BLACKPINK’s ROSE Says Hate Feedback Impressed New Tune ‘Quantity One Woman’

It isn’t simple being a primary lady — simply ask ROSÉ.

In a candid interview with Apple Tune 1’s Zane Lowe arriving Friday (Nov. 22), the BLACKPINK famous person were given actual concerning the inspiration at the back of her new solo unmarried, “Quantity One Woman,” which dropped the similar day: studying hate feedback about herself. “We wrote that music the day once I went to this tournament,” ROSÉ defined. “I felt so thankful that I’m at those occasions, however I didn’t really feel fulfilled. I felt like I used to be chasing after one thing that I’m like, ‘What am I chasing after?’”

“I felt so empty, and I keep in mind feeling so depressing,” she persevered. “After which that night time, I stopped up discovering myself on social media, after which I finally end up on the lookout for these kind of feedback which can be simply going to clearly shatter me … I’m so disenchanted in myself. As a result of I believe I’ve grown up being like, ‘Be assured in your self. When other people say issues to you, don’t let it get to you.’”

Noting that “Quantity One Woman” general represents “poisonous” relationships, the New Zealand local added, “I used to be so obsessive about those individuals who weren’t great to me and who actually didn’t know me.”

The brand new music is simply one of the issues ROSÉ and the radio host broached all over their dialog, which arrives simply two weeks forward of the K-pop famous person’s debut solo album, rosie. Of the 12-track LP, she unfolded about feeling “drive” to finish the challenge all over her day without work from BLACKPINK duties — particularly with the clock ticking right down to a band reunion in 2025.

“And us as BLACKPINK, as mature as we’re, we were given in combination and made up our minds, ‘Let’s promise ourselves a excellent 12 months to be impressed,’” ROSÉ advised Lowe of bandmates JENNIE, LISA and JISOO. “The very first thing that came about was once anxiousness, as a result of I used to be privileged to have this twelve months in my fingers to do no matter I sought after with it, however I sought after it to be the appropriate determination and it needed to really feel proper … What if I don’t consider in my factor? And what if I’m in a spot the place I’m having to do issues that I don’t really feel love it’s me?”

ROSÉ additionally touched on a previous courting that impressed one of the vital different songs on rosie, together with “Recreation Boy,” which she says was once the ultimate music she wrote for her album. “I’d by no means like the individual to find out about it, however I’d discuss [them] such a lot,” she advised Lowe. “I had to get it off my chest.”