Music Taylor’s snake Taylor Swift and the eclipse are indeed connected. As you know, Taylor’s socials have been blacked out all weekend…until about an hour ago – because this just appeared on all her accounts: A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) onAug 21, 2017 at 8:00am PDT It’s a By Lainey • Aug 21, 2017 11:57 am
Music Intro for August 21, 2017 Dear Gossips, You have your special glasses ready? Or did you make a pinhole? The total solar eclipse is happening at some point today, depending on where you live. And also, on a cruise ship called the Oasis of the Seas, Bonnie Tyler will be performing Total Eclipse Of The By Lainey • Aug 21, 2017 09:23 am
Music What Pink deserves For the past five years, MTV’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award has gone to the following artists: Rihanna, Kanye West, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. I want you to keep the music video catalogue of each of those stars in mind when we talk about who this year’ By Kathleen • Aug 17, 2017 11:43 am
Music Miley cancels on Teen Choice Miley Cyrus was supposed to perform at the Teen Choice Awards last night and they were giving her the Ultimate Choice Award, apparently the highest TC honour. Miley showed up for sound check. But it was announced shortly after the live show started that she would be a no-show. And By Lainey • Aug 14, 2017 03:22 pm
Music Jay-Z’s Black Friends In Jay-Z’s extensive, 30 plus year music video catalogue, there aren’t many “holy-sh*t-I’m-never-going-to-forget-the-first-time-I-saw-this” classics. Well, Jay has been releasing new music videos and video extras from 4:44 steadily over the past few weeks that have easily become some of his best work. They’ve ranged By Kathleen • Aug 08, 2017 10:19 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Beyoncé sushi night Beyoncé and Jay Z went out for sushi last night in LA. It’s been a couple of weeks since we saw her last. The day she confirmed the names of the twins, the paps shot her and Jay leaving a Roc Nation party. She ended up giving us the By Lainey • Aug 03, 2017 04:27 pm
Music Justin Bieber’s “unforeseen circumstances” TMZ broke the story yesterday that Justin Bieber was cancelling the remainder of his tour dates (14 shows) because, as they put it, he was “over it”. TMZ followed up on their exclusive a few hours later with another exclusive – video of JB in Santa Monica explaining why he was By Lainey • Jul 25, 2017 12:37 pm
Music Selena’s birthday weekend Selena Gomez turned 25 years old on Saturday. She celebrated with her “people” and two birthday cakes with a promise that this year would be “epic”: Thank you for all of my bday love. I couldn't be more blessed. A lot of you don't realize how By Lainey • Jul 24, 2017 01:12 pm
Music Mimi tour time Lionel Richie and Mimi’s All The Hits tour was supposed to start earlier this year but was postponed after Lionel had knee surgery. So now the kickoff is tonight, in Oakland. They’ll be performing 22 shows in 22 cities until September 5. It’s not unmanageable for most By Lainey • Jul 21, 2017 03:25 pm
BFFs Selena’s celebrity friends Selena Gomez released a new song called Fetish this week. I don’t hate it. It’s better than Bad Liar. Does Taylor Swift think it’s better than Bad Liar? Because Taylor posted on Instagram for the first time in over two months yesterday to wish Selena an early By Lainey • Jul 14, 2017 04:38 pm
Music Jay Z and friends talk love and infidelity Jay Z’s 4:44 is an album that requires dissection. It’s a striking, emotional and vulnerable piece of art that is deserving of all the praise and analysis it has received. It’s got layers on layers of sh-t to process. I’ve listened to it multiple times By Kathleen • Jul 11, 2017 03:35 pm
Royals Hot Harry’s festival weekend Prince Harry was in London this weekend, photographed at the British Summer Time Festival on Saturday night during The Killers show. As an aside, did you know that Mr Brightside has charted in the UK every year since its release in 2004? Every single year for 13 years. Most songs By Lainey • Jul 10, 2017 10:46 am
Music Boomshakalaka It’s the universally recognised sound you hear when someone gets dunked on. It’s the sound you’re hearing today because we all just got dunked on. By Blue Ivy of the House Knowles-Carter, first of her line, the platinum, queen of the Twitter and princess of the Beyhive, By Lainey • Jul 07, 2017 12:39 pm
Music Jay Z’s confessions and revelations Jay Z’s new album 4:44 dropped last night. Were you scrambling to reinstall TIDAL on your phone like I was? Needless to say, 4:44 lit up Twitter. Here’s one of my favourite tweets: When you've not listened to Jay Z 's album but By Lainey • Jun 30, 2017 12:25 pm
Music K’Naan, Riz Ahmed in Immigrants video Well, this was opportune. Earlier today Lainey asked whether politics belongs in gossip—I would say it’s impossible to talk about pop culture, anyway, without it. Sometimes these days we will talk about possible topics for Show Your Work and note that there’s been so much real-life news By Duana • Jun 28, 2017 04:21 pm
Sports Drake hosts the NBA Awards The first ever NBA Awards happened last night in New York. Drake was the host. Drake, as you know, from the Junos and the ESPYs and Saturday Night Live, is a very good host. This is a skill he has on top of his other skills and a skill that By Lainey • Jun 27, 2017 11:23 am
