Music Intro for June 13, 2023 Dear Gossips, June 13 is a big deal every year for BTS and their ARMY – June 13, 2013 is when the band made its debut. Today, then, is the 10th anniversary. Landmarks in Seoul have been lit up in purple to mark the occasion and all across the country there By Lainey • Jun 13, 2023 10:11 am
Music Intro for June 5, 2023 Dear Gossips, For BTS fans, collectively known as ARMY, there is never any rest. Even though the band has paused current group activity so that each of its seven members can fulfill their mandatory military service in South Korea, their individual projects have been rolling out on a steady drip By Lainey • Jun 05, 2023 09:38 am
Relationship Assumption Jennie & V: A Big (Silent) Deal It was a major new development yesterday – BLACKPINK’s Jennie and V of BTS (also known as Taehyung) were photographed holding hands while walking along the Seine in Paris after a year of speculation over whether or not they’re dating. Despite some fans refusing to believe it’s true, By Lainey • May 18, 2023 12:11 pm
Relationship Assumption Jennie & V: The New Pop Super Couple Super couple, power couple… are you ready? It’s been a year of rumours and speculation. Last May a photo of what looked BLACKPINK’s Jennie and BTS’s V on a road trip on Jeju Island in Korea was shared on social media. More photos soon followed, spreading like By Lainey • May 17, 2023 11:47 am
Royals Intro for May 8, 2023 Dear Gossips, If you’re looking for coronation content today, I’m not sorry to say I was in Chicago this weekend for the Suga tour and he is the only king I recognised this weekend. This was my first (and hopefully not last) BTS-related concert experience, I’m still By Lainey • May 08, 2023 10:05 am
Pharrell Williams Jewels and Jimin at Tiffany & Co As I mentioned a couple of days ago, one of the biggest events on the New York social calendar this week was the reopening of The Landmark at Tiffany & Co on Fifth Avenue. It’s been under renovation for four years, LVMH has now taken over the brand, and By Lainey • Apr 28, 2023 11:03 am
Style K-pop at the Met Gala? Before we get to the Met Gala, let’s talk about Succession – as in the real-life succession plans of the richest man in the world (at the moment), Bernard Arnault. I wrote about this back in August of 2021, just after Beyoncé and Jay-Z were named the ambassadors of the By Lainey • Apr 25, 2023 01:20 pm
BTS Intro for April 18, 2023 Dear Gossips, BTS’s management confirmed a few weeks ago that j-hope had initiated enlistment procedures to serve mandatory military duty. He posted this on Instagram yesterday – you’ll see him with a buzz cut in the second photo. So…it’s time. Hobi reported to the training centre today By Lainey • Apr 18, 2023 09:27 am
Music Bad Bunny and Other Coachella Intrigue Bad Bunny started 2023 by wiping out his Instagram. That was in early January, just after he went viral for throwing a fan’s phone into the bushes when she was following him and trying to film him. He then defended himself on Twitter saying that he’s down with By Lainey • Apr 14, 2023 12:06 pm
Music Intro for April 4, 2023 Dear Gossips, If you’re still using Twitter, you may have noticed yesterday that BTS’s ARMY was dominating most of the trending topics worldwide. For Jimin – and it was a major achievement. With “Like Crazy” and its #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100, Jimin has just made history. By Lainey • Apr 04, 2023 09:56 am
Music Intro for March 28, 2023 Dear Gossips, When BTS announced last year that they’d be pausing group activities to focus on solo projects and allow for all seven members to fulfill their mandatory military service in South Korea, there was some question as to exactly how RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook By Lainey • Mar 28, 2023 09:53 am
TV Updates Jimin Time It’s been about half a year or so since BTS announced that they’d be focusing more on solo projects while each of the seven members fulfill their mandatory military duties in South Korea. When BTS was fully immersed in their group activities, the content was non-stop, for years. By Lainey • Feb 22, 2023 03:03 pm
Music Suga on Tour BTS’s Suga previously said in a video message that in 2023, he wanted to try something he’d never done before. Yesterday may have been the answer to whatever he was referring to…and it was a huge announcement: Suga will be the first member of BTS to go By Lainey • Feb 15, 2023 01:16 pm
TV Updates Physical: 100 gets a HUGE boost Yesterday in the site open, I wrote about my new series obsession, Physical: 100, Netflix’s new physical challenge reality competition show produced in Korea. The show is bananas. The production value is bananas. The competitors are hot AF. And the competitors beat the sh-t out of each other but By Lainey • Feb 03, 2023 11:59 am
Gorgessity Suga, Anne, and Doja Cat at the Club Le Club Couture is the theme of Pierpaolo Piccioli’s latest collection for Valentino presented yesterday at Paris Haute Couture Week. Every major fashion house is bringing in celebrities for their presentations and for Valentino, this show marked the debut of their newest DI.VAs ambassador: Suga of BTS. Suga By Lainey • Jan 26, 2023 10:42 am
Gorgessity Hobi and Jimin take Paris Last week I posted about the BTS presence at Men’s Fashion Week in Paris. Louis Vuitton had secured j-hope’s attendance and participation for the week. And Dior announced that Jimin would be their new global ambassador. Here’s a video of Jimin arriving at the show. Look at By Lainey • Jan 23, 2023 01:30 pm
