“The women of Blackpink are feeling themselves hard on Deadline, and it suits them. It’s the K-pop queens’ first new music in [blows dust off the calendar] more than three years, since their career-capping 2022 album, the excellent Born Pink. All four — Jennie, Rosé, Lisa, and Jisoo — have kept busy since then, getting serious about their solo careers. Rosé dropped her personal statement Rosie, wit”
“The world's biggest girl group deliver high-impact bangers and ferocious rock & roll anthems.”
“The K-pop quartet’s highly anticipated second album leans into an image of authority that’s undercut by familiar ideas and stale musical concepts.”
“The name BLACKPINK comes with certain expectations: larger-than-life production, catchy choruses and drops, staccato raps that name-drop brands, and a fierce bravado end-to-end. And the group’s second album ‘Born Pink’ demonstrates how they’ve honed this formula over the years, especially under the expert supervision of Teddy Park, who has shaped their sound. It comes laden with these familiar ele”
“BLACKPINK are strangely restricted on Born Pink”
