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Get ready, BLINKs. A Little Golden Book’s biography on beloved K-pop girl group BLACKPINK is currently available for preorder.

The book can be preordered through Amazon for $5.99, and will be shipped out starting Dec. 2, just in time for Christmas. You can purchase a Kindle or a hardcover version for the same price. The biography, which was written by Jessica Yoon and illustrated by Honee Jang, chronicles the life of members Lisa, Jennie, Jisoo and Rosé from their childhoods to trainee years under YG Entertainment, up until their eventual debut in 2016.

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Readers are then taken on the whirlwind that was the girl group’s success through colorful imagery and descriptive text. The book highlights some major moments in the K-pop act’s career thus far, from releasing hits such as “How You Like That” and “DDU-DU DDU-DU,” to headlining major festivals such as Coachella. While this book is meant for younger readers in the 4 to 8-year range, it would make a great gift for BLINKs of all ages looking to learn more about the girl group they love.

If you’re not into BLACKPINK, A Little Golden Book has biographies on a slew of artists, K-pop or otherwise, including BTS, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Prince, Cher and Chappell Roan. On the non-music front, the book series also covers historic figures both old and new, including Rosa Parks, Serena Williams, Maya Angelou, Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, Katie Ledecky and Jane Goodall. Each book is meant to give young readers a better understanding of important figures through easily digestible text and fun visuals. In simple terms, it makes learning fun.

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BLACKPINK first hit the scene in 2016 with its debut song “Boombayah.” The song went on to top Billboard‘s World Digital Songs chart in the first week of sales. Fans have watched the girls rise to stardom, and now, BLACKPINK has many impressive accolades under its belt. The act is the first K-pop girl group to play at Coachella and to reach one billion YouTube views.

Fast forward to 2025, and the group’s single “Jump” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 with 123 million streams in the week ending on July 17. This achievement marks the girl group’s third No. 1 song on the chart after “Pink Venom” and “Shut Down.” With the group is breaking records left and right, they’re definitely biography-worthy.

Billy Joel may sing “my silence is my self-defense” on his Billboard Hot 100 No. 37 hit “And So It Goes,” but he’s not interested in remaining quiet about what he considers to be very wrong. The musician is once again condemning Donald Trump’s 2017 speech about the white nationalist’s Unite the Right rally that took place in Charlottesville, Va., in which the president said there were “some very fine people on both sides.”

In part two of his Billy Joel: And So It Goes documentary on HBO Max, the five-time Grammy winner says that while he “never liked getting political on stage,” there are situations about which he feels the need to speak out, and this is one of them.

“Sometimes, there are things that happen and you can’t just look away,” he said of wearing a Star of David on his suit during his Madison Square Garden concert’s encore a week after the rally in silent protest. “I had to do something. I was angry. Here they are marching through an American city saying, ‘Jews will not replace us.’ We fought a war to defeat these people! And then when Trump comes out and says, ‘There were very fine people on both sides,’ he should’ve come out and said, ‘Those are bad people,’” says the musician.

“There is no qualifying it. The Nazis are not good people. Period!” he adds in the two-part project. “And I was very angry, and I had to do something, but I didn’t want to get up on a soapbox on stage and say, ‘This is wrong,’ so I wore the star. But basically to say, no matter what, I will always be a Jew.”

The Aug. 11, 2017, Unite the Right rally saw right-wing groups and white nationalists clashing with counterprotestors, with Gov. Terry McAuliffe declaring a state of emergency and local officials calling it an “unlawful gathering.” James Alex Fields Jr., who CNN reported was a white supremacist from Ohio, purposefully drove his car through a group of counterprotestors, killing one woman and injuring dozens of others.

A federal appeals court ruled in July 2024 that white supremacist groups would have to pay $2 million in damages to people who suffered physical and emotional damages due to the rally.

In 2018, Joel explained during an interview with CBS Sunday Morning why wearing the Star of David at his MSG show was also personal. “My old man, his family got wiped out. They were slaughtered in Auschwitz. Him and his parents were able to get out,” he shared. “But then he was in the U.S. Army during the war and fought with Patton and was shot at by Nazis.”

He added at the time: “My family suffered. And I think I actually have a right to do that.”

