Media Manipulation Taylor’s missing necklace We last checked in with Taylor Swift on Friday, back with Gigi Hadid and several other regular “squad” members. They’d all spent the night at Taylor’s before hanging out in Reading, PA to visit the home where she grew up. They then attended Taylor’s first show in By Lainey • Jul 16, 2018 04:54 pm
Taylor Swift Taylor & Gigi together again Taylor Swift’s reputation tour is now stateside. She has a couple of days off. And look, it must be Flashback Friday because she was papped today with Gigi Hadid in New York outside her apartment. How long has it been?!? A while, right? Not just that she’s hanging By Lainey • Jul 13, 2018 01:57 pm
Music Taylor Swift: Interview with the Muse Taylor Swift covers the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar. And the work here is pretty interesting. As we saw with the release of reputation, Taylor changed her media strategy. You might say she borrowed a little from Beyoncé in that she scaled wayyyyyy back on traditional promotion. There were By Lainey • Jul 10, 2018 12:09 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Taylor & Joe’s Fourth on the beach Yesterday in What Else I shared some Gossip Nostalgia about #Taymerica. It’s been two years since the last #Taymerica starring Tom Hiddleston and, for now, Taylor Swift has boarded up the annual tradition, to be resurrected in due time, when the time is right. The reason we celebrate(d) By Lainey • Jul 06, 2018 10:15 am
Top Reads Taylor Swift’s best hair? Taylor Swift's most recent reputation tour date was in Denver on May 25. There was a week in between Denver and the next stop (today in Chicago) for her to play the Biggest Weekend Festival in Swansea last weekend and hang out with Joe Alwyn. Here they are By Lainey • Jun 01, 2018 12:28 pm
Taylor Swift Misunderstood Taylor Swift Please allow me to start with the Taylor Swift news of the weekend that has nothing to do with the Billboard Music Awards. I will get to those but first, please enjoy the glory of the English language in the form of the co-writer of “September” commenting on Taylor’s By Kathleen • May 21, 2018 12:07 pm
Relationship Assumption Joe’s first Cannes Joe Alwyn was in Cannes last night, for the first time, to receive the Trophée Chopard that’s awarded each year to a rising star. Elizabeth Debicki was also a recipient. Joe has two films coming out later this year – Mary Queen of Scot and The Favourite, both period pieces, By Lainey • May 15, 2018 11:33 am
Taylor Swift Katy’s long apology I posted yesterday about Katy Perry’s olive branch to Taylor Swift. Shortly after, ET reported on the reasons behind Katy’s peace offering. According to their sources, Katy had been trying for a long time. “Katy and Taylor's years of cruel comments about one another in their By Lainey • May 10, 2018 01:30 pm
Music Katy’s olive branch for Taylor Taylor Swift kicked off the reputation stadium tour last night in Glendale. There was a giant snake on stage at one point. Several giant snakes, actually: Taylor during the epic performance of Look What You Made Me Do at #repTourGlendale. pic.twitter.com/bvGONa7kXM— TSwiftPR Media (@TSPRMedia) May 9, 2018 By Lainey • May 09, 2018 12:12 pm
Music Taylor’s new singles As mentioned in my post about her the other day, I’ve been hearing from industry sources this week in Nashville about Taylor Swift and a new song and something to do with Jennifer Nettles. Looks like my sources were right. Sugarland will release a brand new song titled #Babe By Lainey • Apr 13, 2018 12:12 pm
Music Taylor’s countdown…and a rumour Taylor Swift posted 9 new photos to Instagram yesterday to build anticipation for the reputation tour. The tour kicks off May 8 in Glendale, AZ. Here she is with the dancers: A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Apr 10, 2018 at 4:52pm PDT And all sweaty coming By Lainey • Apr 11, 2018 04:00 pm
Taylor Swift Taylor Swift can’t dance We know this. That’s supposed to be the point, I guess. Lainey theorized after the Delicate music video dropped that Taylor’s horrific, oh-god-why-am-I-watching-this dancing is deliberate. She doesn’t care that she’s the 2018 Napoleon Dynamite. She’s dancing like no one is watching – except that we’ By Kathleen • Mar 14, 2018 12:57 pm
Music Taylor Swift: was Delicate “unexpected”? Taylor Swift’s video for Delicate premiered last night at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Delicate is considered to be one of the favourite songs off reputation, if not the favourite. The video was directed by Joseph Kahn, who’s directed all the videos off the album so far, and most By Lainey • Mar 12, 2018 12:48 pm
Music Taylor & Joe go hiking A few times the last couple of weeks there have been articles from multiple entertainment outlets like E! and Grazia about how undercover Taylor Swift has been with Joe Alwyn and the lengths they’ll go to to keep their relationship private. Then, yesterday, new photos were released of Taylor By Lainey • Mar 09, 2018 10:42 am
BFFs Taylor Swift, Joe Alwyn, and the #Kaylor conspiracy Taylor Swift has been very quiet this year so far. Just like she was for most of last year before releasing her album. And even then it was scheduled appearances only and super undercover the rest of the time which we now know she spent falling in love with Joe By Lainey • Mar 01, 2018 09:58 am
Hook Ups Lorde and Jack Antonoff in Auckland In January, when Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff broke up, I mentioned that my friend casually predicted that he’d move on with Lorde. In my previous post, I chose to keep my friend anonymous. She works in media too so I didn’t think she’d want her name By Kathleen • Feb 22, 2018 09:11 am