TV Updates Megan Thee Stallion’s SNL Moment When it comes to musical guests on Saturday Night Live, the first performance is the most important. If I’m actually watching the show live, sometimes I’ve fallen asleep before the second performance even rolls around. So when Megan Thee Stallion had all eyes on her during her first By Cody • Oct 05, 2020 09:19 am
Music BTS Brings the Drones “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” by Jawsh 685 (Joshua Stylah) and Jason Derulo peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. Stylah shared the original piece of music on TikTok months ago and it was already a viral hit on the platform before Jason sampled it for the song and, By Lainey • Oct 02, 2020 03:36 pm
Music BLACKPINK: Lonely, Lovesick, and Sweet BLACKPINK has finally dropped their first full-length album, The Album, and Blinks have had it on repeat all day. The video for the title track, “Lovesick Girls”, dropped at the same time as the album and, as always, there is a mood. The BLACKPINK mood right now, as mentioned earlier By Lainey • Oct 02, 2020 01:30 pm
Break Ups Demi Lovato’s High Road Breakup Ballad “Music is always there for me…” says Lovato, who released her new song “Still Have Me” on Wednesday morning. The track arrives quickly following her messy split from fiancé Max Ehrich, but it’s (refreshingly) not a seize-the-moment single; it was originally released for free to fans on social media. By Cody • Oct 01, 2020 11:21 am
Music BTS 101 for Grammy Voters As mentioned yesterday, BTS covers the new issue of Variety, which is the Grammy preview issue – so it’s pretty clear the motivation. It’s not like they’ve been hiding it; for a long time RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook have been saying for a long By Lainey • Sep 30, 2020 01:16 pm
Quiveration BTS’s Happy Harvest Moon As mentioned in yesterday’s open and over the years on this site, it’s a holiday week for those of us of East Asian descent. On Thursday October 1 it’s Tet Trung Thu in Vietnamese culture. The Japanese call it Tsukimi. For Chinese people it’s our Mid-Autumn By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 02:31 pm
Music BLACKPINK. “Lovesick Girls.” Friday. Just three more sleeps – two, really – until the release of THE ALBUM, BLACKPINK’s first full-length album. And the group has been counting down to Friday at 1pm KST/midnight ET with teasers and posters. Two days ago they started posting teaser videos for each individual member to get us By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 12:00 pm
Douchebags Tory shoots Megan, and makes money off it? After staying silent since allegedly shooting Megan Thee Stallion in July, last week Tory Lanez tweeted an apology. Not to Megan but to his fans for his silence, before promising to address the situation later that night. The internet thought he was going to do an Instagram Live, as he’ By Cody • Sep 28, 2020 03:03 pm
Music BTS: New Album, New Remix, and IPO Up to this point this year, BTS has released a worldwide bestselling album (Map of the Soul: 7), a Japanese-language album, a docuseries and a documentary film, continued with their existing reality show (RUN BTS!) while filming a new series (In The SOOP), performed a virtual concert for an audience By Lainey • Sep 28, 2020 12:14 pm
Music Lizzo covers Vogue “Fresh photos with the bomb lighting…” Lizzo covers the October 2020 issue of Vogue for a thoughtful discussion about her career, her success and her struggles, and her activism. For me the highlights here are what she says about the broad appeal of her music and the community she’s By Lainey • Sep 25, 2020 10:28 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Baby Zigi is Here! Last night Zayn Malik revealed he and Gig Hadid welcomed a baby girl! The usually social-media-shy singer was the first to break the news on Twitter, confirming their first child together is “here, healthy and beautiful.” Our baby girl is here, healthy & beautiful🙏🏽❤️to try put into words how By Cody • Sep 24, 2020 10:11 am
Music Rolling Stone’s “New” 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List Rolling Stone has updated their somewhat iconic, but forever debated, list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The editors say they threw the whole thing out the window and started from scratch, but that’s a little hard to believe when you compare the new ranking to the By Cody • Sep 23, 2020 10:42 am
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
