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Dua Lipa hosts Blackpink's Jennie Kim in a special podcast exploring cultural identity, music, and personal journeys across Korea and New Zealand.

## Key Takeaways

- Cultural identity can be a powerful tool in music and personal growth.
- Embracing multiple cultures enriches creativity and broadens perspectives.
- Supportive family influence plays a crucial role in navigating bicultural experiences.
- Blackpink's global success is rooted in authenticity and cultural pride.
- Personal connections and friendships enhance artistic collaborations.

## What the video covers

- Dua Lipa welcomes Jennie Kim from Blackpink for her first-ever podcast interview.
- The episode explores Jennie's bicultural upbringing between South Korea and New Zealand.
- Jennie shares how her mother encouraged her to embrace both cultures and be globally free.
- Discussion on how Jennie balances her Korean heritage with her New Zealand experiences.
- Jennie reflects on how her cultural identity influences her music and career with Blackpink.
- The podcast highlights the power of showcasing cultural heritage on the global stage.
- Dua Lipa and Jennie discuss the challenges and rewards of adapting to multiple cultures.
- Jennie talks about the evolution of her music style merging Korean and Western influences.
- The episode touches on the global impact of K-pop and Blackpink's success.
- Personal anecdotes reveal the friendship and mutual admiration between Dua Lipa and Jennie.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction and Belfast 1997 Story
2. 02:44 Dua Lipa Introduces Jennie Kim and Their Friendship
3. 05:01 Jennie's Bicultural Upbringing in Korea and New Zealand
4. 07:06 Navigating Dual Cultures and Personal Growth
5. 09:29 Jennie's Korean Identity and Music Career
6. 11:58 Challenges and Cultural Influences in Music
7. 18:38 Blackpink's Global Impact and Coachella Milestone
8. 28:27 Personal Reflections and Closing Remarks

Answers

## Questions about this video

Who is the special guest on this episode of Dua Lipa At Your Service?

The special guest is Jennie Kim from the globally successful K-pop group Blackpink, joining for her first-ever podcast interview.

What cultural backgrounds does Jennie Kim discuss in the podcast?

Jennie discusses her bicultural upbringing between South Korea and New Zealand, highlighting how both cultures shaped her identity and career.

How does Jennie Kim describe the influence of her culture on her music?

Jennie explains that her Korean heritage and experiences in New Zealand merged over time, influencing her music style and inspiring her to bring Korean music to a global audience.

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00:06

Speaker A

Levi's denim jackets, lock on the cologne. Welcome to Belfast, 1997. Not just any old part of Belfast, but gay Belfast. It was electric. There was a seminar, guys dancing in cages. Every cell in my body was just lit up. So that the bar was guy

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and Bradshaw. What happened next would go on to threaten peace in Northern Ireland. One of the few gay police officers in the country shot dead. Someone had told them the damn Badger was going to be murdered. It's a story that's never been

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told before. For his own skin, he traded darn life. This is Blood on the Dance Floor. Listen now on BBC Signs, BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hey everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Dua Lipa At Your Service.

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Speaker A

[Music] Thank you. [Applause] [Music] If you know, you know. But in case you've been living without the internet for the last decade, let me talk to you about Blackpink for a second. They're one of the most successful groups of all time. I mean, their

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fandom's on the level of The Beatles, and they're made up of just the most lovely girls: Jenny, Jisoo, Rose, and Lisa. We have a song together, Kiss and Makeup, which I did because I'm a huge fan of theirs and

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even joined them on stage in New Jersey for the first live performance of it. Could have prepared me for witnessing the passion and the power of a K-pop fandom life. [Music] [Applause] Energy and intensity that they have had

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to match night after night for the past seven years, and it's a challenge Jenny and the rest of the girls have risen to each and every time. [Applause] Their music is globally adored, and I love the way they've brought Korea to

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the world. As much as I love to travel, I also feel so firmly rooted in my Britishness and cost of owners, if that's even a thing. And so today's guest, Jenny Kim, joined me for a very special conversation about bringing your culture

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to the stage. I really believe that showcasing your heritage and cultural identity can be such a powerful tool, and not just music but in all walks of life. I was so excited to learn from Jenny's experience and share her journey with

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all of you. Jenny and I have become friends since that show in New Jersey, and I just adore her, which is why I invited her to join me on this week's episode for what is in fact her first ever podcast interview.

