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
Style Hope, Rosalia, Rose, and Kit Men’s Fashion Week in Paris, Louis Vuitton was one of the presentations today. And, as expected, one of the most high profile celebrity guests was BTS’s j-hope and the brand acknowledged that hype too, posting a video of Hobi on their feed ahead of his attendance wearing, well, By Lainey • Jan 19, 2023 03:10 pm
Style BTS Paris Fashion Week Men’s Fashion Week in Paris is now underway and there have been a couple of major branding announcements this week to kick off the schedule. As it turns out, BTS will have a big presence. It was already confirmed a few days ago that j-hope would be attending the By Lainey • Jan 18, 2023 12:46 pm
Music Intro for December 13, 2022 Dear Gossips, Today is an emotional day for those of us in the BTS fandom, aka ARMY. It’s been an emotional few days, actually. No, no, f-ck that …it’s been an emotional year! Because we’ve been anticipating this week since back in June, during FESTA (BTS’s By Lainey • Dec 13, 2022 09:44 am
BFFs RM + Pharrell The cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone features RM and Pharrell as part of their Musicians on Musicians issue. This is a meeting between two prolific and highly successful producer-performers, one who has already been through multiple stages in his career and another who’s in the process By Lainey • Nov 01, 2022 12:18 pm
TV Updates Intro for October 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, I’ve been listening to Rihanna’s new song, “Lift Me Up”, from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack all morning. Like driving to work, crying. Does it hit this hard only because I’ve seen the movie? Or does it work the same even if you haven’ By Lainey • Oct 28, 2022 09:22 am
Music Taylor’s Midnight Madness First, a word on Taylor Swift’s productivity. Taylor Swift released her album Lover in August of 2019. A year later she dropped another album, folklore, by surprise. Six months after that, another surprise album: evermore. Then another five months ago by and it’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version), the By Lainey • Oct 20, 2022 11:05 am
Music Intro for October 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, Waking up on Saturday at 4am to livestream a BTS concert felt familiar. Can’t even count anymore how many times I’ve done this over the last two-plus years. As it turns out, this time was the last time for a long time. Because when I woke By Lainey • Oct 17, 2022 09:33 am
Emmy Awards 2022 Intro for September 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, Yesterday in the open about the Emmys I wrote that I’ll be interested in what the ratings are because I wasn’t convinced that people cared, and the timing wasn’t great with so much sh-t going on even before the Queen died and the 24-hour non-stop By Lainey • Sep 14, 2022 09:08 am
Music BLACKPINK: VMA Weekend and That Rumour It’s been a week since BLACKPINK’s new song, “Pink Venom”, was released. This is the first track off their upcoming album, Born Pink, due September 16. Already “Pink Venom” is a smash hit, setting records on YouTube and Spotify: .@BLACKPINK's stunning "Pink Venom" visual By Lainey • Aug 26, 2022 11:05 am
Music Intro for August 4, 2022 Dear Gossips, On Sunday night at Lollapalooza in Chicago, BTS’s j-hope became the first Korean artist to headline a major American music festival. In the process, he became the highest ticket-selling artist in Lollapalooza history. They added ten minutes to his set time, which started at 850pm ahead of By Lainey • Aug 04, 2022 10:19 am
