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BLACKPINK Holds Comeback Press Conference for SQUARE UP Mini Album

BLACKPINK UPDATE June 15, 2018 86

Summary and English translation of Blackpink comeback press conference for Square Up Mini Album at CGV Cheongdam CineCity at 2PM KST today, June 15, 2018.

Here is the summary and English trans by @poopheyy, @blackpinkau and @RoseanneParkLuv

English trans by @poopheyy

[TRANS] [BLACKPINK COMEBACK PRESS CONFERENCE]

BLACKPINK: We have came back with a mini album after one year. During this time, we have fans who had been waiting for us and we have been practising hard in preparation for this.

Jisoo: We love each and every side track and we hope that everyone will love them too.

Jennie: We have worked on several songs for the past year and at the start of the year we filmed our first reality show ‘BLACKPINK House’.

Jennie: We paid much attention our final image to show everyone and we will work hard for our activities so that we would not feel like there are any gaps.

Rosé: Our CEO paid a lot of attention to our choreography this time. During practice, he checked on our performance a lot, and also taught (?) us the point of the choreo. He also emphasised to us to be ‘Stronger and more cool’.

Q: Favourite song in the album?

Jisoo: See U Later

Rosé: Really

Lisa: Forever Young

Jennie: DDU DU DDU DU and Forever Young

Jennie: I like DDU DU DDU DU and Forever Young because the choreography is a very different image from As If It’s Your Last and I personally like this kind of powerful image

Jisoo: Up till now, our image has been mainly feminine-focused. This time there will be more hip hop feel. There are strong raps in the 1st and 2nd verses of the song and we hope to let others feel something new from us through this.

Jisoo: It’s been a long time since we made a comeback in Korea and we know that our fans have been waiting for a long time. We’ll be able to have our first fansigning this time round. I look forward to being able to communicate with our fans up close during the fansign

Jisoo: We are also preparing event(s) for our to meet our fans, who have been waiting for a long time, up close

Jennie: I feel like 6-7 months of gap is a really long time and I feel really sorry to fans for having to wait for 1 year.

English Trans by @blackpinkau

BLACKPINK talked honestly about their 1 year hiatus. JENNIE: “I thought 6-7 months was long, but while having a one year hiatus, we could still film for ‘BeulPing House.'”

BLACKPINK: …we did a lot of recording for the album. We wanted to show our perfect self. CEOYang and us all took care in every detail. We’re sorry for the fans, but we’re confident that we can give back for the long hiatus.

JS: During our hiatus, we did lots of uni festivals and performances in Japan, and we could catch on how we can do better while on stage. To prepare for the next album, we personally put more time in practicing.

JISOO: By thinking on how we can appeal ourselves when we’re on the stage, we continued to keep practicing. Also during the hiatus, each of us had time to do some self care, and how to perfect ourselves. We spent lots of time doing and thinking about that.

‘FOREVER YOUNG’ is a moombahton rhythm dance song. It has a message to: ‘let’s burn our youth with no regrets.’ It’s a very intense and a powerful song.

JS: It’s been 1year. When it had been 6months after debut we had lots of pressure and stress to do well, but after preparing for 1year, we split from that and thought we had to always have fun trying out new genres – we should enjoy ourselves while telling the story.

JS: To be honest, if our chart ranking is high, we are grateful, but even though we did something new, we would be just happy hearing that, ‘BLACKPINK absorbed this in their own colour’, after watching our performance – that would be so much fun to hear.

JN: Yang CEO also took a lot of attention on the choreography for this song too. After practicing for our dance choreo, he would personally come down and give us advices on to intensify this part, scanned us, and just gave us a lot of advice.

JS: We know our fans have been very curious about this album for ages. We are very excited that we can see our fans up close. We believe they will look for us and will love us.

BLACKPINK: There’s a more powerful performance this time. Also a more powerful rap part comes on, and we thought we could show a more cooler choreo during it, so it was fun to practice while practicing. I wonder if they’ll get a good impression after seeing our performances.

JENNIE: We were worried that our stamina will go down while performing these two intense performances live.

Jennie has said that they are plans for radio shows!

Q: Why did you choose the title ‘DDU DU DDU DU’?

JN: It’s like pistol and a breathing sound. When we shout it, it’s like a command. Matching the theme ‘SQUARE UP’, it’s a powerful command.

English Trans by @RoseanneParkLuv

#ROSÉ: YHS focused a lot on choreo for #BLACKPINK. He checked their choreo and told them what their point dance is. He said “Don’t dance too femininely. Dance more powerfully and cooly”

#JISOO: Powerful performance in the dance break + a more powerful rap than b4 w/ cool choreo

#ROSÉ: During the hiatus, #BLACKPINK focused a lot on staying physically fit because a lot of our choreography is physically tiring. So we got prepared by doing aerobic exercises and pilates (yoga).

#JENNIE: It’s hard to believe we always surpass 100M views for each MV.

#JENNIE: There are lots of hip hop factors in fashion. Rather than the concepts we showed you before, you’ll get to see more powerful and tough sides of #BLACKPINK. If you have seen girly side of us in the last comeback, you’ll see BP trying out different things this time.