What Else Chaos and a mess of thoughts I am still processing all the BTS today. Basically cried all morning streaming the concert, their first tour show in four years. And then spent the rest of the morning watching fan-cams while waiting for Hot Ones to drop the new episode, howling through those 25 minutes because of all By Lainey • Apr 09, 2026 04:14 pm
BTS Intro for April 8, 2026 Dear Gossips, I mean this in the most uncreepy way possible: wonder how much sleep RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook are getting tonight. At the time of writing, it’s around 9pm in Korea, the last night before they kick off their world tour with the By Lainey • Apr 08, 2026 10:43 am
BTS Intro for April 6, 2026 Dear Gossips, For the second week in a row, BTS’s ARIRANG is #1 on the Billboard 200. While their previous albums have all opened at the top of the albums chart, this is the first time they’ve repeated and it’s also the first time a K-pop record By Lainey • Apr 06, 2026 09:21 am
What Else BTS: Choreo and Comedy We were promised new drops every day – and BTS always keeps their promise to ARMY. So the barrage continues, no complaints, the entire fandom has been in a euphoric state for weeks now. Here’s what happened today: RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook were live on By Lainey • Apr 01, 2026 04:26 pm
BTS Intro for March 31, 2026 Dear Gossips, It’s an understatement to say that BTS’s comeback with their new album, ARIRANG, has been huge. They’ve topped the Billboard 200, selling 641,000 units; the lead single, “Swim”, is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. And “BTS has also become the first act to By Lainey • Mar 31, 2026 09:37 am
BTS Intro for March 27, 2026 Dear Gossips, Baseball is back, baby! Here in Toronto a new Blue Jays season begins tonight – I’ll be there to see the new banners, to welcome home our beloved crew of ragtag silly misfits who went from worst to first (in the American League) last season and charmed fans By Lainey • Mar 27, 2026 10:46 am
BTS Intro for March 26, 2026 Dear Gossips, BTS returned to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night, occupying the majority of the episode – and we’ll get into more of the interview and their performance later but first, some controversy behind the scenes. Seth Herzog is the resident comedian at The Tonight Show who By Lainey • Mar 26, 2026 10:36 am
BTS BTS for a thousand The BTS comeback has expanded to include even Jeopardy! as the show’s YouTube account posted a compilation video the other day of some of the times when the group was an answer on the board. But this week, BTS for a thousand could also mean last night, when they By Lainey • Mar 24, 2026 01:26 pm
What Else BTS: Live, Travel, Fashion, and More Like all ARMYs around the world, my weekend was all BTS. I listened to the album nonstop and of course I was up early on Saturday morning to watch the comeback concert in Seoul live on Netflix. And I’ve also replayed it several times since they’ve edited to By Lainey • Mar 23, 2026 04:08 pm
BTS BTS ARIRANG: Human, Hungry, Horny This is not an album review. As a hardcore fan of BTS, it’s probably not possible for me to be completely objective about the new album, ARIRANG. In my opinion, they did it, they delivered, under all that pressure and expectation, having been away for so long, and their By Lainey • Mar 20, 2026 01:16 pm
BTS Intro for March 20, 2026 Dear Gossips, An hour after BTS released their new album, ARIRANG, last night (at noon in Korea), RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook went live on YouTube for a Studio Notes session to talk about the new tracks. At one point in the conversation, the members remarked By Lainey • Mar 20, 2026 10:10 am
What Else BTS: in a few hours, and on the hour It’s pretty much the only thing on my mind, even though I have so much to do LOL. Like a writing deadline, and a full work day tomorrow, but all I can think about is we’re only just a few hours away from what ARMY has been waiting By Lainey • Mar 19, 2026 04:22 pm
BTS Intro for March 19, 2026 Dear Gossips, A year ago today I was in Seoul with my best friend, Fiona, hiking up to Namsan Tower in the morning, and then drinks in Gangnam later that night. I wish I was there now, because for millions of us around the world, the nucleus of pop culture By Lainey • Mar 19, 2026 09:35 am
Music Intro for March 18, 2026 Dear Gossips, For some of us – and by “some”, I mean an entire ARMY – there’s only one preoccupation right now. We’re so close now, so close to our “Spring Day”, less than 48 hours to go until The Comeback we’ve been waiting years for: BTS’s new By Lainey • Mar 18, 2026 09:30 am
BTS Intro for March 5, 2026 Dear Gossips, I was waiting on Netflix all day yesterday. Tuesday night they announced that “tomorrow” they’d drop the official trailer for BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG, the band’s comeback show that will be streamed on March 21 from Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul. So, like probably hundreds of By Lainey • Mar 05, 2026 09:55 am
BTS So BTS: Return of the Kings It’s been reported that ahead of their live comeback show in Seoul on March 21, one day after the release of ARIRANG, their highly anticipated comeback album, BTS will make their way to the stage via what’s called the King’s Road, a historic path that was used By Lainey • Feb 13, 2026 12:35 pm