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QuoteA woman from Thailand passes her audition at 14 years of age and enters the world of K-pop—then goes on to become a member of the wildly popular group BLACKPINK, be selected by Hedi Slimane himself to become the global ambassador for CELINE, and run a YouTube channel with 8.15 million subscribers (as of September 8, 2021). It’s a tale of growth that brings joy to many people, especially women. It’s also work in yet another domain, however, where female artists continuously collaborate with choreographers and directors within the K-pop industry to author a steady stream of choreography films that reveal their many sides. She has produced high-quality choreography only of her own volition within the realm of the K-pop industry, where content is often regarded as commercial art rather than art for art’s sake. The result is one in which a female artist independently determines and expresses the context in which her body and, moreover, her own dance, appear. This is why LISA must be looked at through a different lens—as more than just prescribed labels like an outstanding dancer or popular singer, but as an artist.
Quote“LALISA”: That’s the title of LISA’s first solo single. YG Entertainment said she’s releasing the single with a title “containing her own real name [and] her confidence, pride, and love for herself.” LISA has already been laying herself bare and granting herself the “pride” of “her own real name” this whole time through Lilifilm—a process of performing the many different sides of herself as an artist that only she can express, giving her the aura of someone who reveals who she really is. She’s left a record all that time of who she is as an artist, from the first one-minute, twelve-second short video of her in the practice studio, to the story-infused “LILI’s FILM [The Movie].” In the teaser video for “LALISA,” she reveals only her silhouette as she sits, majestic, against a backdrop of dark skies streaked with lightning. Here she is: the artist, able to win over the public with her mere presence, like a mythical god. This is LISA’s time. Time for the sparks she made before to really fly.
