BLACKPINK’s JENNIE is popping heartbreak into excessive artwork with “Love Hangover”, her newest solo single—and it’s as intoxicating as its title suggests. Becoming a member of forces with rising alt/indie star Dominic Fike, the BLACKPINK star unveils a sultry, emotionally uncooked mid-tempo ballad that fantastically captures the dizzying highs and gut-wrenching lows of a poisonous romance.
Dropped on January 31 at 2 p.m. KST by way of ODDATELIER and Columbia Data, the monitor presents a tantalizing preview of JENNIE’s extremely awaited debut album, Ruby. “We are saying it’s over / However I hold f–king with you / And each time I do, I get up with this love hangover,” JENNIE croons, her voice dripping with craving. Fike echoes her turmoil within the male verse, turning the music right into a hauntingly lovely duet that completely captures the bitter-sweet, relentless loop of affection’s intoxication.
The music video, directed by the visionary duo Bradley & Pablo—famend for his or her work with Harry Kinds and Lil Nas X—brings “Love Hangover” to life with hanging visuals and a surreal narrative. It follows JENNIE by means of a string of ill-fated dates, every spiraling into chaos. Starring Riverdale’s Charles Melton as her on-screen lover, the video depicts a nightmarish cycle of doomed romance, topped with monster assaults, disastrous dinners, and an eerie sense of inevitability. Shot in opposition to the colourful backdrop of Mexico Metropolis, it blends darkish humor with daring aesthetics, making it one in every of JENNIE’s most conceptually bold initiatives thus far.
Upon launch, Love Hangover made a right away affect, hovering to No. 1 on iTunes in 20 nations, together with Thailand, Vietnam, India, Armenia, the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. The official music video is at present the No. 2 trending video worldwide and charting in 54 nations. Because the third single from Ruby—following the success of “Mantra” and the shock drop “Zen“—the monitor additional solidifies JENNIE’s dominance as a solo powerhouse within the trade. And with a powerful lineup of collaborators, together with Dua Lipa, Infantile Gambino, Doechii, FKJ, and Kali Uchis, her upcoming 15-track album is shaping as much as be a genre-blurring testomony to her inventive evolution.
And she or he’s not stopping there. Including to the mounting anticipation, JENNIE has introduced The Ruby Expertise, an unique three-city occasion celebrating the album’s launch. The occasion kicks off with two performances at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater (March 6 and seven), adopted by a cease at New York’s iconic Radio Metropolis Music Corridor (March 10), earlier than concluding in Seoul (March 15). Tickets for the U.S. dates go on sale right this moment at 10 a.m. native time.
With Ruby marking her first full-length solo venture since her breakout 2018 hit “SOLO“, anticipation couldn’t be larger. But when “Love Hangover” is something to go by, JENNIE isn’t simply reclaiming the highlight—she’s commanding it.
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