BLACKPINK Just Put 2.4 Billion Views on an Eight-Year-Old Warning Shot

DDU-DU DDU-DU passed 2.4 billion YouTube views eight years after release. The number is ridiculous; the catalog life behind it is the better story.

JUMP: BLACKPINK Turned a Group Reunion Into a Citywide Bass Emergency

BLACKPINK returned after two years and eight months without a new group song and chose hardstyle for the reunion. Nobody eased back into the office. “JUMP” kicks down the door, shouts its Korean title four times, and turns a city into a block party with structural da…

When I’m With You: LISA Entered Tyla’s Heatwave and Bose Brought Every Speaker It Owned

Still from LISA and Tyla's official “When I’m With You” music video. Video: LLOUD and RCA Records. RaeRae’s verdict: LISA and Tyla made a heatwave video for a song that melts pride before the first chorus. Tyla brings the humid vocal glide, LISA finds a softer R&B pocket, and both women dance like the camera […]

Rapunzel: LISA Built Kiki a Tower Out of Money

Reviewed: LISA, “Rapunzel (Kiki Solo Version)” live performance video, plus the album recording featuring Megan Thee Stallion Song released: February 28, 2025 Performance video released: April 22, 2025 Album: Alter Ego

FUTW: LISA Broke Vixi Out of the Padded Room, but the Lyrics Stayed in Holding

Vixi escapes an institution, joyrides through the city, and turns LISA’s alter-ego rollout into a very expensive villain audition. The video commits. The lyrics need a better alibi.

DREAM: LISA Put a Breakup in an Urn and Let the Lake Finish the Sentence

LISA wrote a breakup song, hired Kentaro Sakaguchi, added an urn, and quietly changed the question from “Did they break up?” to “How do you argue with someone who is no longer alive?”

LISA Born Again React

LISA, Doja Cat, and RAYE turn a bad relationship into a disco-pop funeral where the women keep the camera, the groove, and the last word.

LiSA ReawakeR React: Felix Answers the Shadows

LiSA, Felix and Hiroyuki Sawano turn Solo Leveling’s second-season opening into a heavy, rhythmic fight built on pain, allies and another awakening.