Now that all the BP members have released their solos, were you impressed?

so far, yeah

although i haven't heard the entirety of lisa or jennie's albums yet

very promising so far though; i'll be give the whole album a listen within the next few days and i'll be back

Not a single bop to be had, except for Rose's ballad B side which was decent (7 out of 10 or so).

BP definitely needs Teddy back. BornPink literally had ZERO FLOPS and was like 80 percent bops or megabops.

A doofus that thinks XG sounds like NewJeans, an army and a dork that clearly hates Blackpink

Funny times

But yes. Much more in impressed territory

only the numbers are impressive

yes im happy with their solos so far.

What made me impress so far is that actually they CAN release many songs in one year. So YG is the culprit for lack of music that people always complained about BP before.

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HEY!! Don't go by stereotypes! I may be an ARMY and not a full-fledged Blink, but I actually LOOOVE BLACKPINK and their group music and previous solos they had under YG and own all of their albums except for Born Pink, and I was SO EXCITED for their new solo albums and SO READY to buy all of them, too!!

I was even going to give the last 3 spaces I have left in my Kpop collection to their remaining solo albums (I already have Rosé's), but aside from Rosie, which gave me an even greater respect for Rosé as both a pop star and as an artist because it showed off her previously mostly-unknown songwriting ability and unique and strong artistic vision for her solo album in Kpop, none of them impressed me! They all really let me down! They all really let down my twin sister too besides Rosie, who is also an ARMY/basically Blink too and was so excited for them as well!!

I thought Lisa was going to have the most amazing solo of all, but wut happened?! Her album had no vision and many empty, weak, or noisy AF songs with no lyrical substance whatsoever. Rockstar eventuality grew on me a lot but originally sounded like straight up noise music (tho I LOVED the MV), Moonlit Floor was also a poor choice because it was simply a remake of a song that highlighted the original singer's vocals, but she is an amazing rapper especially for Kpop, but admittedly vocals were never her specialty! I liked the overall message of her title track, but FUTW was largely just a bunch of annoying chants after the annoying "I think I just I just might" part

Jennie's album was overall pretty good/not bad and did show off her versatility but her choice of title track, Like Jennie, was even admitted by other users on this forum to sound more like an intro song than a title track and was arguably be the weakest song off the album! The MV didn't look very high budget either and Jennie could've been mistaken for a backup dancer in her own music video who just happened to be the only female one out of a crowd of males, who they for whatever reason decided to put in the middle, she lacked that much unique stage presence in the video, tho hers is normally great live, and her outfit was almost identical to her backup dancers' too! ZEN's music video was a high quality cinematic triumph and gave me a lot of East Asian pride, but the song severely lacked a proper structural memorable melody, and overall sounded extremely empty as well (although just to prove that I am indeed a BP fan and not just a stereotypical hater ARMY, I did enjoy the powerful drum beats and some of the lyrics/powerful-sounding rapping).

I mean I could go on and on about all the individual songs off Lisa's album and Jisoo's album too (decent-to-good title track but relatively weak empty-sounding tho had a fun beat, b-sides were a bunch of unmemorable snoozefests tho which really disappointed me because I thought they would all be a bunch of more upbeat dance tracks similar to earthquake, which really did grow on me after a couple of listens, but all sounded sonically similar and I can't even distinguish any of them from each other in my memory), but this post is already way too TL;DR

I just wanted to say, as a previous huge fan of BLACKPINK and their previous releases under YG, I was severely underwhelmed and let down by their solo efforts and will probably mostly continue near-stanning them out of habit rather than any genuine excitement about their most recent or future activities under their solo labels, which I guess makes sense since this is their first time and they're all completely inexperienced in running their own companies, and probably using different producers (at least non-in house YG producers most notably Teddy).

I'm fully pinning my last hopes for BP on their future group comeback under YG later this year before I probably just go on to mostly support Rosé's future music activities and just check out the other members releases as a casual sporadic hopeful thing that they may by some small chance improve drastically.

But I'm clearly not the only one who has lost a lot of interest in at least BP's solo activities, if not quite their group ones yet, if you compare their current YT views of their latest solo MVs to their old ones or even their album sales. (I don't have Spotify so I haven't been able to keep up w/their streams there since I also quit using X/formerly known as Twitter since Musk's support of Trump, Nazism, and current disastrous management of the American government has been unveiled, but I recognize that would be considered the stronger argument as a digital metric of their past to current success).

I would really LOOOVE and strongly hope more than anything for BP to change my mind later with their future solo endeavors, but until then, NO, I HAVEN'T BEEN IMPRESSED BY THEIR SOLOS WHEN I KNOW BY MY PREVIOUS FANDOM OF THEM THAT THEY'RE CAPABLE OF DOING SO MUCH BIGGER AND GREATER!

