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 Taylor directs Taylor Taylor Swift made an announcement yesterday. She’s releasing a new video – and that’s noteworthy for sure, but what makes it even more noteworthy is that, well, this: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Feb 26, 2020 at 5:01am PST Directed By Lainey • Feb 26, 2020 11:34 am
Douchebags Tipsy Taylor and Joe in London You wouldn’t think the NME Awards would be an awards show where Taylor Swift would show up but since she spends so much time in London now, she made a surprise appearance last night to receive the Best Solo Act award and Joe Alwyn was with her. The NME By Lainey • Feb 13, 2020 11:36 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Miss Americana and The Assistant On this episode of Show Your Work, we’re talking about Taylor Swift’s documentary, Miss Americana, and whether or not it meets Taylor’s objective: to reach beyond her fanbase, to people who don’t care about her, haven’t followed her career, are relatively unaware of much about By Lainey • Feb 05, 2020 02:18 pm
Music Taylor Swift and the Grammys nothingburger It’s been almost a week since the Grammys. And a week since Variety reported that Taylor Swift had pulled out of an unannounced performance. A few days later, Grammys showrunner Ken Ehrlich clarified that they’d been talking about it but nothing was ever confirmed so characterising it as By Lainey • Jan 31, 2020 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Outfit the Week: Taylor Swift Taylor Swift premiered her Netflix documentary, Miss Americana, at the Sundance Film Festival last night in one of the best outfits she’s ever worn. This is a tweed strapless jumpsuit under a matching overcoat thrown over her shoulders and a siiiick pair of matching booties. It’s SO GOOD. By Lainey • Jan 24, 2020 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Americana “feels f-cking awesome” The world premiere of Taylor Swift’s documentary Miss Americana premieres at Sundance tomorrow. Yesterday her new Variety cover was released – her only interview about the project – and she talked through more of what she’ll be sharing in the project and why she decided to do it. As she By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 04:21 pm
Music Taylor Swift: The Sundance Poster Star The Sundance Film Festival kicks off on Thursday. Sundance is always a clusterf-ck, at least in the years I used to cover it, as celebrities, their entourages, publicists, marketers, party planners, sponsors, filmmakers, and the attendant media jam themselves into Park City for a few days – and this year, since By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 01:08 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Taylor, Joe, and Amy at the Globes So I’m going to be annoying right now and tell you that I called this: on Friday’s episode of etalk, I did a Gossip Nostalgia segment on the Golden Globes and my final Globes gossip memory was when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, while hosting the show, made By Lainey • Jan 06, 2020 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cats: They Never Stop Singing Cats begins with Victoria (Francesca Hayward), a cat-human hybrid escaped from the island of Dr. Moreau, abandoned on the streets of London. I am shocked that the location is not called “Meow Town”. Is this mercy? Is Cats mostly harmless, a little weird and off-putting but not sunk so low By Sarah • Dec 19, 2019 10:05 am
Music Taylor’s first 30 red carpet Premiere of Cats last night in New York. Reactions are still coming in and Sarah’s seeing it on Wednesday so we’ll have her review posted later this week. This will be her first Cats experience – she’s never seen the musical. I’m more excited about her review By Lainey • Dec 17, 2019 10:06 am
BFFs Intro for December 16, 2019 Dear Gossips, There were two major celebrity birthday parties happening this weekend: Taylor Swift celebrated her 30th and P Diddy celebrated his 50th. I’m going to talk about Beyoncé. Beyoncé and Jay-Z were at Diddy’s big bash. She posted about it on Instagram and even captioned the photo, By Lainey • Dec 16, 2019 08:46 am
Music Taylor Swift: the “Artist of the Decade” is 30 Today is Taylor Swift’s 30th birthday. I can’t believe it’s gone by so fast. I feel like it was just two years ago when all that sh-t went down between her and Kanye West at the MTV VMAs. We’ll come back to Taylor’s big milestone By Lainey • Dec 13, 2019 11:29 am
Music Taylor Swift wants to be Christmas too? “Mariah Carey is Christmas” opened the site yesterday after the announcement that there’s an upcoming documentary about how “All I Want For Christmas Is You” came to be. Mimi has what every artist wants: a Christmas classic. And at the end of that post, I wrote: “So, yes, OF By Lainey • Dec 06, 2019 11:10 am
Music Taylor Swift to open Sundance A few weeks ago, prior to her American Music Awards Artist of the Decade performance, when Taylor Swift accused Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun of refusing to allow her to perform music from her first six albums, we also found out that she’d been working on a Netflix documentary By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 11:14 am
Style Taylor Swift covers British Vogue Taylor Swift has a big birthday coming: she turns 30 on December 13. She’ll be entering a new decade as we all enter a new decade. Who will Taylor be in her 30s? It remains to be seen whether or not she has something big planned for the day, By Lainey • Dec 02, 2019 11:55 am