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Speaker A

Let's dive in with this week's very special guest, Blackpink's Jenny Kim. Jenny, how you doing? I'm doing very good. I'm very excited for this. I'm so happy you

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you said yes to doing this with me only because it's you. I, oh, I am literally shaking right now. This is my first ever podcast, any kind of thing like this, so well, I feel very honored. No, thank you for having me. Okay, so Jenny, since this episode is all about bringing your culture to the world, I'd love to

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start by asking you what are some of your earliest Korean and Kiwi cultural memories? So I moved to New Zealand when I was 10, and I really jumped in without knowing what to expect. The only thing I could

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say when I went to New Zealand was, "Hi, my name is Jenny." But the scary part is I adjusted to my lifestyle there within six months. I was just so happy to just be around nature and

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have a different educational life from than I had back in Korea. But what's also fun was I stayed at a Korean homestay, so I also had a Korean culture around me all the time while I was living there,

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and I would always listen to great music, watch Korean movies. So I was in between like that Western culture and having also having the Korean culture around me. So I had a good both sides while I was growing up. I

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think. Yeah, that's really cool. I mean, I was reading some articles about how quickly you adapted into your life in New Zealand, like your mum would call you on the phone and you'd be like, "Oh no, I'm completely settled. I'm going

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trampolining and I'm off." And you were very like confident and independent from a very young age, and I think that's really cool that you were able to also keep both, you know, your Korean culture at home even in New Zealand and then to

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have this new experience. And I know your stories, I guess a bit similar to mine because I grew up back and forth between London and Kosovo, and you grew up back and forth between South Korea and New Zealand.

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How do you think you are able to navigate both worlds at such a young age? Like, did you feel like you struggled to fit in? Like, were you able to, you know, have that really kind of authentic experience in both places and make that

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work for you? When it comes to the adapting part, I really want to thank my mom in this. I feel like I should explain this to her. So my name is Jenny in Korean too, which is very rare because I

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don't have a separate Korean name. Jenny is an English name that's just written in Korean. So now that I think back, I think my mom always had this wish that I would experience not just my culture and my country back home but also like

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travel the world and be that person who is free everywhere I go. Like, when I was in my kindergarten, like when I was seven, eight, that's when my mom always taught me about how big the world is and that

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it's not just where I am right now but that whole world is like so big. Yeah, it goes around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so, yeah, my mom always wanted me to have that in my life, and luckily I was just

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able to enjoy what was in front of my eyes, I think. And I was lucky enough to have met great friends when I was in New Zealand who introduced me to their world, and I think it was a blessing that I had if I

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look back at it. That's amazing. That's really amazing. I mean, it's cool because I guess in some way your mum just kind of envisioned you having a life not just in Korea but all over the world. No,

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definitely. When do you feel yourself identifying more with one culture than the other when it comes to your, you know, South Korean and New Zealand side? Like, you know, you've obviously spent much more time in South Korea as an adult, but I wonder in, in

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which ways does like New Zealand come to the surface really other than food? How I built my personality and how I see the world. I think my lifestyle back in New Zealand has based me to be who I am

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right now and how I interact with people and the way I adjust to like new environment. I think it's just the side of me that grew up in New Zealand always is the switch that I turn on when I

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meet new things. Definitely. Yeah, I always tell people that I am like 50/50 with both cultures, but yeah, like when I meet you, I try to turn on my switch and yeah, be the girl who, um, I was when I was like 12.

