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
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
Amazingness Splash-around Leo Leonardo DiCaprio was back on the beach in Malibu yesterday splashing around in the ocean. You know those famous Leo skipping photos? You know the infamous Leo strutting meme? If you live online, I’m sure you can picture it in your mind right now. But just in case, it’ By Lainey • Aug 18, 2020 04:06 pm
Amazingness Splash-around Leo Leonardo DiCaprio was back on the beach in Malibu yesterday splashing around in the ocean. You know those famous Leo skipping photos? You know the infamous Leo strutting meme? If you live online, I’m sure you can picture it in your mind right now. But just in case, it’ By Lainey • Aug 18, 2020 04:06 pm
Amazingness Splash-around Leo Leonardo DiCaprio was back on the beach in Malibu yesterday splashing around in the ocean. You know those famous Leo skipping photos? You know the infamous Leo strutting meme? If you live online, I’m sure you can picture it in your mind right now. But just in case, it’ By Lainey • Aug 18, 2020 04:06 pm
Music Saturday Night BTS Fever BTS drops their new English-language track “Dynamite” on Friday. Photo teasers have been released over the last couple of weeks to promote the song and today, a teaser for the video dropped on the band’s social platforms. As we’ve seen, the song feels retro – and originally it was By Lainey • Aug 18, 2020 01:01 pm
Music BTS: More, More, More A long time ago I made a decision about BTS: for me, personally, and I know this isn’t the case for many members of the BTS ARMY, I accepted the fact that it’s impossible for me to keep up with everything BTS. If only keeping up with BTS By Lainey • Aug 13, 2020 02:16 pm
Music Retro BTS is still the future BTS’s new English language single, “Dynamite”, is coming on August 21. While more and more artists are doing surprise drops, BTS’s style has always been advance notice. They’ll not only tell you that they’re on the way, along the way they’ll leave all kinds of By Lainey • Aug 12, 2020 02:08 pm
Music BTS: “Dynamite”, Filters, Phones, and Hair As announced a few days ago, BTS’s upcoming English-language song is called “Dynamite” and there’s been a series of countdowns happening to hype the release. The latest countdown reveal was today: there’s a “Dynamite” Instagram filter. Please. Of course I tried it. Also the light was really By Lainey • Aug 06, 2020 02:04 pm
BTS BTS is Returning to America Before we get to what BTS is up to now, because as we’ve established, this band never f-cking stops, I just want to show you why I felt seen on Twitter this weekend. Here’s what was trending worldwide on Sunday afternoon: That’s right – the two most dominant By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 02:27 pm
TV Updates Intro for July 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, Last month, Zendaya participated in The Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actress roundtable, now a regular award season campaign stop. Zendaya was representing her work in Euphoria, which aired last summer and thus was ineligible for Emmys consideration. One year later though and, clearly, the Television Academy still remembers By Lainey • Jul 29, 2020 09:23 am