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. 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 By Lainey • Mar 08, 2019 12:46 pm
Media Manipulation Intro for March 7, 2019 Dear Gossips, Last year, after Jennifer Lawrence interviewed Emma Stone for ELLE and Beyoncé interviewed herself for Vogue, Jon Caramanica asked in The New York Times whether or not the celebrity profile was dead. And then in November Allison P Davis took up the mantle with her outstanding piece on By Lainey • Mar 07, 2019 08:30 am
BFFs Taylor x Tahani “I haven’t been this upset since my good friend Taylor was rudely upstaged by my other friend Kanye, who was defending my best friend, Beyoncé.” – Tahani Al-Jamil, The Good Place If you’ve read Taylor Swift’s piece in American ELLE, you know she namechecked Jameela Jamil, star By Lainey • Mar 06, 2019 04:28 pm
Music Taylor Swift pre-30 Last week, Taylor Swift wrote a piece for ELLE UK about pop music. This week she covers American ELLE, once again in her own words, because like Beyoncé before her, Taylor isn’t doing interviews anymore. The question is – what is this for? The ELLE UK essay came and went By Lainey • Mar 06, 2019 12:46 pm
Music Taylor Swift: Pop Angel I really think I nailed it with the title of this post, but that would be starting at the end and not at the beginning. So let’s go to the beginning… Taylor Swift’s fans have been speculating for days that Something Was Up. Taylor was posting on Instagram By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 11:03 am
Grammy Awards 2019 Taylor’s BAFTA weekend Taylor Swift was not at the Grammys last night. She didn’t win any either. And her fans are pissed because it means that the reputation era is Grammy-less. Apparently some of them are threatening a Grammys boycott. Ohhhh kayyyyy. I get it. We’re all mad when our By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 03:26 pm
Relationship Assumption Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney engaged Page Six was on this first – they reported late yesterday that Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney were seen at a restaurant recently and she was wearing a “massive ring”. Shortly after, her reps confirmed to Page Six that it’s true, she’s getting married. It was also Page Six By Lainey • Feb 06, 2019 10:16 am
Taylor Swift Taylor Swift in the studio Taylor Swift was seen at Electric Lady Studios in New York yesterday. Maybe gives us some insight about her schedule and plans. Taylor was working on Cats near the end of 2018. Production continues in London. It’s a large ensemble so she’s obviously not required to be there By Lainey • Jan 18, 2019 11:34 am
BFFs Girls night with Selena, Taylor, and Cazzie During the reputation era, unlike the 1989 era, Taylor Swift wasn’t all that public about her friendships. There was very little friend time on display on her social media. Now that the reputation era is over, Taylor’s showing us a little more hashtag friendship. There was her New By Lainey • Jan 11, 2019 10:45 am
Golden Globes 2019 Idris Elba and Taylor Swift: Golden Globe Cats Seriously. That’s how Idris Elba and Taylor Swift were introduced at the Golden Globes last night – as co-stars of the upcoming Cats. Again and again, what even is this movie? At some point, in some scene, are Idris and Taylor going to start, like, purring at each other? By Lainey • Jan 07, 2019 10:27 am
BFFs Taylor’s Irish Christmas and New York New Year’s Eve Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn apparently spent Christmas in Ireland, renting out Glin Castle in County Limerick. Joe posted a photo on Instagram and you can see what looks to be Taylor’s shadow in the background. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Joe Alwyn (@joe.alwyn) By Lainey • Jan 02, 2019 01:22 pm
Music Taylor’s birthday and New Year’s It’s Taylor Swift’s birthday today. She’s 29. Which means we have a month to go before an entire year of conversations and think-pieces about Taylor turning 30 and what she’s done and what she’s going to do and this, that, and the other. Nobody By Lainey • Dec 13, 2018 01:40 pm
