rosie
rosie Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 ROSÉ The first time ROSÉ was interviewed about her debut solo album, she burst into tears. “I ended up crying for the whole 30 minutes,” the K-pop singer recounts to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “It was not a smooth ride, and it just showed how much time and effort and blood, sweat, and tears I actually did put into it.” ROSÉ was born in New Zealand to Korean parents and raised in Australia, shooting to global fame in 2016 as one-fourth of the mega-successful girl group BLACKPINK. The 12-track rosie , which is what she’s called by her friends and loved ones, is, as she says, both a “time capsule” and a “therapy session”—a raw chronicle of her twenties as she’s still experiencing them, and an opportunity to be more personal than K-pop artists often get to be. “It's just what I talk about with my friends and family, put into an album so that we can all share it and hopefully my fans feel closer to me,” she says. On “toxic till the end,” the singer makes a clear...