COMING UP ROSÈ
Did you know that the internet equivalent of energy needed to power each globe on a Hollywood-style dressing-room mirror is almost equal to one hour-long video stream on a phone? It’s true. Consider then, the lumens that would glow from the output of Korean girl group BLACKPINK, as their fans tune into every live stream in the millions. If internet fame powered the world, the power of BLACKPINK would, as the 2020 Netflix documentary hinted at, light up the sky.
One quarter of BLACKPINK is the trailblazer you see on these pages, Park Chae-young, or in her English name, Roseanne Park – or as she’s known today, Rosé. Whether you know her by name or not is, at this point, irrelevant. Because by every quantifiable measure, she is the most famous Antipodean musician on the planet.
“I DIDN’T THINK I COULD PARTICIPATE IN ANY TYPE OF AUDITION. I WAS LIKE: ‘OH MY GOD’ – I THOUGHT I HAD NO CHANCE. WE FLEW TO SYDNEY, AND I WAS LIKE: ‘WHY ARE WE HERE?’ I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO GO HOME WITH NOTHING”
Rosé was born in Auckland to Korean parents and moved to Melbourne as a child where she lived until she was 16, when the singer and pianist auditioned for YG Entertainment, one of the big entertainment companies
