Nobody just does it like BLACKPINK.
On September 16, 2022 at 1 P.M. KST, BLACKPINK and YG Entertainment dropped the girl group’s much-anticipated second studio album, along with an accompanying music video for the title track, “Shut Down”. Their second full album, titled “Born Pink”, comes 2 years after BLACKPINK’s debut studio album, “THE ALBUM”.
Consisting of 8 tracks, “Born Pink” features a variety of genres such as hip-hop, pop, disco, rock, and ballad. Two songs had been launched prior to the album’s release—“Ready for Love” as a promotional single and collaboration with PUBG Mobile, and “Pink Venom”, which served as the album’s pre-release single and wsa released last August 19, 2022.
“Shut Down” is a hip-hop track sampling “La Campanella” by classical composer Niccolò Paganini, produced by TEDDY and 24 and lyrics by TEDDY, Danny Chung, and Vince. The music video references almost all of BLACKPINK’s previous music videos, much to the delight of their fans.
Since the release of the album and music video at exactly 1 P.M. KST, BLINKs all over the world were immediately astounded by the quartet’s newest release and gushed about the references they saw on the music video. As of writing, everything related to the girl group and their latest album were all trending topics on social media.
so many references.. they really said all you copycats will never be blackpink pic.twitter.com/jHxPkqaNWg
— ً (@laIisalover) September 16, 2022
BLACKPINK SHUT IT DOWN pic.twitter.com/f2s0CnGhVZ
— ᴄʏᴀɴ (@cyanblink) September 16, 2022
BLACKPINK pic.twitter.com/FgEkUEeOTI
— ؘ (@blackpinkjpgs) September 16, 2022
IM SCREAMING THERE ARE SO MANY REFERENCES TO THEIR OLD MVS BLACKPINK STEP ON ME
SHUT DOWN OUT TODAY
STREAM SHUT DOWN !! pic.twitter.com/RxLoGjUmBy— adwii⁷ (@jmtcadri_) September 16, 2022
Shut down is all about their iconic mvs during the past 6 yrs.
BLACKPINK SHUT IT DOWN#블랙핑크_셧다운_컴백셔터올림#PINKVENOM #SHUTDOWN#BORNPINK #BLACKPINK pic.twitter.com/5U60W6tW1J
— calista|| STREAM SHUT DOWN (@rowzey27) September 16, 2022
BLACKPINK IN THEIR FCKING REPUTATION ERA !? pic.twitter.com/HZ4MD6ACSp
— 𝖭𝗂𝗇𝗂𝖢𝗈𝗋𝖾 (@Jcnniene) September 16, 2022
born pink is definitely a no skip album, blackpink did it again.
— 🕷 (@GIRL0VESICK) September 16, 2022
shut down did not have to CHEW pink venom like that wow
— ً (@bIinkshit) September 16, 2022
lisa was dancing her ass off during the second chorus of shut down like wow
— jess (@themaindoll) September 16, 2022
people who are mad about the pretty savage lyrics will be found d€ad after hearing the lyrics of shut down
— pretty savage lisa ❤️🔥 (@swallalisaa) September 16, 2022
MAIN RAPPER JENNIE KIM U WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS pic.twitter.com/Kwww0vBUja
— ؘ (@jnkmedias) September 16, 2022
BLACKPINK IN YOUR AREA pic.twitter.com/ENLmtUWHSM
— blackpink loops (@bIackpinkloops) September 16, 2022
BLACKPINK will always be relevant. And you know what, they’re right. It’s not a comeback since they never left in the first place.
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