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
Music Taylor Swift + Game of Thrones Taylor Swift covers the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. This is basically a takeover. Taylor is a huge get for EW. They’ve dedicated several features in addition to the cover story to Swift content. And it’s a proper magazine interview – not an essay she’s written about herself, By Lainey • May 10, 2019 11:12 am
Music Lizzo at the Met Gala: Most Authentic (Lainey: this post was written by our newest contributor, Melayna Williams. Melayna has written for Maclean’s and Vice and is the co-host of the Black Tea podcast. We are so happy to welcome Melayna to the team. We are still setting up her profile on the site but you By Melayna • May 09, 2019 10:13 am
Music A Jonas reunion and wedding This is what surprised me last night during the Billboard Music Awards: I was into the Jonas Brothers performance. Hard. I laughed at the fact that Nick and Joe had to remind us that they had successful singles in their own right before joining Kevin for their current song “Sucker” By Lainey • May 02, 2019 11:51 am
Music Madonna and Paula and the holograms Earlier this week, it was reported that Madonna was spending $5 million of her own money on her Billboard Awards performance. As we saw last night, the money was for the tech – several Madonna holograms appeared alongside the “real” Madonna before bursting into digital confetti and…well…that’s Madonna, By Lainey • May 02, 2019 11:06 am
Music The old Taylor is back on the phone Taylor Swift opened the Billboard Music Awards last night with a marching band. You know where this is going – where else could it go? The comparisons were inevitable, non? Like, there is no way no one wouldn’t have picked up on it, especially since we just came off that By Lainey • May 02, 2019 09:58 am
Music Intro for May 2, 2019 Dear Gossips, Jacek was watching the Jays game on his phone while I had the Billboard Music Awards on last night. He took his headphones off for BTS. I never, ever thought that this would be the thing to bring us together: a boy band! Not just any boy band, By Lainey • May 02, 2019 08:34 am
Music Intro for May 1, 2019 Dear Gossips, The Billboard Music Awards are happening tonight. These awards don’t really matter so, really, if you’re watching, it’s because of the performances. Taylor Swift is opening the show. Madonna is performing with Maluma. God that guy is so f-cking hot I hope he brings some By Lainey • May 01, 2019 08:40 am
Music Intro for April 30, 2019 Dear Gossips, As we’ve seen, 2019 has been the Year of the Scam™. There may be another scam brewing. Woodstock 50 was (is?) supposed to be happening August 16-18. Yesterday Billboard reported that Dentsu Aegis Network, the festival’s lead investor, has pulled out of the event with the By Lainey • Apr 30, 2019 08:54 am
Music Taylor Swift: “ME!” It’s not a clothing and accessories line. This is a relief. As I expected, all those teaser photos Taylor Swift’s been posting for the last couple of weeks were scenes from the video for her new single “ME!”, with Brendon Urie from Panic! At The Disco. I heard By Lainey • Apr 26, 2019 10:59 am
Quiveration Intro for April 25, 2019 Dear Gossips, Madonna released her video for "Medellin" featuring Maluma yesterday live on MTV and also did a 30 minute interview at MTV Studios in London. It felt like a throwback to a time before social media – and that was probably intentional. She said that with the new By Lainey • Apr 25, 2019 08:35 am
Music Beyoncé’s Challenge By now you’ve watched Homecoming on Netflix, right? And if you didn’t catch the livestream last year, now you know. Well, we all knew. But that’s what Beyoncé does – she lets you think you know, and then she lets you know that you didn’t actually know By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 03:13 pm
Bad Style Taylor & the Khaleesi Have you noticed that while everyone on Game of Thrones calls Daenerys “Your Grace” except for f-cking Jorah Mormont who’s still going around calling her “Khaleesi”? (Even Jon Snow, in public, calls her “Your Grace”.) I don’t know the official reason for it but my read is that By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 12:07 pm
