Assy Style Taylor Swift: AMA Artist of the Decade For all the speculation and rumouring ahead of Taylor Swift’s appearance at the American Music Awards last night related to her ongoing dispute with Big Machine Label Group, Scott Borchetta, and Scooter Braun, the end result wasn’t dramatic at all. Taylor hinted at going through some difficult times By Lainey • Nov 25, 2019 01:18 pm
Music Taylor Swift: Grammys, Globes, Cats Grammy nominations yesterday and Lizzo, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and Lil Nas X, emerged as the Recording Academy’s new pop superstars cohort. For Taylor Swift, however, who received three nominations, including for Song of the Year (“Lover"), most of the headlines after the announcement were that she’d By Lainey • Nov 21, 2019 11:13 am
Girly Throw Downs Taylor Swift asks for help This past summer, at the end of June, Big Machine Label Group, Taylor Swift’s former label, the label she was signed to at the beginning of her career, and the label that released her first six albums, right up to reputation, was acquired by Ithaca Holdings, led by Scooter By Lainey • Nov 15, 2019 10:25 am
Business of Hollywood Show Your Work: On Angelina Jolie and Taylor Swift On this week’s episode of Show Your Work, we analyse the “rewilding” of Angelina Jolie. She’s been one of the savviest celebrities in the business in image management; as Duana says Angie will always be A++++ list and even though there’s been a pivot in her vibe By Lainey • Nov 06, 2019 03:54 pm
Music Taylor Swift gossips …and is coming for Oscar Last Friday in the site open, I wrote about Cats and whether or not Entertainment Weekly and Oscar experts were sleeping on Cats as an Oscar contender. They’d just released a promo video featuring Taylor Swift, revealing that she’d co-written a song with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 12:34 pm
BFFs Selena Gomez: toxic relationships and complicated alliances Big week for Selena Gomez last week with the release of two new singles after a lengthy absence. But as she’s been saying while promoting the music, she was hurting and she was struggling and now that she says she’s moved past it, she’s ready to share By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 25, 2019 Dear Gossips, Entertainment Weekly published its early predictions for the 2020 Oscar nominations yesterday. It’s actually not early anymore to talk about the Oscar race. This is when the race starts taking shape. What’s really exciting to me is that, right now, EW thinks that Awkwafina will be By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 08:39 am
Music Taylor Swift’s Tiny Desk Concert Taylor Swift’s Tiny Desk Concert, recorded a couple of weeks ago, was just posted by NPR yesterday. She performed three songs (“The Man”, “Lover”, and “Death By A Thousand Cuts”) off her new album, Lover, and her classic, “All Too Well” – you know, the one about Jake Gyllenhaal, which By Lainey • Oct 17, 2019 11:52 am
Weddings Hailey Bieber’s wedding dress I’ve been a bride and I’m vain as f-ck so I know how it is when you get married. You try and make that wedding last as long as possible. Weeks after it’s over, when nobody else cares anymore, you’re still trying to extend the life By Lainey • Oct 08, 2019 11:49 am
TV Updates Phoebe & Taylor’s SNL The season premiere of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Woody Harrelson, wasn’t great. In fact, the whole episode was embarrassing, except for Aidy Bryant cracking up when a crew member came in at the wrong time. So, as I wrote last week, it was going to be interesting to By Lainey • Oct 07, 2019 01:57 pm
TV Updates Taylor Swift can see Taylor Swift is the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend. They keep lubing up her fans by posting throwbacks of her previous appearances on Twitter. And here’s the promo she shot with this week’s host, Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 🎉 Phoebe Waller-Bridge hosts the show this weekend with musical By Lainey • Oct 04, 2019 12:46 pm
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
BFFs Gigi & Tyler at the Taylor stage Gigi and Bella Hadid presented at the MTV VMAs the other night. Then they hit up the after-party with Taylor Swift. Gigi and Taylor have been close for years. Taylor hung out with Gigi and Zayn Malik when they were still together. Taylor recorded a duet with Zayn. And now By Lainey • Aug 28, 2019 11:46 am
Music Taylor in a decade Ten years ago, at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Taylor Swift was interrupted by Kanye West in a moment that kicked off one of the most significant chapters in celebrity gossip history – and it’s a chapter that may not have reached its conclusion. A decade later, during her first main By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 11:10 am
Music Taylor Swift’s long Lover Taylor Swift’s seventh album, Lover, was released last night, a few hours after the release of the video for the song “Lover”. “Lover” is, presumably, about Joe Alwyn and there’s been all kinds of speculation, because of the lyrics, whether or not she and Joe might be married By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 12:40 pm
Media Manipulation Taylor becomes Tom’s story Tom Hiddleston has been in New York the last few weeks performing on Broadway. He’s received great reviews for his work in Betrayal and that should be the focus. When you’re doing theatre in New York, when it’s your Broadway debut, what you want is coverage in By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 01:10 pm