Maple Leaf Intro for March 18, 2019 Dear Gossips, The Juno Awards happened last night in Canada. These are our Grammys, a showcase of Canadian talent, much of which, as you have seen if you live outside Canada, has had undeniable global impact – and in many cases, the support begins at home. Sarah McLachlan hosted the show By Lainey • Mar 18, 2019 09:06 am
Music A.I. Katy Perry Taylor Swift walked the carpet at the iHeartRadio Awards last night without giving interviews because that’s her thing now. It’s also a status thing. The big ones can breeze in, take some photos, and bypass the press line. Katy Perry doesn’t have that option though. As one By Lainey • Mar 15, 2019 12:06 pm
BFFs This is not the father I still don’t get why people are trying to believe in a Lady Gaga-Bradley Cooper romance. Like, separate from shipping their characters in A Star is Born. That people fell for those characters and their chemistry is one thing. But actually believing that Gaga and Coop are an undercover By Lainey • Mar 14, 2019 04:09 pm
Music The year of the scam continues in The Boy Band Con Scammers, as we’ve seen this year, are having a moment. That momentum continues with The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story, the satisfying documentary about the late fraudster mogul who discovered Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Aaron Carter, O-Town, LFO, and most of your favourite 90s and early aughts pop By Joanna • Mar 14, 2019 12:49 pm
Music The Vindication of “The Butt Song” This post is a cheat: I could link to it in What Else? but I want to give it its own space. It deserves its own space but also…it’s so perfect all by itself – the choices, the writing, the layout, all of it – that it doesn’t need By Lainey • Mar 07, 2019 02:30 pm
Music Taylor Swift pre-30 Last week, Taylor Swift wrote a piece for ELLE UK about pop music. This week she covers American ELLE, once again in her own words, because like Beyoncé before her, Taylor isn’t doing interviews anymore. The question is – what is this for? The ELLE UK essay came and went By Lainey • Mar 06, 2019 12:46 pm
Music Jo Bros: The Band’s Back Together Yesterday, the Jonas Brothers were trending number one on Twitter after they announced their reunion and new song, "Sucker", which dropped at midnight last night. As part of their promotion, the group will also be taking over The Late Late Show with James Cordon for four days next By Prem • Mar 01, 2019 11:20 am
Music Intro for March 1, 2019 Dear Gossips, I woke up this morning to see Solange trending on Twitter, exactly what we need to coast into the weekend. When I Come Home is the follow-up to the Grammy-winning album A Seat at the Table, the best work of her career to that point, released in 2016. By Lainey • Mar 01, 2019 09:48 am
Maple Leaf The Queen of Bops Strikes Again Tired of listening to “Party for One” yet? I’m kidding, that’s impossible, but nevertheless, our beloved Queen of Bops has graced us with not one, but TWO new surprise singles! We don’t deserve her. Yesterday, Carly Rae Jepsen released “Now That I Found You” and “No Drug By Prem • Feb 28, 2019 03:45 pm
Music A Star is Born…and lives on forever Blair, our production coordinator at The Social, just walked into my office while I was watching Lady Gaga on Jimmy Kimmel last night. He raised his eyebrows, and I told him that “the A Star is Born Oscar campaign is still happening and the Oscars were four days ago”. Lady By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 01:26 pm
Music Taylor Swift: Pop Angel I really think I nailed it with the title of this post, but that would be starting at the end and not at the beginning. So let’s go to the beginning… Taylor Swift’s fans have been speculating for days that Something Was Up. Taylor was posting on Instagram By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 11:03 am
Music Can Rocketman do better than Bohemian Rhapsody? We’ve already gotten a look at Taron Egerton playing Sir Elton John in Rocketman, but here comes a new featurette meant to convince us he is not just doing Elton karaoke but is FULLY INHABITING THE SPIRIT OF SIR ELTON. This featurette is dedicated to showing off his singing— By Sarah • Feb 19, 2019 12:33 pm
Music The Unsinkable Jennifer Lopez That was a famous magazine title about another Jennifer – Jennifer Aniston. It was the Vanity Fair article, the one after she and Brad Pitt divorced. I feel like that word, “unsinkable”, applies also to Jennifer Lopez. Last year, we featured JLo on Show Your Work and what’s amazing about By Lainey • Feb 14, 2019 04:57 pm
Music Undeniable Miley Miley Cyrus makes it difficult to dislike her. It’s annoying. I’m constantly annoyed by how likeable Miley can be because she is, as the kids say, a #problematicfave. But there are certain things about Miley I can’t deny, no matter how much I want to. Last night By Kathleen • Feb 11, 2019 01:49 pm
Music What Kacey and Janelle deserved Kacey Musgraves won Album of the Year. Lainey and I were gushing over Golden Hour all night. We both love the album. I was defending her performance of “Rainbow” to friends over text because while it did feel like it dragged during the broadcast, “Rainbow” is a gorgeous song with By Kathleen • Feb 11, 2019 11:41 am
Music Let Cardi B SHINE That’s a direct message to Offset. I hate that Offset’s name is in the first sentence of anything I’m writing about Cardi B, let alone a post about her first Best Rap Album win for Invasion of Privacy, her FIRST album. Cardi became the first female solo By Kathleen • Feb 11, 2019 11:05 am
