Music Beyoncé’s Homecoming Coachella is this weekend and next. Which means it’s the first anniversary of Beychella now known as Homecoming. Homecoming, usually, is in the fall. Beyoncé’s basically trying to change the calendar. Great. My calendar has been changed and marked: April 17th, Netflix made the announcement this weekend: pic. By Lainey • Apr 08, 2019 11:30 am
Music Intro for April 8, 2019 Dear Gossips, We are finally inside a week until the return – and end – of Game of Thrones. Next Monday we’ll all be talking about the first of the last six episodes, “the end of the era of television as an epic, communal journey”, as Matt Zoller Seitz wrote in By Lainey • Apr 08, 2019 08:35 am
Music Mo-cap Cats Here’s a question I’ve been asking on this site for months now: what the f-ck is this Cats movie? The Cats movie comes out just before Christmas. Like, pretty much at the same time as Star Wars: Episode IX. They’re counterprogramming Star Wars with Cats. OK. Tom By Lainey • Apr 05, 2019 11:07 am
Music Lil Nas X Billy Ray Cyrus Speaking of Billboard… Billy Ray Cyrus has been trending on Twitter for the last 12 hours or so and it’s… kind of amazing? Here’s the backstory. Lil Nas’s song, “Old Town Road”, has been a big viral hit since shortly after its release in December, showing up By Lainey • Apr 05, 2019 10:39 am
Music The 2019 BBMA Nominations: Cardi B and BTS Make a Big Splash The Billboard Music Awards will be airing on May 1st, hosted by Kelly Clarkson, and the nominees were announced yesterday. You probably don’t care about the Billboard Music Awards and understandably so – except for two fan voted categories, the winners and nominees are based on sales, streaming, and a By Prem • Apr 05, 2019 09:40 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 4, 2019 Dear Gossips, CELINE! If you visit this site regularly, you know that for months I’ve been trying to get to Vegas to see Celine Dion before she ends her residency. I’ve never been to a Celine Dion show. Yesterday she announced that she’s touring North America for By Lainey • Apr 04, 2019 08:50 am
Maple Leaf Carly Rae Jepsen Announces Album Date and US Tour April has already been the best month of this year, and we’re only on day two. Yesterday, Ariana released a new single and video which I wrote about earlier AND Carly Rae Jepsen announced that her new album Dedicated is dropping May 17th and that she’s touring starting By Prem • Apr 02, 2019 03:41 pm
Music Ariana and Victoria’s “Monopoly” Ariana Grande dropped a new song and music video yesterday called "Monopoly", with best ring buddy, Victoria Monét. Actually dropping a song on April Fools' is some Big Dick Energy, because I don’t know about you, but I was on guard all day yesterday. My mom By Prem • Apr 02, 2019 09:59 am
Music Beyoncé: Entertainer of the Year Beyoncé went to Beychella last year and basically changed the name of the festival. Then she and Jay-Z, the Carters, released an album, Everything is Love. After that they went on tour. At the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, Jay received the President’s Award and Beyoncé was named Entertainer By Lainey • Apr 01, 2019 11:27 am
Music Intro for March 28, 2019 Dear Gossips, Last Friday, Adele showed up in New York at a gay bar with Jennifer Lawrence. When I wrote about that earlier this week I wondered if she was just in town for her friend Jen, or whether or not there was work to do. Well, here she is, By Lainey • Mar 28, 2019 09:00 am
Maple Leaf You can’t keep all the feelings in the car Celine Dion is doing Carpool Karaoke. James Corden confirmed as much on Twitter: oh hey @celinedion pic.twitter.com/FbZ1ardKRS— James Corden (@JKCorden) March 22, 2019 Makes sense. She has a lot of hits. The challenge will be to narrow down which ones to sing along to. But also? She By Lainey • Mar 25, 2019 04:10 pm
Music Intro for March 19, 2019 Dear Gossips, On Friday, Glastonbury announced its lineup for this year’s festival. They put the poster up on Twitter, the headliners listed top row. From left to right, it’s The Killers, The Cure, Stormzy, Kylie, and Janet Jackson. Here is the first Glastonbury Festival 2019 line-up poster, which By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 08:57 am
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
