Whew, Who Hurt Rosé?

Sleep tomorrow, but tonight go crazy, because Rosé’s first studio album, Rosie, is out now. On the solo project, the Blackpink member addresses a liar who “fucked up,” reveals that a “jealous,” “possessive,” and “manipulating” ex never returned her Tiffany rings, and delivers various other lyrical lashings. The album dropped alongside a music video for a track with a title that seems to accurately sum up the relationship it’s about: “toxic till the end.” (The video, which sees Rosé kiss but also shove a lover, only further hammers that point home.) During the rollout for Rosie, the 27-year-old singer shared that she drew from personal experience when writing the lyrics. “All the stories in there are stories that anyone around me has heard more than 20 times,” she told the New York Times. “It was about time I wrote it in a song.”

Judging by the lyrics across the 12-track project, Rosé has definitely been through her share of heartbreak. “In the desert of us, all our tears turned to dust / Now the roses don’t grow here,” she sings on “too bad for us.” While no one is identified by name, at least some Rosie tracks seem to be about the same ex — someone it took her a long time to get over. “Two years since you’ve been in my bеd / Even had a funeral for you in my head / Yеah, I try, I try, I try, I try / But this love never dies,” she laments in “two years.” (Similarly, the “gameboy” lyrics mention needing two years to understand that her love was taken for granted.) Whoever this ex is, they should lock the doors to their APT and think about what they’ve done.

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