Billy Joel: And So It Goes is available to stream on HBO Max. Part two arrives at 8 p.m. July 25.

The Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack has already been slaying on the charts, and now, David Guetta is joining the project to give one of its songs an extra boost.

Released Friday (July 25) and described in the press release as “a sparkling power pop version of ‘Golden,’ the viral song of the summer,” a new remix finds the DJ infusing the track with his signature EDM juice to ramp up the energy on the song, which appears on the June-released Demon Hunters album. The LP — which debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Soundtracks chart — accompanies Netflix’s animated musical fantasy film of the same name.

The revamped version of “Golden” arrives shortly after the original reached an eye-popping No. 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. With seven Hot 100 top 10 hits under his belt, Guetta’s involvement might just give the track the push it needs to reach No. 1 — a feat the original song already secured on the Billboard Global 200.

In a recent interview with Billboard, Kpop Demon Hunters executive music producer Ian Eisendrath said that he wasn’t surprised “at all” to see “Golden” become the the track from the film that fans rallied around.

“‘Golden’ was a song that we kept looking for — it had to be something transcendent, that functioned as the characters establishing what they want and were going to pursue for the rest of the film,” he recalled. “But then, it was also [the characters’] hit single [in the movie]! We felt like it had to be an aspirational pop song that we could get the audience to believe in and want for HUNTR/X.”

His work on “Golden” marks Guetta’s latest collaboration of 2025, with the French producer also dropping “Beautiful People” with Sia and “Cuentale” with Willy William and Nicky Jam earlier this year, among other songs and remixes. He’s currently in the midst of a residency at club [UNVRS] in Ibiza that wraps in October.

Listen to Guetta’s remix of “Golden” below.

Phoebe Bridgers has won another big court judgment against a recording studio owner who unsuccessfully sued the star for defamation after she accused him of “grooming” on social media.

Three years after Bridgers won a court ruling dismissing Chris Nelson’s libel case — a lawsuit she said was “frivolous” and meant to silence her abuse allegations — a Los Angeles judge on Thursday (July 24) awarded the singer $392,070, largely to cover hefty legal bills she spent defending herself.

The new award is on top of an earlier judgment of $496,608 already won by Bridgers, meaning Nelson now owes the star a whopping $888,768 over his failed legal action. A big portion of the new penalty is simply interest on the original, which Judge Joseph Lipner noted Nelson has “refused to pay” for more than two years.

Nelson, the owner of Los Angeles’ Sound Space recording studio, sued Bridgers in 2021, claiming she had defamed him by posting false information to Instagram as part of a “vendetta” designed to “destroy plaintiff’s reputation.”

The lawsuit centered on a series of October 2020 posts, in which Bridgers said she had “witnessed and can personally verify much of the abuse (grooming, stealing, violence) perpetuated by Chris Nelson.” She also directed her followers to a separate thread from friend Emily Bannon, which contained more extensive allegations against Nelson.

Her lawyers quickly moved to end the case, arguing that Nelson was abusing the court system to “chill Ms. Bridgers’ allegations of abusive conduct, which are protected by the First Amendment.” Her lawyers invoked California’s “anti-SLAPP” law, which bars lawsuits that might silence free speech and foists monetary penalties on those who bring them.

In November 2022, a Los Angeles judge sided with Bridgers, tossing the case out of court. Months later, the same judge awarded the singer $496,608, citing the anti-SLAPP law’s so-called fee-shifting provision that requires an unsuccessful accuser to reimburse their target’s legal bills.

Nelson appealed the dismissal of his case, but a California appellate court upheld the decision in November, ruling that Bridgers’ claims of abuse were clearly the kind of speech that’s protected under the anti-SLAPP law.

“The post related to public concerns, especially prevalent in light of the #MeToo movement, about men using their power to abuse women,” the appeals court wrote at the time. “When public allegations of abuse are corroborated, it serves not only to further the discussion of the specific claims at issue, but also to embolden others who are being victimized to come forward.”

With that ruling in hand — and the original judgment still unpaid — Bridgers went after Nelson again. In March, she demanded that he repay the money she spent litigating the appeal, as well as substantial interest on the original. She said he had “not paid a penny” of the original fine and was “evading collection efforts.”

Attorneys for Nelson did not immediately return a request for comment on Friday (July 25).