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
BFFs Jay-Z …but no B I’m writing this at 8:52am ET. As of right now, Beyoncé has not shared a Halloween post. Last year she had “Phoni Braxton” up by October 30. Did Beyoncé skip Halloween? Jay-Z did not skip Halloween – and we know this because Lil Nas X was with Jay-Z at By Lainey • Nov 01, 2019 09:46 am
Music Taylor Swift gossips …and is coming for Oscar Last Friday in the site open, I wrote about Cats and whether or not Entertainment Weekly and Oscar experts were sleeping on Cats as an Oscar contender. They’d just released a promo video featuring Taylor Swift, revealing that she’d co-written a song with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 12:34 pm
BFFs Selena Gomez: toxic relationships and complicated alliances Big week for Selena Gomez last week with the release of two new singles after a lengthy absence. But as she’s been saying while promoting the music, she was hurting and she was struggling and now that she says she’s moved past it, she’s ready to share By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 10:49 am
Music Look At Selena Now Selena Gomez is giving no one any time to breathe this week. People still hadn’t come down from the drama of “Lose You To Love Me” yesterday and Hailey Bieber’s reaction to it, which she claims was no reaction at all, and then, without warning, Selena dropped a By Lainey • Oct 24, 2019 09:59 am
Music Selena loses Justin to love herself Selena Gomez released her new song “Lose You To Love Me” last night. When Prem wrote about the rollout of this last week, he noted that there were some hints that it would be a love song – and speculated if we’d be hearing about Justin Bieber or The Weeknd. By Lainey • Oct 23, 2019 10:00 am
Music Selena Gomez is Releasing New Music At the time of writing this, no new songs have been released. But a release is imminent, so stay alert. From pulling back from the public eye to a brand new album, Selena has come quite far in the past few years. A few days ago, Selena Sleuthers predicted that By Prem • Oct 18, 2019 10:10 am
Music Harry Styles’ Sweaty New Single I have so much to say and not enough words to say it, so let’s get right down to business. Last Friday, Harry Styles released his new single and video “Lights Up” at 12:14am EST. I was still awake when it dropped (#WestCoastPrivilege) and basically couldn’t sleep By Prem • Oct 17, 2019 01:53 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s Tiny Desk Concert Taylor Swift’s Tiny Desk Concert, recorded a couple of weeks ago, was just posted by NPR yesterday. She performed three songs (“The Man”, “Lover”, and “Death By A Thousand Cuts”) off her new album, Lover, and her classic, “All Too Well” – you know, the one about Jake Gyllenhaal, which By Lainey • Oct 17, 2019 11:52 am
