BLACKPINK’s LISA Returns with Solo Hit “Rockstar”

BLACKPINK singer, rapper, dancer, and style icon LISA is back today with her first solo release in three years, “Rockstar,” a song about living large on multiple continents. The anxious, blippy, supremely confident mix of hip-hop and club music quickly landed at No. 2 on the Genius Top Songs chart.

Produced by Sam Homaee and chart-wrecking hitmaker Ryan Tedder—who together wrote the song with LISA and three other folks—“Rockstar” showcases everything the BLACKPINK superstar can do. On the chorus that opens the song, LISA flexes her rap skills while alluding to the fact that she speaks Japanese, one of four languages at her disposal.

She switches to singing in the pre-chorus, where she brags about jetting off to places like Miami and Bangkok, located of course in her home country of Thailand.

In the song’s lone verse, LISA name-checks a popular Japanese citrus sauce while describing her here-today, gone-today travel style.

In the “Rockstar” music video, LISA dances in the streets of Bangkok and leads an army of young people in white hoodies. The visually striking and energetic video further cements her status as a global music and fashion icon.