TV Updates Jay-Z on SNL Jay-Z was the musical guest on SNL on Saturday night. He performed two songs from 4:44 and made quiet but powerful statements with both. First, Damien Marley joined Jay on stage for their song Bam, not my favourite track on 4:44 but I liked the vibe of the By Kathleen • Oct 02, 2017 11:04 am
Music Waking up to Beyoncé I went to bed at 9pm last night. I woke up to a new Beyoncé song. Love when that happens! She’s on the Mi Gente remix. And it’s not like the J Balvin and Willy William track wasn’t already a banger. And now Beyoncé’s singing in By Lainey • Sep 29, 2017 11:12 am
Girlcrushes Kelly Clarkson opens doors Kelly Clarkson was in Toronto yesterday to host WE Day. She seemed really excited to meet Mia Farrow. This tweet cracked me up: I still am speechless 😳u are so lovely & such a legend! It was an honor to meet you @MiaFarrow 😊 ....also, do you know they guy in By Lainey • Sep 29, 2017 10:30 am
Music Justin Timberlake: #neverforget… but they do I told you. You might want to leave because this post will involve a lot of “I told you”. I told you, way back in February, when Justin Timberlake appeared in an ad during the Super Bowl, that this would happen. That it was only a matter of time, a By Lainey • Sep 28, 2017 10:21 am
Music JLO: the anniversary Jennifer Lopez stepped out in NYC yesterday with Alex Rodriguez and her kids. Question for you: last year, on The Social’s Gossip Year in Review episode, we were asked, as we do every season, to make a gossip prediction. We shot that show back in December 2016. My prediction: By Lainey • Sep 27, 2017 03:39 pm
Music Taylor sends Cardi flowers As mentioned the other day in What Else, with Bodak Yellow, Cardi B became the first female solo rapper to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 18 years, taking down Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do. And it’s worth a conversation because, obviously, Cardi By Lainey • Sep 27, 2017 10:39 am
Music Lauryn and Nas in Miami Lauryn Hill and Nas were in Toronto earlier this month and it was the first time in 15 years that Lauryn was live in Toronto without me there in the crowd, crying and screaming along to every lyric. Every time she’s in town, I show up. I’ve written By Kathleen • Sep 25, 2017 04:11 pm
Music Gwen steps on Blake’s face Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton continue to be the corniest/most extra couple in Hollywood – and that’s saying something when JRod exists. For some reason, Gwen and Blake’s extra is less annoying. Maybe it’s my love of love of The Voice clouding my judgment but I’ve By Kathleen • Sep 21, 2017 02:39 pm
Music The Old Taylor is still here The new era of Taylor Swift is far from over. It’s just beginning. Beyoncé help us. I was hoping I would never have to watch the Look What You Made Me Do video ever again because when I saw it the first time, the Old Kathleen almost died of By Kathleen • Sep 21, 2017 11:49 am
Music Mimi & Britney Britney Spears posted a photo on Instagram yesterday and a lot of people had a lot of feelings about it. You never know who you’re going to meet at dinner parties!! 🎉 Great night! So much fun, thank you Cade! 🍃🍃 A post shared by Britney Spears (@britneyspears) onSep 20, 2017 By Lainey • Sep 21, 2017 09:56 am
Music Blake Shelton Thinks My Job Is Easy My favourite off-book celebrity conversation these days is ‘who do you think is for real?’ Whose tweets, whose self-deprecating Instagram captions, whose appealingly honest posts are real reflections of who they might be? Until yesterday, it would never have occurred to me to include Blake Shelton in the analysis one By Duana • Sep 14, 2017 04:28 pm
Music Will Smith’s dad rapping A few weeks after 4:44 dropped, Wesley Morris wrote a brilliant piece for The New York Times called “Jay-Z and the Politics of Rapping in Middle Age.” In it, he praises Jay for thriving in a climate where there’s “not much of a road map for a rapper By Kathleen • Sep 11, 2017 04:14 pm
Music Zayn’s acting Ah, the classic music video interlude. It has rarely been done right. When it has, we’ve gotten memorable scenes like Don Cheadle vs Kendrick Lamar in DNA or the ridiculous/amazing Titanic rip-off in Oops I Did it Again. When it goes wrong, well, we have Zayn Malik’s By Kathleen • Sep 08, 2017 11:47 am
Music Taylor Swift knocks out Taylor Swift Well. This is getting meta upon meta. Let’s start with Look What You Made Me Do, Taylor Swift’s first single off of the upcoming album, reputation – also, by the way, like mother!, styled in all lower case. Because it’s already not hard enough to avoid typos. LWYMMD By Lainey • Sep 05, 2017 05:08 pm
TV Updates Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Magic School Bus It’s week one of our Show Your Work hiatus, and already Lainey and I have sent a dozen articles back and forth that could have been included or that might be fodder for Season 2. If we were doing an episode today, Lin-Manuel Miranda singing the new theme song By Duana • Sep 05, 2017 03:41 pm
Quiveration Catching feelings for Harry Styles We haven’t played the Lainey Hotness Litmus Test™ in a while. If you’re a long time reader, you know this test as the Picture Him On Top Of You game. Usually, we don’t have to play this game with someone like Harry Styles. Usually, it’s reserved By Kathleen • Aug 31, 2017 03:30 pm
