Top Reads BTS’s Award Show Weekend It’s now year-end award season in South Korea and this weekend there were two music award shows, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. The one on Sunday is referred to as MAMA, the Mnet Asian Music Awards, a major event in Asia, comparable to the MTV VMAs in By Lainey • Dec 07, 2020 03:22 pm
Douchebags A Disgraced Pastor and His Lonely Abs One of the most notable celebrity scandals of the year was the fall of Pastor to the Stars, Carl Lentz, formerly of Hillsong Church. Not sure if anyone was shocked? Carl’s drama was actually the second high-profile church leader sex scandal of the year. I was too lazy this By Lainey • Dec 07, 2020 09:22 am
Top Reads Mariah Carey: Backup Singers in Green Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special premieres today on Apple TV+. This is what I will be doing tonight and tomorrow and Sunday and as often as I can for the next three weeks. Mimi is our Christmas Angel. This is her season. As part of the promotion for the By Lainey • Dec 04, 2020 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Warner Brothers Drops a Bombshell Yesterday, Warner Brothers dropped the absolutely gobsmacking news that in 2021 they will release ALL of their movies day-and-date with streaming and theatrical. That’s right, ALL of their 2021 movies will drop on HBO Max the same day they open in theaters, including Judas and the Black Messiah, King By Sarah • Dec 04, 2020 10:10 am
BFFs Taylor & Ryan’s Excellent Co-Production As we know, Taylor Swift is currently re-recording music from her first six albums to degrade the value of her masters, which she does not own, but she’s tried to own. There is so much anticipation about this project, these projects, because of course Taylor is one of the By Lainey • Dec 02, 2020 01:24 pm
Equality Issues Say Hello to Elliot Page As you may have seen on your social media feeds, Elliot Page came out as trans. In a statement posted on social media yesterday morning, Elliot (who goes by the pronouns he/him and they/them) wrote: pic.twitter.com/kwti60bZLw — Elliot Page (@TheElliotPage) December 1, 2020 Obviously, this is By Prem • Dec 02, 2020 09:41 am
Music The BTS iOS This is a post about the artists who’ve just achieved their THIRD #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Which means this is a post that anyone who consumes pop culture should care about – because how many other artists, like in HISTORY, can say they’ve been able to do By Lainey • Dec 01, 2020 03:19 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Rihanna & Rocky: It’s Official…on their Anniversary? Gossips have been watching this situationship for a year now: Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, who’ve been friends for a long time, first emerged as a romantic possibility in December 2019, six months or so after he’d returned home after being held in a Swedish prison; they showed By Lainey • Dec 01, 2020 10:45 am
Top Reads The BTS Models It’s been a big week for BTS and their ARMY. On Wednesday, the band received its first Grammy nomination for their smash hit “Dynamite”, which is a goal they’ve been talking about for years. Their new album, BE, their second of 2020, was released last Friday and is By Lainey • Nov 27, 2020 02:43 pm
Top Reads Joss Whedon’s surprise exits Hello, it is I, your resident American correspondent, corresponding to you from America, on America’s second-greatest holiday: Thanksgiving, the day we stuff our faces with turkey so we don’t have to talk to each other. (The best holiday is July 4, because fireworks.) In honor of my homeland’ By Sarah • Nov 26, 2020 11:42 am
Hook Ups Michael B Jordan: Not Single for Thanksgiving? Michael B Jordan was named PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive last week, a universally celebrated selection. He also just made the NYT’s Greatest Actors of the 21 Century (so far) list which is exactly why he’s such a force in Hollywood. MBJ has it all – the looks, the By Lainey • Nov 26, 2020 09:34 am
Music BTS: The Nomination and the Talk Show Standard As I’ve been writing about for months now, BTS has been quite vocal about their hopes for a Grammy. It’s a whole Grammy package, actually. They performed at the Grammys last year as guests of Lil Nas X which means they’ve yet to be invited to showcase By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 02:35 pm
Music The Weeknd: War on the Grammys Why do we keep seeing the music industry’s biggest honour sh-tting on the music industry’s biggest artists? We’re not just talking Grammy nomination snubs here. We’re talking about the Recording Academy allegedly mudslinging behind closed doors. This year it’s The Weeknd’s turn to take By Cody • Nov 25, 2020 10:12 am
TV Updates The Crown: Missed Lesson Almost all of the coverage about season four of The Crown has been focused on the introduction of Princess Diana and Prince Charles and how their marriage was doomed, and the ways in which the British royal family failed their youngest and most popular member at the time. Over the By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 10:09 am
Music BTS Closes the AMAs There are a lot of BTS storylines happening right now – and I’m covering them separately because there’s too much to jam in just one post. In this post then, let’s focus on their performance at the American Music Awards, after they’d won multiple AMAs, including Favourite By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 01:17 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben and Ana: Is this a Year? Last November is when Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas started shooting Adrian Lyne’s Deep Water, described as an “erotic thriller”, as Adrian Lyne films always are, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel. And we know now that this is when they started falling in love. They were seen By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 11:09 am
