Black sky, pink moon and a revolution at Coachella
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Blackpink (stylized BLΛƆKPIИK), the first K-pop girl group to perform at Coachella just added episode 8 (yt) to their group's vlog "Blackpink Diaries" covering their experience at the festival. Be sure to check out their mystery fan at around the ~2 minute mark.
Other Diaries (all yt links):
Ep1 - Start of World Tour in Thailand
Ep2 - Thailand part 2
Ep3 - Indonesia
Ep4 - Phillipines, the one with the awesome fan gift
Ep5 - Good Morning America
Ep6 - Massage Therapy and Jennie pre-comeback jitters
Ep7 - Taipei and end of Asian Leg of tour
Ep8 - Coachella
Ep9+ still to come.
All episodes are certified Bechdel compliant.
Also, here's a "fan's eye view" of their opening at Coachella (shaky yt)
Confused, or want to know more about Blackpink?
Introductory Guides:
The Unhelpful Guide to Blackpink(yt) is a classic, if dated, resource.
For a bit more up to date info, there's the Beginner's Guide (yt).
Ships
I think they might have some music videos too
Why are they called Blackpink?
The group’s name was conceived to contrast with the perception of femininity commonly associated with the color pink. When Blackpink debuted, their label YG Entertainment said the name intends to convey that the group embodies more than beauty. “I may look sweet, but I don’t act like it,” Jennie sings in the opening lines of “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du,” echoing this message. (Time Article)
Adults React to the latest Blackpink Music Video Kill This Love(yt)
Bonus: Dua Lipa makes a surprise appearance at a BP concert to sing her collab with them (yt). Listen to the crowd just lose it when they realize who's singing (about 18 seconds in).
Other Diaries (all yt links):
Ep1 - Start of World Tour in Thailand
Ep2 - Thailand part 2
Ep3 - Indonesia
Ep4 - Phillipines, the one with the awesome fan gift
Ep5 - Good Morning America
Ep6 - Massage Therapy and Jennie pre-comeback jitters
Ep7 - Taipei and end of Asian Leg of tour
Ep8 - Coachella
Ep9+ still to come.
All episodes are certified Bechdel compliant.
Also, here's a "fan's eye view" of their opening at Coachella (shaky yt)
Confused, or want to know more about Blackpink?
Introductory Guides:
The Unhelpful Guide to Blackpink(yt) is a classic, if dated, resource.
For a bit more up to date info, there's the Beginner's Guide (yt).
Ships
I think they might have some music videos too
Why are they called Blackpink?
The group’s name was conceived to contrast with the perception of femininity commonly associated with the color pink. When Blackpink debuted, their label YG Entertainment said the name intends to convey that the group embodies more than beauty. “I may look sweet, but I don’t act like it,” Jennie sings in the opening lines of “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du,” echoing this message. (Time Article)
Adults React to the latest Blackpink Music Video Kill This Love(yt)
Bonus: Dua Lipa makes a surprise appearance at a BP concert to sing her collab with them (yt). Listen to the crowd just lose it when they realize who's singing (about 18 seconds in).
I love Blackpink so much.
However, their reality show about moving into their new home made me really sad about the amount of control that they are under.
Kpop is amazing but I have a problem with the creation of the idols and these academies that they have to do for so many years.
posted by k8t at 12:01 PM on May 5, 2019 [5 favorites]
However, their reality show about moving into their new home made me really sad about the amount of control that they are under.
Kpop is amazing but I have a problem with the creation of the idols and these academies that they have to do for so many years.
posted by k8t at 12:01 PM on May 5, 2019 [5 favorites]
Inside Blackpink's U.S. Takeover: How the K-Pop Queens Are Changing the Game
The dark side of South Korean pop music
posted by k8t at 12:04 PM on May 5, 2019 [2 favorites]
The dark side of South Korean pop music
posted by k8t at 12:04 PM on May 5, 2019 [2 favorites]
I also love Blackpink, that is all. :D
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 12:08 PM on May 5, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 12:08 PM on May 5, 2019 [4 favorites]
With “Kill This Love,” K-pop queens Blackpink have made YouTube and iTunes history
posted by Caduceus at 12:40 PM on May 5, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Caduceus at 12:40 PM on May 5, 2019 [2 favorites]
I wonder what Daron of Pinkish Black thinks about them.
