Music Sabrina Carpenter: Is it Pedro? Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, Man’s Best Friend, comes out August 29. A new billboard showed up yesterday and… the internet has a theory. I was made aware of this at our morning meeting today by some of our younger even-more-extremely-online colleagues whose feeds are dominated by the western By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 11:28 am
Jock Smut Intro for August 18, 2025 Dear Gossips, All seven members of BTS reunited briefly back in June when RM, Suga, Jimin, V, and Jungkook had completed their mandatory military service. But j-hope and Jin still had their solo commitments through the summer. While those two wrapped up their own engagements, the others have been in By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 09:36 am
Music A TNT Marathon There was so much anticipation going into the latest episode of the New Heights podcast featuring, of course, Taylor Swift. And my curiosity yesterday about the timing of it was answered because it ended up kinda being like a livestream, albeit a pre-taped one. Which totally tracks with how Taylor By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 12:52 pm
Jock Smut Taylor Swift’s favourite podcast The most important event on the Swiftie calendar this week is the new episode of Jason and Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast which comes out at 7pm ET tonight (Wednesday). I don’t listen to this show regularly but I do know that I typically see clips from it By Lainey • Aug 13, 2025 11:41 am
Music TNT Tuesday Those clues yesterday did actually lead to something for Taylor Swift. But it turns out, August 12 isn’t just about her. Not only did she confirm that she’s releasing her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Travis Kelce’s podcast, he covers the September issue of By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 12:28 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Double Albums In a time when streaming has made full-length albums somewhat disposable to the casual music listener, there’s always appreciation for the artists who still put in the time and effort to sequence an entire body of work in a traditional album format. Bryson Tiller is taking that chance with By MC • Aug 12, 2025 11:11 am
Music Intro for August 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, Started the day yesterday talking about “Golden”, from the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack and whether or not it could reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Ended the day with the confirmation: “Golden” has indeed topped the chart, adding to the movie’s ever-growing list of surprise achievements. By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 09:45 am
Music Taylor Swift: What’s Orange? The Taylor Swift metaverse is not a quiet space. Even when Taylor’s silent, her fans are reading into whatever invisible signals they perceive that she’s sending out into the universe. And when she does post, or step out wearing a certain shoe or jacket, Swifties obsessively analyse whether By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 03:07 pm
Music Sydney Sweeney & MGK’s non-answer Back in the spring, Sydney Sweeney’s love life was making headlines because she did not end up getting married in May and instead was seen in Vegas flirting with Machine Gun Kelly whose relationship issues are even messier. He and Megan Fox have been on and off for years By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 12:38 pm
Music This Is Real, This Is Demi + Joe The Jonas Brothers kicked off their 52-city Greetings from Your Hometown tour at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey last night and pulled out all the stops you could think of. Jesse McCartney even came out halfway through for a rendition of “Beautiful Soul”. With a rich setlist of 30+ songs By MC • Aug 11, 2025 11:19 am
Music Intro for August 11, 2025 Dear Gossips, New week, new check-in on the question I’ve been asking rhetorically for almost two months now: has Kpop Demon Hunters peaked yet? The answer is no, not even close. The movie Netflix’s biggest animated original film of all time. The soundtrack is holding at #2 on By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 09:21 am
Music Take Me Away: The Music of Freaky and Freakier Friday Many millennials are rejoicing today as Freakier Friday has officially hit theatres and unlike most legacy sequels in recent years, this one doesn’t disappoint on multiple levels, from the storyline, the character arcs and most important of all… the music. When Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis’s 2003 By MC • Aug 08, 2025 01:54 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Demi Goes “Fast” After a couple of years away from music to focus on personal growth, Demi Lovato has made her return to pop and is ready to go full speed ahead – or “fast” if you will. Her new single “Fast” serves as the lead to her as-yet-untitled 9th studio album, and it’ By MC • Aug 05, 2025 12:31 pm
TV Updates K-POP SPICE Back in February when Apple TV+ announced their newest music competition KPOPPED hosted by PSY and Megan Thee Stallion, both K-pop and western pop music fans alike were intrigued – us included. A show where some of the most well-known western pop stars team up with K-pop acts to transform their By MC • Jul 31, 2025 11:00 am
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Sweet Sweet Summer Thirty years ago when Mariah Carey sang about a “sweet sweet fantasy” while rollerblading around Coney Island, she unknowingly created a summer bop for the ages. Who am I kidding, this woman owns an entire holiday – of course she knew what she was doing. Three decades later she has taken By MC • Jul 29, 2025 02:18 pm
Music Intro for July 29, 2025 Dear Gossips, Sorry to keep repeating myself but we are in week six of Kpop Demon Hunters and it still has not peaked. In its fifth week of release last week it set an all-time high viewing record as people are either watching for the first time or the 50th By Lainey • Jul 29, 2025 09:46 am
