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-Welcome back. Thanks for being a guest on the show.

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And talking to me at this time. -Oh, my gosh.

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Thank you for having me.

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I feel I'm dreaming right now.

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-Oh, my God, what are you talking about?

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Well, I mean, your album's out. Are you excited about this?

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-I'm super excited. -It's finally out. Yeah.

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Do I call you Rosé or do I call you Rosie?

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-Whatever is comfortable.

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My friends and family call me Rosie.

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And I've made this a rule where if you know,

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like, 80% of my the lyrics on my album,

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then you can call me Rosie. -All right, perfect.

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I'll call you Rosie.

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-Yeah? -Yeah. Of course.

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When you were a kid,

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did you ever dream that you'd be this big of a star?

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-Ahh. Mm... -I mean, you're big. You're big.

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I mean, I'll go into the numbers, but yeah.

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I mean, you're going at this dream.

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Did you realize it could be -- you're international?

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-Yeah. Well, no.

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I mean, I don't even know what to say.

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Um, yeah.

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Well, I actually I grew up in Australia,

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and so it always felt like

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it wasn't really much of a possibility

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for me to, like, be a singer, so I never really dreamed of it.

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But I do remember, like, singing, um,

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until like midnight every day.

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And my dad eventually just kind of,

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like, sent me to an audition because he kind of, I think,

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wanted to kick me out.

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[ Laughs ]

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-He could hear you in your bedroom just singing?

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-No, just like in the living room.

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-Oh, in the living room. -I just, like, sing till, like

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midnight and, like, fall asleep, like, on the piano.

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-No way. So you had it in you.

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-Just like it was a form of entertainment

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because it was really boring.

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Australia is really quiet. -Oh, my God.

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[ Laughter ] -It's like...

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-But then when did you -- -Not much to do.

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-When did you learn guitar?

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-Around the same time. -You did?

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-Yeah. YouTube was kind of like hitting off back then.

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And like, all these YouTubers, like, online,

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it looked really cool.

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And so I was like, I want to be like them

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and just, like, picked it up.

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-Really? -Yeah.

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-Do you remember your first guitar?

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-Yes I do.

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It was a blue. It was $70.

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My dad bought it for me. -Yeah.

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-And I remember it was like it was a cheap one.

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So like, my fingers hurt so much.

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And then -- -That's how you learn.

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That's how you learn. -Yeah.

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But I was, like, crying because it was,

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like, really cheap and, like, my fingers were really hurting.

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And so, like, I got together all of my pocket money

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that I had saved up my whole life --

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I was probably like 14 by then.

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And I got, like -- I still have it.

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It's like still my favorite guitar.

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It's a Taylor GS Mini.

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And, so, yeah. [ Chuckles ]

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-And so you take that guitar and that's

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how you audition for Blackpink? -Yes.

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-Do you remember the song you played?

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-Yes I do, it's uh, uh...

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it was around the time Jason Mraz

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had released a song called "I Won't Give Up,"

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and I just learnt it.

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So I was like, I did it.

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-Did you realize right there at the audition,

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you go, "I got this"? -Not at all, not at all.

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I walked in, like, I thought it was a joke.

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I was like, "This is funny. I'm not gonna get it at all."

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had flown all the way from Melbourne to Sydney

And so -- And like, my dad and I

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for the audition, so I was just like,

had flown all the way from Melbourne to Sydney

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"I might as well make some good memories."

for the audition, so I was just like,

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And so I kind of went, "Hi." [ Chuckles ]

"I might as well make some good memories."

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-And just --

And so I kind of went, "Hi." [ Chuckles ]

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-And just --

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-I did it and I was like, "Bye."

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-Yeah. And then cut to --

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-They called me and I'm like, "What's happening?"

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-You're gonna be in one of the biggest groups ever.

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And now here you are with your first full-length solo album.

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Congratulations. [ Cheers and applause ]

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-Thank you.

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-Did you always know that you wanted to call it "Rosie"?

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-Uh, no, actually.

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There was, like, a big debate.

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I have a song called "number one girl,"

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so that was initially, like, the rough idea.

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Like, maybe we'll call it "number one girl,"

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but then, um...

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Uh, yeah.

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So, like, Bruno actually, uh,

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tried really hard to convince me, he was like --

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Because "Rosie" was one of the options, and he's like,

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"It has to be Rosie.

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Because your friends and family call you Rosie."

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-He's brilliant -- Bruno Mars. -Yeah.

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Yeah, he's been a great mentor and friend.

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-Yeah, we love him.

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You also produced this

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but also wrote every song on this.

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How do you land on a lyric or a song title?

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Does that one lyric come to you first or the title come first?

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-Uh, I think stories come first.

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Just like, uh, we would just chit chat and like --

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-Do you write them down or record them on your phone

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or something? -I will, I jot down

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like a bunch of ideas and sometimes I, like, text

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my, um, like, songwriter friends

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and so, like, it's just like phrases and words

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that kind of pop up and just anything

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you want to write about and like,

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kind of get off your chest.

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I think that's how I usually do it.

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-Does it ever get confusing if you're just

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sending someone just a title, like,

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"Why don't you love me anymore?" -Yeah. [ Laughs ]

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I've done that before. No, I've done that before.

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I texted uh, uh, Michael Pollack --

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he wrote a few songs on my album --

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and I'd be like, for example, I'd be like, "How dare you?"

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And he'd be like, "Excuse me?" -[ Laughs ]

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"How dare you?" -Yeah.

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We have to write this next week.

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-We have to. Let's talk about, uh,

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"APT," congratulations on this song.

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It's giant!

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The music video has...

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[ Cheers and applause ]

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Yeah.

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Half a billion --

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Half a billion views.

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It's the number one song on the Billboard Global 200

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for seven weeks now.

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It is a massive, massive hit.

ROSÉ Reminisces on Her BLACKPINK Audition, Shows Jimmy How to Play the APT. Drinking Game (Extended)