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I know I was kinda surprised given they haven't been seen together since like (what) end of the concert???

I think you're right. This caught me completely out of the blue.....

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nice

this seems recent since the pinks haven't been together for a long time

It happened today. That's why it's stunning to have them together. It's on mainstream news:

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends State Banquet at Buckingham Palace

Watch live as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace.Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee are spending three da...

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Rosé is asked to speak at length a few times during the whole discussion about her experiences. I wish the sound was better, but she is pretty honest about having many followers on social media and knowing she is loved, but still being affected by negative comments at times and feeling isolated.

I think she was nervous, and she was sitting next to South Korea's First Lady, so I think she was pretty careful about her answers. Here's the entire panel discussion, after a stupid YouTube commercial:

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there's people here???? lol

Survivors.....trying to rebuild our Blink civilization.

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Omg thanks

Congratulations! That looks nice!

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Omg this place is dead lol

Anyways how do I join blink guild? I just want the Blackpink crown thing on my profile for aesthetics

Try asking Shy or Ves. There is also a "Ask Allkpop forum staff" thread in "Questions, Help and feedback" on the Allkpop forum page. There isn't an active moderator here in the guild anymore to give them out, I think.

Hopefully a guild member who knows their way around the forum better will see your post and help as well.

So the guild is deserted....no one may see this, but yesterday "How You Like That" (a snippet at least) was played on morning talk radio here in Sacramento.

The hosts, who are white guys in their 50s, were talking about a story in the news about how only a handful of artists can afford concerts that charge as much as Taylor Swift. Two of them were Bad Bunny and....Blackpink.

They had heard of Blackpink (one guy said, "l don't like saying that name" --he doesn't like the imagery of it) but didn't know any songs. Their producer, who is much younger and maybe a Blink, played a little of "How You Like That" with the bada-bing-badda-boom section. They didn't hate it, but it wasn't their kind of music. One made a joke about "where's the banjo music?" They (or rather the producer) also put "bada-bing-badda-boom" in the "Clips of the Week" recap today (Friday).

I think that is about as far as Kpop is going to get in mainstream U.S. radio. Some interest, but only full plays when Colombia or Universal is promoting a specific song and willing to pay the money. Rabid fans threatening to cancel and doxx on-air hosts and staff who don't play their favorite group's songs don't help either.

Here's hoping Blackpink renews. I've been following them since 2017. I don't even know what American pop music sounds like any more.

Ahn Bohyun's happiness index has increased 103%.

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this place is as dead as the KMC huh?

I think you've said in the past that BP would never be where you live because you're on the West Coast, but it looks like Lisa was in your area:

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I scanned the Google translate version of what he wrote. Dude deserved every bit of the hate he got, even the "pinching fingers" emoji he got spammed with and i say that as a Korean dude lmao.

His attitude is exactly why i will never give KMA any credibility whatsoever, a bunch of no talent failed musicians moonlighting as "journalists" and chili dog nerd music "professors" who have no concept of what makes a great pop song.

He and the former South Korean National Security Advisor are asking themselves, "where did it all go wrong...I went to good schools....I made the right friends....how did the girls win?"

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That's the numbnut know nothing critic from KMA right? Dude got murdered on TW, it was HILARIOUS reading all the Blinks trashing him lmao.

Not just Blinks but Netizens who thought he was grossly unfair. I didn't want to spend alot of time on it but I saw some quotes from Korean Youtube sites that covered it that I Google translated and they were savage.

By the way, for those reading who may not know, "Hannam" is what Korean feminists call Korean incels. I know his real given name after Do starts with an 'H,' but he's Hannam to me from now on.

Hey music critic Kim Do Hannam.....suck it slow.

Lisa Valkyrie

It really is hot there. I just checked the weather service and it is 89 degrees Fahrenheit, 32 degrees Celsius right now.

CONFIDENCE

Don't know how many are watching....but there are 363,000 likes.

I'm glad my downstairs neighbor is out somewhere....this is cranked up so loud I'd get a noise complaint.

I wonder if they'll incorporate some of these new song arrangments in future concerts....they're fire....

Hand mics for the win.

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the private concert in the charity event held in France was bonkers. they were so good. haven't seen their whole set yet. (is there even any way to watch it?) but i think it's safe to say that it might be up their as their best in terms of overall performance along with Coachella 2019

Did you see the whole set yet? If not, it looks like the whole performance fancams were taken down (I saved some to my hard drive but they're gone on YouTube now, but this channel has the whole original Blackpink part of the broadcast:

I just found a complete fancam: