In a recent interview, Jennie revealed when, in her opinion, it was the moment of turning in the career of Blackpink
Nowadays, Blackpink is considered as one of K-pop’s top groups, dragging a huge legion of fans around the world, creating trends and breaking numerous records with each release.
Composed of Jisoo, Jennie, Rose and LisaThe girlgroup will celebrate 9 years of debut in August, and has a huge list of hits, including “Boombayah!”, “Whistle”, “Lovesick Girls”, “Pink Venom”, “Shut Down”, “DDU-DDU-DU”, “Playing With Fire”, and more. In 2025, the group is scheduled to perform a new Comeback, and start a new world tour.
Right in its debut, Blackpink was considered a success, being called by the South Korean press as “Monster Rookies”, due to its resounding fame. With his first single, “Whistle”, the set broke his first record, becoming the fastest group of the time to get a victory in South Korean music programs, winning the prize just 13 days after their debut at Inkigayo.
The deed was recognized by the singer and songwriter Jung Jaehyung on his YouTube channel, “Fairy Jaehyung”, during a recent interview with Jennie. In the conversation, the artist stated that the quartet became a success shortly after the premiere, questioning Main Rapper if Star arrived in his lives “overnight.”
As an answer, Jennie He explained that, as many as many believe that the life of the four changed dramatically shortly after debut, for her, the change only happened a few years later.
“The point is that, for me, I consider it a different moment in my career when my life gave a 180 -degree turn. And that was not immediately after the premiere, ”he said. “Personally, right after the premiere, Blackpink didn’t have many promotional agendas. Our activities as a group were limited. So … Even after the debut, the next day I was sent back to my daily routine to wake up and go to training. I really had nothing more programmed to do. People were like, ‘What a successful debut! Good for you! ‘, And I didn’t understand. I was like, ‘It was, but? It seems the same thing to me. ‘
The artist then explains that, in her perception, things actually started to change only in 2018, with the release of “DDU-DDU-DU”, Title Track of the “Square Up” mini album.
“That’s when DDU-DDU-DU came out and we started gaining attention from international fans that our agendas started to get crowded,” Jennie said.
Remember that, to the present day, “DDU-DDU-DU” is still the biggest release of Blackpink, and one of K-Pop’s great hits. This is because the music video became the first of a female K-pop group to reach the 2 billion mark of views on YouTube, and the second of a South Korean pop artist to win the feat, behind only “Psy” with the hit “Gangnam Style”. Until the publication of this article, the video adds more than 2.2 billion views.
Source: Recreio
