Music Intro for November 9, 2017 Dear Gossips, I don’t listen to much country music. I’m unfamiliar with most of the songs performed at the CMA Awards. But almost every year for the last several years, I’ve watched most of the show. It’s a really well produced show. Like, I don’t By Lainey • Nov 09, 2017 09:32 am
Music Taylor Swift redirects Most headlines about Taylor Swift yesterday, just three days before the release of reputation, were about how she tried to legally intimidate a blogger and ended up getting scolded by the ACLU. As Spencer Kornhaber wrote yesterday for The Atlantic, this was a consequence of her “anti-PR campaign”. Taylor has By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 09:47 am
Music Taylor Swift: release week drama Taylor Swift’s new album, reputation, is out on Friday. So far she’s released four songs. I’m not super into any of them. But she’s already pre-sold 400,000 units of the album, and it’s Target’s biggest music pre-sale of all time. As of now, By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 09:09 am
Music The making of Zayn But he’s already made it, you’ll say. Yes, Zayn has proven himself as a chart-topping solo success post-boy band fame but now that’s a feat two other of his One Direction bandmates have achieved. Both Harry Styles and Niall Horan’s solo albums hit No.1 on By Kathleen • Nov 03, 2017 11:36 am
Music Taylor Swift is so in love As promised, Taylor Swift released another song, the fourth, from her upcoming reputation. Gorgeous was a crush song about Joe Alwyn. Call It What You Want is straight up a love song about Joe Alwyn. Taylor Swift is so in love. And what she’s doing with her love is By Lainey • Nov 03, 2017 09:28 am
Music Official: Beyoncé in The Lion King For months it was rumoured that Beyoncé would be in Jon Favreau’s live-action The Lion King. It had been previously confirmed that Donald Glover and James Earl Jones would star as Simba and Mufasa. Chiwetel Ejiofor is playing Scar. (My word processor does not spell-check Chiwetel Ejiofor! No red By Lainey • Nov 02, 2017 02:32 pm
Music Watching Taylor work We are exactly a week away now from the release of reputation. Which means the next few weeks or so are going to be all Taylor all the time. Just this morning, Good Morning America made the announcement that Taylor will perform a new song next Thursday, the same day By Lainey • Nov 02, 2017 11:49 am
Music Chinese Taylor Swift This post is supposed to be about Taylor Swift’s new video. In the coming weeks and probably months, because reputation is COMING, there will probably be a lot of posts a lot of places about Taylor Swift’s new videos. And everyone will have to find new ways to By Lainey • Oct 27, 2017 09:32 am
Music Gorgeous in Atlanta Joel Edgerton is directing a movie in Atlanta called Boy Erased. What ISN’T shooting in Atlanta right now? Lucas Hedges, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor Oscar last year for his work in Manchester By The Sea, is one of the stars. And also, Joe Alwyn. AKA Taylor By Lainey • Oct 26, 2017 01:23 pm
Music Intro for October 25, 2017 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift’s new song, Gorgeous, the third single from her upcoming album reputation, hit #1 on the iTunes sales chart the day it was released. This morning at 6am ET, it was sitting at #5. Ed Sheeran’s Perfect is the current #1, the fourth single off By Lainey • Oct 25, 2017 08:31 am
Music Kelly Clarkson’s Meaning of Life Kelly Clarkson’s new album Meaning of Life drops on Friday. During her promo tour, she stopped at The Social. Lainey wrote about Kelly’s decency here – how she opens doors and is a nice, considerate human being. That’s noteworthy because so many of them aren’t. I produced By Kathleen • Oct 24, 2017 10:18 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake’s 5th wedding anniversary Justin Timberlake celebrated his 5th wedding anniversary on social media yesterday. I’m still trying to decide whether or not we need to mention that Jessica Biel is also part of this anniversary because he barely mentions her himself. And she’s, allegedly, part of the marriage. This is what By Lainey • Oct 20, 2017 01:59 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s Gorgeous I love the word gorgeous. It starts off aggressive, then becomes ripe and soft, ending on a hiss. Which means it can be whatever it wants to be – obscene, sly, but also alluring, and suggestive. Gorgeous is a great word. And now I’m worried Taylor Swift has ruined it. By Lainey • Oct 20, 2017 09:44 am
Hollywood Drugs Intro for October 20, 2017 Dear Gossips, As mentioned several times over the last couple of weeks, I have Demi Lovato’s new album, Tell Me You Love Me, on constant repeat. Sasha and I couldn’t not talk about it a couple of weeks ago on the Sasha Answers podcast. Ruin The Friendship? Can’ By Lainey • Oct 20, 2017 08:00 am
Music Eminem, unleashed Eminem's song White America turned 15 this year. It's fitting that the track is celebrating a milestone in 2017, a year in which the power and influence of white Americans has been debated, dissected, underestimated, and over-reported. White Americans made Donald Trump the most powerful man By Kathleen • Oct 11, 2017 03:28 pm
Music Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Almost Like Praying’ A few years ago, during some now-forgotten revelation of crime or some other embarrassment during the reign of Toronto’s bumblingly catastrophic mayor Rob Ford, Kathleen said (and later tweeted) something so hilarious I fell in love. ‘I always wanted to live in Gotham but NOT WITHOUT BATMAN.’ To paraphrase By Duana • Oct 10, 2017 03:17 pm
