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It’s that time of year — the J-14 Icon Awards polls are officially open! While we love providing you with all of the celeb news, the Icon Awards are your chance to provide us with your opinions on all the stars you love. We want to know the music you listened to, the shows you binged and the movies you’re still obsessing over. To cast your vote, just head to J14.com. Then, pick up our next issue to find out who won!…

IS JUNG KOOK READY TO SAY GOODBYE TO BTS? Thanks to mandatory military service requirements in their home country of South Korea, it won’t be until 2025 that BTS reunites as group. While fans wait for the day to come, the members have been focusing on their solo careers. But, will all the time away make the guys want to leave the band in their past? Not so, according to Jung Kook! “As I worked on my solo project, I got to really miss all the moments we shared together,” he spills. In fact, the more experiences he has as a solo singer, the more he realizes how important the group is to him. “When I went to SUGA’s concert and when I performed solo on stage, I just thought…

If you’re even remotely a fan of Taylor Swift, you know by now that she is rerecording each of her albums with the new moniker, Taylor’s Version, as a statement that she now fully owns all of the music she releases. While each of the albums she’s released so far — Fearless, Speak Now, Red and 1989 — are important to her, it’s Speak Now that holds a special place in Taylor’s evolution. Why? She wrote the album at a time in her life when she felt she was right in between childhood and adulthood, and the formative creation of the album is one she’ll never forget. Taylor is known for speaking honestly to her fans, and that’s exactly what she did in a letter commemorating her experiences while making…

DIRECTIONS: Check the nine statements you agree with most, then see which colors you selected most to reveal your answer on the next page. □ I’m usually happy and smiling. □ Many people have told me I’m hard to figure out. □ I’m an open book. □ I always know the latest gossip. □ I have a big group of friends. □ I feel like the rules don’t always apply to me. □ I have main character energy. □ I prefer to blend into the background. □ I always stand up to bullies. □ I can be a sore loser. □ I don’t want to be involved in drama. □ I have to look out for myself first. □ I never break a promise. □ I enjoy the finer things.…

MILEY CYRUS Miley has had nothing but good things to say about Harry. She was even once a proud owner of a Harry Styles cardboard cutout! She has jokingly said that they’d be a good couple! “We have very similar taste,” she explained. “I think sharing a closet, sharing a life together, it just makes sense.” MAUDE APATOW Maude ran into Harry backstage at a show and completely lost her cool! “I walked into the room, and he was right there,” she recalls. “And I literally could not, like, I went into shock. I didn’t even know what to do with myself.” After the meeting, she started crying! SOFIA CARSON Sofia has dressed up as Harry for Halloween and gone to his shows! “[He’s] my favorite ever,” she gushes. “I…

All American B**** Olivia classes the opening track as one of her favorites on the album. “I think it expresses something that I’ve been trying to express since I was 15 years old, this repressed anger and feeling of confusion or trying to be put into a box as a girl,” she shares. Bad Idea Right? “‘Bad Idea Right?’ started with us making a joke song about me hooking up with an ex-boyfriend, but then we realized we were actually onto something,” she explains. “We were throwing the weirdest things at the wall — in one of choruses there’s a part that sounds like an instrument in the background, but it’s me gradually screaming louder and louder.” Vampire Olivia made a big statement with the album’s first single. “Writing this…