Music Pusha’s side The tea is hot and the plot is THICK. Pusha Tea is delivering on his nickname once again. On Monday, I wrote about Drake’s version of the events leading up to best rap beef of summer ‘18 (I’m putting Cardi and Nicki squarely in the fall season). Drake By Kathleen • Oct 17, 2018 03:31 pm
Music Solange is coming Solange is about to release her next studio album. It’s her follow-up to A Seat At The Table, one of my all-time favourite albums, one of the best of 2016, and undoubtedly the best of Solange’s discography. It’s not the first time Solange has had to face By Kathleen • Oct 16, 2018 12:46 pm
Music Intro for October 11, 2018 Dear Gossips, BTS performed in London at the O2 for the first time on Tuesday, the first of two sold out shows. Two hours before it started, it was announced that Jungkook (my fave) was injured after sound-check and would not be able to participate in choreography but that he By Lainey • Oct 11, 2018 08:37 am
Music Shawn Mendes = Why Is Justin Timberlake? I think I might be going off Peter Kavinsky Noah Centineo. It’s my lifelong fickleness, makes it hard for me to maintain a celebrity crush. And I have a theory about the Noah Centineo types that I’ll share with you tomorrow because I’m trying to acquire some By Lainey • Oct 10, 2018 12:19 pm
Music Ciara and Missy: reunited Most of the time when I’m writing about Missy Elliott, I’m yelling at MTV to give her a damn Video Vanguard Award already or I’m trying to hype up her latest projects that always seem to go relatively unnoticed. Missy reunited with Ciara last night during her By Kathleen • Oct 10, 2018 11:37 am
Music JLo’s gift of motion Too obvious? Too on the nose there? Jennifer Lopez debuted a new song called “Limitless” at the American Music Awards. The track isn’t all that special. The way she performed it though, with all that energy, in a silver sequined suit, made it better than it might deserve. How By Lainey • Oct 10, 2018 10:12 am
Music Mimi’s gift of Un-movement Mariah Carey performed at the American Music Awards last night for the first time since 2008. I feel like I’m in tune with our butterfly’s moods. My butterfly mood tuner last night was telling me she was nervous. The song was “With You”. I don’t love the By Lainey • Oct 10, 2018 09:41 am
Music Taylor Swift’s timing Taylor Swift was one of the first to arrive on the American Music Awards red carpet. She showed up punctually and unquestionably on time – the same cannot be said for when she showed up to speak out against racism, homophobia and women’s rights in America . Did she miss her By Kathleen • Oct 10, 2018 09:10 am
Music The Taylor Swift factor? Taylor Swift wrapped the US leg of the reputation stadium tour on Saturday night. She next plays seven dates in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, closing out the album cycle by mid-November. On Sunday, a day after playing to American audiences, Taylor posted this message on Instagram – it’s as By Lainey • Oct 09, 2018 10:15 am
Music Bradley Cooper’s opening weekend Warner Bros initially projected that A Star is Born would open somewhere between $25-$30 million. That estimate has now moved. Some are saying it could go as high at $40 million, maybe even more. Presales have been strong. Word of mouth is strong. With that kind of combination, it’ By Lainey • Oct 05, 2018 11:14 am
Music Intro for October 3, 2018 Dear Gossips, I looked at my watch when Beyoncé and Jay-Z came down the elevator last night to open the show in Vancouver. It was exactly, exactly 930pm. And from there, everything else was just as precise. There’s now only one more show left – in Seattle tomorrow night. If By Lainey • Oct 03, 2018 09:12 am
Music Intro for September 27, 2018 Dear Gossips, In July 2017 Paste Magazine published an article written by Martin Tsai about the “shunning of Asian pop stars in America”. It was a few weeks after BTS won Top Social Artist at the Billboard Music Awards which prompted a suck attack from some people who didn’t By Lainey • Sep 27, 2018 09:03 am
Music BTS for my birthday Technically BTS was making headlines all day yesterday but since I went home in the afternoon and tried to sleep off my cold/flu for the rest of the night and only looked at all the footage this morning when I woke on, On My Birthday, I’m claiming this By Lainey • Sep 26, 2018 11:52 am
Music Kanye rants The last time we checked in on Kanye West and Drake, Kanye was apologizing, saying sorry for work sh-t like record releases and studio time and whatever part he supposedly played in the Drake/Pusha T beef. Now, it’s personal and Kanye is no longer repentant. Yesterday in a By Kathleen • Sep 21, 2018 10:06 am
Music Missy’s “funky white sister” You probably don’t know Mary Halsey by name. You probably have seen the video of her rapping to Missy Elliott’s “Work It.” I’ve tried to do this song at karaoke and it is HARD. Mary doesn’t make it look hard. Mary’s got the funk. Mary’ By Kathleen • Sep 13, 2018 03:18 pm
Girly Throw Downs Cardi vs. Nicki Violence is never the answer. Violence is not funny. Before I address the Cardi B and Nicki Minaj situation, I want to first make it clear that I don’t think that most physical altercations are laughing matters and that when it comes to rap beefs, we know how serious By Kathleen • Sep 10, 2018 10:27 am
