The group’s “Ice Cream,” featuring Selena Gomez and accompanied by a pastel-fantasy video, followed at the end of the summer. A guest spot on Lady Gaga’s “Sour Candy” landed in May. In a year that has seen the music industry struggle without live performances, BLACKPINK-whose arena-filling fans are just as devoted in the digital sphere, making it the most subscribed-to music group on YouTube-has kept its high-profile rollouts arriving like clockwork. “When it’s crunch time, she has this executioner killer instinct,” Park adds-though, given the group’s relentlessly upbeat tenor, that instinct plays out as knife-stroke dance moves and a blunt-cut bob. He is speaking about Lisa, the group’s Thai rapper and lead dancer: a wasp-waisted 23-year-old with heavyset bangs and a kind of firefly charisma.
“She’s always got that cool, calm, ‘it’s going to be O.K., we’re all good’ smile,” says producer Teddy Park in the new Netflix special BLACKPINK: Light up the Sky, a glossy look inside the all-female K-Pop juggernaut.
