Music Ariana’s Virtual Concert Series Okay, so this isn’t officially called Ariana’s concert series, but after being concert-less for so long, that’s how I’m treating them. Ariana Grande’s series of official live performances with Vevo have been a treat. Even though other singers have done official live performances before, By Anastasia • Jul 16, 2021 01:39 pm
Music Normani Shows Her “Wild Side”, finally It’s been two years since Normani released “Motivation”, with an eye-catching nostalgic music video and splashy live performance at the MTV VMAs. We all thought it was her first single from her debut solo album, but then there was no follow-up single and subsequently no album. Basically By Cody • Jul 16, 2021 10:45 am
Music Billie’s “NDA” We are three weeks away from Billie’s Happier Than Ever album release and today she dropped another song. Here is “NDA”: I have to admit, when I first listened to the song, the first minute felt like it was something we’ve heard from her before. The layered voices By Anastasia • Jul 09, 2021 03:09 pm
Music BTS Gives You “Permission to Dance” In the opening scene of BTS’s new video for their new song, “Permission to Dance”, a plate of pancakes with butter on top is being handed off and the metaphor is unmistakable: “Butter” is BTS’s current hit single, #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six straight weeks, By Lainey • Jul 09, 2021 12:16 pm
Gorgessity JLo’s “hips don’t fail her” Jennifer Lopez and Rauw Alejandro released a new single earlier this week, “Cambia el Paso” – in English “change the step”. And, well, it’s not subtle what the song is about, but if you need an explainer, this is what she told Pitbull a few days ago: “The song is By Lainey • Jul 09, 2021 10:46 am
Music Intro for June 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, Pitchfork asked the question yesterday “What will the 2021 Song of the Summer Be?” with a list of candidates including songs from Saweetie, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, and more. There’s a lot that goes into a Song of the Summer. It’s By Lainey • Jun 29, 2021 09:04 am
Music Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” Ed Sheeran is back with a new single, “Bad Habits”, and the music video dropped this morning: Ed has taken a break from music for a couple of years. After No. 6 Collaboration Project came out in 2019, he went on hiatus, and became a parent with wife, Cherry Seaborn By Anastasia • Jun 25, 2021 12:40 pm
Music The Biebers in Paris Justin and Hailey Bieber have been in Paris the last few days, photographed shopping, eating, sightseeing. According to the paps, JB is also supposed to be meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at point some during this trip and I haven’t been able to source a reason why. To By Lainey • Jun 21, 2021 02:13 pm
Music H.E.R. Wants Her EGOT The name H.E.R. keeps popping up, right? At the Super Bowl, Grammys, Oscars, with her long black tousled curls and signature shades. I feel like she is steadily carving out a space for herself in the mainstream consciousness. Sort of like Janelle Monáe did a few years ago By Cody • Jun 17, 2021 10:48 am
Music Intro for June 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS dropped an album yesterday. BTS: The Best, a Japanese compilation album, has already broken chart records in Japan to go along with “Butter” staying at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week in a row, which represents their longest #1 streak so far. By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 10:04 am
Music Ariana on The Late Late Show Yesterday marked the end of most lockdown restrictions in California and New York, so James Corden teamed up with Ariana Grande to celebrate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7TarriXFME For all you musical theatre fans out there, the song “No Lockdowns Anymore” was set to the tune of “Good By Anastasia • Jun 16, 2021 11:23 am
Music Intro for June 14, 2021 Dear Gossips, As of this writing, BTS has wrapped on two back-to-back live shows at Seoul Olympic Stadium. I haven’t seen official numbers released yet but the band mentioned during today’s performance that they’d heard that at least 800,000 people had bought tickets, and By Lainey • Jun 14, 2021 09:46 am
Music Meg Thee Stallion’s ‘Thotty’ Message As we emerge from months of isolation and distancing, the world is at peak horniness and for this moment in time Megan Thee Stallion’s providing the soundtrack. It’s summer, many are vaccinated or will be soon and we are ready to throw some ass to her new song, By Cody • Jun 11, 2021 10:16 am
Music Intro for June 11, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS’s “Butter” is the current #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, its second week at the top of the chart. Tracking for this past week has ended, will be interesting to see if they can go three in a row, which would be a new milestone By Lainey • Jun 11, 2021 09:42 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Juno Awards are considered the top music prizes in Canada, last night was the 50th anniversary. The top headline here in Canada, however, is still the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation’s discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school By Lainey • Jun 07, 2021 09:41 am
Music Drake’s Playoff Plus One Drake’s son Adonis has been with him in LA for at least a couple of weeks now as Adonis was with him on stage at the Billboard Music Awards on May 23 when he accepted the Artist of the Decade title. This the kind of moment a parent would By Lainey • Jun 04, 2021 11:58 am
