Music Taylor Swift wants to be Christmas too? “Mariah Carey is Christmas” opened the site yesterday after the announcement that there’s an upcoming documentary about how “All I Want For Christmas Is You” came to be. Mimi has what every artist wants: a Christmas classic. And at the end of that post, I wrote: “So, yes, OF By Lainey • Dec 06, 2019 11:10 am
Music Taylor Swift to open Sundance A few weeks ago, prior to her American Music Awards Artist of the Decade performance, when Taylor Swift accused Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun of refusing to allow her to perform music from her first six albums, we also found out that she’d been working on a Netflix documentary By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 11:14 am
Music Intro for November 29, 2019 Dear Gossips, Mimi took a short break from Christmas yesterday to celebrate American Thanksgiving, sharing a message of gratitude with her followers and photos of her Thanksgiving gathering. The shot of her at the table (fifth pictures in the carousel) made me laugh – Mimi didn’t bother with any Thanksgiving By Lainey • Nov 29, 2019 08:56 am
Maple Leaf Camila and Shawn: “just two kids in love” Camila Cabello’s new album, Romance, is due out next Friday, December 6. A few tracks have already been released including, of course, her smash hit with Shawn Mendes, “Senorita”, and there’s no mistaking what the music on her second album is about: love...specifically being in love with By Lainey • Nov 28, 2019 11:18 am
Maple Leaf CRJ’s TDC Carly Rae Jepsen appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert (TDC) series on Monday. CRJ just kicked off the fourth and final leg of her Dedicated tour yesterday, performing in Sydney, Australia. The tour finishes a week from today after a total of four shows in Australia and New Zealand, By Prem • Nov 27, 2019 03:06 pm
Music Billie Eilish’s Time Capsule I’ve been thinking a lot about time capsules recently. Last weekend, I deep-cleaned my whole room and stumbled upon this time capsule I made when I was in Grade 1. It has clear instructions to open in 2022, so I still don’t know what’s in it, but By Prem • Nov 26, 2019 11:46 am
Assy Style Taylor Swift: AMA Artist of the Decade For all the speculation and rumouring ahead of Taylor Swift’s appearance at the American Music Awards last night related to her ongoing dispute with Big Machine Label Group, Scott Borchetta, and Scooter Braun, the end result wasn’t dramatic at all. Taylor hinted at going through some difficult times By Lainey • Nov 25, 2019 01:18 pm
Music Intro for November 25, 2019 Dear Gossips, I did not expect to get that hype over Green Day’s performance at the American Music Awards last night. But Billie Joe Armstrong looked so good in that white jacket and sounded even better and then all those lyrics just came back to me like it was By Lainey • Nov 25, 2019 08:38 am
Music Taylor Swift: Grammys, Globes, Cats Grammy nominations yesterday and Lizzo, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and Lil Nas X, emerged as the Recording Academy’s new pop superstars cohort. For Taylor Swift, however, who received three nominations, including for Song of the Year (“Lover"), most of the headlines after the announcement were that she’d By Lainey • Nov 21, 2019 11:13 am
Music Intro for November 20, 2019 Dear Gossips, “Let's have a toast for the douche bags” Pitchfork was first last month, releasing their list of the Best Songs and Albums of the 2010s to much debate - as it should be. Now it’s Billboard’s turn with their staff pick list of the By Lainey • Nov 20, 2019 08:50 am
Girly Throw Downs Taylor Swift asks for help This past summer, at the end of June, Big Machine Label Group, Taylor Swift’s former label, the label she was signed to at the beginning of her career, and the label that released her first six albums, right up to reputation, was acquired by Ithaca Holdings, led by Scooter By Lainey • Nov 15, 2019 10:25 am
Music Willie and Kacey’s Rainbow Connection Kacey Musgraves won Female Vocalist of the Year last night at the CMAs. Her album Golden Hour also won AOTY at the ACMs and the Grammys so she has a triple crown, despite the fact that Golden Hour was largely ignored by country radio - even after she took home By Lainey • Nov 14, 2019 10:59 am
Maple Leaf Celine is Courage in the Outfit of the Week Is courage a feeling? Because if it is, it now belongs to the Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion. It is the title of her new album, out tomorrow. It is the title of the new song, with a new video, just released. Celine is shot in black and white, By Lainey • Nov 14, 2019 10:10 am
Music Intro for November 14, 2019 Dear Gossips, Jennifer Nettles made a statement last night with her outfit on the red carpet at the CMA Awards. “Equal Play” “Play Our F-cking Records” “Please & Thank You” This is about country radio and the long ongoing conversation about the fact that it’s dominated by men because By Lainey • Nov 14, 2019 08:47 am
Music A Skinny Queen Needs Her Crisps This came out a few days ago. But I got an update yesterday. Let’s start with the main event. Mimi declared last week that it’s officially HER season, Christmas season. “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is already climbing the charts. It has never hit #1. Every By Lainey • Nov 06, 2019 12:13 pm
Music Intro for November 5, 2019 Dear Gossips, Big day for Selena Gomez yesterday. Her new song, “Lose You To Love Me”, topped the Billboard 100, the first #1 of her career. It’s not my favourite song (and it’s OK to have different preferences, Selenators – we are allowed to like what we like) but By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 09:17 am
