Music RM: BTS, Beef, and the MCU converge As anticipated earlier this week, RM dropped a new single with a music video, “Come Back To Me”, today, collaborating with an all-star team behind and in front of the camera. Pachinko’s Kim Minha is his co-star, and the short film was directed by Emmy winner Lee Sung Jin By Lainey • May 10, 2024 09:56 am
Music Anya and Chrissy: Met Gala Could Have Beens? Anya Taylor-Joy was not at the Met Gala. I guess they thought Chris Hemsworth being one of the co-chairs this year would have been enough promote Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Until he showed up in the most nothingburger suit and did nothing for the conversation. But, you know, the By Lainey • May 08, 2024 01:40 pm
Music Intro for May 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, BTS’s leader, RM, announced a couple of weeks ago the release of a new album Right Place, Wrong Person. On Friday he’s dropping a new single, “Come Back To Me” and the art work for the track, revealed yesterday, is especially beautiful. These are made to By Lainey • May 08, 2024 08:53 am
Music Intro for May 6, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Met Gala is tonight… but whatever anticipation for it that may have been building over the weekend was completely overshadowed by another gossip story. I actually didn’t remember the Met Gala until Sarah messaged me about it last night because most of our WhatsApp over the By Lainey • May 06, 2024 09:13 am
Music Intro for May 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé has no idea I exist but still, I am taking her recent Instagram posts very personally. The last time I posted about her in this space she was sharing photos and videos from her trip to Japan. And last night there was more. Our Queen arrived in By Lainey • May 02, 2024 09:17 am
TV Updates Intro for May 1, 2024 Dear Gossips, I was feverish on and off yesterday, tried to stay in bed as much as I could, and when I was awake, much of that time was spent binge-finishing the second half of Queen of Tears and sobbing my way through this cold. The series has now ended By Lainey • May 01, 2024 09:53 am
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
Break Ups Taylor Swift: Twins and Double Dates The bait and switch of Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, is that everyone thought it would be a Joe Alwyn breakup album but it ended up being a Matty Healey breakup album, revealing that when she and Matty were together last year, it was much more By Lainey • Apr 25, 2024 12:58 pm
Music How do we talk about Billie Eilish “Billie is f-cking me up” is the text our site manager Emily sent me today in response to Billie Eilish’s new cover interview in Rolling Stone. Then she added that “the lesbians are freaking out”, and I know, I know, not all lesbians, but at least Emily is, and By Lainey • Apr 24, 2024 03:06 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s bloat and gloat It was, not surprisingly, a huge weekend for Taylor Swift. The Tortured Poets Department is breaking all kinds of records everywhere. The streaming numbers are massive, even by her standards, and her standards for streaming and consumption are already extraordinary. But also? As Billboard reports, 1.4 million copies were By Lainey • Apr 22, 2024 12:37 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song” Poetry professors, sorry. I may have pissed you off by invoking Sylvia Plath in connection with Taylor Swift. But this is one of two poems that came to mind when I was listening to Taylor’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department. “Mad Girl’s Love Song” was Plath calling By Lainey • Apr 19, 2024 11:17 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Rihanna works the carpet It’s kinda old school, the way Rihanna works a carpet at one of her events. So many celebrities these days, whether it’s at movie premieres or product launches, even though it’s to promote their own projects, do the posing but don’t stop to talk to the By Lainey • Apr 18, 2024 11:07 am
Music Intro for April 18, 2024 Dear Gossips, As I mentioned the other day in my post about Taylor Swift, her fans have been trying to piece together clues about the upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, dropping tonight at midnight, using QR codes and there’s also something going on at Apple Music were a By Lainey • Apr 18, 2024 09:08 am
Music Taylor’s Ticking Clock Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is dropping in two days, technically three, but probably every Swiftie on the planet will be listening to it at exactly midnight when Thursday becomes Friday. Which is why, with just over 48 hours to go, it’s getting to the frenzy point By Lainey • Apr 16, 2024 02:56 pm
Music Intro for April 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, I have listened to almost nothing else for the last two weeks but Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER. And I know I’m not the only one. There are hundreds of videos like this on TikTok: the fact that we all can mostly do this only after 3 weeks By Lainey • Apr 16, 2024 09:51 am
Music Gwen still can Out of all the footage I saw from Coachella this weekend, the most exciting to me was Gwen Stefani and No Doubt. That is generational, I’m sure. No Doubt came up when I was growing up. I will know those songs forever. But also it’s about staying power, By Lainey • Apr 15, 2024 12:52 pm
