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
Music All 5 Songs It was reported last week that Oscar producers only intended to have two of the five Oscar-nominated songs performed on the broadcast: “All The Stars” and “Shallow”. Evidently there was some pushback to the news. Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted his disappointment … The 1st time I stayed up to watch the Oscars, By Lainey • Feb 01, 2019 09:51 am
Music Rihanna’s #ANTIversary Rihanna’s album ANTI, the best album of her career, was released three years ago. Over the last few weeks, people on social media have been celebrating the milestone, as a response to the impatience over R9, her next album, which she teased would be out at some point this By Lainey • Jan 30, 2019 01:11 pm
Music Gaga & Bradley Cooper go “Shallow” in Vegas Bradley Cooper was at Lady Gaga’s show in Las Vegas on Saturday night. She invited him on stage to sing “Shallow” with her. Naturally it went viral. If you haven’t seen it yet, here are two angles. I prefer the second angle because… Well… We all know Gaga By Lainey • Jan 28, 2019 12:11 pm
Music The Unsinkable Selena Gomez On September 23, 2018, Selena Gomez announced that she was taking a break from social media. In her Instagram post, she wrote, “As much as I am grateful for the voice that social media gives each of us, I am equally grateful to be able to step back and live By Prem • Jan 25, 2019 01:22 pm
Music The only two Oscar songs The Oscar nominations happened on Tuesday and the Academy is now moving forward, after several weeks of controversy over hosting and presenter drama, trying to turn the story around as we get closer to the big show. Now another headline that might be problematic – Variety is reporting that “only two By Lainey • Jan 25, 2019 11:59 am
Music Troye Sivan Needs to Step Up His Game Troye Sivan’s music video for “Lucky Strike” dropped yesterday. Not to pull hipster rank on this one, but I was stanning Troye Sivan in 2012, BEFORE his music career, and BEFORE his coming out video, when he was a wee YouTuber that I had a huge crush on (and By Prem • Jan 11, 2019 01:06 pm
Music The Collaboration No One’s Been Waiting For Lainey sent me this item from Page Six the other day knowing it would appeal to two of my hobbies: a 20-year crush on Dave Grohl (yes, I’m old as hell) and making fun of Jeremy Renner’s nascent music career. The two were spotted talking in Vegas, which By Maria • Jan 08, 2019 10:53 am
Music Miley always shows up for SNL Miley Cyrus may not be your favourite. She’s done a lot of sh-t worth side-eying that Kathleen’s recapped over the last couple of years. What’s also true about Miley though is that she always shows up for Saturday Night Live. If she’s hosting, she never half-asses By Lainey • Dec 17, 2018 12:58 pm
Music Janet Jackson: Hall of Fame…finally It was announced yesterday that Janet Jackson will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Finally. And this is good news, of course. But it’s also an opportunity to talk about why it’s late news. Because Janet has been eligible for induction since By Lainey • Dec 14, 2018 11:46 am
Music Taylor’s birthday and New Year’s It’s Taylor Swift’s birthday today. She’s 29. Which means we have a month to go before an entire year of conversations and think-pieces about Taylor turning 30 and what she’s done and what she’s going to do and this, that, and the other. Nobody needs By Lainey • Dec 13, 2018 01:40 pm
Music Ashanti doesn’t break the Internet Yesterday, I name-checked some male R&B stars of the early 2000s. The female stars I mentioned are ruling today’s charts (I will never forgive myself for forgetting SOLANGE, who am I?). Given those two pieces of criteria – being a man or having a current stamp on R& By Kathleen • Dec 12, 2018 03:00 pm
Music Who is the King of R&B? That was the question dominating Twitter yesterday. It started with Jacquees – a singer I barely knew existed – declaring himself as the “King of R&B.” The declaration sparked a debate that went from heated to hilarious and back around again. This debate has all the grown-ass men who have By Kathleen • Dec 11, 2018 10:55 am
