Music The Weeknd: War on the Grammys Why do we keep seeing the music industry’s biggest honour sh-tting on the music industry’s biggest artists? We’re not just talking Grammy nomination snubs here. We’re talking about the Recording Academy allegedly mudslinging behind closed doors. This year it’s The Weeknd’s turn to take By Cody • Nov 25, 2020 10:12 am
Dumbass Justin Bieber Has a Category Question Well this, this is a RICH. The big news in entertainment today is the Grammy nominations. I posted some quick thoughts about it earlier, specifically focusing on the biggest snub of the year: The Weeknd’s album, After Hours, and all of its hits – there are several of them, and By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 04:04 pm
Music Beyoncé Leads the Grammy Nominations The Grammy nominations were just announced today. Beyoncé received the most nominations with nine for “Black Parade”, “Savage” with Megan Thee Stallion, and “Brown Skin Girl”. And she wasn’t even trying. That’s not to say she doesn’t try with her music – obviously, no one works harder than By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 02:32 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s AMAs Message Last year, ahead of the 2019 American Music Awards, Taylor Swift dominated the headlines when she called out Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta for not signing off on her performing her own music at the event while receiving the Artist of the Decade award. Everything worked out for her in By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 02:19 pm
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
