Music Taylor Swift on the First Monday In May It’s a little early to be talking about the MET Gala but we haven’t yet mentioned this year’s theme or the celebrity co-chairs. Joining Anna Wintour this year for the event will be Nicolas Ghesquiere, Karl Lagerfeld, Miuccia Prada, Idris Elba, Jonathan Ive, and, yes, Taylor Swift. By Lainey • Feb 23, 2016 10:13 am
Girly Throw Downs Taylor donates to Kesha Taylor Swift announced this weekend that New Romantics will be the next single off 1989. I’ve written several times about New Romantics. It’s a really good song. Taylor, however, as we all know, has already won Album of the Year for 1989 which, as we also all know, By Lainey • Feb 22, 2016 09:44 am
BFFs Taylor Swift’s party date Taylor Swift went to the Grammys with Selena Gomez. They got ready together. We just won a Grammy for the Bad Blood music video and we are NOT OK. @selenagomez A video posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) onFeb 15, 2016 at 2:40pm PST They walked the carpet together. No By Lainey • Feb 16, 2016 10:45 am
Girly Throw Downs Taylor Swift lays up Unlike Leo and the Oscars, Taylor Swift has never pretended to not want to win Grammys. She wanted Album of the Year for Red. And when that didn’t happen, she wrote the “sonically cohesive” 1989 and she spent time with the Recording Academy – click here for a refresher - By Lainey • Feb 16, 2016 10:02 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Taylor Swift & the Five Elements There are five elements in Chinese philosophy: Fire, Wood, Water, Earth, and Metal (but the Chinese word for it is “gold”). We believe that each person has their own zodiac sign and elemental phase. For example, I was born in the Year of the Ox in the metal phase. Which By Lainey • Jan 04, 2016 09:37 am
Gossip Nostalgia Christmas Swift One of my favourite Taylor Swift facts is that she grew up on a Christmas tree farm. I feel like if Mariah Carey could rewrite her birthplace, Christmas tree farm would be her second choice, next to “luxury manger”, if such a thing exists. Which it can. Someone invented “glamping” By Lainey • Dec 24, 2015 11:21 am
Top Reads Taylor’s birthday Taylor Swift is back in LA after wrapping up the 1989 World Tour in Australia. Yesterday was her 26th birthday. She celebrated with Calvin Harris at Jimmy Iovine’s holiday and birthday party for his daughter. Timely. Because Jimmy is connected to Apple and Taylor just announced that starting December By Lainey • Dec 14, 2015 10:34 am
Dumbass Jared Leto vs TMZ Actually, that’s an incomplete title. The complete title should be: Jared Leto vs TMZ over Taylor Swift How much do you think Taylor loves that Jared Leto is getting legal with TMZ because of her? Jared is insisting that it’s more about “morality” but, come on, isn’t By Lainey • Dec 10, 2015 03:32 pm
BFFs Tall jumping blondes Taylor Swift has been on tour in Australia the last couple of weeks. Blake Lively has been in Australia the last couple of weeks shooting a movie. They decided to be friends. And they decided to show us that they're friends. So we're still collecting, I By Lainey • Dec 07, 2015 09:13 am
Music Taylor Swift pulled over Taylor Swift is touring in Australia. While driving around today she saw a girl wearing a Taylor Swift t-shirt and pulled over impromptu to meet her. The ended up posing for a few photos. Obviously the best surprise ever for a pre-teen. I’m surprised she’s not telling her By Lainey • Nov 30, 2015 01:07 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s quiet Thanksgiving Taylor Swift has been quiet. For a couple of weeks now. Nothing on social media this week, not even a Thanksgiving message? At the time of this writing (Friday 6am) there’s been nothing. Taylor spent the week in New Zealand. She was apparently shooting a new music video (possibly By Lainey • Nov 27, 2015 10:16 am
Music Taylor Swift: one year of 1989 I mentioned in the previous post about Adele that I leave for holiday the day after 25 comes out which means I’m listening to it nonstop when I’m away. Last year, the soundtrack of my holiday was Taylor Swift’s 1989. It came out pretty much right when By Lainey • Oct 28, 2015 04:51 pm
Music Intro for October 22, 2015 Dear Gossips, A few weeks ago, Miranda Lambert dubsmashed Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood and posted it on Instagram. Last night she joined Taylor on stage in Greensboro as the surprise guest and together they sang Little Red Wagon. Miranda even wore a 1989 t-shirt. Miranda was just in Calgary By Lainey • Oct 22, 2015 09:54 am
Music Intro for October 20, 2015 Dear Gossips, Have you watched Ryan Adams interviewing Taylor Swift about both their 1989s? Oh reeeeally? I say that with my eyes closed, like I’m blind. Let me take you back to 2008 when Ryan was dating Mandy Moore. He was 34 at the time...so please, don’t By Lainey • Oct 20, 2015 09:31 am
Music “Sonically cohesive” Taylor Swift took the 1989 tour to Dallas this weekend. Ellie Goulding was the special guest. They sang Love Me Like You Do. In other Taylor news… The term “sonically cohesive” has been coming up a lot, have you noticed? She mentioned it in her GQ interview with Chuck Klosterman By Lainey • Oct 19, 2015 10:50 am
Music Taylor Swift’s top read of the week What does it mean that Taylor Swift has Instagrammed the photos from her GQ cover shoot and tweeted about her day at the beach with the magazine but, as of post time, not linked out the interview yet? Click here if you missed my thoughts on Chuck Klosterman’s piece By Lainey • Oct 16, 2015 05:21 pm