Movie Reviews and Previews Gorgeous Joe for Prada Joe Alwyn is the new face of Prada’s Ascension campaign. Aptly named, non? A year ago Joe was the rising star lead of Ang Lee’s overhyped and underwhelming Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk which was supposed to be an Oscar contender with new technology and camera work, By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 09:50 am
Music Taylor Swift: release week drama Taylor Swift’s new album, reputation, is out on Friday. So far she’s released four songs. I’m not super into any of them. But she’s already pre-sold 400,000 units of the album, and it’s Target’s biggest music pre-sale of all time. As of now, By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 09:09 am
Music Taylor Swift is so in love As promised, Taylor Swift released another song, the fourth, from her upcoming reputation. Gorgeous was a crush song about Joe Alwyn. Call It What You Want is straight up a love song about Joe Alwyn. Taylor Swift is so in love. And what she’s doing with her love is By Lainey • Nov 03, 2017 09:28 am
Music Watching Taylor work We are exactly a week away now from the release of reputation. Which means the next few weeks or so are going to be all Taylor all the time. Just this morning, Good Morning America made the announcement that Taylor will perform a new song next Thursday, the same day By Lainey • Nov 02, 2017 11:49 am
TV Updates Tiffany & Taylor Alphabetically, Taylor comes before Tiffany. And on the fame scale, yeah, Taylor Swift ranks higher than Tiffany Haddish, higher than almost everyone, really. On excitement and anticipation though, Tiffany takes it. Tiffany Haddish broke through in 2017 in Girls Trip. And on Jimmy Kimmel. It was announced today that she’ By Lainey • Oct 30, 2017 03:56 pm
Music Chinese Taylor Swift This post is supposed to be about Taylor Swift’s new video. In the coming weeks and probably months, because reputation is COMING, there will probably be a lot of posts a lot of places about Taylor Swift’s new videos. And everyone will have to find new ways to By Lainey • Oct 27, 2017 09:32 am
Music Gorgeous in Atlanta Joel Edgerton is directing a movie in Atlanta called Boy Erased. What ISN’T shooting in Atlanta right now? Lucas Hedges, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor Oscar last year for his work in Manchester By The Sea, is one of the stars. And also, Joe Alwyn. AKA Taylor By Lainey • Oct 26, 2017 01:23 pm
Music Intro for October 25, 2017 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift’s new song, Gorgeous, the third single from her upcoming album reputation, hit #1 on the iTunes sales chart the day it was released. This morning at 6am ET, it was sitting at #5. Ed Sheeran’s Perfect is the current #1, the fourth single off By Lainey • Oct 25, 2017 08:31 am
Music Taylor Swift’s Gorgeous I love the word gorgeous. It starts off aggressive, then becomes ripe and soft, ending on a hiss. Which means it can be whatever it wants to be – obscene, sly, but also alluring, and suggestive. Gorgeous is a great word. And now I’m worried Taylor Swift has ruined it. By Lainey • Oct 20, 2017 09:44 am
Taylor Swift Harry, Camille…and Taylor? Harry Styles performed in Toronto last night at Massey Hall. My friend Amy was at the show. And she texted me last night to tell me that she saw Camille Rowe was there. At the back of the stage. Kathleen posted about Harry and Camille last week, that they’ve By Lainey • Oct 05, 2017 10:16 am
Music Taylor sends Cardi flowers As mentioned the other day in What Else, with Bodak Yellow, Cardi B became the first female solo rapper to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 18 years, taking down Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do. And it’s worth a conversation because, obviously, Cardi By Lainey • Sep 27, 2017 10:39 am
Music The Old Taylor is still here The new era of Taylor Swift is far from over. It’s just beginning. Beyoncé help us. I was hoping I would never have to watch the Look What You Made Me Do video ever again because when I saw it the first time, the Old Kathleen almost died of By Kathleen • Sep 21, 2017 11:49 am
BFFs Jake knows about Taylor’s… music Stronger, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Boston marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, opens this weekend. Click here for my thoughts on the film after its TIFF world premiere. To promote Stronger, Jake and Jeff interviewed each other which turns into Jeff giving Jake sh-t, kinda like Zach Galifianakis’s Between Two By Lainey • Sep 19, 2017 10:54 am
Media Manipulation Taylor Matrix: the new commercial Up until about two or three weeks ago, Taylor Swift’s 2017 has been pretty quiet. Up until about two or three weeks ago, the conversation about Taylor Swift in 2017 has been about what she’s been up to, where she is when she goes underground, who she’s By Lainey • Sep 07, 2017 01:16 pm
Music Taylor Swift knocks out Taylor Swift Well. This is getting meta upon meta. Let’s start with Look What You Made Me Do, Taylor Swift’s first single off of the upcoming album, reputation – also, by the way, like mother!, styled in all lower case. Because it’s already not hard enough to avoid typos. LWYMMD By Lainey • Sep 05, 2017 05:08 pm
Game of Thrones Show Your Work: Taylor Swift is The Matrix Taylor Swift has been breaking all kinds of records with Look What You Made Me Do – on iTunes, on YouTube, on Spotify. So while the song may not be a hit with critics, it’s undeniable that she’s one of the most powerful forces in music. Which is why, By Lainey • Aug 28, 2017 03:34 pm
