BTS BTS Transcends The Recording Academy introduced several new Grammy categories last month – among them the Best Asian Pop Music Performance award, better known as the BTS Grammy. Let’s not pretend that the award wasn’t created for BTS, because as I wrote at the time, even in the description of the By Lainey • Jul 29, 2026 01:13 pm
Top Reads BTS, Bieber, and Speed Many of the football purists hated the existence of the first ever FIFA World Cup final halftime show and the performance itself didn’t change their mind. On the other side of that conversation, there are people who watched the event just for halftime. And still others who argue that By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 11:18 am
BTS BTS is “good enough” About a month ago, Duana sent me a text asking me, “Have you heard about du bist gut genug?” I tapped back a question mark, huh? Her reply: “The new hit with the kids. German.” With a video of an impossibly catchy and borderline annoying beat. “Du bist gut genug” By Lainey • Jul 14, 2026 10:33 am
BTS Intro for July 9, 2026 Dear Gossips, It won’t just be Madonna, Shakira, BTS, and Justin Bieber on stage for the first-ever FIFA World Cup halftime show. They will also be joined by Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel, the PS 22 Chorus featuring Coldplay …and the Muppets. Also the performance is supposed to be By Lainey • Jul 09, 2026 09:23 am
BTS Intro for July 7, 2026 Dear Gossips, In 2019, BTS became the first South Korean act to sell out Wembley Stadium, one of London’s most iconic venues, in just over an hour. On June 2, 2019, during the second show, ARMY surprised RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook, pulling off By Lainey • Jul 07, 2026 09:01 am
What Else The Viking Baby Mochi There’s a lot of synergy happening between BTS and the World Cup on the European leg of their Arirang World Tour. The tour kicked off a couple of weeks ago in Madrid, when Spain was playing Uruguay. The following week they were in Brussels performing when Belgium played that By Lainey • Jul 06, 2026 04:18 pm
Style Intro for June 25, 2026 Dear Gossips, One day after j-hope was at Paris Fashion Week for the Louis Vuitton show, Jimin was one of the most high-profile, if not the most high-profile, guests at Dior. The last time Jimin was in Paris for Dior, it resulted in a meltdown – just three By Lainey • Jun 25, 2026 09:41 am
Gong Yoo Intro for June 24, 2026 Dear Gossips, Anyone who has ever f-cked with K-dramas knows Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, better known as Goblin. It’s one of the most-watched, most popular K-dramas of all time, about an immortal mythological figure looking for his bride through the centuries so that By Lainey • Jun 24, 2026 10:43 am
Top Reads The BTS Grammy The Recording Academy announced yesterday that five new categories will be presented for the first time next year, so in the current Grammy cycle. The category I want to focus on in this post is Best Asian Pop Music Performance award, described by the Recording Academy as follows: “This Category By Lainey • Jun 17, 2026 11:08 am
BTS Intro for May 27, 2026 Dear Gossips, About a week ago on Instagram, Oreo posted a curious little video about fan mail, using the number seven, when it’s not like the brand had been doing a countdown. The people who are attuned to this kind of thing caught on pretty quickly. Oreo is four By Lainey • May 27, 2026 09:50 am
BTS Intro for May 26, 2026 Dear Gossips, What do you do when you’re a popstar after winning multiple awards at an award show taking place in Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps? Do you hit the tables? The club? Rooftop after-party with all the other celebrities? For some, sure. If you’re By Lainey • May 26, 2026 09:45 am
BTS Intro for May 25, 2026 Dear Gossips, It is Memorial Day in the United States and the American Music Awards are happening tonight in Las Vegas. But that’s not the biggest show in Vegas right now. As noted last week, Vegas for days has been taken over by BTS. This is not an exaggeration. By Lainey • May 25, 2026 09:30 am
BTS Intro for May 20, 2026 Dear Gossips, The American Music Awards are happening next Monday 25 May in Las Vegas. I wasn’t planning on watching the show since MC is going to watch and post about the event the following day for this site. That has now changed, turns out I have to tune By Lainey • May 20, 2026 10:18 am
Shakira Intro for May 14, 2026 Dear Gossips, For the first time ever, FIFA will present a halftime show during the World Cup final on July 19 at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey, benefiting “the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, a landmark initiative working to raise USD $100 million to expand access to quality education By Lainey • May 14, 2026 10:06 am
BTS BTS Loves Mexico As we saw last week, 50,000 people showed up outside the National Palace in Mexico City to catch a glimpse of BTS on the balcony when President Claudia Sheinbaum welcomed RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook to the country ahead of their three sold-out shows. By Lainey • May 11, 2026 12:41 pm
BTS Intro for May 7, 2026 Dear Gossips, BTS will perform the first of three concerts tonight in Mexico City GNP Seguros Stadium and the stop in Mexico felt like a state visit – not hyperbolic. Yesterday they were invited by President Claudia Sheinbaum to the National Palace, where the person who holds the highest office in By Lainey • May 07, 2026 09:31 am