Previously-longtime-almost BLINK and YES, ARMY, because WE CAN SUPPORT BOTH OF KPOP'S 2 BIGGEST GROUPS AT THE SAME TIME HERE OUT! *mic drop

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tbh honest...

I really was only mainly targeting the other two.

Jennie and rose yeah

I like born again and new woman from alter ego, but FUTW is too noisy that I haven't had the mood to check out the rest of the b sides

As for jisoo, I just can't handle her vocals

Musically I was a bit disapointed by Lisa. I think she releases some really good singles, but she doesn’t have what it takes to make great albums maybe? No enough versatily or vocals idk. Maybe next time she should release an ep and get a bit more personal ...

Rose album was underwelming but i wasn't surprised, i never really liked her style of singing or her tone.

Jisoo release bops tho so props to her!

And in the end, they really went ALL IN, just that is so impressive!

Specially Jennie. She released a legendary album really, specially in korea.

You can really feel how much they love music and how ambitious they are. It makes so much sense now why THIS girls are BP members.

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HEY!! Don't go by stereotypes! I may be an ARMY and not a full-fledged Blink, but I actually LOOOVE BLACKPINK and their group music and previous solos they had under YG and own all of their albums except for Born Pink, and I was SO EXCITED for their new solo albums and SO READY to buy all of them, too!!

I was even going to give the last 3 spaces I have left in my Kpop collection to their remaining solo albums (I already have Rosé's), but aside from Rosie, which gave me an even greater respect for Rosé as both a pop star and as an artist because it showed off her previously mostly-unknown songwriting ability and unique and strong artistic vision for her solo album in Kpop, none of them impressed me! They all really let me down! They all really let down my twin sister too besides Rosie, who is also an ARMY/basically Blink too and was so excited for them as well!!

I thought Lisa was going to have the most amazing solo of all, but wut happened?! Her album had no vision and many empty, weak, or noisy AF songs with no lyrical substance whatsoever. Rockstar eventuality grew on me a lot but originally sounded like straight up noise music (tho I LOVED the MV), Moonlit Floor was also a poor choice because it was simply a remake of a song that highlighted the original singer's vocals, but she is an amazing rapper especially for Kpop, but admittedly vocals were never her specialty! I liked the overall message of her title track, but FUTW was largely just a bunch of annoying chants after the annoying "I think I just I just might" part

Jennie's album was overall pretty good/not bad and did show off her versatility but her choice of title track, Like Jennie, was even admitted by other users on this forum to sound more like an intro song than a title track and was arguably be the weakest song off the album! The MV didn't look very high budget either and Jennie could've been mistaken for a backup dancer in her own music video who just happened to be the only female one out of a crowd of males, who they for whatever reason decided to put in the middle, she lacked that much unique stage presence in the video, tho hers is normally great live, and her outfit was almost identical to her backup dancers' too! ZEN's music video was a high quality cinematic triumph and gave me a lot of East Asian pride, but the song severely lacked a proper structural memorable melody, and overall sounded extremely empty as well (although just to prove that I am indeed a BP fan and not just a stereotypical hater ARMY, I did enjoy the powerful drum beats and some of the lyrics/powerful-sounding rapping).

I mean I could go on and on about all the individual songs off Lisa's album and Jisoo's album too (decent-to-good title track but relatively weak empty-sounding tho had a fun beat, b-sides were a bunch of unmemorable snoozefests tho which really disappointed me because I thought they would all be a bunch of more upbeat dance tracks similar to earthquake, which really did grow on me after a couple of listens, but all sounded sonically similar and I can't even distinguish any of them from each other in my memory), but this post is already way too TL;DR

I just wanted to say, as a previous huge fan of BLACKPINK and their previous releases under YG, I was severely underwhelmed and let down by their solo efforts and will probably mostly continue near-stanning them out of habit rather than any genuine excitement about their most recent or future activities under their solo labels, which I guess makes sense since this is their first time and they're all completely inexperienced in running their own companies, and probably using different producers (at least non-in house YG producers most notably Teddy).

I'm fully pinning my last hopes for BP on their future group comeback under YG later this year before I probably just go on to mostly support Rosé's future music activities and just check out the other members releases as a casual sporadic hopeful thing that they may by some small chance improve drastically.

But I'm clearly not the only one who has lost a lot of interest in at least BP's solo activities, if not quite their group ones yet, if you compare their current YT views of their latest solo MVs to their old ones or even their album sales. (I don't have Spotify so I haven't been able to keep up w/their streams there since I also quit using X/formerly known as Twitter since Musk's support of Trump, Nazism, and current disastrous management of the American government has been unveiled, but I recognize that would be considered the stronger argument as a digital metric of their past to current success).

I would really LOOOVE and strongly hope more than anything for BP to change my mind later with their future solo endeavors, but until then, NO, I HAVEN'T BEEN IMPRESSED BY THEIR SOLOS WHEN I KNOW BY MY PREVIOUS FANDOM OF THEM THAT THEY'RE CAPABLE OF DOING SO MUCH BIGGER AND GREATER!

