BFFs Taylor’s very gay video It’s Pride month – and Taylor Swift has just released the video to her latest single, “You Need To Calm Down”. As she promised on Instagram this weekend, a LOT of celebrities show up. A lot LGBTQ+ celebrities. Like Laverne Cox, and Ellen DeGeneres, getting a tattoo from Adam Lambert, By Lainey • Jun 17, 2019 09:32 am
Music Taylor Swift’s Lover Yesterday was June 13, 2019, the day the North with remember forever. #WeTheNorth The number 13, however, as we all know, is Taylor Swift’s favourite. So she made some announcements yesterday. It is now confirmed that her new album is titled Lover. It comes out August 23 (8+2+ By Lainey • Jun 14, 2019 11:23 am
BFFs Taylor Swift & Katy Perry: it’s really over I don’t think anyone needs me to recap why Taylor Swift and Katy Perry stopped being friends. But I’ll give you two words: “Bad Blood”. “Bad Blood” is old though, because last year, just as Taylor was kicking off the reputation tour, Katy sent her an olive branch By Lainey • May 31, 2019 12:10 pm
Music Taylor and Joe in Paris Taylor Swift is promoting “ME!” in Europe. She performed on The Graham Norton Show and The Voice France a few days ago. How is “ME!” doing in your world? It plays on the radio a lot where I am but I’m not sure it’s making a cultural impact, By Lainey • May 27, 2019 01:25 pm
Ellen Degeneres Taylor Swift drinks white wine Taylor Swift is on The Ellen Show today, her first interview in two years or so. The clips are all over the place – you can find them all here. As we’ve seen, this is accessible Taylor, and it’s supposed to feel like a sharp pivot from reputation Taylor By Lainey • May 15, 2019 11:10 am
Music Taylor Swift + Game of Thrones Taylor Swift covers the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. This is basically a takeover. Taylor is a huge get for EW. They’ve dedicated several features in addition to the cover story to Swift content. And it’s a proper magazine interview – not an essay she’s written about herself, By Lainey • May 10, 2019 11:12 am
Music The old Taylor is back on the phone Taylor Swift opened the Billboard Music Awards last night with a marching band. You know where this is going – where else could it go? The comparisons were inevitable, non? Like, there is no way no one wouldn’t have picked up on it, especially since we just came off that By Lainey • May 02, 2019 09:58 am
Music Taylor Swift: “ME!” It’s not a clothing and accessories line. This is a relief. As I expected, all those teaser photos Taylor Swift’s been posting for the last couple of weeks were scenes from the video for her new single “ME!”, with Brendon Urie from Panic! At The Disco. I heard By Lainey • Apr 26, 2019 10:59 am
Assy Style Taylor & the Khaleesi Have you noticed that while everyone on Game of Thrones calls Daenerys “Your Grace” except for f-cking Jorah Mormont who’s still going around calling her “Khaleesi”? (Even Jon Snow, in public, calls her “Your Grace”.) I don’t know the official reason for it but my read is that By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 12:07 pm
Music Taylor Swift on the TIME 100 Taylor Swift is one of the TIME 100 for 2019. Shawn Mendes wrote the feature. .@ShawnMendes: “The magic of @taylorswift13 doesn’t come from the lights, dancers or fireworks (although all of that is incredible) but from the electrifying connection that she has with the people who are there to By Lainey • Apr 17, 2019 01:07 pm
Music The Avenging Taylor Swift Taylor Swift is counting down to something. There’s a countdown clock on her website. Her social channels the last few days are all pointing to “4.26”. The obvious would be new music, six months before she’s known to prefer to release new music, in the fall, but By Lainey • Apr 15, 2019 11:37 am
Music Mo-cap Cats Here’s a question I’ve been asking on this site for months now: what the f-ck is this Cats movie? The Cats movie comes out just before Christmas. Like, pretty much at the same time as Star Wars: Episode IX. They’re counterprogramming Star Wars with Cats. OK. Tom By Lainey • Apr 05, 2019 11:07 am
Music A.I. Katy Perry Taylor Swift walked the carpet at the iHeartRadio Awards last night without giving interviews because that’s her thing now. It’s also a status thing. The big ones can breeze in, take some photos, and bypass the press line. Katy Perry doesn’t have that option though. As one By Lainey • Mar 15, 2019 12:06 pm
Taylor Swift Same old Taylor Taylor Swift won several awards at the iHeartRadio Awards last night, including best tour. She wore a blue/purple sequined romper, a look she’s done before, in years past, in eras past. And that wasn’t the only thing that felt old, like a rerun. Like we’ve been By Lainey • Mar 15, 2019 11:10 am
TV Updates The Snapchat Network and Taylor Swift The Black List is “an annual survey of [300] Hollywood executives’ favourite unproduced screenplays". According to Deadline, “since its inception by feature development executive Franklin Leonard the survey has yielded north of 400 Black List scripts. Of that batch, those produced continued on to earn $26B+ at the global By Lainey • Mar 11, 2019 12:23 pm
Relationship Assumption Is Tom Hiddleston Lesson #16? Taylor Swift’s American ELLE cover was released earlier this week featuring her essay about the 30 lessons she’s learning before turning 30. It was a full-bodied piece about empowerment and growth, about reflection and self-interrogation in search of improvement AND it came with gossip bonuses, not unlike the By Lainey • Mar 08, 2019 12:46 pm
