Baby and Bump Obsession Nick Minaj is pregnant This morning Nicki Minaj announced that she’s expecting, revealing her baby bump in a set of maternity photos posted to Instagram. With a curly yellow bob in one snap, a blue wig in another, and lots of tacky frills, the photoshoot is reminiscent of the Minaj we knew in By Cody • Jul 20, 2020 01:00 pm
Music Quavo and Saweetie: Music’s Next King and Queen Quavo, one third of the mega-successful rap group, Migos, and Saweetie, the up and coming rapper who ruled summer 2019 with her hit, “My Type,” are making chess moves to become music’s next power couple. Their latest play arrives inside the August issue of GQ. The piece is titled By Cody • Jul 17, 2020 11:08 am
Music BTS is about the music Every few days or so I exchange emails with a friend and all we message back and forth about is BTS and how it seems impossible to keep up. I wake up Monday to Friday at around 5am. I check my texts, my email, and then I hit Twitter while By Lainey • Jul 15, 2020 03:17 pm
Music Is Reese Witherspoon’s son the next Calvin Harris? There’s nothing quite like your first time. Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe’s son, Deacon, has released his debut single “Long Run”, featuring Scottish singer-songwriter, Nina Nesbitt. Knowing Reese, and taking one look at Deacon, I thought it would be a country/pop power duet — think Bebe Rexha/Florida By Cody • Jul 10, 2020 09:46 am
Douchebags Lady Antebellum sues Lady A A few weeks ago, as protests were happening around the world in support of Black Lives Matter after the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many more, Lady Antebellum announced that it was changing its band name to Lady A because they no longer wanted to By Lainey • Jul 09, 2020 01:41 pm
Music V is #1 Earlier this week in the site intro, I wrote about BTS’s latest record. Their song “Black Swan” hit #1 on iTunes in its 103rd country, the most of any song in history, breaking Adele’s five year record with “Hello”. Since then, “Black Swan” added another country to its By Lainey • Jul 08, 2020 01:23 pm
Music Intro for July 6, 2020 Dear Gossips, BTS broke another record yesterday. Their song “Black Swan” went to #1 on iTunes in its 103rd country, the most of any song in history, beating the record that Adele previously held for five years with “Hello”. “Black Swan” came out in January, ahead of the release of By Lainey • Jul 06, 2020 09:44 am
Music Adele: a throwback and a clarification COVID-19 remains our reality. And while some countries are reopening, we’re probably a long way from concerts and music festivals. South Korea, a country recognised by many to have been able to get a handle on the situation early on, is now in its second wave. It seems likely By Lainey • Jun 29, 2020 11:56 am
Music Summer Walker’s BET Awards Showstopper If you’re an R&B fan and you don’t know Summer Walker, download her 2019 album Over It, right now — and thank me later. Now that we have that sorted out, let me tell you about her BET Awards duet with Usher that proved to be the By Cody • Jun 29, 2020 11:38 am
Music The Performances at the virtual BET Awards The 2020 BET Awards, held virtually, was one of my favourite BET Awards in many years; things may be upside down right now, but Black people continue to shine. Hosted by Amanda Seales, with her usual humour and authenticity, the show promised to be “Black Black” and showcasing the creativity By Melayna • Jun 29, 2020 11:08 am
Music “March March” with The Chicks The artists who used to go by The Dixie Chicks announced a name change yesterday and released a new song. They are now “The Chicks”. The reason being that the word “dixie” is, like “antebellum”, associated with a time in the South when Black people were oppressed. It romanticises an By Lainey • Jun 26, 2020 11:07 am
Music Intro for June 26, 2020 Dear Gossips, “BLACKPINK in your area!” It’s the day Blinks have been waiting for – BLACKPINK summer has officially begun! Stage one of the comeback has kicked off. For those of you still getting familiar with K-pop after fan activism has made mainstream headlines for disrupting white supremacist attempts at By Lainey • Jun 26, 2020 08:51 am
Music Noname, J. Cole, and Toxic Power Dynamics (This is the latest entry to our Long Reads section. For more Long Reads, please visit the Long Reads page.) Last week, through music and tweets, we witnessed what some are calling a rap beef, what others are calling healthy discourse, and what I am calling Black men inserting themselves, By Melayna • Jun 23, 2020 01:25 pm
Music Beyoncé’s “Black Parade” (Lainey: This post has been written by Cody Kreller, our newest contributor. I know Cody from Etalk through his work as a producer. And I had originally planned to introduce Cody later but then Beyoncé dropped a new song, without warning, as she does, and it accelerated our initial rollout. By Cody • Jun 22, 2020 11:24 am
Music Intro for June 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, BTS has never played a concert in Oklahoma. They could sell out any venue in Oklahoma in an hour. But they wouldn’t jeopardise the health and safety of their fans during a global health crisis. Unlike the president of the United States. Speaking of… A couple of By Lainey • Jun 22, 2020 09:41 am
Music Red Carpet for Teyana Taylor As I mentioned a few days ago, the first red carpet in almost four months (five? who can remember anymore?) happened earlier this week for a show I’ve never heard of and I only recognised two names on the guest list: Bai Ling and Ian Ziering. Last night’s By Lainey • Jun 19, 2020 03:07 pm
