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
Music Intro for October 20, 2020 Dear Gossips, Yesterday BTS released the first concept photo for their upcoming new album, BE (Deluxe Edition), dropping November 20. For the initiated or the newly initiated, hair colour is a big deal for BTS and its ARMY and you’ll note as we’re being introduced to the BE By Lainey • Oct 20, 2020 08:50 am
Music BTS: Top Charts, Top Stocks Sometimes I wonder if BTS and their label Big Hit have in their possession a crystal ball, or some kind of magical instrument, that helps them manipulate time and space to their advantage. Because their timing is a total mindf-ck, as they build upon their successes, one after another, with By Lainey • Oct 15, 2020 04:07 pm
Music Intro for October 13, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was a long weekend in Canada and I also took Friday and today off of my TV jobs so you’d think I’d be more well-rested. You know who never rests? No, no, I’m not talking about Kris Jenner. That expression, “the devil works hard By Lainey • Oct 13, 2020 08:58 am
Music BTS Brings the Drones “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” by Jawsh 685 (Joshua Stylah) and Jason Derulo peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. Stylah shared the original piece of music on TikTok months ago and it was already a viral hit on the platform before Jason sampled it for the song and, By Lainey • Oct 02, 2020 03:36 pm
Music BTS 101 for Grammy Voters As mentioned yesterday, BTS covers the new issue of Variety, which is the Grammy preview issue – so it’s pretty clear the motivation. It’s not like they’ve been hiding it; for a long time RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook have been saying for a long By Lainey • Sep 30, 2020 01:16 pm
Quiveration BTS’s Happy Harvest Moon As mentioned in yesterday’s open and over the years on this site, it’s a holiday week for those of us of East Asian descent. On Thursday October 1 it’s Tet Trung Thu in Vietnamese culture. The Japanese call it Tsukimi. For Chinese people it’s our Mid-Autumn By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 02:31 pm
Music BTS: New Album, New Remix, and IPO Up to this point this year, BTS has released a worldwide bestselling album (Map of the Soul: 7), a Japanese-language album, a docuseries and a documentary film, continued with their existing reality show (RUN BTS!) while filming a new series (In The SOOP), performed a virtual concert for an audience By Lainey • Sep 28, 2020 12:14 pm
Music BTS Is Everywhere, Part 613 It’s only Tuesday and already there are so many BTS updates. This morning I got this on Twitter: Ok as baby army I was warned by @LaineyGossip about the full on comeback schedules that are announced but no one warned me about the constant surprises. UN here they come By Lainey • Sep 22, 2020 02:25 pm
Music Intro for September 16, 2020 Dear Gossips, The “Twitter From Home” trend report was released yesterday with the platform sharing data on what people have been tweeting about in the United States the last six months during lockdown. Here is the list of the top 10 most tweeted about artists from March to September of By Lainey • Sep 16, 2020 09:37 am
Music Everyone’s Thirsting Over Cherubim Justin Bieber OK, I don’t know about “everyone”, because as Prem just told us, some people are thirsting over Logan Lerman’s hair, but to extend the dude hair talk, Justin Bieber’s is also a conversation now because it’s longer and it’s curling out at the ends, and By Lainey • Sep 15, 2020 01:26 pm