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That's so interesting. I mean, I know that for me, for example, my Albanian heritage is such a big part of my identity, and I lived there as well from the age of 11 to 15. So it's, it's very

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similar. We have like a very parallel experience in some ways, but I also don't get to always show that side of me, and my music, you know, I'm influenced by so many other styles and genres of music. Can you tell me what being Korean means

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to you and how are you able to translate that pride in your culture to the work that you get to do as part of Blackpink? To be honest, I think in the beginning of my career, I, I guess I had more of that

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New Zealand side of me where I'm like, let me go out there and then be a part of that world. But as I got into the business and as I got to learn more about myself and my country because I

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was based in Korea while we were recording and in the studio and everything, I started to bring more of the Korean side and the Korean culture into my music and my career. Like, they started merging together, and the biggest reason

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I jumped into this music path that I chose was me listening to Korean music when I was living in New Zealand, and I dreamed of bringing Korean music to, to bigger world because I was also living in a world where I was in between

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the two cultures, and I saw it happen. Like, I really wanted to see it happen in the future, and also I wanted to play the part because I feel like I was able to do that with the language barrier and with, with the

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lifestyle that I have lived in the past. What?

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Korean culture and like especially the music industry is definitely the worst ethic that we have towards like I mean our job everything yeah and how we go through such a intense training season face and Life to become I mean to

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actually just drop an album that I've I've said this in a couple interviews and I'm sure a lot of people know but I spent six years before I put my first album out as blackpink just training to be who I am right now and I think it's

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very common in Korea to have have this big time of preparing what we might do in the future that's amazing I actually I wanted to rewind back to the beginning of blackpink if you let me and I'm just I'm so

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fascinated by the K-pop trainee system which you just talked about and I understand like it's a really regimented and rigorous training program where you learn a lot not just about music and dance but also about language and media

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and the way you present yourself to the world and um as you went through training which is so much about polish and precision and Perfection how are you able to maintain your own identity throughout this I've actually never really broken down

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how I did it but the people who who knew the importance of keeping their own identity and character within the training system are the people that are in the crew right now like a lot of people got lost in in the way because we

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were so focused to satisfy the people that we were working with but we we weren't sure who we were doing it for and how it can identify us in the future because it's literally years of training it's not just a couple of hours so you

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you get really drawn into into the lifestyle that they put us in and I think the the girls and I were I don't know if is it too controversial to say this I don't know I'm like no I

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don't think okay yeah so it's like survival of the 50s yeah the girls and I try to find our own voice and character and whilst we had like 30 other people training with us and I guess our labels

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so I was trying and yeah I saw something really really special I mean I guess the same goes for like actors and you know musicians and people that go in into like big auditions for to get cast for

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different things but it's true it's like the ones who remain you know who who manage to stay really strong and withhold their identity while at the same time being really good at Learning I think that's how how you get chosen

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right I guess so and so blackpink records their Demos in English first before translating them to Korean and I know you also record most of your songs in Japanese too before we put out that Japanese version album we

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used to actually not anymore but we used to record the whole whole main few songs in in Japanese and that was an experience okay cool and so then in the dream in the in the trainee days you know you

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also learn different dance styles from all around the world too like hip-hop and salsa and ballet I mean you must have such a incredible cultural education like what were some of your favorite Inspirations from those trainee days that inspired you and shaped you in

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the group today the variety of different vocal styles that we approached like we got to experience was definitely something that helped me throughout the way um but the good thing about the label that I was under was not only they wanted us to be able to

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sing in Korean but we would cover so many pop songs as a trainee so by the time we had to record our actual song for blackpink we were able to like play around the language play around like the Rhythm and

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like all sorts of things that affect the music with the cultural difference I think and like some of the things I don't know which influenced me the most but some of the things that I struggled the most that I could tell you right now

