BLACKPINK Releases the Born Pink Album, Track Listing. View it Now
BORN PINK, BLACKPINK’s forthcoming album, has a poster sharing the full track listing.
The release of BLACKPINK’s new album, BORN PINK, is soon!
The biggest K-pop female group in the world, Blackpink is a four-woman whirl of glam energy and the epitome of swagger in human form. Without even the least trace of diluting what they do, Jisoo, Rosé, Lisa, and Jennie have become a global pop sensation, even invading America.
Blackpink’s eagerly anticipated Born Pink is their first album since their 2020 debut, The Album, and like that record, it’s brief and sweet: 8 songs, almost all of which clock in at exactly 3 minutes, and almost all of which are brimming with brassy uptempo confidence.
They are truly rock stars at heart, even when they are lovesick gals. Finally releasing the outstanding pop record they had in them all along.
Blackpink constantly reminds you throughout Born Pink that you are not even close to being as awesome as they are, but at least you are fortunate enough to bask in their magnetic aura.
Born Pink is a celebration of the great art of being a girl who gets what she wants thanks to all four of them. On the great song “Hard to Love,” they sing, “I’ll be all you need till I’m driving you nuts,” which is the ideal Blackpink maxim.
After a period of development during which Rosé, Lisa, and Jennie all released individual music, Born Pink marks their reunion. It is, however, far quicker, shinier, and more enjoyable than The Album.
Their biggest success to date, “Pink Venom,” which alternates between English and Korean, went viral this summer. They perform with the bombastic panache of a classic Eighties glam-metal band, comparable to Poison or Motley Crue, especially when Rosé exclaims, “I’m so rock & roll! ”
The scene in “Shut Down” is typical: these women engage in car-flossing while listening to a trap beat and a bizarre loop of classical violin. They kiss off opponents and the paparazzi with the sneer, “Praying for my downfall? Many have tried, darling.” The girls’ chanting of “Whip it whip it whip it whip it / Keep watching me shut it down!” conjures up Missy Elliott. ”
Blackpink brag about being both pop stars and rock stars in “Shut Down,” thus it stands to reason that the fierce rock & roll songs on Born Pink are their best bangers.
The album’s climax is “Yeah Yeah Yeah,” which combines lush synth-disco flourishes with a jagged guitar riff that falls somewhere between Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone” and the Cars’ “Let’s Go.” If you don’t feel it, Blackpink simply doesn’t care. “Tally” grabs your attention with a fast punk guitar and the first phrase, “I say ‘fuck it when I feel it.” While you’re talking all that trash, I’ll be getting mine,” they sing. ”
Blackpink manages the sorrowful songs, but they’re really at their finest when they argue that having fun is every girl’s right. “The Happiest Girl in the World,” a ballad entirely in English about swallowing the pain, with the lyric, “I can stop the tears if I choose to,” is the lone downer on Born Pink. They are an outstanding pop group, and Born Pink is the masterpiece of pop music they were destined to create.