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
Maple Leaf Drake gets cut off This is the Grammys. Set those words to the tune of Childish Gambino’s “This Is America.” The track won Song of the Year and Record of the Year last night, making it the first rap song in HISTORY to win those categories. In its 60-year history, the Grammys only By Kathleen • Feb 11, 2019 08:31 am
Music Intro for February 11, 2019 Dear Gossips, There are going to be all kinds of think-pieces today about whether or not the Grammys are still relevant and/or how they can stay or become relevant again going forward. There’s no easy answer to that question. But no one can deny that the talent has By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 06:31 am
Music Ariana Grande: new album, new video, no Grammys Ariana Grande, just 7 months after the release of her previous album, Sweetener, dropped a new album, thank u, next last night. I thought Sweetener was fine. It didn’t make me want to hit repeat, I wasn’t listening to it on every car ride, so already for me, By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 11:33 am
Music Coop & Gaga lose and win The Directors Guild Awards happened this weekend. Bradley Cooper was nominated for Best Director and Best First Time Director and lost both to Alfonso Cuaron and Bo Burnham respectively. I’m not sure it was a surprise that he didn’t win the first, especially after the Academy didn’t By Lainey • Feb 04, 2019 10:42 am
