Music Intro for July 25, 2023 Dear Gossips, Yesterday I posted about BTS’s Jungkook taking the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for his song “Seven” ft Latto. There’s no overstating just how close it was – and while I wrote yesterday that BTS fans, like me, had been refreshing all day waiting for By Lainey • Jul 25, 2023 09:40 am
Music Jungkook > Jason Aldean BTS’s fans, myself included, have been waiting all day, refreshing Billboard for this week’s charts to see if Jungkook’s “Seven” featuring Latto could top the Billboard Hot 100. This is JK’s first time with a #1 as a solo artist, and he’s the second member By Lainey • Jul 24, 2023 03:18 pm
TV Updates Selena Gomez is big business Selena Gomez celebrated her 31st birthday this weekend. There was a party for her at a private residence in Malibu that was covered by Vogue and included celebrities like Christina Aguilera, Karol G, Diplo, Saweetie, and Paris Hilton. And there was also a private screening of Barbie with family and By Lainey • Jul 24, 2023 12:57 pm
Jock Smut Victoria sings again It was a big weekend in Miami as Lionel Messi suited up in his first match with his new team and scored on a free kick in the 94th minute to lead Inter Miami in a win over Cruz Azul. If you’re into all things Messi and MLS right By Lainey • Jul 24, 2023 11:45 am
Douchebags Intro for July 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, Not that I really want to but we have to talk more about Jason Aldean. Last week the video for his song, “Try That in a Small Town” was pulled from rotation on CMT because the song and video are racist. Variety’s chief music critic Chris Willman By Lainey • Jul 24, 2023 09:19 am
Douchebags Jason Aldean's propaganda got pulled This week, Billboard reported that CMT made a huge move, pulling Jason Aldean’s controversial new music video for his song, "Try That In A Small Town", from its rotation after its release on Friday. Despite the song being released back in May, the accompanying music video became By Stephanie • Jul 20, 2023 01:06 pm
Music The BTS Barbie Crossover I just gloated about this during our morning meeting at The Social – the BTS fanbase, aka ARMY, is so desirable to marketers that even the Barbie press tour is trying to engage them. And that’s why Ryan Gosling is trying to talk to Jimin. Ryan gosling send a message By Lainey • Jul 20, 2023 11:34 am
Music Intro for July 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, I first posted about NewJeans right at the beginning of the year. It was six months after their debut – and it’s still only been exactly a year since they came on the scene – and they’d already exploded in popularity with “Hype Boy”. That momentum continued with By Lainey • Jul 20, 2023 09:22 am
Music JLo’s “Midnight Trip to Vegas” In my post on Monday about Bennifer’s first wedding anniversary, this is what I wrote: “…for f-ck’s sake, how long has it been since we’ve had a new installment of her newsletter, On The JLo?!” Curse and you shall receive. A new edition of On The JLo By Lainey • Jul 19, 2023 02:57 pm
Music Whoopi has Miranda's back A video of Miranda Lambert scolding selfie-taking fans at her concert is going viral – and the debate about whether she was within her right on The View led to Whoopi Goldberg making a point by walking off the set. During a performance of her song, Tin Man, at her Velvet By Stephanie • Jul 19, 2023 12:51 pm
Music Intro for July 19, 2023 Dear Gossips, It has almost been a year since Beyoncé released her most recent masterpiece, Renaissance. And that should have been enough, right? The greatest artist of our time gives us a whole album of excellence, from the first song to the last song, and here we are, f-cking clowns, By Lainey • Jul 19, 2023 09:43 am
Music Jungkook’s Horny “Seven” Last Friday, ahead of the release of Jungkook’s new single “Seven”, which dropped today, and all the thirst-trappy vibes he was serving to promote it, I wondered if the song was about JK being DTF seven days a week. Horny is not usually part of the BTS playbook – but By Lainey • Jul 14, 2023 01:19 pm
Music Drake's "soft girl" polish Drake is trolling internet users for their reaction to seeing him wearing nail polish. In May, he debuted a yellow and blue manicure, and last week, he showed off a two-toned set of pink nails. When the photos of him with pink polish hit The Shade Room, people were quick By Stephanie • Jul 10, 2023 01:45 pm
Music Intro for July 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, I live in the city where Beyoncé, the greatest artist of our time, chose to kick off the North American leg of the Renaissance tour. Canadian audiences, though, generally aren’t all that hype. I’ve been to enough concerts in both Toronto and Vancouver to say that, By Lainey • Jul 10, 2023 09:25 am
Quiveration Jungkook’s “Seven” Thirst Traps BTS’s Golden Maknae, Jungkook, will release his new single, “Seven”, next Friday and while it’s not his first solo effort – his song “Dreamers” for example was part of the World Cup soundtrack last year – most people see this as his official solo debut because “Seven” is not associated By Lainey • Jul 07, 2023 11:27 am
Shoes Taylor’s tour dates and shoes At the beginning of June Taylor Swift announced that The Eras tour would be travelling to Latin America. Last week she added even more dates across Europe, Asia, and also Australia. And just yesterday, nine additional shows were updated on the schedule. Another 9 #TSTheErasTour shows go up in lights By Lainey • Jun 28, 2023 01:06 pm
