Quiveration Intro for April 25, 2019 Dear Gossips, Madonna released her video for "Medellin" featuring Maluma yesterday live on MTV and also did a 30 minute interview at MTV Studios in London. It felt like a throwback to a time before social media – and that was probably intentional. She said that with the new By Lainey • Apr 25, 2019 08:35 am
Music Beyoncé’s Challenge By now you’ve watched Homecoming on Netflix, right? And if you didn’t catch the livestream last year, now you know. Well, we all knew. But that’s what Beyoncé does – she lets you think you know, and then she lets you know that you didn’t actually know By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 03:13 pm
Bad Style Taylor & the Khaleesi Have you noticed that while everyone on Game of Thrones calls Daenerys “Your Grace” except for f-cking Jorah Mormont who’s still going around calling her “Khaleesi”? (Even Jon Snow, in public, calls her “Your Grace”.) I don’t know the official reason for it but my read is By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 12:07 pm
Music Madonna’s Medellin As expected, Madonna dropped her new single, “Medellin” ft Maluma, yesterday ahead of the June 14th release of her next album Madame X, her first since 2015’s Rebel Heart. “Medellin” is not EDM, a relief. My friend Brian calls it “La Isla Bonita part 2”. Indeed, Madonna is going By Lainey • Apr 18, 2019 11:07 am
Music Intro for April 18, 2019 Dear Gossips, Well? Did you watch #BeyoncéHomecoming? Were you transported? Beyoncé Day generated half a million tweets yesterday and universal critical acclaim. Homecoming: The Live Album soared to the top of the charts. And, once again, Beyoncé is trailblazing. You’ll recall, when she surprise-dropped her self-titled album, By Lainey • Apr 18, 2019 08:55 am
Music Taylor Swift on the TIME 100 Taylor Swift is one of the TIME 100 for 2019. Shawn Mendes wrote the feature. .@ShawnMendes: “The magic of @taylorswift13 doesn’t come from the lights, dancers or fireworks (although all of that is incredible) but from the electrifying connection that she has with the people who are there to By Lainey • Apr 17, 2019 01:07 pm
Music Intro for April 17, 2019 Dear Gossips, I’m writing this at 2am ET. Kathleen just got to my place and Duana is on her way – she texted to ask us if we wanted drive-thru, LOL. We are gathering, OBVIOUSLY, for #BeyoncéHomecoming, joining hundreds of thousands of others around the world (millions, probably?) who By Lainey • Apr 17, 2019 08:29 am
Music Madonna: Madame X I was over at my friend Iain’s the other night and whenever Iain and I get together, Madonna dominates our conversation. Iain has a PhD in Madonna. He went to see her last tour, Rebel Heart, something like 14 times all around the world. It’s been a quiet By Lainey • Apr 16, 2019 12:54 pm
Music The Avenging Taylor Swift Taylor Swift is counting down to something. There’s a countdown clock on her website. Her social channels the last few days are all pointing to “4.26”. The obvious would be new music, six months before she’s known to prefer to release new music, in the fall, but By Lainey • Apr 15, 2019 11:37 am
Music AG > JT Ariana Grande was the major headliner last night to conclude the first weekend of Coachella 2019. And, as she has done consistently over the last year and a half, she delivered – strong presence, vocals, set, showing her work all around, and then there were the special guests. Since there were By Lainey • Apr 15, 2019 10:38 am
TV Updates Intro for April 12, 2019 Dear Gossips, There is so much to watch this weekend. Of course the big watch is the return of Game of Thrones, beginning its six-episode run to the end. But that’s not until Sunday night (9pm on Crave in Canada). Tonight Kathleen and I are seeing Little, starring By Lainey • Apr 12, 2019 08:48 am
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. 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
