“Who wanna rock with Jennie? Preserve your hair accomplished, nails accomplished like Jennie. Who else obtained ‘em obsessed like Jennie?” Okay-pop famous person and Blackpink member Jennie sang to a full home at L.A.’s Peacock Theater Thursday evening.
The gang was immediately on their ft for the primary dwell efficiency of the hype-filled new single from the 29-year-old singer and rapper, aptly titled “Like JENNIE.” The efficiency was a part of her intimate present in help of her debut solo album, The Ruby Expertise, which kicked off its first of two nights on Thursday. Jennie performed the whole lot of her 15-track album for the gang, marking the dwell debut for practically each track on the setlist. (She’s beforehand carried out her fall hit, “Mantra,” dwell).
Ruby, which was launched via a partnership with the label she based, Oddatelier, and Columbia Information, is by far the singer’s most intensive physique of labor thus far. The album options collaborations with Infantile Gambino, Doechii, Dominic Fike, Dua Lipa and Kali Uchis. Earlier this week, Columbia Information introduced that the worldwide famous person had crossed 450,000 worldwide pre-orders forward of its launch, which coincided with the beginning of Thursday’s present.
The “Like Jennie” singer is ready to carry out on the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Pageant, having performed the pageant twice as a member of Blackpink. Jennie and her fellow group members (Lisa, Jisoo and Rosé) headlined the pageant in 2023 and made their Coachella debut in 2019. The four-piece lady group, shaped below Korean leisure firm YG Leisure, was the primary Okay-pop act to headline the pageant.
All 4 members of the group have established more and more fruitful solo careers within the final yr, separate from their work within the group. In December 2023, it was introduced that Blackpink had renewed their unique contracts for group actions with YG Leisure; nonetheless, it was later introduced that each one 4 members determined to half methods with the label for solo actions.
Jennie is slated to play one other present on the Peacock Theater Friday evening (March 7) earlier than taking The Ruby Expertise to New York’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor and Seoul’s Encourage Area. Listed below are the highlights from evening one in all The Ruby Expertise in L.A.
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Jennie Confirmed Her Vary By Enjoying All of ‘Ruby’
Picture Credit score: Courtesy of ODDATELIER The singer and rapper, in a means she by no means has earlier than, gave followers the possibility to listen to and see a brand new aspect of her via Ruby and The Ruby Expertise. The album, very similar to the dwell present, featured an array of songs starting from the pop hit “Mantra” to the membership music meets hip hop-inspired “Like JENNIE” to the present’s finale “twin,” an acoustic and emotional friendship breakup anthem. Jennie’s pair of solo songs she launched previous to 2024 principally caught to the pop sound related to Blackpink. Given the shifting of tempos and genres all through the album, Thursday evening’s present might virtually be damaged up into sections of experimental songs, traditional pop, hype tracks and mawkish moments.
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The Ruby Expertise Provided Followers a Cinematic Expertise
Ruby, as an album, appears to have been clearly conceived with a imaginative and prescient in thoughts. The Ruby Expertise gave Jennie an opportunity to immerse followers into that world via the present’s well-produced video segments and stage design and setup. The singer even broadcasted a stream of full-on ending credit to the present that named practically each member of the workforce liable for the present, all the way down to the legal professionals.
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The Okay-Pop Star Was Fashionable As Ever
Picture Credit score: Courtesy of ODDATELIER With the addition or elimination of a coat or a fast change right here or there, Jennie managed to make every track really feel prefer it had its personal distinctive look with small modifications to her model. Unsurprisingly, because the 29-year-old is a frequenter of vogue weeks around the globe, all of her seems have been spot on.
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The Transition of “Like JENNIE” to “With the IE (Manner up)” Completely Showcased the Star’s Candy Spot
“Like JENNIE” definitely introduced the gang to their ft; the response alone was sufficient to know why Jennie and her label settled on the track because the album’s lead single. The pop star and her crew of dancers then expertly transitioned into the subsequent track, “With an IE (means up),” which in a stroke of unimaginable wit, encompasses a pattern from Jennifer Lopez’s iconic hit, “Jenny from the Block.” The pair of songs labored extraordinarily properly back-to-back and showcase Jennie at her most assured.
