Music Intro for June 14, 2021 Dear Gossips, As of this writing, BTS has wrapped on two back-to-back live shows at Seoul Olympic Stadium. I haven’t seen official numbers released yet but the band mentioned during today’s performance that they’d heard that at least 800,000 people had bought tickets, and I imagine By Lainey • Jun 14, 2021 09:46 am
Music Meg Thee Stallion’s ‘Thotty’ Message As we emerge from months of isolation and distancing, the world is at peak horniness and for this moment in time Megan Thee Stallion’s providing the soundtrack. It’s summer, many are vaccinated or will be soon and we are ready to throw some ass to her new song, By Cody • Jun 11, 2021 10:16 am
Music Intro for June 11, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS’s “Butter” is the current #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, its second week at the top of the chart. Tracking for this past week has ended, will be interesting to see if they can go three in a row, which would be a new milestone By Lainey • Jun 11, 2021 09:42 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Juno Awards are considered the top music prizes in Canada, last night was the 50th anniversary. The top headline here in Canada, however, is still the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation’s discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school By Lainey • Jun 07, 2021 09:41 am
Music Drake’s Playoff Plus One Drake’s son Adonis has been with him in LA for at least a couple of weeks now as Adonis was with him on stage at the Billboard Music Awards on May 23 when he accepted the Artist of the Decade title. This the kind of moment a parent would By Lainey • Jun 04, 2021 11:58 am
Music Dua Lipa “Love Again” Dua Lipa’s second album, Future Nostalgia, was released last March, and became one of the biggest albums of 2020, nominated for two Grammys, including Album of the Year, and winning Best Pop Vocal Album. There are already several hits that have come off Future Nostalgia, including “Don’t Start By Lainey • Jun 04, 2021 10:27 am
Music Intro for June 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS’s “Butter” is currently the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, the band’s fourth #1 in nine months. But can it go two for two? Last year “Dynamite” earned two back-to-back #1s upon its release which is what BTS and their team are hoping for By Lainey • Jun 04, 2021 09:32 am
Music A Girls Trip With Billie Billie Eilish’s new song and video for “Lost Cause” came out today and the vibe is exactly what we need. Here she goes again, making us all want to be her best friend The premiere of the video is also the first time we’ve heard the song, with By Anastasia • Jun 02, 2021 02:03 pm
Music Intro for June 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, It’s official: BTS’s “Butter” is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band’s fourth Hot 100 #1 hit in just nine months after “Dynamite”, “Savage Love BTS Remix”, and “Life Goes On”. They are now the fastest group to reach #1 this many times since By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 09:38 am
Music SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo “I want it to be, like, messy” That is the first thing you hear when you play Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album, SOUR, which just hit #1 in its first week on the Billboard album charts. If her album has taught us anything, it’s that it's brutal By Anastasia • May 31, 2021 10:46 am
Music Intro for May 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, The iHeartRadio Music Awards were last night and it was The Weeknd and BTS leading the way with the most wins. BTS took the named Best Music Video, Best Fan Army, and Favourite Choreography. So it’s been a big week for the band, because they’ve once By Lainey • May 28, 2021 09:13 am
Music Intro for May 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, Did you see Victor Solomon’s performance on The Voice earlier this week? He’s on John Legend’s team and John afterwards called it the best performance in the show’s history. Victor’s song was Beyoncé’s “Freedom” and what’s extra amazing is that he By Lainey • May 26, 2021 09:18 am
Music Drake’s Stadium Party When I last posted about Drake, it was on Thursday, ahead of Drake receiving the Billboard Artist of the Decade award on Sunday night. He had his whole crew on stage with him (“started from the bottom now we’re here”) and his parents, and he brought out his son By Lainey • May 25, 2021 01:43 pm
Equality Issues Lil Nas X’s wardrobe malfunction Lil Nas X was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend on the season finale hosted by Anya Taylor-Joy. The big headline coming out of his performance was how he split his pants when he dropped it low on the pole. My big takeaway was how adorable he By Lainey • May 25, 2021 10:51 am
Equality Issues BTS in Pole Position Motor racing is one of the things on my mind this weekend because it’s the Monaco Grand Prix, the jewel of the F1 circuit, arguably the most prestigious race in the world. And while I have never paid much attention to this event, Drive to Survive changed all that By Lainey • May 21, 2021 01:07 pm
Equality Issues Intro for May 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, Bela, Eloise, Lucia, and Mila are known as The Linda Lindas, and yesterday they went viral. If you’ve already seen this video, you know what a fist-pumper it is. And if you haven’t, well, this is the perfect start to the weekend, which happens to be By Lainey • May 21, 2021 09:31 am
