Gossip Nostalgia Intro for May 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, Yesterday was a good gossip anniversary. Something happened five years ago yesterday that would go on to become great gossip, although we didn’t know it at the time. Of course yesterday was the First Monday in May, aka Met Gala Day. Five years ago at the Met By Lainey • May 04, 2021 09:01 am
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
Music Intro for April 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version), the first of six re-recorded albums, is dropping tomorrow – or tonight, if you’re counting from midnight. For the last several days she’s been building excitement for the release, dropping a digital puzzle for her fans to decode the “from By Lainey • Apr 08, 2021 09:23 am
Music Taylor, Katy, and Selena Swift Nation has been pretty active over the last 24 hours on social media and it has to do with Taylor’s upcoming album, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and her friendships. Let’s start with Katy Perry. She and Taylor are all good now and have been for a few By Lainey • Mar 23, 2021 01:39 pm
Grammy Awards 2021 Taylor Swift’s Third AOTY Even though the Grammys tried to switch it up last night, announcing the Record of the Year category at the end of the show instead of Album of the Year, people still consider AOTY to be the most prestigious award in music – and it really shouldn’t have been a By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 03:23 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s Version Taylor Swift’s fans starting making noise on Twitter last night when Good Morning America announced that she’d be appearing on today’s show – and when it comes to a star as big as Taylor, it’s never going to be a small thing. Immediately there was speculation that By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 10:52 am
Top Reads Taylor Swift’s Bonus Beefs It was confirmed earlier this week that Taylor Swift’s album, folklore, was the #1 album of 2020 based on a combination of sales and streaming data. It was also one of the most critically well-received albums of the year, which is why she’s contending for all kinds of By Lainey • Jan 08, 2021 12:43 pm
Top Reads Taylor Swift: Too Many Eggs and a Non-Egg I’ve now had a few days with Taylor Swift’s evermore. Like folklore before it, evermore has been well-received. Evenly received? Reviews are generally positive though perhaps slightly less effusive because the surprise factor isn’t quite as strong with this one. As Taylor has explained, evermore is a By Lainey • Dec 15, 2020 10:42 am
Top Reads Taylor Swift: “willow” begins evermore Taylor Swift’s ninth studio album, evermore, a companion to folklore, has now been released and is receiving a warm reception, just like its predecessor. I’ve only given it one pass start to finish, and it usually takes me at least a couple to get a hold of how By Lainey • Dec 11, 2020 10:35 am
Music Taylor Swift’s Evermore No matter how you feel about her, no one can deny that Taylor Swift is one of the music industry’s biggest players. Commercially she’s a big deal – all of her albums have reached million-plus milestones that few, if any, artists ever achieve. She’s also established herself as By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 01:01 pm
BFFs Taylor & Ryan’s Excellent Co-Production As we know, Taylor Swift is currently re-recording music from her first six albums to degrade the value of her masters, which she does not own, but she’s tried to own. There is so much anticipation about this project, these projects, because of course Taylor is one of the By Lainey • Dec 02, 2020 01:24 pm
Music Taylor Swift: folkore for Disney+ …and the Grammys It was no surprise that Taylor Swift’s folklore received five Grammy nominations yesterday (she has six in total with a nomination for her Cats song “Beautiful Ghosts”). The surprise release of folklore was a major moment for the music industry and became the first album of 2020 to sell By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 10:53 am
Music Beyoncé Leads the Grammy Nominations The Grammy nominations were just announced today. Beyoncé received the most nominations with nine for “Black Parade”, “Savage” with Megan Thee Stallion, and “Brown Skin Girl”. And she wasn’t even trying. That’s not to say she doesn’t try with her music – obviously, no one works harder than By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 02:32 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s AMAs Message Last year, ahead of the 2019 American Music Awards, Taylor Swift dominated the headlines when she called out Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta for not signing off on her performing her own music at the event while receiving the Artist of the Decade award. Everything worked out for her in By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 02:19 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
Assy Style Taylor Swift: Hoping for an ACM Bump? A lot of today’s headlines about Taylor Swift following her performance at the ACM Awards last night was about how she did her own hair, makeup, and styling. We’ll come back to that in a minute. For now, let’s talk about why she was there – to perform By Lainey • Sep 17, 2020 04:20 pm
