Harry Styles Opened a 30-Show MSG Residency by Poking Fun at Taylor Swift's Wedding — Pop Culture Is So Back

August 31, 2026 · 62 sources

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Nashville came together at the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday to celebrate the life and legacy of the late Dolly Parton, with Carly Pearce, Jelly Roll and more paying tribute — while Billboard tallied her staggering chart résumé: 50 albums on the all-genre Billboard 200 spanning seven straight decades, from the 1960s through the 2020s.
Harry Styles opened a 30-concert (!) residency at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, honored Dolly mid-show, and then — at the tail end of the night — poked fun at ex Taylor Swift's wedding (yes, the one to Travis Kelce). What an opener.
ENHYPEN scored their first-ever Billboard 200 No. 1 with 'THE SIN : BLISS,' earning 98,000 equivalent album units in its first week.
A divorcing TikTok couple has agreed — per a temporary divorce order — to keep filming content together 8 hours a week. Genuinely the most 2026 arrangement imaginable.
'The Odyssey' beat 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' at the South Korean box office again, and BuzzFeed is openly taunting everyone who predicted it would flop.

The Odyssey victory lap is in full swing. Fresh off another weekend atop the Korean box office, the movie is now the star of BuzzFeed's "73 Photos That Aged Poorly" roundup, which opens fire with "@ everyone who predicted 'The Odyssey' would flop... how ya feeling?" The flop discourse is fully cooked, and it's delicious.
BuzzFeed is also asking whether professional athletes are the most complicated kind of nepo baby, with the instantly iconic line: "Your dad can introduce you to the coach. He cannot hit the jump shot for you."
For the softies: BuzzFeed rounded up 14 actors and singers who left the spotlight to raise their kids — including one famous rapper and new dad who said being "helpful and available" to his wife mattered most. We're not crying, you are.

The Dolly tributes keep coming. Saturday's Grand Ole Opry gathering brought Carly Pearce and Jelly Roll together at the Nashville landmark to celebrate her life and legacy, and Billboard's accompanying retrospective is a jaw-dropper: 50 Billboard 200 albums across seven consecutive decades, including 15 top-tier hits. Nobody did it like her.
ENHYPEN's milestone is official on the chart dated Sept. 5 — their first No. 1 album after years of grinding. HYBE's boys ate.
KATSEYE gave EYEKONS an update Sunday on leader Sophia Laforteza's status for the upcoming Wildworld tour dates, directly addressing fan questions about whether she'll appear. Fingers crossed.
Alabama Shakes are BACK: Rolling Stone profiles 'I Must Be Dreaming,' their first album in over a decade, reuniting Brittany Howard, Zac Cockrell, and Heath Fogg. The band says the record is about "people being unified" — and apparently that includes each other.
Olivia Rodrigo's inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival was, per Rolling Stone, "a day full of superstars, nonprofits, and joy," with Chappell Roan, Doechii, Sara McLachlan, and Stevie Nicks on the bill. A debut festival with that lineup? Insane behavior (complimentary).

'The Odyssey' held the top spot at the South Korean box office for the Aug. 28–30 weekend, eclipsing 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' per KOBIS data. Meanwhile in China, the war comedy-drama 'Once Upon a Time in the Middle East' dominated for its third straight weekend with RMB174.4 million.
Pokémon is returning to the big screen: 'Pokémon: Wild Card' has set a 2027 release date and dropped an anime teaser starring — wait for it — a trading card game player. The TCG girls are winning.
Naomi Watts will receive the San Sebastián Film Festival's prestigious Donostia Award at its 74th edition in September, joining honoree Werner Herzog.
Venice Film Festival chaos, but make it bubbly: the traditional opening jury press conference is "probably not" happening due to scheduling, so organizers are swapping it for welcome cocktails for journalists. Questions? No. Drinks? Yes. The fest kicks off Sept. 2 with the world premiere of Danny Boyle's latest.
Also quietly conquering the world: CJ ENM's K-drama 'The Legend of Kitchen Soldier,' whose global rise Variety traces back to being the only K-drama selected for Series Mania's Special Screening section.

More on Harry's MSG opener: the 30-concert residency launched Saturday night with a tribute to Dolly Parton, and he saved the spiciest bite for last — a shout-out poking fun at ex Taylor Swift's wedding to Travis Kelce. Ten years out from "Style" and he's still doing bits about it. Legend behavior.
Chris Hansen has reviewed Robert Pattinson's impression of him in A24's 'Primetime' (which chronicles his 'To Catch a Predator' days) and ruled it "overly dramatic" — though his own wife and kids think it's a "pretty good imitation." The household is divided.
WWE's Paige went off on an autograph seeker who hounded her at a Chicago airport, walking TMZ Sports through the whole saga outside LAX. Collectors, learn the line — do not cross it.

The divorce arrangement of the century: Dalton "Ain't Worried" Memel and Ntsako "Sako" Mathivha, who built their entire business on relationship content, have agreed in their temporary divorce order to keep filming together 8 hours a week. r/popculturechat is calling it the most 2026 divorce imaginable, and honestly? Correct.
Alix Earle dropped a new video in oiled-up, barely-there cherry-red lingerie that TMZ says is "bringing Barbie to life." The comments section is presumably on fire as we speak.
BuzzFeed's quiz desk is feeding us: one quiz claims to guess if you're single or taken purely from your Taylor Swift song preferences, and another matches your early-2000s playlist to a 2026 pop album (Kesha fans → Slayyyter, obviously). Productivity is dead today.