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
Assy 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
Music Madonna’s Medellin As expected, Madonna dropped her new single, “Medellin” ft Maluma, yesterday ahead of the June 14th release of her next album Madame X, her first since 2015’s Rebel Heart. “Medellin” is not EDM, a relief. My friend Brian calls it “La Isla Bonita part 2”. Indeed, Madonna is going By Lainey • Apr 18, 2019 11:07 am
Music Intro for April 18, 2019 Dear Gossips, Well? Did you watch #BeyoncéHomecoming? Were you transported? Beyoncé Day generated half a million tweets yesterday and universal critical acclaim. Homecoming: The Live Album soared to the top of the charts. And, once again, Beyoncé is trailblazing. You’ll recall, when she surprise-dropped her self-titled album, Beyoncé, in By Lainey • Apr 18, 2019 08:55 am
Music Taylor Swift on the TIME 100 Taylor Swift is one of the TIME 100 for 2019. Shawn Mendes wrote the feature. .@ShawnMendes: “The magic of @taylorswift13 doesn’t come from the lights, dancers or fireworks (although all of that is incredible) but from the electrifying connection that she has with the people who are there to By Lainey • Apr 17, 2019 01:07 pm
Music Intro for April 17, 2019 Dear Gossips, I’m writing this at 2am ET. Kathleen just got to my place and Duana is on her way – she texted to ask us if we wanted drive-thru, LOL. We are gathering, OBVIOUSLY, for #BeyoncéHomecoming, joining hundreds of thousands of others around the world (millions, probably?) who are By Lainey • Apr 17, 2019 08:29 am
Music Madonna: Madame X I was over at my friend Iain’s the other night and whenever Iain and I get together, Madonna dominates our conversation. Iain has a PhD in Madonna. He went to see her last tour, Rebel Heart, something like 14 times all around the world. It’s been a quiet By Lainey • Apr 16, 2019 12:54 pm
Music The Avenging Taylor Swift Taylor Swift is counting down to something. There’s a countdown clock on her website. Her social channels the last few days are all pointing to “4.26”. The obvious would be new music, six months before she’s known to prefer to release new music, in the fall, but By Lainey • Apr 15, 2019 11:37 am
Music AG > JT Ariana Grande was the major headliner last night to conclude the first weekend of Coachella 2019. And, as she has done consistently over the last year and a half, she delivered – strong presence, vocals, set, showing her work all around, and then there were the special guests. Since there were By Lainey • Apr 15, 2019 10:38 am
TV Updates Intro for April 12, 2019 Dear Gossips, There is so much to watch this weekend. Of course the big watch is the return of Game of Thrones, beginning its six-episode run to the end. But that’s not until Sunday night (9pm on Crave in Canada). Tonight Kathleen and I are seeing Little, starring Regina By Lainey • Apr 12, 2019 08:48 am
