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The director of BLACKPINK Light Up The Sky, Caroline Suh, reveals the secrets of filming behind-the-scenes with Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa and her favourite moments from working with the band. The question really is, why WOULDN’T you make a documentary about BLACKPINK?!
David Levesley is News and Features Editor at British GQ. Follow him @djflevesley
BLACKPINK, Light Up The Sky, now streaming on Netflix.
Blackpink released “Blackpink: Light Up the Sky,” a Netflix Original documentary that gives insight into their lives as K-pop singers, on Oct. 14. Directed by Caroline Suh, the documentary encompasses the beginnings of Blackpink’s journey as trainees to the biggest global girl group that they are today.
Since their debut in 2016, Blackpink has achieved many accomplishments — they were the first ever K-pop group to perform at Coachella in 2019, are the only South Korean group to have 1 billion views for three of their music videos on YouTube and just became the first all-female group to lead the Billboard Artist 100 chart on Oct. 17. However, in “Blackpink: Light Up the Sky,” a more personal and honest narrative is expressed through personal pre-debut videos and one-on-one interviews with the members.
The South Korean quartet, which consists of Jennie, Jisoo, Rosé and Lisa, embrace and reveal their pre-debut life, which is the time they spent training and practicing with other young K-pop hopefuls. Through never-before-seen clips of their auditions at YG Entertainment, we are given a glimpse of rehearsals and childhood videos spent as the foundation in chasing their dreams.
Although the life of a K-pop trainee is highly private and never discussed, Blackpink is shockingly unfiltered about their time before and during trainees through one-on-one interviews. The K-Pop industry has been infamously known as harsh, cutthroat and competitive, with Jennie in a V Live broadcast describing the industry as “a really mean and cold-hearted world” during her trainee days.