Blackpink’s Rosé looks to break free from the industry pressures of her day job on her new solo album.
Roseanne Park, best known as Rosé of world-beating K-pop girl group Blackpink, was born in New Zealand but grew up in Melbourne from ages seven to 15. Her father encouraged her to attend an audition in Sydney and two months later she’d moved to Seoul, South Korea, to commence four years of gruelling song and dance training. At 19, Rosé and three other trainees debuted as Blackpink, equal parts edgy and sweet, and became an instant global phenomenon.
Much of the album centres around one guy in particular, or perhaps a specific “type” she’s dated and obsessed over several times. She’s ignoring red flags on, along with “that shit my mother always told me, ’cause nothing’s really perfect like that”. It could definitely be the same dude who pops up onTwo Years
Number one with a bullet: Rosé’s solo pivot has already spawned a chart-topping smash with her Bruno Mars collaboration, APT., Rosé has finally emerged from two years of yearning to see a spade for a spade, or a “gameboy” in this case, “but these days I don’t wanna play, boy”. The spectre of this guy wears thin over the album, even as it enters its inevitable empowerment arc, but there are welcome moments of reprieve.
That appears to be the case with Lauren Mayberry. As the lead singer of Scottish synth-pop trio Chvrches, she was always the focal point, a siren-like voice fronting clattering beats and keyboards that soared and chattered.
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