BLACKPINK’s Jisoo has recently released a solo “FLOWER” which has achieved the highest twenty-four-hour view count of any K-pop music video in 2023. She has received both positive and negative feedback from fans, with some saying that it’s the weakest solo release thus far from BLACKPINK. Meanwhile, Jisoo has also managed to break the records for both the highest first-day sales and the highest first-week sales achieved by any female solo artist in Hanteo history on the day of her solo debut. I thought “FLOWER” was great, as it was very catchy and I liked Jisoo’s vocals. I also thought her accompanying music video dance performance was very beautiful.
Taylor Swift is currently on her the “Eras Tour”, which is her sixth headlining concert tour. Having not toured for her studio albums Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), and Evermore (2020) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Swift is including all of her albums, including her latest, Midnights (2022) on this tour. Described by Swift as a “journey through all of my musical eras,” an “Eras Tour” show lasts for over three hours, and consists of performances of forty-four songs divided into ten acts that portray Swift’s studio albums conceptually. 3.5 million people registered for Ticketmaster’s presale program for the U.S. leg of the tour. Although the company’s website crashed immediately after the presale began on November 15, over 2.4 million tickets to the tour were sold that day, breaking the record for the most concert tickets sold by an artist in a single day.
Lana Del Rey released her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd on March 24, 2023, with many claiming that it’s her most vulnerable album yet. Lana Del Rey seems to love long titles, as demonstrated by this most recent album and her song, “Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have- but I have it?” Lana Del Rey’s new album is sixteen tracks long, filled with dense compositions that reflect on love and life.
PinkPantheress’ and Ice Spice’s “Boy’s a Liar Pt.2” is currently trending all over social media and was released in February 2023. “Boy’s a Liar Pt.2” is presumably about an untruthful guy who keeps on leading his girl, making her question whether she was ever good enough. There’s no wonder why this song is trending, many fans relate to this sentiment. The beat is very addicting; PinkPantheress has established her style as upbeat electro-pop. Her unique style is rooted in the vibrancy of early 2000s R&B and dance music. Her signature soft-spoken voice works well with the swift keyboard chords and drum machine beats that accompany her song.
