Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney’s weekend box office Sydney Sweeney was all over New York last week, making the rounds at all the talk shows, getting papped in a variety of outfits outside the studios, and also, hilariously, canoodling in the park with Scooter Braun, LOL forever. Like somehow, even though all media outlets knew she was in By Lainey • Nov 10, 2025 12:36 pm
Hook Ups Sydney & Scooter’s theme song In my post yesterday about the Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun rumours, I mentioned that even though it was only-accurate-once-a-year Star Magazine that broke the story, other more reliable outlets had not yet added to the report, even though for sure they had to have been chasing the story. Then By Lainey • Sep 03, 2025 09:37 am
Hook Ups Sydney Sweeney & Scooter Braun? The summer of romance 2025 continues… but does this one really count? Star Magazine reported exclusively on Friday that Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun are allegedly dating. And this immediately went viral because of both their notoriety. Sydney, of course, is coming off a broken engagement and a racist ad By Lainey • Sep 02, 2025 10:49 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 14, 2025 Justin Bieber is all over the news right now, from concerns about his health (which seem less like genuine concerns and more like a way for outlets to analyse his every move under the guise of ‘concern’) and money issues. This new report from TMZ is interesting because it’s By Maria • May 14, 2025 02:21 pm
Douchebags Scooter Braun: A Gossip Mystery The Scooter Braun story is a mess… which is why I love it so much. And not for the same reason as the Swifties, who’ve been throwing a Scooter Braun is over party for days, but specifically because it’s so messy, because this gossip is so opaque, because By Lainey • Aug 23, 2023 02:49 pm
Break Ups The Double Dumping of Scooter Braun There have been rumours the last few days that Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun broke up. So far that’s not confirmed and sources have told multiple outlets that JB is still being managed by Scooter…at least for now. Yesterday, however, both Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande announced they By Lainey • Aug 22, 2023 01:50 pm
Music Taylor Swift “at midnight” You had to know, the minute Taylor Swift showed up at the MTV VMAs, that she would win the biggest award of the show, Video of the Year. And that’s exactly what happened. I’m not mad at this. The VMAs aren’t exactly the Oscars, where legitimately no By Lainey • Aug 29, 2022 01:00 pm
Music Taylor’s Latest Flex Well this has to be all kinds of history. Last week I posted about Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and how it would perform on the charts, predicting that it would be a win. And… indeed… it is. More than 12 years after #Fearless topped the chart, @TaylorSwift13 By Lainey • Apr 19, 2021 03:19 pm
Top Reads The House that BTS Built First, a quick recap on BTS-related business affairs over the last six months or so before we get into this major music industry news. Last fall, just weeks after BTS earned their first and second #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Dynamite” and the “Savage Love” remix, their company, By Lainey • Apr 05, 2021 02:45 pm
Top Reads Taylor Pays Off For Scooter Scooter Braun’s company, Ithaca Holdings, acquired Big Machine Label Group in June 2019 last year which included Taylor Swift’s back catalogue over her objections. She has alleged that he’s bullied her for years and publicly expressed how disappointed she was that someone who she thinks deliberately hurt By Lainey • Nov 17, 2020 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Singing teen Lady Macbeth Between Hamilton and Six, the musical that imagines Henry VIII’s wives as a girl group, historical revisionism with songs is having a moment. Now, that moment is stretching into previously existing historical revisionism, in this case, Macbeth (already revisionist thanks to Shakespeare). Channing Tatum and Scooter Braun are partnering By Sarah • Jul 31, 2020 01:26 pm
Music Taylor Swift is “The Man” Taylor Swift’s strength is not subtlety. And she leans all the way into that – or away from it – in her video for “The Man”, which she directed, wrote, owns, and stars in. Sure, there may be some Easter eggs for her fans throughout, but for those who don’t By Lainey • Feb 27, 2020 09:14 am
Music Were Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun at Ed Sheeran’s wedding? Taylor Swift was in Paris last night for her “City of Lover” show continuing to promote Lover, her sixth consecutive #1 album. She’s been hinting that she might not tour Lover the way she toured reputation and 1989, that she might want to scale it back, perform in more By Lainey • Sep 10, 2019 10:08 am
Girly Throw Downs This Taylor Swift mess On Sunday June 30, 2019, it was announced that Ithaca Holdings, led by Scooter Braun, who manages Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, and others, acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group (BMLG), meaning Scooter now owns Taylor Swift’s back catalogue – every album up to and including reputation. By Lainey • Jul 02, 2019 11:56 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, April 11, 2017 This is how the Hadid-Foster-Jenner family tree shakes out. And really you could add more Jenners onto this. National sibling day is pretty chill when your dad has been married 4 times. A post shared by Erin Foster (@erinfoster) onApr 10, 2017 at 12:36pm PDT I hate this question, By Maria • Apr 11, 2017 02:03 pm
Music Beckham Meets Bieber Yesterday it was announced that 11-year-old Cruz Beckham has been signed by Scooter Braun, most famous for being Justin Bieber’s manager (more on that later). If you keep tabs on David and Victoria’s social media, this is natural evolution for Brand Beckham; Brooklyn is a photographer and model, By Maria • Dec 07, 2016 10:04 am
