ROSÉ: “APT.", One Year of rosie & BLACKPINK Tour | Zane Lowe Interview

How's your spirit? Are you feeling good? I feel much better lately.

I was kind of at a rough place here and there throughout the year.

But I think right now I'm just, yeah, I'm coming to a bit more of a peaceful place.

I should by now. You know, it was almost a year to the day that we spoke about Rosie.

Yeah, it's been exactly a year. Exactly a year. Oh my gosh. I know.

and I wondered how that'd make you feel because I know that's

probably the closest thing to numerology you've been dealing with this year because

it's just left, right, front, back where am I going, what's happening, everything's going on so I don't know if that feels like it puts a cap on something for you but

I think it does, I feel like so much

has happened that my brain is just going through a hundred different things and

it feels like it's happening to me but then if we say that was a year of things and you're like oh okay yeah, a year of it I can digest that.

Can we spend a little bit of time digesting what the last 12 months has been? Because it's been life-changing for you. For you. Yes, it has.

And I created a distinction there because you and your friends in Blackpink all decided to do your own thing and did it very successfully and very individually.

And I felt like each of you were able to really exercise your personal life, your passions, your tastes in your own unique way.

and so having you in front of me today and getting to talk about that 12 months of establishing you yourself even further must have been really rewarding for you and for you all

there's like so much to like kind of digest

and talk talk about um uh

first of all lately um as i get to do these like really fun things that i've really haven't done before experience before

The other day I got to perform at, like, the Grammy Museum and

even, like, being able to perform, like, my songs, like, on, like, a radio and preparing for all of that.

I think it's those moments in between, like, those musical moments that we get in between that make me realize how grateful I am to have my job amongst all the crazy things that kind of happened.

And like a lot of that is just like mind blowing and you don't know how to digest so much of that.

But I think in the middle of all that, like when you realize, like when I'm like rehearsing with my band to play the songs that were on my album that we released a year ago.

And just like realizing that like this is my job. Like I like pinching myself. It's almost the simple things, right?

That you need to be reminded of, which is like. Coming back to the music. Yeah.

And me and my friends getting to just kind of figure out how we want to arrange this.

And also it's really interesting because you released Apaté. It went ballistic. It went crazy.

The album came out. Everyone loved it. But you didn't really get much time, I would say.

And you tell me whether it was time or space to be able to do what most artists do, which is then spend a year or two kind of honoring that record.

You sort of had, you moved in different directions. Oh, like right after. Yeah, right after, right? Back to Blackpink stuff.

Kind of, yeah, after a few months. And so you had Apaté was kind of doing the job and it went brilliantly.

Yeah, grew its own arms and legs and just started walking around the world. Totally. Just did its own thing.

Totally, which was beautiful because, you know, it's like, okay, but it almost felt like it must have felt like you were sort of vicariously experiencing success in a strange way.

Yeah, no. I mean, it's kind of like what it felt like was like I describe it kind of,

I describe all of my songs in my album as like, if I had, how many songs? It was 12 songs. I had 12 kids.

They all have like different personalities. There's some sad kids. Sad children.

Some very sad children. A couple of pretty grumpy, angry children. True.

A couple of drunk children, but the rest of them are fine. Oh, true, yes. But we love them all. And we embrace them all. Yeah, yeah.

And I feel like APT was one of the kids that I had.

It was very random and happened on a fun moment in my life.

And then just suddenly just grew its own arms and legs.

And then just went to Harvard and law and became the president or something like that.

And I'm like, wow. Apathe's an overachiever.

yeah appetite's got mad ambition yeah yeah yeah that's

what it feels like and so it's like i feel like the parent at home

yeah who's like on social media with my glasses on

so proud oh my god this one did my

fourth child what's happening number

one in 55 countries that's what happened i mean it's

it's apple music's most stream song of the year it's

i mean odds on favorite and i'm not trying to jinx you and you don't have to