Music BTS Closes the AMAs There are a lot of BTS storylines happening right now – and I’m covering them separately because there’s too much to jam in just one post. In this post then, let’s focus on their performance at the American Music Awards, after they’d won multiple AMAs, including Favourite By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 01:17 pm
Music Justin Bieber opens the AMAs Justin Bieber opened the American Music Awards last night with back-to-back performances of his songs “Lonely” and “Holy”. It’s been almost a year since JB announced his return to music, eventually releasing his fifth studio album, Changes, with plans for a world tour. Nobody went on tour this year By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 11:59 am
Music Megan Thee Stallion’s Weekend of Good News Let’s start with last night where the category was “Body” when Megan Thee Stallion hit the stage at the American Music Awards. After releasing her debut album, Good News, on Friday, she chose one of the standout tracks to perform for the first time. It’s not always a By Cody • Nov 23, 2020 10:38 am
Music Shawn and Justin: Their Inner Monsters I’ve always found it weird how Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber have rarely crossed paths — at least publicly. Justin was already a megastar by the time Shawn even stepped onto the scene, but in my head these two princes of pop, who grew up down the highway from each By Cody • Nov 20, 2020 09:36 am
Music Intro for November 20, 2020 Dear Gossips, BTS’s new album, BE, their second album of 2020, dropped today. A video for the first track, “Life Goes On”, dropped at the same time and is already breaking records. Don’t ask me which records because this band and its ARMY break so many records so By Lainey • Nov 20, 2020 09:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Making Sense of Music This Music trailer landed in my inbox in dispute, which I am here to settle. Lainey isn’t feeling it, but our site manager Emily (who is way nicer than the rest of the team) is feeling it (Emily: Sia and Maddie have done incredible work together for years). I By Maria • Nov 19, 2020 03:14 pm
Music How 2020 Changed Normani Last month, I wrote about Normani covering the October issue of Teen Vogue where she told the magazine her debut solo album was “close” and how quarantine brought a welcomed halt to the hustle and bustle of the music industry. This time around, Normani’s on the December issue of By Cody • Nov 19, 2020 12:34 pm
Music Intro for November 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, Billboard named its list of Women of the Year in music yesterday. Dolly Parton, Jennifer Lopez, Jessie Reyez, Dua Lipa, and Chloe x Halle are among the honorees. THE Woman of the Year, however, according to Billboard, is Cardi B. And there are some who don’t think By Lainey • Nov 19, 2020 08:49 am
Music Megan Thee Stallion: Album Release Week It’s Men of the Year time over at GQ and Megan Thee Stallion has been crowned their Rapper of the Year after a calendar marked with career highs, like scoring her first (and second) Billboard #1 hits with “Savage (Remix)” and “WAP,” and personal lows, like being shot. The By Cody • Nov 18, 2020 11:51 am
Music BTS: BE Quiet BTS’s new album, BE, will drop in two days, on Friday November 20. Last week I wrote in the open to expect exhaustion – from me and from our content – because a typical BTS comeback is LOT. And it’s not like over the last couple of weeks they haven’ By Lainey • Nov 18, 2020 10:56 am
Top Reads Taylor Pays Off For Scooter Scooter Braun’s company, Ithaca Holdings, acquired Big Machine Label Group in June 2019 last year which included Taylor Swift’s back catalogue over her objections. She has alleged that he’s bullied her for years and publicly expressed how disappointed she was that someone who she thinks deliberately hurt By Lainey • Nov 17, 2020 09:32 am
Music BTS: Music Innovator of the Year WSJ. Magazine has named BTS the Music Innovator of the Year in their annual Innovators issue. Before we get into that, I need to mention that the Television Innovator of the Year is Micaela Coel and if you haven’t watched I May Destroy You yet, well, it’s not By Lainey • Nov 13, 2020 12:39 pm
Music Rihanna: A Great Coat and Pharrell Rihanna was seen last night where she is often seen when she’s in LA: Giorgio Baldi, her favourite restaurant. And wearing what she’s often seen wearing: a great outfit. This is a white hoodie over white joggers, an excellent oversized blazer coat (that I initially thought was hooded, By Lainey • Nov 13, 2020 10:01 am
Music The COVID-ness of the CMAs Every award show over the last many months, since the start of the pandemic in North America, has been about pre-taped segments, no audience, and using as much tech as possible to go live to people where they are instead of gathering all together in one place and risking further By Lainey • Nov 12, 2020 10:38 am
Style Intro for November 10, 2020 Dear Gossips, BTS won four MTV European Music Awards the other night including Best Group and Best Song for “Dynamite”. We are now just ten days away from the release of their new album BE on November 20 which means, as usual, whenever the band is on a comeback, there’ By Lainey • Nov 10, 2020 10:01 am
Music Rihanna Teases the Navy Rihanna fans love Rihanna makeup and clothing and all the other products in her empire. But Rihanna fans, above all else, want Rihanna music. In January it’ll be five years since the release of ANTI, the best album of her career. And it’s not like all her other By Lainey • Nov 02, 2020 12:05 pm
