Top Reads BangBang Con, Jungkook, Obama, and Simone Biles This past weekend, BTS streamed almost 24 hours of past concert and fan club performance footage on YouTube for an event they called BangBang Con, meant to be an alternative to their Map of the Soul: 7 tour which was supposed to have kicked off this month. BangBang Con generated By Lainey • Apr 22, 2020 02:31 pm
BTS The Soft Masculinity of BTS Last weekend marked the one year anniversary of BTS’s appearance on Saturday Night Live, the first South Korean artists to perform on the show. They were promoting their then just-released album, Map of the Soul: Persona and its lead single, “Boy With Luv”, which went on to platinum certification By Lainey • Apr 15, 2020 02:33 pm
Music One Direction 2020? Last Friday when I took over temporarily for Maria for Good Friday, I mentioned the One Direction reunion rumours, because Liam Payne said in an interview that he’d been in touch with Niall Horan, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson about a 10th anniversary celebration. As I said, it’s By Lainey • Apr 13, 2020 02:19 pm
Maple Leaf JB + BTS Sasha and I meet at the intersection of Justin Bieber and BTS. This has come up a few times on our podcast, What’s Your Drama, which I shamelessly and highly recommend for your listen list during lockdown. Sasha is into Justin Bieber. She dresses like him, which she didn’ By Lainey • Apr 07, 2020 02:19 pm
Jake Gyllenhaal Jake G: Not the JK I was hoping for Yesterday in What Else?, I linked to an article about Tom Holland’s handstand t-shirt challenge and how he tagged Jake Gyllenhaal, and a couple of others, to do it next. Here, specifically, is what I wrote: “Is this a thing? I haven’t seen it on any of my By Lainey • Apr 03, 2020 10:52 am
Music Intro for March 31, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was exactly five weeks ago tonight that BTS was featured on James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke. That’s how some people in North America first met the band. It was a turning point for others who’d knew of them, but who didn’t care all that By Lainey • Mar 31, 2020 09:35 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina + Six in Isolation Angelina Jolie plus all six of her kids are in isolation together. But first, Angelina’s $1 million donation to No Kid Hungry was announced yesterday. In a statement posted to the organisation’s website, Angelina wrote: “As of this week, over a billion children are out of school worldwide By Lainey • Mar 26, 2020 12:15 pm
Mariah Carey How will Mimi set it up? And can BTS be a part of this? The iHeart Radio Music Awards were supposed to happen this coming Sunday, March 29th. That’s obviously not a possibility anymore because of COVID-19 lockdown. Instead Elton John will be hosting the iHeart Living Room Concert for America, a one hour commercial-free special to raise money for Feeding America and By Lainey • Mar 25, 2020 03:09 pm
Music Intro for March 16, 2020 Dear Gossips, Is everyone done with Elite season 3? Because I am and I need to talk about it but Kathleen has to share a television now that everyone’s staying home so she hasn’t caught up. Let’s give it a couple more days because I know some By Lainey • Mar 16, 2020 07:07 am
Music BTS is trying to kill me The BTS team, which includes the band members themselves, and their managers, and their social media marketing experts, are taking western artists to school right now because, Jesus, the amount of content that they’ve been dropping with the release of their new album, Map of the Soul: 7, is By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 11:56 am
Music BTS “ON” Film It’s music video day so let’s keep it going. Not that it’s a competition but what was the biggest video that’s dropped today? It depends on how you measure “big”, right? And there’s no one right way to measure it. Taylor Swift is a global By Lainey • Feb 27, 2020 01:00 pm
Music BTS Carpool Karaoke I feel vindicated today. Sasha’s been mocking my BTS obsession for weeks. This morning she texted, probably after watching them on Carpool Karaoke with James Corden. Her message: “I do think my goal is to laugh as much as BTS.” Exactly. That’s exactly why, as I wrote yesterday, By Lainey • Feb 26, 2020 01:56 pm
Music BTS on The Tonight Show BTS took over The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last night and also Twitter. They were trending before the show started and then as soon as the show began, several hashtags related to their appearance dominated on the platform, including #JungkookEnglish because at one point, during Jimmy’s interview with By Lainey • Feb 25, 2020 04:17 pm
Quiveration BTS: The Dirty Hair Era If you’re new to BTS, one of the most basic things to know about the band is that their career has progressed through eras. I don’t want to get too granular about this but an era for BTS isn’t exactly limited to a one album cycle – sometimes By Lainey • Feb 21, 2020 03:21 pm
Music ARMY, are you ready? I’m not f-cking ready and I’m not even technically a member of the BTS ARMY. My friends are As IF-ing me right now because all I ever do, every day and multiple times now for weeks, is text them or make them come over and talk to me By Lainey • Feb 20, 2020 03:56 pm
Music Intro for February 17, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s been about four years since I started mentioning BTS on this site. And, generally, I’ve been able to keep my obsession in check. But, man, the last few weeks have been out of control as we approach the release of their new album, Map of By Lainey • Feb 17, 2020 09:43 am
