Music Intro for June 16, 2025 Dear Gossips, You’re probably not wondering but I’ll tell you anyway – I am still not OK after the BTS events of last week when four members of the band were discharged from mandatory military service and then ALL of them attended j-hope’s show in Seoul on Friday By Lainey • Jun 16, 2025 09:46 am
Music Fast & Bangtan It is officially Friday 13 June in South Korea which means… it’s Festa! Happy 12th anniversary BTS! Festa celebrations are blowing up on social media as it’s already been a joyful week with RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook all discharged after completing their military service. And there’s By Lainey • Jun 12, 2025 04:05 pm
Music Intro for June 11, 2025 Dear Gossips, Six out, one to go! Yesterday it was RM and V’s military discharge, today it’s Jimin and Jungkook who enlisted and served together in the same unit. Like RM and V they were greeted by media and fans. Unlike RM and V, who put on a By Lainey • Jun 11, 2025 09:45 am
Music Intro for June 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, Imagine being the biggest act to ever come out of South Korea, with a catalogue of music that’s almost entirely in Korean; selling out multiple world tours, and about to embark on their biggest stadium tour yet, still heading towards a summit that was never thought possible By Lainey • Jun 10, 2025 09:30 am
BTS Jin in New York: Hi-Ten to Countdown After lighting up the Empire State Building earlier this week, Jin has continued to promote his album, Echo, in New York the last couple of days. There was an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and yesterday he was at a fan event. Tickets to Hi Seokjin were By Lainey • May 23, 2025 10:20 am
Tom Cruise Jin and Tom and the Empire State It was reported last week that while Tom Cruise was in Korea promoting Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, he made a variety show appearance – and the show he chose was Run Jin!, hosted by Kim Seokjin, one of the seven members of BTS. Their interview was released yesterday and if By Lainey • May 21, 2025 11:50 am
BTS Intro for December 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday was a week to Christmas. And some of us, millions of us, received an early Christmas present: Jungkook went live yesterday on Weverse. JK is one of five members of BTS who are still serving mandatory military service in South Korea. Jin and j-hope were discharged earlier By Lainey • Dec 19, 2024 09:55 am
Music The two Vs V from BTS, aka Kim Taehyung, aka Tae (ARMYs use these names interchangeably) released a new song today. “Winter Ahead” is a collaboration with Park Hyo-shin, a song that highlights V’s musical leanings. Each member of BTS has their own personal style sound and preference. Jin, for example, has By Lainey • Nov 29, 2024 11:55 am
Music Intro for October 25, 2024 Dear Gossips, For BTS’s ARMY and Little Monsters, today is a good day. New music arrived today, or last night, depending on where you are. And while there’s usually not that much crossover between BTS and Lady Gaga, there is something similar between the two tracks: they both By Lainey • Oct 25, 2024 09:47 am
Music Intro for July 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, In March 2023 Jimin’s “Like Crazy” from his debut solo album FACE became the first song by a Korean solo artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Nine months later, Jimin enlisted for mandatory military service and he’s not scheduled to be discharged By Lainey • Jul 19, 2024 09:53 am
Music Intro for July 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, BTS’s Jin was not at Glastonbury with Coldplay which is what some ARMYs had been anticipating. As usual, though, there were a lot of celebrities at the festival, including a Mission Impossible delegation led by Tom Cruise, joined by director Christopher McQuarrie and Simon Pegg who, by By Lainey • Jul 02, 2024 09:28 am
BTS Intro for June 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, I am unhinged. And normally I save this outpouring of emotion for my BTS group chat – which has been popping off for hours, shoutout to my girls Ann, Hannah, and Liz. Because all we’ve been doing is crying and laughing and squealing over the footage of Jin’ By Lainey • Jun 12, 2024 09:29 am
BTS Intro for June 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, Big day tomorrow, and I’m having a hard time believing it’s actually happening. Where did the time go?! BTS’s label BIG HIT MUSIC released a statement yesterday about Jin’s military discharge. We are just hours away from Jin completing his duty – 18 months, just By Lainey • Jun 11, 2024 09:22 am
Music RM: BTS, Beef, and the MCU converge As anticipated earlier this week, RM dropped a new single with a music video, “Come Back To Me”, today, collaborating with an all-star team behind and in front of the camera. Pachinko’s Kim Minha is his co-star, and the short film was directed by Emmy winner Lee Sung Jin By Lainey • May 10, 2024 09:56 am
Music Intro for May 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, BTS’s leader, RM, announced a couple of weeks ago the release of a new album Right Place, Wrong Person. On Friday he’s dropping a new single, “Come Back To Me” and the art work for the track, revealed yesterday, is especially beautiful. These are made to By Lainey • May 08, 2024 08:53 am
TV Updates Intro for May 1, 2024 Dear Gossips, I was feverish on and off yesterday, tried to stay in bed as much as I could, and when I was awake, much of that time was spent binge-finishing the second half of Queen of Tears and sobbing my way through this cold. The series has now ended By Lainey • May 01, 2024 09:53 am