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is that does that work too yeah of course we we did a lot of like crumping and like popping like a genre of dance and let me tell you this I was not I am not the best Romper and popping person

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in the world well you can't be perfect at everything yeah but it was you know but also learning something that you're not good at helps you to find what you're you know like what your main genre is when

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it comes to dance and vocals so yeah I have to say just trying out all sorts of different things has pinpointed to become who I am I think yeah I mean you put it so beautifully and I think that's that's

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really important for everyone listening is to know that it's okay to try things and even if you're not good at them it will lead you to the place where you're evidently supposed to be I wanted to say right now so I think that's I think

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that's amazing yeah you said it you said it beautifully and I know um one of the reasons you became rapper Jenny is because you spoke English so you've got a sign like the wrap parts and the cover songs portion of the trainee program and

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you've obviously really grown into that rap role in blackpink I mean it's something that the fans love you for um and now that it's part of your Artistry like what are some things that rap allows you to explore and

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communicate to the world and what comes over you when you do the second verse rap in you know it's like it's like watching you become an entirely different person actually I I've never really said this anywhere but I've wanted to and it's

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something to do with me rapping okay so like you said I've gotten into the whole idea of rapping because of the language that I I was working with and that's how I started and back when I was a trainee I thought

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like this is what I was supposed to do and I got so into it and by the time that we debut in my head I'm thinking I'm a rapper like no I just in my head I'm gonna I'm

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gonna go out there and wrap my ass yeah cool what the strange part was like how you said before about finding your identity like as a trainee too so after our debut we did like six songs where I

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would just rap like seriously rap and along the way I kind of got confused because the more I did singing and music I came to realize that there's a big side of me inside that I that I love to

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sing just play with my vocals but I actually never had the chance to really explore that as a trainee because I got told that I should be a rapper you know so there was a face where I would

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hate to rap like I was like this isn't me like this isn't the the Jenny that I envisioned in my head like I don't think I'm a rapper so there was definitely a burnout season is that how you say it

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yeah there was a moment yeah it was a moment where I was denying myself because just because of the idea that I didn't pick this path that somebody else has picked for me um and then after taking some time off

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of work and listening to music in general and then I actually looked back to the videos that I performed and when I was doing lives to like actually see myself enjoying my like enjoying rapping on stage and that's the moment where I

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accepted the fact that that is a part of me but there there was a new side of me that I did hasn't been found within me and I have discovered so yeah right now I get I am lucky enough

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to have a choice to be a crazy rapper and also be sing whenever I want to so yeah I would like to say it's it's a it's a switch inside I think that I'm honestly I'm surprised that myself when I

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re-watch some of the stuff that I I did live like whoa it's so cool to see like rediscovering so many aspects of yourself you know in the process and you know on the born Pink tour you're amazing fans the blinks

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I have noticed that you really love singing the song tally oh yeah um you know that's a song which is about asserting your autonomy when there's a lot of pressure and demands on you and you know as a fellow touring musician

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when there's so much of our lives on the road which can be like wake up tour bus sound check quick snap gym stage doorbell sleep you know exactly and you do it all over again you know I can I

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can totally relate but tell me like what does that song mean to you and like what are some ways that you're able to assert yourself with such a regimented schedule in life starting my career in Korea as a

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Kpop artist has stripped so many sides of me where it wasn't just allowed to be shown because I'm a K-pop Idol and I was scared I think also to express myself and as things grew over time I was able to express myself and people

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would see it as breaking the boundaries rather than she's doing something that she's not allowed to do and being able to open a new chapter for people that are starting the business in Korea that's when I realized I want to do

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I want to break more boundaries for people in my culture to understand that expressing yourself as however you want isn't there shouldn't be a standard there shouldn't be a way to judge like there there shouldn't be a reason to judge and

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just see it as oh that's how that person expresses themselves so I think the song tally was I think one of the first songs that we actually say the F word in this one for us I think and at first when I

