Break Ups Adele covers PEOPLE I wasn’t expecting this to be the Back to School week cover of the new issue of PEOPLE, were you? And it’s not an exclusive. Any time anyone has an Adele exclusive, of course it’s making the cover. But Adele was not interviewed by PEOPLE. I’m By Lainey • Sep 04, 2019 10:23 am
Music Intro for August 30, 2019 Dear Gossips, It’s the last weekend of the summer. I mean, not according to science but generally accepted in society – next week most people will have gone back to school and work after a lighter schedule the last couple of months; and the schedule goes balls out in entertainment By Lainey • Aug 30, 2019 09:15 am
Quiveration Thank you, Harry Styles The one thing Duana hates the most about me is that I can read and write in a moving car and she gets motion sickness and doesn’t understand how it doesn’t bother me. What does bother me is heat. When I’m hot I get nauseous and yesterday By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 03:37 pm
Music JoBros return to the VMAs Back when the Jonas Brothers first announced their reunion with the release of Sucker, I was skeptical of its success, the need for their reunion, or whether they’d last at all. I even posed the question, “are we really going to still be talking about the Jo Bros by By Prem • Aug 27, 2019 01:56 pm
Music Lizzo, Normani, Rosalia: the future As I wrote in the open today, the MTV VMAs have stayed relevant even in years when the show is sh-tty because it can be a showcase for the future, for who we will be obsessed with in the near future, the artists who’ll be the culture in By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 12:48 pm
Music Taylor in a decade Ten years ago, at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Taylor Swift was interrupted by Kanye West in a moment that kicked off one of the most significant chapters in celebrity gossip history – and it’s a chapter that may not have reached its conclusion. A decade later, during her first main By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 11:10 am
Music Lil Nas X Spans Generations Which demographic does the MTV VMAs appeal to? I watched the show with my cousins and their children, so we had an age range of like 7 years old to late 40s, with myself right in the middle. That meant that I heard the question “who’s that?” directed at By Prem • Aug 27, 2019 10:16 am
Music Miley Cyrus’s Surprise Performance at the VMAs 2019 I have been obsessed with Miley’s “Slide Away” since she first released it a week and a half ago. It’s catchy as hell, I’ve been listening to it on the drive to and from work, which is partly a depressing way to start your day, but it’ By Prem • Aug 27, 2019 09:32 am
Music Intro for August 27, 2019 Dear Gossips, If you’ve watched Missy Elliott’s performance from last night’s MTV VMAs more than once, that is correct. Here’s me sounding like a bitter old aunt, quoting Kathleen who, by contrast (in her mind), is forever young: these kids don’t deserve. She was actually By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 08:34 am
Music Taylor Swift’s long Lover Taylor Swift’s seventh album, Lover, was released last night, a few hours after the release of the video for the song “Lover”. “Lover” is, presumably, about Joe Alwyn and there’s been all kinds of speculation, because of the lyrics, whether or not she and Joe might be married By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 12:40 pm
Music Intro for August 23, 2019 Dear Gossips, There is only one music video that belongs in this space on top of the site today and all weekend – that would be the video for “Throw It Back”, by Dr Melissa “Missy” Elliott who released her first collection of new music in 14 years last night ahead By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 08:52 am
Music Taylor Swift: albums 1 to 5, v 2.0 Lover, the album, drops tonight. Apparently the video for “Lover”, the song, will drop tonight too. Right now I’m more excited about the video, because of the lyrics, because of all the speculation about Joe Alwyn and their relationship, I’m wondering what Taylor Swift will be showing us, By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 11:03 am
Music Harry Styles covers Rolling Stone again Harry Styles covers the new issue of Rolling Stone. It’ll be his second solo Rolling Stone cover – the last time was for the May 2017 issue which was around the time he was promoting his first solo album and its lead single, Sign of the Times, which I will By Lainey • Aug 20, 2019 12:53 pm
Music Shawmila’s Strategy for the VMAs On Saturday, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello shared another behind-the-scenes video of “Señorita”. I know nothing has been officially confirmed, even though they’ve kissed in public like a bajillion times, but watching this video convinces me that they were definitely f-cking before, during, and after “Señorita” By Prem • Aug 19, 2019 11:37 am
Music Intro for August 19, 2019 Dear Gossips, Let’s begin the week with some no-news: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper were not on holiday together in the south of France. Coop was seen at lunch with Bono and some other friends in Provence the other day. The paps got shots of them, joined by By Lainey • Aug 19, 2019 09:00 am
Music Taylor Swift’s “Lover” When Taylor Swift released “The Archer”, the third song off her upcoming album, Lover, I wrote that it was what I was waiting for, that it was the best track so far, the kind of sound I’d been hoping for after “ME!” and “You Need to Calm Down”, both By Lainey • Aug 16, 2019 01:15 pm