Music Intro for April 6, 2022 Dear Gossips, BTS’s Las Vegas takeover is well under way. RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook will perform four sold out shows at Allegiant Stadium this coming weekend and next and as I mentioned earlier this week after their Grammys performance, Vegas right now feels like it’ By Lainey • Apr 06, 2022 10:06 am
Grammy Awards 2022 Intro for April 5, 2022 Dear Gossips, As we saw on Grammy night, especially the way that the theatre was set up, not unlike at the Oscars with the artists sat at cocktail tables on the floor, it gave celebrities more of an opportunity to hang out with each other during commercial break. At one By Lainey • Apr 05, 2022 09:27 am
Music BTS at the Grammys: Ocean’s Seven As mentioned on Friday, for most of the week leading up to the Grammys, it wasn’t clear whether or not BTS would be able to perform as a full team of seven members, after the band announced Jungkook’s positive COVID diagnosis last Monday. By Saturday though, it was By Lainey • Apr 04, 2022 11:09 am
Top Reads The BTS Grammys The Grammy Awards are happening this weekend in Las Vegas, one of the few times the Grammys are taking place after the Oscars, so this year it’s the rock stars who get to close out award season. Maria mentioned yesterday in Celebrity Social Media that the Golden Globes and By Lainey • Apr 01, 2022 10:24 am
Top Reads Las Vegas is about to get Bangtan-ed BTS lit up social media yesterday with a big announcement – they’ve scheduled four shows in Las Vegas in April: BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE - LAS VEGAS 공연 개최#PTD_ON_STAGE_LV #PermissiontoDance #BTS #방탄소년단 pic.twitter.com/t38IjGOf3o — BIGHIT MUSIC (@BIGHIT_MUSIC) February 22, 2022 The By Lainey • Feb 23, 2022 12:32 pm
Music Intro for December 6, 2021 Dear Gossips, In December 2019, BTS was planning for what was expected to be their biggest world tour, in support of their new album, Map of the Soul: 7 which was released February 2020. They were in the US to promote the album for a few weeks in January/February By Lainey • Dec 06, 2021 09:34 am
Amazingness Intro for December 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, Which member of Succession’s Roy family is most likely to attend a BTS concert? We kicked off ETALK with this story yesterday. Because of this amazing photo. https://twitter.com/kimseokjinsbby/status/1465199996156977154 That looks like Logan Roy aka Brian Cox, doesn’t it? According to fans By Lainey • Dec 01, 2021 09:21 am
Music Intro for November 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, I’m not usually the kind of person who is afflicted with fomo. But, f-ck, I wish I was in LA right now for the BTS shows. On Saturday night, RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook kicked off the first of four concerts at SoFi Stadium By Lainey • Nov 29, 2021 09:48 am
Top Reads BTS returns to James Corden I remember just before the pandemic hit in North America, early 2020, when BTS did James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke, how many people I heard from, both friends and strangers, because that was their introduction to the band that they’d heard or read me obsessing over for years, and By Lainey • Nov 24, 2021 12:36 pm
Top Reads The AMAs of BTS Back in 2017, BTS performed for the first time on a North American award show. And it was at the American Music Awards. It is not an exaggeration to say that they blew the roof off the place – much to the surprise of the western music industry, including the celebrities By Lainey • Nov 22, 2021 11:48 am
Style Intro for November 22, 2021 Dear Gossips, “I got my heart broken by a bum [when I was 15]” – LOL, that was Cardi B just before introducing Olivia Rodrigo at the American Music Awards last night. It’s just one of several quotable moments from Cardi who was, well, exactly what you would expect from By Lainey • Nov 22, 2021 09:19 am
Music Intro for November 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, We are entering into an exciting time. BTS has just kicked off their imminent three-week North American takeover as they have departed Seoul and, at the time of this writing, are headed to Los Angeles. On Sunday, RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook are scheduled to By Lainey • Nov 17, 2021 08:59 am
Style American Music Awards Nominations: Olivia Rodrigo and BTS The American Music Awards nominations were announced today. The show will air on Sunday, November 21. And it’s no surprise that Olivia Rodrigo, one of the breakout stars of 2020/21, leads all artists with seven nominations, followed by The Weeknd with six. Olivia’s biggest hit is “drivers By Lainey • Oct 28, 2021 02:25 pm
Style Intro for October 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, The last time BTS performed in concert for a live audience it was October 26, 27, and 29, 2019 in Seoul, the grand finale of their Love Yourself: Speak Yourself World Tour, the highest-grossing tour ever by an act performing mostly in a language other than English. The By Lainey • Oct 25, 2021 09:16 am
Music Intro for October 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, Billboard yesterday confirmed the inevitable: .@Coldplay and @BTS_Twt rocket onto the Billboard #Hot100 at No. 1 with #MyUniverse. 💯 https://t.co/mEXavQW7eL — billboard (@billboard) October 5, 2021 It was inevitable because of BTS and their ARMY, currently the most powerful fandom in pop culture. BTS’s collaboration By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 08:58 am
Music Intro for September 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, Today is a major holiday in East Asia. In Chinese culture we call it Mid-Autumn Festival. In Japan it is celebrated as Tsukimi. In Vietnam it’s known as Tết Trung Thu and for Koreans, this is Chuseok. While certain details may vary from culture to culture, the By Lainey • Sep 21, 2021 10:24 am