Previously-longtime-almost BLINK and YES, ARMY, because WE CAN SUPPORT BOTH OF KPOP'S 2 BIGGEST GROUPS AT THE SAME TIME HERE OUT! *mic drop

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Zen is a masterpiece .

To bad you couldn’t grasp it's greatness . It mostly lies in subtility and restrain yet power and meaning.

Not all songs have to be hyper catchy, the big chorus is catchy enough.

Zen is Jennie at the top of her game! Best vocals, best rap. Best tone.

you forgot to vote. curious what your thoughts were on the solos

its good to know your enemies

haven't listened to everything from JEnnie yet but so far so good

Just Rose tbh

Rose probably has the best chance at actually breaking into America. Her music is very Taylor Swift/Olivia Rodrigo coded

I honestly don't know what to vote for.

I expected not to like rose's music. I don't like edm so not liking jisoo's music was a given. I was lookikg forward to lisa and Jennies solo albums. Lisa album was meh and predictable but jennie's was great.

So i guess Jennie impressed me and the rest didn't

Eta: voted for no due to 3-1 score, i think that's fair

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Just Rose tbh

Rose probably has the best chance at actually breaking into America. Her music is very Taylor Swift/Olivia Rodrigo coded

which is exactly the reason I don't like it lol. Their music isn't meant for me. And that's fine

Retrospectively, Jisoo's ep has really risen for me. Like it's bops after bops for real!

so this is my current ranking.

1. Ruby (AMAZING)

>>>

2. Armotage (really good despite the vocal limitations!)

3. Alter Ego (too long and lacked substance but full of bops)

4. Rosie (too repetitive and lacked identity but had some nice and touching ballads)

Rosie has some good songs, like 2 or 3 appart apt (which i didn't like much) but again the whole album is too repetitive. At last Alter Ego has some solid bops on it. Like quite a few. I felt like a EP would have been better for Rosie maybe.

Somehow i made a bp solo playlist, and it's interesting how they all complement each others as a whole.

That's it .

Not really. I haven't heard something groundbreaking, something special. Is just very commercial pop. Also, they are average to bad singers, so the best impressions i had in that area were from the guest artists (Bruno Mars, Rosalia, Raye, etc, etc.) In other words: Meh.

I don't follow them. And the only song which broke out of the usual fandom/kpop circles was APT.

I liked APT ok, kind of an entrancing beat. And I recollect liking Jisoo's Flower.

Since neither went on my re-listen list. I am not impressed.

But then I was never the sort of audience for BP's music and their solos don't seem much different either.

So just an opinion.

They have millions of fans, so won't miss me one person not being impressed.

And I have other artists to listen to.

I loved all 4 solos. I think its really cool how each member showed their differente colors and they all had great highlights! My favs solos were Alter Ego and Ruby, then amortage and Rosie but I honestly love all of them.

How could I not be impressed? In just a few months each member of the largest girl group EVER released more music than even the group itself has released. Among those songs is literally the 2nd biggest hit ever to come out of kpop. They are breaking records and hitting milestones on the global scale that probably won't be touched by other gg soloists for years. And on top of that, each album has a variety of bangers for all to enjoy. My personal favorite so far is Jennie and Jisoo, with Jennie's album just being on another level for me. Can you imagine any other girl group being able to do the same? The answer is no, because BP are one of one.

By Jennie yes. Lisa has some songs I like, Rose has two, Jisoo is meh.

Voted yes because of Jennie, 1/3 of Lisa's album and APT.

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Just Rose tbh

Rose probably has the best chance at actually breaking into America. Her music is very Taylor Swift/Olivia Rodrigo coded

Imo this is why she won’t be able to break into the market(and also why apart from APT her album wasn’t as well received as it could have been). It’s saturated with the American pop girlies already.

Lisa - Her album was okay musically for me. I feel like it was lacking that oomph.

Jisoo - I honestly don't recall too much of it.

Jennie - Except for starlight, I didn't really like the album. It felt too noisy? Or I wasn't the target audience.

Rose - Music wise, it was okay. I do love Rose lyrics so I ocassionally come back to it. I appreciate how personal and upfront she is about herself.

I feel like Jennie, Lisa and Jisoo's albums lack sincerity. It feels like a mass production of pieces for me. Rose's had a touch of herself and was more sincere despite it not being the genre I like.

All in all, I'm not their target audience and I found most of their songs insincere.

Only with Jennie and Rose suprised me with APT.

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Imo this is why she won’t be able to break into the market(and also why apart from APT her album wasn’t as well received as it could have been). It’s saturated with the American pop girlies already.

Yeah, that market Rose is going for is too saturated, not because there are many singers who do that, but because few who do are HUGE in popularity, they fill in that space and there is no space for anyone else.

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