orleans. You’ll By Lainey • Jan 18, 2021 10:21 am
Music Selena Gomez and her miraculous, sacred heart I remember reading articles early on in the pandemic that explained how lockdowns were affecting people psychologically. How in the uncertainty of the pandemic, for example, we were and are having a hard time looking forward to big or small things, and that this lack of anticipation for good things By Violeta • Jan 15, 2021 09:35 am
