Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for February 13, 2020 Dear Gossips, Janet Jackson this week announced a new album, Black Diamond, and a new world tour kicking off in June in Miami. Tickets go on sale today. To promote the album and the tour, she made a surprise appearance on The View to invite Whoopi Goldberg to the show By Lainey • Feb 13, 2020 09:23 am
Music Intro for February 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, Right on schedule, BTS released another preview for their upcoming album, Map of the Soul: 7 yesterday. This is the second of two planned “comeback trailers”, the band’s usual teaser during the rollout of a new album cycle and obviously their definition of “comeback” is a little By Lainey • Feb 04, 2020 09:15 am
Music Taylor Swift and the Grammys nothingburger It’s been almost a week since the Grammys. And a week since Variety reported that Taylor Swift had pulled out of an unannounced performance. A few days later, Grammys showrunner Ken Ehrlich clarified that they’d been talking about it but nothing was ever confirmed so characterising it as By Lainey • Jan 31, 2020 10:41 am
Music Intro for January 30, 2020 Dear Gossips, The Academy announced yesterday that Billie Eilish, fresh off her Grammys sweep, will be performing at the Oscars: Are you ready? @billieeilish will take to the #Oscars stage for a special performance! Watch live on @ABC. pic.twitter.com/CsNmjDD2Bi— The Academy (@TheAcademy) January 29, 2020 Obviously they’ By Lainey • Jan 30, 2020 09:28 am
Music Barefoot BTS There’s been fresh North American BTS content every day for a week as they continue to promote their upcoming album, Map of the Soul: 7. This, as you know if you’ve been visiting, has become a problem for me. It’s taken over my life. As soon as By Lainey • Jan 29, 2020 01:04 pm
Music Eminem and Grindr Last Thursday, Maria posted about the Dolly Parton challenge which like most challenges is just an excuse to shamelessly post more pictures of yourself. But in some cases, it was also the opportunity to adapt and modify the format. Like Eminem’s version: Did I do this right? pic.twitter. By Prem • Jan 29, 2020 10:34 am
Quiveration Lil Nas X and BTS: more is better The biggest song of 2019 was, indisputably, Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” and all its remixes. So his performance last night was about showcasing all the versions of his track that kept it playing all year long. One of those remixes, of course, was “Seoul Town Road” with By Lainey • Jan 27, 2020 09:49 am
Maple Leaf Justin and Shawn: together…but not Music executive Lucian Grainge received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. Lucian is Universal Music, the label that’s propelled the rise of several of current music’s biggest names, including Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes. Which is why they were both there yesterday. They all took By Lainey • Jan 24, 2020 01:25 pm
Music Intro for January 23, 2020 Dear Gossips, For the second week in a row, I’m stressed about waiting online to buy something. Last week it was IVY Park x adidas and getting into the prelaunch and desperately trying to throw money at Beyoncé. This week I’m trying to figure out how to throw By Lainey • Jan 23, 2020 10:10 am
Music Taylor Swift: The Sundance Poster Star The Sundance Film Festival kicks off on Thursday. Sundance is always a clusterf-ck, at least in the years I used to cover it, as celebrities, their entourages, publicists, marketers, party planners, sponsors, filmmakers, and the attendant media jam themselves into Park City for a few days – and this year, since By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 01:08 pm
Music Mimi just keeps giving It’s five days until Christmas! And our generous Christmas Butterfly just keeps giving! This, after all, is the season of Mimi. Mariah Carey IS Christmas, a fact. As we know, Mimi’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first By Lainey • Dec 20, 2019 10:47 am
Music Taylor’s first 30 red carpet Premiere of Cats last night in New York. Reactions are still coming in and Sarah’s seeing it on Wednesday so we’ll have her review posted later this week. This will be her first Cats experience – she’s never seen the musical. I’m more excited about her review By Lainey • Dec 17, 2019 10:06 am
Music Taylor Swift: the “Artist of the Decade” is 30 Today is Taylor Swift’s 30th birthday. I can’t believe it’s gone by so fast. I feel like it was just two years ago when all that sh-t went down between her and Kanye West at the MTV VMAs. We’ll come back to Taylor’s big milestone By Lainey • Dec 13, 2019 11:29 am
Quiveration The Harry Styles Strategy Guide Harry Styles’ new album called Fine Line comes out tomorrow and I am obsessed, both with Harry and with the album itself. The weird thing is that for me this obsession came out of nowhere, like a wintertime cold where I feel a little hot one day and by next By Prem • Dec 12, 2019 10:43 am
Maple Leaf Intro for December 11, 2019 Dear Gossips, Celine Dion prefers performing with a wired microphone. I’m sure there’s a technical reason for this but also, when she’s using a wired mic, she can swing it around like a lasso and do the mic drop move from one hand to the other and, By Lainey • Dec 11, 2019 10:50 am
Music Harry Over Liam If you’ve been keeping track of One Direction band member albums, you’ll have one more to add to your collection after Friday. On December 6th, Liam Payne released his debut album LP1 along with a new single “Live Forever.” The album is 17 tracks long, although 9 of By Prem • Dec 09, 2019 03:25 pm