posted by nikaspark at 2:59 PM on May 5, 2019
posted by nikaspark at 2:59 PM on May 5, 2019
I definitely like Blackpink, but they mostly make me miss 2NE1.
posted by sagc at 4:43 PM on May 5, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by sagc at 4:43 PM on May 5, 2019 [6 favorites]
I'mma let you finish, but Brown Eyed Girls are the queens of K-Pop of all time. Of all time!
posted by persona at 7:20 PM on May 5, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by persona at 7:20 PM on May 5, 2019 [3 favorites]
I did not know anything of Blackpink until I was caught in an half-hour-long traffic at midnight a couple of weeks ago when their concert let out.
It was a poor introduction.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:57 PM on May 5, 2019
It was a poor introduction.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:57 PM on May 5, 2019
I definitely like Blackpink, but they mostly make me miss 2NE1.
Saaaaame. I enjoy listening to their music but I can't get into them as a "true fan" because all I can think about was how horribly my girls were mistreated (and that CL is still locked in that YG dungeon -- FREE HER!). I appreciate that BP is making waves and finally girl groups are starting to get recognition from American audiences (so many girl group solo US tours lately, which never happened for all the 2nd gen girl groups I loved, sob), but I'll probably forever be a bitter Blackjack because I couldn't go to their one concert they had in the US before unceremoniously disbanding. Yet here is BP with an arena tour and they barely have ten songs.
Plus I'm forever side-eying YG after all this Burning Sun stuff. As soon as CL, Lee Hi, and AkMu are freed, I think I'll ease myself out of ever being a YG stan again. Not that it's any of the BP girls' fault their agency is a shit-storm, but... ughhh...
At least Bom's latest singles were divine (and the reggae/ballad versions of "Spring" are all I need right now).
I'mma let you finish, but Brown Eyed Girls are the queens of K-Pop of all time. Of all time!
BEG is prepping for a comeback (...sometime... soonish? yes? maybe?) and I CANNOT WAIT! It's been too long!
posted by paisley sheep at 9:08 PM on May 5, 2019 [8 favorites]
Saaaaame. I enjoy listening to their music but I can't get into them as a "true fan" because all I can think about was how horribly my girls were mistreated (and that CL is still locked in that YG dungeon -- FREE HER!). I appreciate that BP is making waves and finally girl groups are starting to get recognition from American audiences (so many girl group solo US tours lately, which never happened for all the 2nd gen girl groups I loved, sob), but I'll probably forever be a bitter Blackjack because I couldn't go to their one concert they had in the US before unceremoniously disbanding. Yet here is BP with an arena tour and they barely have ten songs.
Plus I'm forever side-eying YG after all this Burning Sun stuff. As soon as CL, Lee Hi, and AkMu are freed, I think I'll ease myself out of ever being a YG stan again. Not that it's any of the BP girls' fault their agency is a shit-storm, but... ughhh...
At least Bom's latest singles were divine (and the reggae/ballad versions of "Spring" are all I need right now).
I'mma let you finish, but Brown Eyed Girls are the queens of K-Pop of all time. Of all time!
BEG is prepping for a comeback (...sometime... soonish? yes? maybe?) and I CANNOT WAIT! It's been too long!
posted by paisley sheep at 9:08 PM on May 5, 2019 [8 favorites]
yea, surprised there's a post on MeFi about a YG entertainment group with zero mention of all the Burning Sun (and associated problematic issues) stuff.
As well as the many ways BP was conceived of and developed as 2NE1 2.0 (YG looked at what was and wasn't working for their initial group 2NE1, and then simply formed a new group as a do-over, basically - leaving 2NE1 and in particular CL (who was in the middle of trying to break into the US market and still contracted to YG) hanging out to dry, relatively). So many ways this post could have been fleshed out instead of mostly being a bunch of BP concert videos.
posted by aielen at 8:55 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]
As well as the many ways BP was conceived of and developed as 2NE1 2.0 (YG looked at what was and wasn't working for their initial group 2NE1, and then simply formed a new group as a do-over, basically - leaving 2NE1 and in particular CL (who was in the middle of trying to break into the US market and still contracted to YG) hanging out to dry, relatively). So many ways this post could have been fleshed out instead of mostly being a bunch of BP concert videos.
