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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2020 5:01:11 GMT
New BLACKPINK music video! Lovesick Girls, watch now. Blackpink has a new album set to debut and the K-pop group spoke with CNN about their rise to fame and music influences. The women, who use their stage names Jennie, Jisoo, Rosé and Lisa, said that artists like Selena Gomez, Cardi B and Lady Gaga have had a profound impact on their music. "We grew up listening to a wide variety of music. We all grew up in different areas, but I would say some of the amazing people we collaborated with we all grew up listening to and we are big fans of them," Rosé said. "[Cardi B] is our first rap feature," Jennie said, while breaking out into cheers and clapping. "We are so excited to share this music with you guys." The catchy track "Ice Cream," featuring Gomez, debuted in August and is included on the group's newest collection of music, titled "The Album." Blackpink first rose to fame in 2016 with their hit single "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du." Since then, they have had several crossover hits like "Square Up" and were featured on Lady Gaga's track "Sour Candy" off her "Chromatica" album. "It's been a while and we feel like it's about the right time for us to be coming out with [an album]. It contains a wide variety of music that we've tried to explore," Rosé said. "We hope that our fans can see that and we have some very vulnerable songs and fun songs and some of our dream collaborations." The now international stars told CNN they make sure to stay humble and focused. "We keep each other grounded," Rosé said. "We are all workaholics in our deep self and we love to work. I don't think we get overwhelmed by the fame, at least no yet. We try to not let it go to our heads. We try to talk to each other, we don't keep it to ourselves which helps a lot ... we just look around and we have somebody just like me, thinking about the same stuff, telling me what I was thinking in my head," she added. Watch never before seen footage of BLACKPINK’S new Netflix documentary, get exclusive access to the kpop group and 24kGoldn, and hear the biggest music news. RELEASED, every Thursday only on YouTube.
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2020 20:41:12 GMT
The world’s most popular girl group hasn’t released a new album since April of 2019, and while that may not seem like forever, trust me, it is—in K-pop terms, anything more than a year is basically a lifetime. Spiritually, mentally, emotionally … this has basically been as long as the wait between Adele albums. The Album, out on Friday and containing eight songs led by the single “Lovesick Girls,” is so important that it doesn’t even need a real name—it’s just THE ALBUM. The Beatles had The White Album, Jay-Z had The Black Album; Blackpink has the album. (On the other hand, maybe YG Entertainment just took all those tweets saying “DAMN IT, YG, RELEASE THE ALBUM NOW” too literally.) Most importantly, the final product doesn’t disappoint. Join me as we take a dive through the highlights of Blackpink’s best release to date. The Return of Angsty Blackpink Every Blink has their favorite Blackpink concept. Some like the slick, take-no-prisoners vibes of “DDU-DU DDU-DU” and “How You Like That?” Others miss the quirky, fluorescent days of “Boombayah” and “As If It’s Your Last.” But not I! It’s the angsty Blackpink aesthetic for me—ever since “Stay,” if someone isn’t crying in a car or moping in a parking lot, I’m just not quite satisfied. And voilà: “Lovesick Girls” is a return to bittersweet, borderline grunge Blackpink, thanks to contributions from David Guetta and members Jennie and Jisoo, who had a hand in production and writing. It’s not a sad song, per se, but the repeated chorus of “We were born to be alone” has an emo flair that hits extra hard—especially, you know, in month seven of quarantine.
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Post by Admin on Oct 4, 2020 0:15:43 GMT
The Vocalists Get Their Moment The anthemic “Lovesick Girls” is a perfect fit for Rosé, whose distinct vocal timbre and long pastel hair have always come across as more Avril and less aegyo. And nature is healing—our girl is back in her flannels and fishnets, smashing a guitar and crying in a bathtub. It feels right. Jisoo, Blackpink’s other primary vocalist (far too often underserved in line distribution and screentime) is also in her element, frolicking in a flower field one moment and belting in the rain the next. Both girls come together on the bridge, easily one of the best in the group’s discography, to flex their vocals—and remind the locals just what happens when you let them shine.
