BLACKPINK‘s Jennie Kim suffered burnout after taking up the rap duties within the group.
The 27-year-old singer revealed she was sad along with her position within the group and struggled with the accountability of being the rapper.
Throughout a dialog on Dua Lipa’s ‘At Your Service’ podcast, Dua requested her: “I do know one of many causes you turned a rapper is since you spoke English, so you bought assigned the rap elements and also you’ve clearly actually grown into that rap position in BLACKPINK, it’s one thing that the followers love you for. What comes over you if you do the second verse rap in DDU-DU DDU-DU? You recognize, it’s prefer it’s like watching you develop into a wholly completely different particular person!”
Jennie replied: “I’ve by no means actually stated this wherever, however I’ve needed to. After our debut, we did like six songs the place I’d simply rap like, critically rap and alongside the way in which, I type of obtained confused as a result of I got here to see that there’s a giant facet of me inside that likes to sing, however I really by no means had the possibility to actually discover that as a trainee as a result of I obtained advised that I ought to be a rapper, ?
“So there was a part the place I’d hate to rap. I used to be like, ‘This isn’t me like, this isn’t the journey that I envisioned in my head like, I don’t assume I’m a rapper.’ So there was undoubtedly a burnout.”
Jennie additionally revealed that getting in to the group was quite a lot of laborious work.
She stated: “I’ve really by no means actually damaged down how I did it. However the individuals who knew the significance of maintaining their very own identification and character throughout the coaching system are the folks which might be within the group proper now – lots of people obtained misplaced on the way in which as a result of we had been so centered to fulfill the those who we had been working with, however we weren’t positive who we had been doing it for, and the way it can determine us sooner or later. As a result of it’s actually years of coaching, it’s not simply a few hours. So that you get actually drawn into the life-style that they put us in.”