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started performing a song I couldn't even say it out loud I was like oh like yeah and kind of be scared oh like what if people think this is like not right you know and then and then more fans

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were loving the song and I was connecting with with blinks like while I was on stage when I was singing that song they were like yeah do your thing and they were the ones who gave me my confidence and support to really enjoyed

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the song yeah [Music] I'm Morgan Freeman and this is six degrees of Jamie s Mensa you know what Spencer I have pulled out some big names for our podcast recently what else are you talking about JLo Morgan Freeman

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Samuel Jackson dare I say more they came on cause apparently rumor has it they love me you know that they're only talking to you to get to me I'm producer Phil I'm the one that gets us the A-list guests around here so join

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us for the podcast that's all about making new friends and have lots of fun on the way and hopefully we stay friends too beautiful six degrees from Jamie and Spencer this is gonna be amazing only on BBC sounds

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so blackpink is obviously a K-Pop group but you're incredibly Multicultural with fans all over the world and throughout your incredible career you've stayed very true to your Korean culture even as you've Incorporated Western influence with your production and your lyrics and

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I know for instance you know the singles that you led the album with were not English language ones you know you could have kicked off a campaign with something like ice cream with Selena Gomez you know what are your

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conversations as a group that looked like about not abandoning those K-pop and Korean routes when you've achieved such incredible success in places like America and Europe by the way kiss and makeup was our first ever collaboration with her foreign artist I know it was

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that was a special that was a special moment for me so our producer Teddy um was actually an artist himself who I think was the pioneers of the K-pop industry and because he knew as an artist it's important to

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um keep who you are to yourself and express that through music he I think he taught us that it's important to bring ourselves and to be honest we we also didn't expect black pink to grow so much globally so quickly that

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our main focus was let's bring what we have the four of us we have to the table and that's that's really how it started I love that okay so blackpink became the first K-Pop group to ever headline Coachella this year no I know amazing

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amazing now walk me through like your feelings and that historic moment like how did it feel to present your culture your music and your life's work to 250 000 people in person and millions more watching along at home I mean thousands

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of miles away from where you guys got your start it was the most exciting and nerve-wracking thing that happened in our lives definitely and this happened in the middle of our tour so that was also a a big challenge that

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we had to get up on but to me personally the hardest part was because we've performed in Sahara tent four years ago I had an idea of what Coachella was now because back then four years ago I was like I guess it's a

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festival where you know people just rock up and if you like your music they'll just you know dance along with you that's that's where I was at and then with four years headlining like I couldn't believe it at

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first like I had to sit down with the girls and be like guys this is happening we were in business we were watching Ariana Grande who was um yeah headlining when we performed and then now we're here we're doing this

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it's amazing it's crazy but also because I knew what to expect a little bit um I was on there's so much pressure I think it was my first time crying just as soon as I was off of stage like

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first week I as soon as we walked out of stage I was like bursts and tears so it was so emotional like I was so proud and the hard work that we put on and just the overwhelming feeling that we got

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from the crowd of course it was just a lot a lot a lot of emotions a lot of emotions it's amazing like you said like that the trajectory is is crazy and amazing and you know like you said even

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in four years time from Sahara stage to the main stage you guys have been working you're awesome and it's it's very impressive to see we were so grateful honestly we really knew what it meant to be four girls who were from

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different worlds to get together in a group and then after years of doing what we love we end up being on the stage where we dreamed of it we watched growing are we fantasized being on that stage yeah so it was a

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really really a dream come true situation for all of us I think and it was really exciting actually because we really brought the Korean culture into our stage this time and we were so proud of it and happy about it just to give

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you a little explain we did yeah the set was a Korean architect roof design that we had called hanok but that was the main set that we have and then we started our whole set list with wearing a traditional Korean dress

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called Hamburg it was a very short moment but we really wanted to bring that Korean culture into onto the stage especially Coachella because we knew like how big it is to go from start from where we are and then

