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
Music BTS covers Billboard No other artist this year has spent as much time on the top of Billboard Hot 100 as BTS with their back-to-back hits “Butter” and “Permission to Dance”. After reading their new Billboard cover feature in the new issue of the magazine… I’m not sure Billboard is all that By Lainey • Aug 27, 2021 01:54 pm
Top Reads Megan Thee Stallion Fights for Her Career By Billboard Hot 100 standards, the biggest song of 2021 so far is BTS’s “Butter”. It has topped the chart for more weeks than any other track this year, is still consistently landing in the Top 10, and the band intends to extend that success even further by releasing By Lainey • Aug 25, 2021 10:55 am
Music Intro for July 27, 2021 Dear Gossips, We are living in Bennifer Summer. At the same time, we are also living in BTS Summer. For the last nine weeks, so basically the ENTIRE summer, and even before, if we’re counting from the solstice, BTS has been on top of the Billboard Hot 100. Their By Lainey • Jul 27, 2021 09:32 am
Music BTS: Permission to Travel Yesterday in my opening post about BTS, I wrote about their success over the last year: they’ve just unseated themselves at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, knocking out their own song “Butter” with their new song “Permission to Dance”, their fifth #1 in ten months. And yet, By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 02:15 pm
Music Intro for July 20, 2021 Dear Gossips, At this point, it was expected, although it’s never a guarantee. Maybe it is now? After seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Butter”, BTS has knocked their own song out of the top spot with their new song, “Permission to Dance”. Billboard made By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 08:52 am
Amazingness BTS from the Bridge Earlier this week, Billboard confirmed that BTS’s smash hit “Butter” is #1 again on the Hot 100; it’s been seven straight weeks. The song debuted at #1 and has stayed there – and now what we’re waiting to see next is whether or not they can dethrone themselves By Lainey • Jul 15, 2021 01:25 pm
Music BTS Gives You “Permission to Dance” In the opening scene of BTS’s new video for their new song, “Permission to Dance”, a plate of pancakes with butter on top is being handed off and the metaphor is unmistakable: “Butter” is BTS’s current hit single, #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six straight weeks, By Lainey • Jul 09, 2021 12:16 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Baby Parents and BTS at Louis Vuitton Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom and Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas all became parents of baby girls in 2020. Their daughters, Daisy and Willa, were born a month apart. Yesterday in Paris, at the start of Haute Couture week, all four attended the Louis Vuitton Parfum dinner. Katy also performed. By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 01:58 pm
Music Intro for June 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, Pitchfork asked the question yesterday “What will the 2021 Song of the Summer Be?” with a list of candidates including songs from Saweetie, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, and more. There’s a lot that goes into a Song of the Summer. It’s By Lainey • Jun 29, 2021 09:04 am
Music Intro for June 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS dropped an album yesterday. BTS: The Best, a Japanese compilation album, has already broken chart records in Japan to go along with “Butter” staying at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week in a row, which represents their longest #1 streak so far. By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 10:04 am
