Music BTS Is Everywhere, Part 613 It’s only Tuesday and already there are so many BTS updates. This morning I got this on Twitter: Ok as baby army I was warned by @LaineyGossip about the full on comeback schedules that are announced but no one warned me about the constant surprises. UN here they come By Lainey • Sep 22, 2020 02:25 pm
Music Emmys In Memoriam: H.E.R I saw a few tweets last night criticizing the In Memoriam segment, specifically the arrangement (which seemed insane, because it was stunning) or the editing, but I have to ask, exactly who is watching this segment and thinking ‘this doesn’t really meet my standards on an aesthetic level’? I By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 09:46 am
Assy Style Taylor Swift: Hoping for an ACM Bump? A lot of today’s headlines about Taylor Swift following her performance at the ACM Awards last night was about how she did her own hair, makeup, and styling. We’ll come back to that in a minute. For now, let’s talk about why she was there – to perform By Lainey • Sep 17, 2020 04:20 pm
Music BLACKPINK covers ELLE BLACKPINK in your area! And on the cover! It’s not like BLACKPINK and/or its individual members, Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, and Rosé haven’t covered a magazine before. But this is a major American magazine cover. And it’s not like American magazines are the end all and be By Lainey • Sep 17, 2020 02:12 pm
Music Carrie and Thomas share Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett were named co-winners of the Entertainer of the Year award at the ACMs last night. It’s the biggest prize of the event and, sure, on the one hand sharing is good. Carrie is now the only female artist to win Entertainer of the Year By Lainey • Sep 17, 2020 09:40 am
Music Intro for September 17, 2020 Dear Gossips, Mickey Guyton became the first Black woman to perform at the Academy of Country Music Awards last night. Ahead of the event, she told PEOPLE that: "Let me tell you, it has been a long time coming for me. It's been a struggle for me By Lainey • Sep 17, 2020 09:00 am
Music Intro for September 16, 2020 Dear Gossips, The “Twitter From Home” trend report was released yesterday with the platform sharing data on what people have been tweeting about in the United States the last six months during lockdown. Here is the list of the top 10 most tweeted about artists from March to September of By Lainey • Sep 16, 2020 09:37 am
Music Everyone’s Thirsting Over Cherubim Justin Bieber OK, I don’t know about “everyone”, because as Prem just told us, some people are thirsting over Logan Lerman’s hair, but to extend the dude hair talk, Justin Bieber’s is also a conversation now because it’s longer and it’s curling out at the ends, and By Lainey • Sep 15, 2020 01:26 pm
BFFs Patti LaBelle & Gladys Knight reinvent Verzuz It is not an exaggeration to say that Sunday night’s Verzuz featuring Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight was a reinvention of the form, in a way that, on paper, shouldn’t have worked. That is, the idea of a ‘battle’ was entirely gone last night (and to a certain By Duana • Sep 14, 2020 02:38 pm
Music Chloe x Halle’s NFL National Anthem And now, a surely unpopular opinion: I think Chloe x Halle might be underrated. This is, on its face, preposterous, even for someone who is finally embracing the ‘contrarian’ label Lainey is always trying to give me. How is it possible to say so when they are so present, so By Duana • Sep 11, 2020 01:42 pm
Music BTS Goes For Three …and a Grammy It was announced earlier this week that, for the second week in a row, BTS’s “Dynamite” has topped the Billboard Hot #100. They’d already made history in their first week, and a repeat only adds to their ongoing success. “Dynamite” is still getting radio play in North America By Lainey • Sep 10, 2020 01:58 pm
TV Updates Selena on a roll Selena Gomez covers the new issue of Allure in support of her new beauty line, Rare. It has been a major work summer for Selena, all of her work converging in the last few weeks, building momentum one project at a time. Her cooking show, Selena + Chef, on HBO Max, By Lainey • Sep 09, 2020 01:47 pm
Music BLACKPINK in your… Algorithm BLACKPINK x Selena Gomez’s “Ice Cream” landed on the Billboard Hot 100 at #13, the highest position BLACKPINK has achieved to date. And remember, they’ve yet to release a proper full-length album. The Album drops on October 2 and we already know that two of the songs on By Lainey • Sep 09, 2020 10:30 am
Maple Leaf Justin and Selena: the saga continues I tried to stay offline from Friday until yesterday afternoon. Tried to. Which meant I only scanned some headlines and social media once a day and, um, made sure to not fall too far behind on BTS’s relentless output. For the most part, I was pretty successful at resisting By Lainey • Sep 08, 2020 03:13 pm
Music BTS: A Map of 7 Bosses As mentioned earlier this week, BTS’s “Dynamite” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, a historic accomplishment. RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook are now the first all-Korean artists to claim the title – and it happened on Jungkook’s birthday so it’s been a balls-out celebration By Lainey • Sep 02, 2020 12:31 pm
Music BTS’s Victory Lap We talk about timing here a lot at this site – gossip timing but also work timing, how timing is a part of work strategy. Where BTS is concerned, how about this timing? They performed “Dynamite” at the MTV VMAs last night, their first appearance at the VMAs, and picked up By Lainey • Aug 31, 2020 02:58 pm
