{"id":349011,"date":"2025-08-16T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349011\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:25:17","slug":"blackpink-k-pop-band-make-epic-wembley-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349011\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpink: K-pop band make “epic Wembley dream” come true"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deadline is billed as a reunion tour, even though it’s only two years since Blackpink last played in London.<\/p>\n

In the interim, the band have negotiated a new contract with South Korean agency YG Entertainment<\/a> (reportedly the most lucrative record deal of 2023), received honorary MBEs from King Charles<\/a>, and spent a year pursuing solo endeavours.<\/p>\n

Ros\u00e9 teamed up with Bruno Mars for the global smash APT, Lisa starred in The White Lotus, Jennie went viral for her self-referential club hit Like Jennie and Jisoo took the lead role on K-drama Snowdrop.<\/p>\n

As a result, the tour alternates between group and solo sections – with British pop star FKA Twigs making a brief cameo eating a scone during a backstage prelude Ros\u00e9’s set, external<\/a>, for some reason. <\/p>\n

But if fans feared that time apart would weaken the band, the tour is proving them wrong.<\/p>\n

If anything, the singers’ personalities come through stronger now that they’ve had the opportunity to spread their wings.<\/p>\n

Lisa is the rabble-rousing rock star, responsible for Blackpink’s signature attitude, which she undercuts with a few well-timed winks to the camera.<\/p>\n

New Zealand-born Ros\u00e9 is the cheerleader, handling most of the on-stage chat, while harbouring secret ambitions to be Taylor Swift, judging by the semi-acoustic ballads she belts out during her solo set.<\/p>\n

Jennie could be your cool older sister, all dark sunglasses and leather jackets, as she swats away her choreography like a pesky house fly.<\/p>\n

Jisoo, meanwhile, is the most reserved member, saying precious few words but taking the lion’s share of the high notes and tricky vocal lines.<\/p>\n

Like all the best girl groups, every fan can pick a favourite – or bias, in K-pop parlance – who aligns with their own personality.<\/p>\n

So while each solo set has a stand-out moment (Like Jennie is so dynamic it could power a small city; and Ros\u00e9’s APT is built for a stadium-sized singalong), it’s when they come together as the “One True 4” that Blackpink really shine.<\/p>\n

“All gas, no brakes,” as they put it in their comeback single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadline is billed as a reunion tour, even though it’s only two years since Blackpink last played in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-349011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115038199795203558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}