posted by aielen at 8:55 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]
I like to aggressively yell BLACKPINK IN YOUR AREA whenever their songs shuffle into my Spotify playlists
I don't recommend doing it at work though
Ask me how I came to this conclusion
posted by Hermione Granger at 11:51 AM on May 6, 2019 [7 favorites]
I don't recommend doing it at work though
Ask me how I came to this conclusion
posted by Hermione Granger at 11:51 AM on May 6, 2019 [7 favorites]
The Kpop machine is problematic for all sorts of reasons, but as an experience the breakthrough into Western markets is really exciting.
Production-wise contemporary Kpop just blows the Western competition out of the water.
Compared to BP Western girl groups like the Spice Girls look amateurish, even on the individual level the members of BP give solo artists a run for their money. Watching Dua Lipa jig around awkwardly in the wake of their duet, just shows you how much better they are.
The aesthetics too are just way beyond anything that the West has at the moment, and the performativity is so slick and mesmerising it’s insane.
Possibly underrated is the gender fuck too. While BP are super femme, the BTS video for boy in love is insane in literally dissolving the gender line in performance in a way that makes the cis women that they duet with a literal afterthought. It’s like Oscar Wilde’s dream come true.
That this is a global culture is a really exciting thing too, and fascinating in giving the West a taste of what it might have been like to be on the receiving end of cultural colonialism, and beatlemania.
Kpop is literally one of the things that makes me happy to live in the 21st century.
posted by Middlemarch at 11:53 AM on May 6, 2019 [8 favorites]
Production-wise contemporary Kpop just blows the Western competition out of the water.
Compared to BP Western girl groups like the Spice Girls look amateurish, even on the individual level the members of BP give solo artists a run for their money. Watching Dua Lipa jig around awkwardly in the wake of their duet, just shows you how much better they are.
The aesthetics too are just way beyond anything that the West has at the moment, and the performativity is so slick and mesmerising it’s insane.
Possibly underrated is the gender fuck too. While BP are super femme, the BTS video for boy in love is insane in literally dissolving the gender line in performance in a way that makes the cis women that they duet with a literal afterthought. It’s like Oscar Wilde’s dream come true.
That this is a global culture is a really exciting thing too, and fascinating in giving the West a taste of what it might have been like to be on the receiving end of cultural colonialism, and beatlemania.
Kpop is literally one of the things that makes me happy to live in the 21st century.
posted by Middlemarch at 11:53 AM on May 6, 2019 [8 favorites]
yea, surprised there's a post on MeFi about a YG entertainment group with zero mention of all the Burning Sun (and associated problematic issues) stuff.
It probably would make a good post on its own, tbh, because it's such a huge thing that goes beyond just a "k-pop scandal" but I don't have the emotional energy to go dredging through the links and attempt to put things into context. But here's the wiki for any one curious.
posted by paisley sheep at 12:40 PM on May 6, 2019 [3 favorites]
It probably would make a good post on its own, tbh, because it's such a huge thing that goes beyond just a "k-pop scandal" but I don't have the emotional energy to go dredging through the links and attempt to put things into context. But here's the wiki for any one curious.
posted by paisley sheep at 12:40 PM on May 6, 2019 [3 favorites]
That this is a global culture is a really exciting thing too, and fascinating in giving the West a taste of what it might have been like to be on the receiving end of cultural colonialism, and beatlemania.
I've watched the k-pop industry work so incredibly hard over the last decade-plus to break into the mainstream Western -- specifically US -- market (and constantly fail) and I thought it would just never happen, yet here we are.
I'm so hyped to see BTS in Chicago this weekend even though I don't consider myself a huge fan (although I've loved their music since their debut, I still can't confidently name all the members) just because ten years ago, if you told me that a k-pop group would be doing sold-out stadium tours in the US, I would have thought you were crazy. Back then it felt so impossible to just get one act to perform in a US arena (like BP is doing now), and the only way to sell out something that huge was to have an entire label's worth of groups (like SM Town). It feels like such an historical moment and I'm happy to be living in it.
