Music Intro for May 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, The iHeartRadio Music Awards were last night and it was The Weeknd and BTS leading the way with the most wins. BTS took the named Best Music Video, Best Fan Army, and Favourite Choreography. So it’s been a big week for the band, because they’ve once By Lainey • May 28, 2021 09:13 am
Equality Issues BTS in Pole Position Motor racing is one of the things on my mind this weekend because it’s the Monaco Grand Prix, the jewel of the F1 circuit, arguably the most prestigious race in the world. And while I have never paid much attention to this event, Drive to Survive changed all that By Lainey • May 21, 2021 01:07 pm
Music BTS Will “Butter” Everything BTS is about to drop their new song, “Butter”, in just three days. For their ARMY, that means non-stop promotional photos and other small sips over the last few weeks leading up to the release. And for everyone else it means …get ready, even if you’re not on the By Lainey • May 18, 2021 03:06 pm
TV Updates Friends…and BTS A surprise today, and it was done quite cleverly: an update on the Friends reunion. It had previously been reported that they’d been working on it, after a delay of nearly a year, but there was no information about when, like how long HBO Max would hold it before By Lainey • May 13, 2021 03:56 pm
Music BTS + Coldplay? Coldplay has released a new song, “Higher Power”, produced by Max Martin. The song and video premiered in space from the International Space Station with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Here it is: I’ve only listened to it twice all the way through so it hasn’t had time to By Lainey • May 07, 2021 11:35 am
Top Reads BTS and Conan O’Brien Earlier this week Conan O’Brien announced that after eleven seasons, he’s going off the air on TBS. He’ll be doing another show for HBO Max but he’s moving on from the late night format he’s been a part of for almost 30 years. Conan announces By Lainey • May 06, 2021 03:10 pm
Music Intro for April 27, 2021 Dear Gossips, I don’t think it’s news that with the way algorithms work on social media, sometimes our feeds can make us believe that the thing we care about is the thing that everyone else cares about. Yesterday I heard someone say that the Oscar producers’ decision to By Lainey • Apr 27, 2021 09:02 am
Style BTS + LV Earlier this week, McDonald’s announced a global partnership with BTS. To end the week, Louis Vuitton has just confirmed their new House Ambassadors: This is BTS + LV. But also BTS + Virgil Abloh, LV’s Men’s Artistic Director. I’m excited to see what the Bangtan and Virgil collaboration By Lainey • Apr 23, 2021 01:09 pm
BTS Lizzo posing I would like to appreciate Lizzo today. Because while there are certainly celebrities, many of them, who can’t stand the paparazzi, and they have valid reasons for it, there are other celebrities who aren’t bothered by the paps. And don’t bother pretending they don’t like the By Lainey • Apr 13, 2021 09:45 am
Top Reads The House that BTS Built First, a quick recap on BTS-related business affairs over the last six months or so before we get into this major music industry news. Last fall, just weeks after BTS earned their first and second #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Dynamite” and the “Savage Love” remix, their company, By Lainey • Apr 05, 2021 02:45 pm
Equality Issues BTS Supports #StopAsianHate This past weekend, there were anti-Asian racism protests in several major cities across Canada and the United States. In Los Angeles, a youth group performed towards the end of the rally to BTS’s “Dynamite”. For some time now, BTS members RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook have By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 02:45 pm
Grammy Awards 2021 BTS’s Endless Grammys Generosity If you’ve been paying attention to the Grammys, especially this past week, as noise about the Grammys’ lack of transparency and glacial rate of change were dominating the headlines, it shouldn’t have been a shock that BTS did not win on their first Grammy nomination. For the Recording By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 04:45 pm
TV Updates Intro for March 9, 2021 Dear Gossips, There’s still more to stay about Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, aka the Television Event of the Year, and check here if you missed my last post of yesterday on how Harry turned his cameo into a leading role, but for now, By Lainey • Mar 09, 2021 09:43 am
Music Intro for March 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, During an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music this week, Adam Levine remarked that “there aren’t any bands anymore”. “That’s the thing that makes me kind of sad, is that there were just bands. There’s no bands any more, and I feel like they’ By Lainey • Mar 05, 2021 09:13 am
Equality Issues BTS and Anti-Asian Racism Over the last few weeks, there has been a louder – not loud enough, in my opinion – but at least louder conversation about anti-Asian racism and the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. This is in part due to Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu raising awareness about the attack on a By Lainey • Feb 26, 2021 01:47 pm
Music BTS Unplugged As anticipated in yesterday’s open, ahead of, during, and after BTS’s MTV Unplugged, the band and its fans took over social media. BTS or BTS-related hashtags and buzzwords, even the names of the bandmembers themselves, were trending in all the top spots. And then, not that they needed By Lainey • Feb 24, 2021 12:24 pm
