Music RM: Right Place, Wrong Person… curious timing? There’s been major drama happening in K-pop this week at the executive level. And amidst all this, it was announced yesterday that RM’s second album will drop in May. We’ll come back to this in a minute. Let’s talk briefly about the mess within HYBE, which By Lainey • Apr 26, 2024 01:36 pm
BTS Intro for December 22, 2023 Dear Gossips, Today is our final day of posting on the site as we are pausing for the holiday break. Should something huge go down, and by huge I mean Travis Kelce gets down on one knee on the field at Arrowhead after the game on Christmas Day and proposes By Lainey • Dec 22, 2023 09:36 am
Music Intro for December 13, 2023 Dear Gossips, A little emotional this morning. Because basically just as I was waking up, a new video was posted on one of BTS’s YouTube channels: RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook’s military entrance ceremony. As previously mentioned, all four of them reported for duty earlier this week, beginning By Lainey • Dec 13, 2023 09:03 am
BTS Intro for December 11, 2023 Dear Gossips, For BTS fans it was a weekend of big emotion. By tomorrow all seven members of the band will be serving mandatory military service in South Korea. In anticipation of the entry, RM and V posted letters to their fans and shared photos of how they’ve been By Lainey • Dec 11, 2023 08:53 am
BTS Intro for November 22, 2023 Dear Gossips, Fans of BTS know this well and it’s become a bittersweet running joke, that the scariest words to read are as follows: “Hello. This is BIG HIT MUSIC.” It’s felt that way for over a year now as the band has paused group activities in order By Lainey • Nov 22, 2023 09:00 am
Music JK takes NYC What a week Jungkook has had in New York as he promotes his debut album, GOLDEN, which dropped last Friday. There was an appearance and performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He was at Sirius XM doing promotion. He did a set on The Today Show and he By Lainey • Nov 10, 2023 11:36 am
Music Rachel McAdams, Jungkook, and Emma Corrin I know, right? Not a trio of names you expected to be thrown together. But I’m connecting them for a reason. All three of them are trending on social media right now – Jungkook and Emma Corrin together and Rachel McAdams on her own. Let’s start with JK because By Lainey • Nov 01, 2023 02:44 pm
Music Intro for October 4, 2023 Dear Gossips, Big music announcement yesterday: Just a few days after releasing his second solo single, “3D” featuring Jack Harlow, the follow-up to his Billboard #1 hit “Seven” featuring Latto, which is also expected to contend for top spot on the charts, Jungkook’s label announced yesterday that an album By Lainey • Oct 04, 2023 09:41 am
Music JK in LA Jungkook is in Los Angeles right now and while it’s not known why he’s there, some fans thought that he may have been heading to the VMAs when he left Korea earlier this week. Maybe it’s a pitstop before he goes east as the VMAs are happening By Lainey • Sep 07, 2023 09:46 am
Music Intro for August 8, 2023 Dear Gossips, It was a long weekend in most of Canada and for those of us who are BTS fans, the weekend experience was ALL THE FEELINGS: euphoria, nostalgia, pride, exhilaration, heartbreak, and then all the way back to excitement. This band has technically been on a group pause for By Lainey • Aug 08, 2023 09:18 am
Music Intro for July 25, 2023 Dear Gossips, Yesterday I posted about BTS’s Jungkook taking the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for his song “Seven” ft Latto. There’s no overstating just how close it was – and while I wrote yesterday that BTS fans, like me, had been refreshing all day waiting for By Lainey • Jul 25, 2023 09:40 am
Music Jungkook > Jason Aldean BTS’s fans, myself included, have been waiting all day, refreshing Billboard for this week’s charts to see if Jungkook’s “Seven” featuring Latto could top the Billboard Hot 100. This is JK’s first time with a #1 as a solo artist, and he’s the second member By Lainey • Jul 24, 2023 03:18 pm
Music The BTS Barbie Crossover I just gloated about this during our morning meeting at The Social – the BTS fanbase, aka ARMY, is so desirable to marketers that even the Barbie press tour is trying to engage them. And that’s why Ryan Gosling is trying to talk to Jimin. Ryan gosling send a message By Lainey • Jul 20, 2023 11:34 am
Music Jungkook’s Horny “Seven” Last Friday, ahead of the release of Jungkook’s new single “Seven”, which dropped today, and all the thirst-trappy vibes he was serving to promote it, I wondered if the song was about JK being DTF seven days a week. Horny is not usually part of the BTS playbook – but By Lainey • Jul 14, 2023 01:19 pm
Quiveration Jungkook’s “Seven” Thirst Traps BTS’s Golden Maknae, Jungkook, will release his new single, “Seven”, next Friday and while it’s not his first solo effort – his song “Dreamers” for example was part of the World Cup soundtrack last year – most people see this as his official solo debut because “Seven” is not associated By Lainey • Jul 07, 2023 11:27 am
Style Intro for June 14, 2023 Dear Gossips, Louis Vuitton released new campaign images today for the Keepall, the brand’s signature duffel, the bag that’s been around since 1930, featuring BTS’s j-hope in a variety of dance poses. The most familiar version of the Keepall, of course, is in the classic LV print. By Lainey • Jun 14, 2023 10:12 am
