JENNIE knows fans can hardly wait one more week for her debut solo album, Ruby, so she’s tiding them over with a sampler video posted Thursday (Feb. 27) on her socials.
Featuring the BLACKPINK band member starring in multiple different visual concepts ranging from rosy-soft floral to powerful queenlike edginess, the trailer gives brief, out-of-order snippets of most of the songs on the 15-track LP. That includes previously released single “Love Hangover” featuring Dominic Fike, as well as unreleased songs “Filter,” “ZEN,” “Starlight,” “F.T.S.” and “Like JENNIE.”
Listeners also get their first tastes of two of the collaborations on Ruby: the FKJ-assisted “Jane” and “Handlebars” with Dua Lipa.
The sampler comes eight days ahead of JENNIE’s March 7 album, which follows singles “Mantra” and Doechii duet “ExtraL.” Ruby has long been in the works, with the South Korean star telling Billboard in her January cover story that she “struggled a lot in the beginning” of the creative process.
“A few months, I would say, was just me throwing myself out there, walking into rooms filled with new people,” she elaborated. “I just had to keep knocking on the door, like, ‘Is this it?’ ‘Is this it?’ and then eventually, we got to a point where I found a good group of people that I linked with, sonically and as friends.”
All of JENNIE’s bandmates have been working on solo music during BLACKPINK’s break from group activities, with ROSÉ dropping album rosie in December, JISOO releasing EP AMORTAGE earlier this month and LISA set to unveil LP Alter Ego Friday (Feb. 28). The quartet will embark in July for a newly announced tour.
Watch JENNIE’s album teaser above.
