In “This the life of a vandal, masked up and I’m still in Celine/ĭesigner crimes or it wouldn’t be me, ooh,” rapper Lisa references her global ambassadorship with the fashion house, for which she walked the runway this May. Other lyrics are more direct references to the group members’s growing status as international icons. (Petition for a Blackpink feature on 1989 (Taylor’s Version), please and thank you.) The song is catchy but discombobulated, a disorienting blend of rap, floating vocals, and an anti-drop chorus, featuring a few choice Easter eggs in the lyrics.įans have already pointed out that “Kick in the door” is likely a reference to Biggie Smalls, while “One by one and two by two” is a nod at Rihanna’s “Pon de Replay.” The group’s venom references wouldn’t be complete without a wink at the artist perhaps best known for making the snake her sigil: The phrase “Look what you made us do” seems an almost certain hat-tip to Taylor Swift’s Reputation. “Pink Venom” itself was met with mixed reviews among Blackpink fans-known as Blinks-who have waited multiple years for a new, exciting drop from their idols. Jennie later added, “Some worry that we might stray away from our identity, but we believe it’s the most distinct and clear way to represent us.” “Since ‘pink’ and ‘venom’ have contradicting images, we thought they were kind of reminiscent of us…It’s pink venom, a lovely poison, it’s words that most express us.” “Since our album’s title is Born Pink, we wanted to relay our identity in the song as much as we could,” Jennie explained during an online press conference in Seoul timed to the “Pink Venom” release. Don’t ever mistake their kindness for weakness. Such a paradox, it’s implied, is a good representation of their ethos as a group. “Pink Venom,” they insist, is an inherent contradiction: sweet but deadly, unassuming but powerful. In the new single “Pink Venom,” released ahead of the group’s forthcoming album Born Pink, the Blackpink crew-Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo, and Rosé-attempt to create the right alchemical mix of sugar and spice. As Poison once instructed in the final breath of the ’80s, every rose has its thorn, and the modern K-pop sensation Blackpink would like to capitalize on that proverb.
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