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bring that to it in front of I don't even know how many people I'm really bad with numbers but yeah but I mean it's amazing it's it's really it's really exciting to to see it all happen for you guys and I mean with the

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born Pink tour wrapping up later this year like I want to ask you about one of my favorite things to watch which is videos of blackpink sound checks because the four of you just get to joke around and enjoy each other's company without

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the pressures of like the actual show to stress you out like can you take me into that moment and tell me what those moments are like with your band memes so like at the beginning of our tour um going to soundcheck every day felt

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like a lot of work because you know it means um earlier Glam time you know earlier wake up time but then I realized how important and fun it is because it it wakes you up before the actual show like

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it lets your energy like connect with the fans that are coming and the more and more sound checks that we did we just like you said we just started having so much fun because we got to sing the songs that weren't on

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the set list and just show show the actual side of blackpink before we were blackpinked out okay let me put your black pink towel exactly yeah and luckily the our fans are really happy to see us be crazy and just teenage girls

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so yeah it's it's really fun yeah I mean all these years later like what do you still enjoy about each other and what are you still learning from each other so during covid we had a lot of solo

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stuff happening in our lives and I think seeing seeing each member do their solo stuff has taught me a lot of things and gave me more ways to respect them as an artist definitely because we we always have to

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negotiate how we want to do things as a group but to see each one of us decide for ourselves and to make decisions on ourselves was really fun and interesting I think and you were the first member of blackpink

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to go solo and you know I said I was going to get back to this you've been doing some really stunning modeling in the recent years and now you're branching into acting with the HBO series the idol um which you're starring in under the

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name Jenny Ruby Jane what are these new experiences teaching you and why did you feel like now was the time to start branching out as Jenny Ruby Jane as opposed to Jenny from blackpink I acting was the things that I've wanted to explore

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but when I do something when I decide to really go for it I I know I need to do it right and first of all I wanted the new acting part of my life to be authentic rather than just me trying to

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grab any any opportunities that came to me I really was being patient with with my first ever acting job which means when I was spending some time in LA last year and I actually got to meet Sam in person

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and I got to talk to him and he talked me through the role that I he wanted envisioned for me and everything and I think it moved my heart like it told that meeting with Sam and talking to him

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in person and it all happened really out of the blue like I got a text one day like oh are you free next Tuesday you know like it happened so casually like without anticipating the actual job so it felt really like authentic and

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like real it like moved me like it gave me courage to believe that this was the right thing to do I love that um as a K-pop Superstar you know so much of your life is on constant display for

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your fans your days as a trainee were documented and broadcast and today blackpink can't even leave the airport without fans following you know you're able to share so much of yourself with the world and your fans but you're also not able to share

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everything like what are some ways that you have felt maybe misunderstood by people and what are some things that you feel like you wish you'd been able to share or share differently if you were given the chance over the pandemic and

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even up to right now I I I've learned to take care of my body and I've learned a lot about myself with my health and how my muscles work how bendy I am with my arms with my like in every detail that

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I've spent time and it's all started because I would constantly hurt myself during performances and lives compared to other girls and it was just a stressful thing in my life I'm like there we go I fell again like I tripped over again and like I

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realized that even though I had the training days that was more about I need to be good at dancing not how do I keep myself safe and healthy while I'm you know doing doing this so I feel like I've just disappointed my

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fans at some point of my life where it seemed like I wasn't giving my best but I haven't had the moment to say this but I want to say that I did not know how to control my body and like use my body the

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way I should and like something like I just don't do well in heels you know some people are amazing in heels of me being like one of the shortest girl in the group I cannot work with heels I my feet aren't built first even

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though I I try and you know sometimes when I'm feeling perfectly fine like with my body but yeah yeah when when I'm like traveling so much and my body's all bloated and my feet are like so bloated I just if I try to dance in heels I just

