BLACKPINK's ROSÉ on her personal debut album: "At the end of the day, I want people to understand me"

Speaking about the themes on the album, ROSÉ reveals that she pulled from her real-life experiences: "[Your] 20s is not an easy time to live through. It's when you're very vulnerable and confused, excited and angry about life. That's what I wanted to sing about," she says. One song in particular deals with being chronically online, to your own detriment.

“I realised how vulnerable and addicted I was to this [online] world and that craving for feeling like I wanted to be loved and understood,” she explained, “It’s so disgustingly vulnerable and honest that people learn that I am a person that goes through these emotions, and I hated that about myself,” she said of a new track.

After eight years with @BLACKPINK, Rosé, “the girl with the golden voice,” has gone solo — and her debut solo album, “rosie,” is set to release next month

“I’m ready to be a bit more vulnerable,” she tells PAPER. “I want people to understand me.” https://t.co/sgqmn02Flq

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Even though she tries to come off as unfazed, ROSÉ reveals that she is affected by negative comments online. “If anything, it’s something I want to cover up. Even in interviews, I’m like nothing really fazes me, you know? But it does. Every word, every comment, it crushes me,” she shared.

Elsewhere in the interview, she details songs that are about how she's navigated personal relationships. “I think I’m grateful enough to have gone through a few relationships, you know, like a normal girl in her 20s,” she says. “I’m probably very relatable if you listen to my songs, and if anyone’s been in that kind of a relationship. It doesn’t even have to be about a boyfriend, just any type of toxic relationship".

Finalising the ethos behind writing an album about the "terrible 20s", she continues: "At the end of the day, I want people to understand me and stop misunderstanding me as a person as well. I'm ready to be a bit more vulnerable and open and honest in order for people to not misunderstand, and take me for what I am.”