It’s Called Range, Look It Up
If Blackpink’s newest sad-girl anthem doesn’t do it for you, fear not: The album contains a range of styles and sounds, demonstrated in full by their first two prerelease singles. It kicks off with the sassy banger “How You Like That?” which highlights the group’s magnetic main dancer, Lisa, who fans herself and repeats, “Look at you … now look at me. How you like that?” Getting owned has never felt so good.
Main rapper Jennie and her e-girl bangs also got their moment in the first single, but I enjoyed her most this summer as she showed off her sweet side on Selena Gomez collab “Ice Cream.” The song’s inherent horniness aside, Blackpink’s cutesy concepts are few and far between—their singles, as they say, lean more “black” than “pink”—but Jennie took to the sugary song like a kid to … well, you get it.
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Post by Admin on Oct 4, 2020 3:47:18 GMT
Workout Playlist: Sorted Anyone with a K-pop running playlist knows that few songs hit harder when you’re in the middle of a tough mile than Blackpink’s “DDU-DU DDU-DU- Remix.” And for all you gym rats out there looking to add several new dedicated workout tracks, The Album comes through. The catchy, Middle Eastern–inspired “Crazy Over You” is an upbeat earworm, and the first drop in “Pretty Savage” had me up and pacing. Maybe now on runs I’ll only queue up “DDU-DU DDU-DU” like … every three songs or so. That’s what we call growth.
In line with many of the world’s other biggest K-pop groups this year—from Monsta X to BTS and SuperM—The Album features three songs entirely in English, in “Bet You Wanna,” “Crazy Over You,” and “Love to Hate Me.” Singing in English isn’t a new technique for K-pop groups, but it is newly successful—all of the aforementioned groups have seen impressive numbers in the U.S. with their English-language projects. However, the merits of the trend have been highly debated, and the pros and cons are being discussed with renewed vigor following the release of The Album.
Those who bristle at K-pop groups singing in English feel that they’re abandoning their Korean roots and selling out for Western audiences. But it’s hard for me to get too worked up about the downsides of English releases. K-pop is an industry, not a genre, and these songs are K-pop no matter what language they’re in. Plus, putting a language requirement on these groups feels extremely limiting for an industry that has always been focused on global impact. Just look at Blackpink, who are one of K-pop’s most diverse groups, with members from New Zealand, Korea, and Thailand. Why shouldn’t some of their members get to sing in one of the languages they’ve spoken their whole lives? Besides, none of the full English songs were chosen as Blackpink’s lead singles—while “Ice Cream” was mostly in English, Lisa still raps in Korean. And at the end of the day, the group is still faithful to their origins—the decision to stick with mostly Korean songs for the singles is particularly notable given the buzzy A-list feature on one of their English songs ...
The Album is without question my favorite Blackpink release yet, and it joins the ranks of Halsey’s Manic, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia, Lady Gaga’s Chromatica, Chloe x Halle’s Ungodly Hour, and Rina Sawayama’s SAWAYAMA as Lady Pop Bops That Have Literally Gotten Me Through This Hellish Year. No, we can’t dance to these great albums with friends or see them performed in concert just yet, but it’s enough that they all managed to come out in the black hole of content that has otherwise defined 2020.
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Post by Admin on Oct 5, 2020 22:12:18 GMT
In the lead up to the release of their debut LP The Album, South Korean K-pop group BLACKPINK partnered with PUBG Corporation for a PlayerUnknown’s Battleground Mobile crossover event. Generating all-out hysteria, the gaming partnership was just the latest in a long line of endorsement deals for the girl group, which was formed by YG Entertainment in 2016. Those deals stretch across a variety of industries, including major endorsements with Kia Motors, Samsung, PepsiCo, adidas, Woori Bank and even South Korea’s customs service, Incheon Main Customs. As of 2020, BLACKPINK has an estimated net worth of $32 million USD. But that estimate can’t fully encompass what members Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé also have going for them independent of their roles in the group. Most notably, three of the girls have been tapped by LVMH to serve as ambassadors across the French multinational corporation’s portfolio of luxury brands. Jisoo serves as a Dior Beauty ambassador, Lisa represents CELINE as global ambassador and Rosé was announced as the global face of Saint Laurent this summer. The group’s leader Jennie Kim, affectionately dubbed “human Chanel” by fans, handles duties as Chanel’s house ambassador. But just how did BLACKPINK become fashion’s K-pop group?
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