Amazingness K-pop, Elijah Daniel, and the BBC Every time I think that I’ve seen the most outrageous, unbelievable headline, 2020 is like, “oh, so you thought??” and slaps me with another one. This weekend’s story was “professional troll and internet prankster Elijah Daniel tells the world to stan BTS and stream Stay Gold on the By Prem • Jun 22, 2020 10:33 am
Music Intro for June 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, BTS has never played a concert in Oklahoma. They could sell out any venue in Oklahoma in an hour. But they wouldn’t jeopardise the health and safety of their fans during a global health crisis. Unlike the president of the United States. Speaking of… A couple of By Lainey • Jun 22, 2020 09:41 am
Music BTS’s Lockdown Innovation COVID-19 has disrupted every industry and where the entertainment industry is concerned, even though musicians are in a better position to release new content than those in television and film, it’s the live experience that artists are still trying to figure out and how to make technology work in By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 02:45 pm
Music BTS and the Avengers I’m sure you’ve seen it but there was a clip that went viral the other day after Jemele Hill tweeted it and many of you sent it to me because it checks all my boxes. As you know, I’m super into the Avengers. Not too long ago, By Lainey • Jun 08, 2020 04:45 pm
Michelle Obama Ranking the speeches of Youtube’s “Dear Class of 2020” Recently, I ranked some virtual commencement speeches given by celebrities to the class of 2020 as they miss out on their traditional commencements during quarantine. Then, on Sunday, Youtube hosted (another) online commencement, “Dear Class of 2020”, for the class of 2020 which brings us a whole new crop of By Sarah • Jun 08, 2020 01:07 pm
Equality Issues K-pop fans and Black Lives Matter You may have noticed some headlines this week about K-pop fans and what they’ve been doing on Twitter to support Black Lives Matter. When the Dallas police put out a call for people to alert them to what they called “illegal activity” from the protests via their app, K-pop By Lainey • Jun 05, 2020 01:24 pm
Top Reads Suga: The Bias-Assassin and Leadership from the Back I don’t think I’ll ever stop being astonished at the creative output of BTS, not just during this pandemic lockdown but for the last seven years since the band debuted in 2013. The albums, the tours, the promotional appearances, the music videos, the multiple reality series, the documentary By Lainey • May 22, 2020 10:08 am
Music BTS goes WWE I never imagined that I’d be able to put BTS and World Wrestling Entertainment together in a sentence, let alone a post, but here we are. Almost all live entertainment around the world has been cancelled because of the pandemic. The at-home concerts we’ve been seeing are not By Lainey • May 14, 2020 03:15 pm
Barack Obama Intro for May 6, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s been seven weeks in lockdown and I’m afraid all the time. One thing that helps, for me, is having a schedule. Before the pandemic I was already a super scheduled person. Maybe even over-scheduled. I have alarms set throughout the day for shoot times, meeting By Lainey • May 06, 2020 08:51 am
BTS Jungkook: Another Day, Another Record Yesterday in my post about BTS and its youngest member, Jungkook, I called him the Simone Biles of BTS because he’s the band’s all-rounder, talented in all performing disciplines, and also athletic, which is an asset in the South Korean idol system because sports, like entertainment, is a By Lainey • Apr 23, 2020 04:55 pm
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
