Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 11, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS has been pretty quiet the last few weeks. Not entirely off the grid, and still releasing treats for their fans, but in terms of major announcements that get circulated beyond ARMY awareness, it’s been pretty low-key. This week though, ahead of Lunar New Year, there is By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 08:56 am
Top Reads BTS x LV When I saw that Louis Vuitton was trending this morning and, at the time that I checked, there were over 100K tweets, I knew it couldn’t have been just because of the new collection. I suspected that either the company had gotten in some offensive f-cksh-t or… BTS. Because By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 03:42 pm
Top Reads The BTS Magazine Effect Did you do your assigned homework? On Friday, in What Else, I linked to CNN’s article about the BTS effect on the American magazine industry this year as assigned reading. If you read it then you know that the piece reported on the magazine sales of four publications that By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 01:57 pm
Music BTS: Do You Know the Entertainer of the Year? Last week, TIME, ahead of their reveal of the 2020 Person of the Year (Joe Biden and Kamala Harris), also announced their Athlete of the Year (LeBron James), Businessperson of the Year (Eric Yuan, Zoom), and the Entertainer of the Year. The TIME Entertainer of the Year for 2020 is By Lainey • Dec 15, 2020 03:16 pm
Top Reads BTS’s Award Show Weekend It’s now year-end award season in South Korea and this weekend there were two music award shows, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. The one on Sunday is referred to as MAMA, the Mnet Asian Music Awards, a major event in Asia, comparable to the MTV VMAs in By Lainey • Dec 07, 2020 03:22 pm
Music The BTS iOS This is a post about the artists who’ve just achieved their THIRD #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Which means this is a post that anyone who consumes pop culture should care about – because how many other artists, like in HISTORY, can say they’ve been able to do By Lainey • Dec 01, 2020 03:19 pm
Top Reads The BTS Models It’s been a big week for BTS and their ARMY. On Wednesday, the band received its first Grammy nomination for their smash hit “Dynamite”, which is a goal they’ve been talking about for years. Their new album, BE, their second of 2020, was released last Friday and is By Lainey • Nov 27, 2020 02:43 pm
Music BTS: The Nomination and the Talk Show Standard As I’ve been writing about for months now, BTS has been quite vocal about their hopes for a Grammy. It’s a whole Grammy package, actually. They performed at the Grammys last year as guests of Lil Nas X which means they’ve yet to be invited to showcase By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 02:35 pm
Music BTS Closes the AMAs There are a lot of BTS storylines happening right now – and I’m covering them separately because there’s too much to jam in just one post. In this post then, let’s focus on their performance at the American Music Awards, after they’d won multiple AMAs, including Favourite By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 01:17 pm
Music Intro for November 20, 2020 Dear Gossips, BTS’s new album, BE, their second album of 2020, dropped today. A video for the first track, “Life Goes On”, dropped at the same time and is already breaking records. Don’t ask me which records because this band and its ARMY break so many records so By Lainey • Nov 20, 2020 09:06 am
Music BTS: BE Quiet BTS’s new album, BE, will drop in two days, on Friday November 20. Last week I wrote in the open to expect exhaustion – from me and from our content – because a typical BTS comeback is LOT. And it’s not like over the last couple of weeks they haven’ By Lainey • Nov 18, 2020 10:56 am
Music BTS: Music Innovator of the Year WSJ. Magazine has named BTS the Music Innovator of the Year in their annual Innovators issue. Before we get into that, I need to mention that the Television Innovator of the Year is Micaela Coel and if you haven’t watched I May Destroy You yet, well, it’s not By Lainey • Nov 13, 2020 12:39 pm
Jason Momoa Intro for November 13, 2020 Dear Gossips, Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of John Legend being named PEOPLE Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. His reign will come to an end soon, probably next week, when the 2020 Sexiest Man Alive will be announced. Who will it be? Though he probably doesn’t get a By Lainey • Nov 13, 2020 09:21 am
Style Intro for November 10, 2020 Dear Gossips, BTS won four MTV European Music Awards the other night including Best Group and Best Song for “Dynamite”. We are now just ten days away from the release of their new album BE on November 20 which means, as usual, whenever the band is on a comeback, there’ By Lainey • Nov 10, 2020 10:01 am
BTS Intro for November 6, 2020 Dear Gossips, One of our dogs started shifting and woke my husband up at 4am this morning. Instead of going back to sleep, he checked his phone first for US election updates. You know who didn’t go back to sleep even though there was an agreement for him to By Lainey • Nov 06, 2020 08:46 am
Music Intro for October 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, The thing that broke me this morning was what broke Stephen Colbert: Dolly Parton’s singing. It’s the first clip I watched when I got up. Here it is if you haven’t yet seen it: .@DollyParton sings “Bury Me Beneath The Willow” and I think somebody By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 08:51 am
