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
Music BTS Goes For Three …and a Grammy It was announced earlier this week that, for the second week in a row, BTS’s “Dynamite” has topped the Billboard Hot #100. They’d already made history in their first week, and a repeat only adds to their ongoing success. “Dynamite” is still getting radio play in North America By Lainey • Sep 10, 2020 01:58 pm
Music BTS: A Map of 7 Bosses As mentioned earlier this week, BTS’s “Dynamite” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, a historic accomplishment. RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook are now the first all-Korean artists to claim the title – and it happened on Jungkook’s birthday so it’s been a balls-out celebration By Lainey • Sep 02, 2020 12:31 pm
Music BTS’s Victory Lap We talk about timing here a lot at this site – gossip timing but also work timing, how timing is a part of work strategy. Where BTS is concerned, how about this timing? They performed “Dynamite” at the MTV VMAs last night, their first appearance at the VMAs, and picked up By Lainey • Aug 31, 2020 02:58 pm
Music BTS’s subversive “Dynamite” BTS’s new English song, “Dynamite”, broke all kinds of records this weekend. It’s the biggest music video premiere in YouTube history. And it now holds the YouTube record for most views in 24 hours – 101 MILLION. Not surprisingly, “Dynamite” received the most first day western radio plays of By Lainey • Aug 24, 2020 12:37 pm
Music Intro for August 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, I’m shooting my part for The Social’s new season show-opener this afternoon at a park; it’s my first field shoot in months and I’m pretty excited – to see the crew, to just be rolling on something outside of my living room, and because earlier By Lainey • Aug 21, 2020 08:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad & Harry? Twitter is currently being dominated, as usual, by BTS because their new reality series, In the SOOP, just premiered (I’m watching tonight!) and ARMY is counting down to the release of “Dynamite”, and they cover the new issue of GQ Japan. But you know who else is trending? Brad By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 12:59 pm
