BFFs How Taylor & Katy made up Taylor Swift released the “You Need to Calm Down” video yesterday revealing what she and Katy Perry have been building towards for a while now: they’ve made up, the feud is officially officially over. Katy even tweeted about it and Taylor replied that it’s a “happy meal”. This By Lainey • Jun 18, 2019 11:12 am
Music Taylor Isn’t Doing Her Homework Sometimes, even though I’m enjoying a song or a movie, I’ll get this unsettled feeling in my gut that tells me that something’s off. That perhaps I should be looking a little deeper or thinking a bit more critically about what I’m consuming. That gut feeling By Prem • Jun 18, 2019 10:16 am
BFFs Taylor’s very gay video It’s Pride month – and Taylor Swift has just released the video to her latest single, “You Need To Calm Down”. As she promised on Instagram this weekend, a LOT of celebrities show up. A lot LGBTQ+ celebrities. Like Laverne Cox, and Ellen DeGeneres, getting a tattoo from Adam Lambert, By Lainey • Jun 17, 2019 09:32 am
Music Taylor Swift’s Lover Yesterday was June 13, 2019, the day the North with remember forever. #WeTheNorth The number 13, however, as we all know, is Taylor Swift’s favourite. So she made some announcements yesterday. It is now confirmed that her new album is titled Lover. It comes out August 23 (8+2+ By Lainey • Jun 14, 2019 11:23 am
Douchebags Drake is not immune Drake and Chris Brown’s new single “No Guidance” has hit #1 on Apple Music, with Chris celebrating the win on Instagram and Drake chiming in in the comments: “Jeeeeeeez....wait till the video drops - also are we the first mortal enemy duo to go number one on Apple By Melayna • Jun 12, 2019 09:39 am
Maple Leaf Intro for June 10, 2019 Dear Gossips, Celine Dion’s Las Vegas residency came to an end this weekend. It’s been 16 years. Over 1,100 shows, 4.5 million fans, lots of lunging, so much chest-thumping, many, many bad jokes/amazing Celine-isms, and of course… The songs. The voice. The FEELINGS. As you By Lainey • Jun 10, 2019 09:43 am
Music Madonna at World Pride 2019 Madonna made the announcement yesterday that everyone had already predicted: she’ll be performing at Pride Island at the end of this month for New York City’s World Pride. She posted it in a fun Instagram story where she twirls around in a pride flag singing the intro to By Prem • Jun 04, 2019 10:20 am
BFFs Taylor Swift & Katy Perry: it’s really over I don’t think anyone needs me to recap why Taylor Swift and Katy Perry stopped being friends. But I’ll give you two words: “Bad Blood”. “Bad Blood” is old though, because last year, just as Taylor was kicking off the reputation tour, Katy sent her an olive branch By Lainey • May 31, 2019 12:10 pm
Music Jukebox movies have arrived A while back, jukebox musicals were all the Broadway rage, thanks to shows like Mamma Mia! and Rock of Ages. Now, the jukebox movie has come to take over Hollywood. It was inevitable, really, in the age of Big IP, that as soon as one person made money off framing By Sarah • May 30, 2019 11:06 am
Douchebags Miley raps about Nicki Nicki Minaj is in the news. Usually this makes me happy but Miley Cyrus has decided to speak on her to roll out three singles. On one called "Cattitude," Miley raps “I love you Nicki, but I listen to Cardi.” As fans, we can joke about the Nicki By Melayna • May 28, 2019 03:45 pm
Music Taylor and Joe in Paris Taylor Swift is promoting “ME!” in Europe. She performed on The Graham Norton Show and The Voice France a few days ago. How is “ME!” doing in your world? It plays on the radio a lot where I am but I’m not sure it’s making a cultural impact, By Lainey • May 27, 2019 01:25 pm
Music The Biebers: a year in the life I have a thing where I’m always looking back on dates and milestones. Apparently this is a theme for today’s column, with Drake commemorating the one year anniversary of his beef with Pusha T by celebrating the Raptors’ historic win, and the Beckhams coming up on a year By Lainey • May 27, 2019 11:45 am
Maple Leaf Carly Rae Jepsen’s New Album Dedicated is Good but It’s No Emotion Carly Rae Jepsen’s fourth album, Dedicated is finally here! For the past few months, CRJ has been trying to build up the hype, first by releasing “Party for One” in November 2018, then releasing both “No Drug Like Me” and “Now That I Found You” in February 2019. Finally, By Prem • May 21, 2019 03:36 pm
Music Taron Egerton’s strong (and golden?) Rocketman launch Taron Egerton brought his mom and his very much on-again girlfriend Emily Thomas to the London premiere of Rocketman last night, days after they proudly stood by his side at the film’s world premiere in Cannes. One thing I really like about Taron? In spite of all of his By Joanna • May 21, 2019 12:04 pm
Break Ups Are Jhené and Big Sean back together? Last week, Jhené Aiko, vice president of my emotions (SZA, H.E.R and Lizzo are co-prez right now) released a freestyle called “Triggered”, a beautiful song that is clearly about her long-time love and current ex, rapper Big Sean. As usual, Twitter took notice: Jhené has been dropping hints By Melayna • May 16, 2019 03:45 pm
Music Lizzo’s Authentic Brand and her Cover in Essence Magazine Just under a month ago, I had the undeniable pleasure of seeing Lizzo live at Coachella. Yes, it was the performance where she stopped the music and whipped out her flute to back her own track after the audio cut out FOR THE SECOND TIME. Watching Lizzo perform is a By Prem • May 16, 2019 09:31 am