Not to mention all the new groups (even ones that have barely debuted!) touring the US (in smaller venues, of course). I'm so jealous of the fans that get to see their faves through something other than a computer screen, since all the groups I adored have disbanded or are on infinite hiatus. Now I just have to hope for some solo-member tours like Sunmi and Tiffany.
posted by paisley sheep at 1:08 PM on May 6, 2019 [3 favorites]
I've watched the k-pop industry work so incredibly hard over the last decade-plus to break into the mainstream Western -- specifically US -- market (and constantly fail) and I thought it would just never happen, yet here we are.
I'm so hyped to see BTS in Chicago this weekend even though I don't consider myself a huge fan (although I've loved their music since their debut, I still can't confidently name all the members) just because ten years ago, if you told me that a k-pop group would be doing sold-out stadium tours in the US, I would have thought you were crazy. Back then it felt so impossible to just get one act to perform in a US arena (like BP is doing now), and the only way to sell out something that huge was to have an entire label's worth of groups (like SM Town). It feels like such an historical moment and I'm happy to be living in it.
Not to mention all the new groups (even ones that have barely debuted!) touring the US (in smaller venues, of course). I'm so jealous of the fans that get to see their faves through something other than a computer screen, since all the groups I adored have disbanded or are on infinite hiatus. Now I just have to hope for some solo-member tours like Sunmi and Tiffany.
posted by paisley sheep at 1:08 PM on May 6, 2019 [3 favorites]
I know kpop has issues, but damn years ago I was really into kpop I got made fun of by the white kids for it. Like okay, I may have been a little too earnest in my love, but it really felt like it was more "this is weird and they're [insert slur] and you shouldn't like this" rather than "Ha ha, you like pop music. Sell out."
So this kpop wave in the U.S. has been thrilling for me to watch, especially since I just realized that I've been listening to kpop for 20 years? Which can't be right but the wiki entry for H.O.T. can't be wrong. I guess I'll collect my large visor and hang with all the other Korean kpop grandmothers.
posted by later, paladudes at 9:11 PM on May 6, 2019 [3 favorites]
So this kpop wave in the U.S. has been thrilling for me to watch, especially since I just realized that I've been listening to kpop for 20 years? Which can't be right but the wiki entry for H.O.T. can't be wrong. I guess I'll collect my large visor and hang with all the other Korean kpop grandmothers.
posted by later, paladudes at 9:11 PM on May 6, 2019 [3 favorites]
I wouldn’t go as far as to say it was awkward, plus to be fair Dua doesn’t live and breathe the choreo like BP, but I do think there’s truth that BP compares favorably. Here’s some footage of that concert. My favorite part was when the crowd collectively loses their shit when they realize it’s Dua singing. Is this where I get to drop that I was at that concert? Sadly, I don’t have any video as I was too busy pointing and screaming DUA LIPA, ITS DUA-FRIGGIN-LIPA, singing her own friggin song at a BP concert.. and dying only to be reborn to die again. As a bonus, I was with my daughter, and she got to be simultaneously inspired and embarrassed at her Dad’s antics that night.
posted by forforf at 5:16 AM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by forforf at 5:16 AM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
I had an idea for a Blackpink/Black Flag t-shirt, but the internet being what it is, someone beat me to it.
posted by cazoo at 5:04 PM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by cazoo at 5:04 PM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
> It probably would make a good post on its own
I actually did consider making a post when the whole Black Sun thing broke, but as I kept following events in Korean news, I shelved the idea as I felt it would just be "Look at these assholes".
Supposedly the reason why there are YG trainees in Produce X 101 this season is because YG is trying to deflect attention from the Burning Sun stuff, and also make nice with Mnet.
In other Produce X 101 news, one contestant is already out after internet reports of bullying - Yun Seobin from JYP.
posted by needled at 5:24 PM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
I actually did consider making a post when the whole Black Sun thing broke, but as I kept following events in Korean news, I shelved the idea as I felt it would just be "Look at these assholes".
Supposedly the reason why there are YG trainees in Produce X 101 this season is because YG is trying to deflect attention from the Burning Sun stuff, and also make nice with Mnet.
In other Produce X 101 news, one contestant is already out after internet reports of bullying - Yun Seobin from JYP.
posted by needled at 5:24 PM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
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