BLACKPINK singer Rosé has opened up about how it felt like she “didn’t have a life” while making her debut solo album, ‘rosie’.
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BLACKPINK’s Rosé recently spoke to The Cut, where she shared the emotional hardship she experienced while working on her new album, ‘rosie’. She revealed that ‘vampirehollie’ was the first song she wrote for the album, and that it was based on her feelings toward the hate she receives online.
“Being in the studio every day, trying to write the song that would get that off my chest, I literally didn’t have a life,” she said. I’d wake up, go to the studio, come home disappointed, and go back to it – continuously for the whole year.”
Rosé added that she more she talked and thought about the song, the more “there’d always be new things to write about”. When she realised she was “trying really hard to think about something to say”, she knew she “must really not have much to say about this anymore”.
“I gave it a funeral and shipped it away,” she added. Rosé also revealed that she has already begun making new music. “I was in the studio last week. What better to do with my life than be in the studio? But I also did think, ‘I should live a little’,” she said. “I need to go get my heart broken again. I need to go be stupid for a little bit and come back.”
Rosé’s solo album ‘rosie’ dropped in full on December 6, 2024. It come out alongside a music video for single ‘toxic till the end’. The record featured 12 tracks in total, including her Billboard Hot 100 hit ‘APT.’, featuring Bruno Mars.
‘APT.’ later went on to be named by NME as one of the best 50 songs of 2024 and one of the best 25 K-pop songs of the year. In a four-star review of the album, NME’s Crystal Bell wrote that the album “offers a rare and intimate invitation to understand Rosé as more than just a star — to see Rosie, the woman, searching for validation, love and meaning”.
