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…
On My Mind: ROSÉ Found the Feeling and Alex Warren Brought a Stadium Drum to a Private Memory
A breakup thought hiding under the floorboards, two people walking through rooms built from memory, and a chorus that arrives with enough percussion to inform the neighbors.
Messy: ROSÉ Gave F1 the Emotional Crash and Shut Down Las Vegas to Walk Through It
Still from ROSÉ's official “Messy” music video for F1 The Movie. Video: Atlantic Records and Apple Original Films. RaeRae’s verdict: A Formula 1 soundtrack asked ROSÉ for speed and got emotional brake failure. “Messy” is a power ballad about treating chaos as proof of love, which is exactly the kind of terrible idea her voice […]
ROSÉ toxic till the end React: Pretty Years, Ugly Loop
ROSÉ made the red flags cinematic, cast Evan Mock as the problem, and gave a toxic relationship a hook far prettier than its behavior deserved.
ROSÉ On the Ground React
A limousine on fire, a chandelier falling through childhood, six versions of Rosé on the stairs and one brutal realization: the thing she crossed the world to find was waiting inside Roseanne.