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my stamina just goes really down because I know it's uncomfortable for me so yeah stuff like that I I've wanted to come not come clean but I wanted to share with my fans that I'm still at a point where I'm learning

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about myself um if anything so yeah let me let me be the person to share me like from now on and yeah that's peaceful I think that's important I think um you know the experience of also just like

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traveling and Performing and also figuring yourself out while you're also in the public eye can be a little bit scary and so not everybody really knows what happens behind the scenes so I think that's that's really nice of you

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to share those moments because you're human as well then you're you're learning and figuring out like you say your body but I'm glad that you're getting to a point where you're really kind of learning about what you need I

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mean I I I'm the same I'm like I realized how much I needed to be in rehearsal and keep my body strong with like yoga and pilates and like eat really healthy and keep my mindset really healthy so I'm able to perform

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and that's all the other work that goes on behind the scenes to be able to put on the best show but I assure you you're doing a really good job and you're not letting anybody down whatsoever thank you

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how would you describe your identity apart from blackpink you know who is Jenny when you're not thinking about making or performing music you know and what is that other side of you I think honestly I'm I'm a nerd

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is that bad to say like no I I truly believe I have a note like I love learning new things and like experimenting new things and I'm off of work I would randomly go to a a pottery class A go to learn French like I just

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constantly like to throw myself under like this new environment maybe because of how I grew up but I just love to see myself like adjusting to the environment that I put myself in I I completely relate to that I feel like it's so

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important to be so curious and constantly learn new things I mean I'm constantly trying to like learn new things and keep myself interested and go to the theater and listen to in different music and read books and constantly keep myself going and I think

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maybe it is something about being thrown into different experiences very young that kind of pushes you um in that direction which is really cool Jenny thank you so much this has been so amazing having you oh my gosh it

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was honestly my pleasure I like to end my conversations by asking for some lists from my guests and like you said I know that you're super into Pilates and yoga like I am and because you're always on the road what are five ways you like

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to get your body moving even if you don't have a gym you can use I feel like I'm a little lazy when I'm actually on tour like it's it's hard to get my like exercise but just taking a walk

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have a yoga mat in the room and like what I do is like I would wake up in the morning just play some really nice calm music stretch and like meditate and I'm more on that side of taking care of my

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body when I'm on tour so yeah yeah I didn't give you five lists but go for a walk go for a walk and rock well you said keep a yoga mat in the room and meditate meditate and use stairs yeah

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take the stairs and yeah I would say four things if that's okay of course four things is perfect we'll take it Jenny thank you so much thank you for having me thank you for your time I I appreciate you making

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time to do this with me of course anything for Dua oh I love you love you thank you love you talk to you soon bye babe [Music] isn't she the sweetest and what a treat to host her first ever podcast

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appearance I love her and the other blackpink girls so much and it felt really special to him more about her culture and the ways she's been able to share that with the world I hope the episode resonated with you the way it

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did with me [Music] some extra content from Jenny be sure to visit service95.com for an exclusive list of our favorite ways to spend a weekend in Seoul I've already added them all to my list for the next time I'm

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lucky enough to visit South Korea I wanted to also let you know that our July service 95 book club pick is pachinka but you all know I love so much written by our season 2 At Your Service guest Min jindy we've got some very

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special Pachinko themed content all month on our website and socials so be sure to join us throughout July for that and so much more see you next week for another episode of At Your Service thanks again for listening

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[Music] smash right into the World Trade Center it's a big big explosion in place people who knew me a story about lies you used a terrorist attack to run away from your mess and fake your own death and love

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are you proposing to me in the face of death I'm Paul I'm six week City chemo and I have no eyebrows an original drama for BBC sounds yeah something so starring Rosamond Pike and Hugh Laurie happy death anniversary

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people who knew me listen on BBC sounds

Topics: Dua Lipa Jennie Kim Blackpink K-pop cultural identity New Zealand South Korea music podcast bicultural experience global music


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