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
TV Updates Selena for the Holidays Netflix for the last several years has been dominating the holiday season. Every December, there’s something – or multiple somethings – streaming on Netflix that go viral, that no one can stop talking about. And it’s not necessarily conventional “holiday” content either. Remember Making a Murderer? I feel like we By Lainey • Oct 27, 2020 01:56 pm
Music Harry Styles: “Golden” … for Grammys? Harry Styles have been waiting for the “Golden” video to drop for weeks now. Every few days or so it’s trending on Twitter because they think it’s coming, only to be disappointed that it didn’t. And now, finally, “Golden” is here. When I posted about the anticipation By Lainey • Oct 26, 2020 02:58 pm
TV Updates Intro for October 26, 2020 Dear Gossips, How was Adele for you? She pulled in solid ratings for Saturday Night Live this past weekend – not a surprise since she was already trending well before the episode started. And right off the top, though she claimed she was nervous, she seemed comfortable and relaxed during the By Lainey • Oct 26, 2020 08:59 am
TV Updates Adele’s SNL Promo Adele is the host of this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, a surprise announcement to almost everyone when it was made after last week’s show. Of course that led to all kinds of speculation as to why Adele is hosting. She says it’s been a lifelong By Lainey • Oct 23, 2020 01:08 pm
