Music Intro for June 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, The best thing on Twitter yesterday was #Beethoven. By the time I noticed it was trending there were hundreds of thousands of tweets. If you missed it, it started with this thread earlier in the week… https://twitter.com/howtopless/status/1272919623189463040 Which then went viral. And, as By Lainey • Jun 19, 2020 09:00 am
Music BTS’s Lockdown Innovation COVID-19 has disrupted every industry and where the entertainment industry is concerned, even though musicians are in a better position to release new content than those in television and film, it’s the live experience that artists are still trying to figure out and how to make technology work in By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 02:45 pm
Music Intro for June 16, 2020 Dear Gossips, The other day in What Else? I linked to a story about the band Lady Antebellum and their name change to Lady A. At the time, I said it was a good explanation, considering that the country music audience is so white and they would be alienating their By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 08:35 am
Music BTS and the Avengers I’m sure you’ve seen it but there was a clip that went viral the other day after Jemele Hill tweeted it and many of you sent it to me because it checks all my boxes. As you know, I’m super into the Avengers. Not too long ago, By Lainey • Jun 08, 2020 04:45 pm
Music Kelly Rowland’s Deepest Cuts I LOVE this new profile of Kelly Rowland by Phillip Picardi for The Cut. A quick note on Phillip – he was part of the Teen Vogue team, alongside the leadership of Elaine Welteroth, that broadened the magazine’s content to include politics and social activism as well as fashion and By Lainey • May 29, 2020 12:33 pm
Music BLACKPINK Summer Begins Now How you doing, Blinks? It’s a big day. Lady Gaga’s new album, Chromatica, drops tomorrow. “Rain On Me”, her first collaboration with Ariana Grande, was released last week. Today we got “Sour Candy”, the song with BLACKPINK. This is a BOP. Gaga promised that Chromatica would be a By Lainey • May 28, 2020 09:36 am
TV Updates Taylor Swift, “Jack leopards & the dolphin club” A cover version of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” played during last night’s episode of Killing Eve. Taylor has said many times that she loves the show. And she’s friends with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. So, naturally, she was proud to have her song featured: VERY By Lainey • May 25, 2020 11:10 am
Top Reads Gaga + Ariana = “Rain On Me” I liked it as soon as I heard it when I got up this morning. Lady Gaga’s highly anticipated Chromatica drops next week and she and Ariana Grande over the last couple of days have been thirst-building hype for their new song, “Rain On Me”, the first collaboration between By Lainey • May 22, 2020 02:26 pm
Music Dedicated: Side B(etter) It’s a surprise album from Carly Rae Jepsen! Sort of. As Carly admitted in her tweet, she’s bad at keeping secrets. Which is why the (what do you call CRJ fans? Jepsens? Emotions? Call me babies? Hold on, I’m going to look this up….) jepsies have known By Prem • May 22, 2020 01:06 pm
Top Reads Suga: The Bias-Assassin and Leadership from the Back I don’t think I’ll ever stop being astonished at the creative output of BTS, not just during this pandemic lockdown but for the last seven years since the band debuted in 2013. The albums, the tours, the promotional appearances, the music videos, the multiple reality series, the documentary By Lainey • May 22, 2020 10:08 am
Equality Issues Lana Del Rey’s Glamorous Drama As I wrote a couple of months ago when she and Sean Larkin broke up, I was never a Lana Del Rey believer until Norman F-cking Rockwell. That album is her masterpiece and it ruled the back half of 2019 for me. So I’m excited that Lana’s just By Lainey • May 21, 2020 12:37 pm
Music Megan Fox is MGK’s “Bloody Valentine” A few days ago, after weeks of speculation, Brian Austin Green confirmed that he and Megan Fox have separated. She’s been seen with Machine Gun Kelly, after working on a movie with him late last year, and while Brian said on his podcast that there are no villains or By Lainey • May 20, 2020 03:07 pm
Music Lorde’s Letter Saves 2020 Yesterday, Lorde was trending #1 on Twitter, and it’s because she announced that she’s working on a new album. On June 16th, it’ll be three years since she released Melodrama, the genius album that we’ve all cried to. Since then, Lorde has been pretty quiet, and By Prem • May 20, 2020 10:27 am
Music Harry is Hot (and Consensual) in “Watermelon Sugar” WARNING: If you have been touch-starved for two months because of social distancing and self-isolation, Harry Styles’s new video may cause you to feel exceedingly hot and bothered and there may be some flooding in your basement (iykwim). Yesterday, Harry Styles released the video for his song “Watermelon Sugar” By Prem • May 19, 2020 11:12 am
Music Ben-Ana and Residente’s kissing video Residente’s video “Antes Que El Mundo Se Acabe” ("Before the World Ends") features 113 couples from 80 countries and it’s pretty much just seven minutes of people making out and all these kisses, linked from one to the next, are supposed to represent the connecting power By Lainey • May 15, 2020 02:48 pm
Music Katy Perry’s “Daisies” Katy Perry dropped her new song, “Daisies” with an accompanying video that marvel at the power of human resilience and visually manifested through her naked, pregnant body. “Daisies” is meant to join “Firework” and “Roar” in her catalogue and as an empowerment anthem it does the job but I’m By Lainey • May 15, 2020 09:22 am
