Top Reads Drake and Rihanna’s SD Flirting Celebrities are really coming through for us during lockdown, aren’t they? They’re doing chain-songs and giving us cringe, they’re resuscitating old beefs that no one was asking for, they’re giving us confessionals from their bathtubs, they’re falling in love, they’re reading to us, they’ By Lainey • Mar 25, 2020 10:47 am
Rihanna Rihanna Comes Through Today is the start our second week of social distancing and self-isolation in Canada and it’s been fascinating to see the variety of responses that people, especially celebrities, have had to the global pandemic. Some, like the Biebers, are learning TikTok dances at home and enjoying isolated walks in By Prem • Mar 23, 2020 10:23 am
Gorgessity Rihanna: “tell your friends to pull up” Rihanna was honoured with the President’s Award at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend for philanthropic and social justice efforts. She made her speech all about what others are doing and what others can do – and the way she put it, it’s not complicated. “Tell your friends to By Lainey • Feb 24, 2020 12:22 pm
Relationship Assumption Rihanna: Drake or Rocky? It was reported late last week that after three years, Rihanna and Hassan Jameel had broken up. Rihanna spent time with Hassan and his family. She spent time with him in London. She mentioned him in interviews – not extensively but she did acknowledge that she had a “boyfriend” and seemed By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 03:55 pm
Style Janet steps out for Rihanna Rihanna’s fashion house, Fenty, isn’t even six months old yet. And already it’s winning awards. Last night Rihanna accepted the Urban Luxe Award for Fenty at the Fashion Awards in London. She wore her own label, of course, and she received the honour from a legend, Janet By Lainey • Dec 03, 2019 11:44 am
Style Rihanna, Zendaya, Olivia, Charlize, and Celine This is a straight up fashion post – four looks from last night that are really, really good, that could have been contenders, but not as good as Celine Dion’s Outfit of the Week that I posted yesterday and, besides, we’ve retired Zendaya in all consideration for “Best” because By Lainey • Nov 15, 2019 01:25 pm
Rihanna Rihanna’s smell Before we get into the smell of Rihanna, I just want to take a moment to point out how fickle we are – like the internet, we are f-ckle assholes, always looking for the next hit, never loyal to the last hit. A few days ago, after Rihanna showed up at By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 12:25 pm
Ex Games Drake & Rihanna: “God’s Plan” During Rihanna’s “Go Ask Anna” segment for Vogue recently, Anna Wintour asked her if she planned to have a baby soon. Rihanna’s response: “God’s plan”. And our eyebrows went up. (You can watch it here, around the 3:05 mark.) As we allllllll know, Rihanna and Drake By Lainey • Oct 23, 2019 09:20 am
Rihanna Rihanna’s personal space Rihanna was at Rolling Loud supporting A$AP Rocky the other day and hung out with him backstage. At one point, someone comes up and puts his arm around her. She did not want his arm around her. And she made that very clear – NSFW language (source: Buzzfeed) Rihanna says By Lainey • Oct 16, 2019 04:23 pm
Jay Z Rihanna covers Vogue: Music and Politics Rihanna covers the November issue of Vogue, looking stunning, as expected. A lot of ground was covered in the accompanying article, including her politics, music, and fashion. Enough material to spawn several different Twitter arguments, even about her nationality. Jamaicans, you know, if we pretend like Rihanna is Jamaican, the By Prem • Oct 10, 2019 10:24 am
Music Intro for October 8, 2019 Dear Gossips, As we near the imminent end of another decade, which I am not ready to acknowledge goddamn it, Pitchfork released its list of the 200 Best Songs of the 2010s yesterday and naturally, people are fighting. Some people are happy and surprised but the whole drama of these By Lainey • Oct 08, 2019 09:08 am
Rihanna Intro for September 20, 2019 Dear Gossips, Between Two Ferns: The Movie just dropped on Netflix today. That’s probably what I’m doing tomorrow night. Ahead of the release of the movie, Vulture ranked all 22 episodes and I mostly agree with everything until the Top 3. To me, Brad Lee Cooper should be By Lainey • Sep 20, 2019 09:12 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Rihanna puts up a signal But first, stop it. I’m going to stop you right there because you’ve probably seen this trending on Twitter and everybody freaking out that Rihanna is pregnant. There are two reasons for this. Well, three. The first two reasons I will show you in a second. The third By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 09:49 am
Top Reads Rihanna disrupts NY Fashion Week There is no such thing as hyperbole when it comes to Rihanna, the business. Her makeup line set a new standard. She has her own luxury fashion house. And she took over NY Fashion Week with her Savage x Fenty show last night that changed the game in how lingerie By Lainey • Sep 11, 2019 10:09 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Keanu & Rihanna Don’t (Seem to) Care. That’s the Key We are back for our final episode of this season, and our slight break made the episode even better. A few weeks ago Lainey decided to gang up on me, implying that I’d say there’s nothing to talk about where Keanu Reeves is concerned, because he’s such By Duana • Jun 26, 2019 02:10 pm
Music Mary J Blige: “a leader, a queen, a living legend” May J Blige was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards last night. As mentioned in the previous post, Rihanna presented it to her. Exactly. It’s Mary J Blige. To properly recognise Mary, you have to bring in someone who’s worthy of Mary. And someone By Lainey • Jun 24, 2019 11:29 am
