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The Need to Be Alone and Silence
Rosé says she doesn't want to talk to anyone for a few days after her tours. This silence is a conscious “ritual of self-reflection” that she uses to balance the emotional energy she expends on stage. In her own words: “Just me and my guitar.” Lisa admits that when the cameras are off, she spends days doing nothing but playing video games and playing with her cats. She often refers to this time as her “reset period” and considers it sacred.
Their Deep Bond with Their Pets
There were times when Jennie's dog Kuma was even brought to rehearsals. A special “Kuma corner” was created in the YG dance studio. Jennie describes Kuma as not just a pet, but a “calming presence.” Lisa's care for her four cats (Leo, Luca, Lily, and Louis) is professional-level. Each has a different diet and separate vitamin supplements. She also mentioned analyzing their Instagram algorithms to track which photo styles get the most engagement.
Food Preferences and Quirks
Jisoo's obsession with “cold pizza” has led the team to keep pizza in the refrigerator for her during almost every hotel stay. In fact, some hotels have even set up special coolers because of Jisoo's preference. Jennie eats her meals extremely slowly. This isn't just a physical habit; it's a type of mindfulness practice she uses to cope with pre-performance stress. Lisa is the only member who can't give up Thai cuisine. She carries a special spice mix from Bangkok with her on almost every overseas tour and gives her recipes to hotel kitchens to cook for her.
Music Playlists and Rituals
Rosé has made it a habit to listen to classical music when she wakes up in the morning. Her favorite composer is Chopin. She describes it as “the only thing that doesn't emotionally drain her but puts her in a creative state” in the mornings. Jennie's Spotify playlists surprisingly feature a lot of indie-pop bands. She often mentions listening to Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo, and Japanese Breakfast. She frequently updates these playlists as closed playlists because she thinks the songs are “too fragile.”
Lisa listens to not only Korean music but also Bollywood music and old American hip-hop songs during her dance training. Her favorite playlist is a mix of songs by Tupac, Missy Elliott, and Arijit Singh.
Personal Spaces and Home Habits
Jisoo's book collection is surprisingly extensive. She collects books on historical philosophy, psychology, and Korean war history. She has created a separate section in her home for these books. She says she turns to these books for mental recovery after concerts.
Lisa is obsessed with keeping her home sterile. So much so that group members joke about having to remove their shoes when entering her home, and sometimes even mention that there's hand sanitizer at the door. Jennie has a special tea corner in her home. She is known to have brought special tea ceramics from Japan for matcha, oolong, rose tea, and various aromatic blends. She spends at least two hours alone in this corner every day.
Behind-the-Scenes Habits and Tour Routine
Jisoo immediately closes the curtains and dims the lights as soon as she enters a new hotel room during tours. “The darker the environment, the faster I adapt,” she says. She has even requested extra-thick blackout curtains from the hotel staff on occasion.
Rosé finds a quiet corner backstage before going on stage and meditates for a few minutes. However, she doesn't want those around her to be quiet during this time. She finds being alone in the midst of the crowd more peaceful. Lisa is the only member who brings her own mini speaker to the backstage and plays music loudly. This is both her warm-up and her way of getting into dance moves. She plays a special list of three songs, which she calls her “hip-hop explosion,” especially before dancing.
Obsession with Comfort in Fashion and Everyday Style
Although Jennie is often seen as a style icon, she only wears one type of outfit at home: an oversized gray sweatshirt and shorts. She even describes this combination as her “default outfit.” According to her style consultant, this outfit is Jennie's escape from fashion pressure. Lisa has a “lucky tracksuit” she always wears on plane trips. This gray-and-black ensemble is the outfit she wore on her first global tour, which she describes as the day that “gave birth to the real stage Lisa.”
When Rosé buys new shoes, she doesn't go out without trying them on at home for the first few days. Testing the sound of the soles, her walking rhythm, and how long she can stand in them is almost a scientific process for her.
Digital Habits and the Mobile World
Jennie uses an app on her phone called “mood diary.” She enters only emojis and a single word into the app daily. The app's artificial intelligence generates a weekly mood graph. Jennie says she uses this for her own mental awareness. Lisa uses the TikTok algorithm like a “personal playground.” She creates fake accounts to test her own dance trends and try out different styles. She determines which dances have potential based on like rates.
Jisoo obsessively sets the time when sharing stories on her social media accounts. She usually posts at 8:31 p.m. because that time slot is close to peak activity hours in both South Korea and the US. She figured this out through her own statistical analysis.
Hobbies and Unexpected Creativity
Lisa collects Lego sets. However, these are not simple Lego sets for children. She usually chooses architectural sets, such as the New York skyline, Tokyo Tower, and even the Louvre Museum. Completing these Lego sets during breaks between tours is a form of mental relaxation for her.
Rosé quietly enjoys painting with watercolors, but she doesn't show her work to anyone. She hasn't shared any of her paintings on social media because she wants them to remain “completely her own world.” Jisoo's most interesting hobby is solving puzzles. But not just any puzzles—she prefers ones with historical themes or related to ancient languages. She even once tried to decipher a replica of a papyrus written in Greek.
Sleeping Habits and Nighttime Routines
Rosé prefers to have soft music or ambient sounds playing in her room to help her fall asleep. She often plays the “ocean waves” playlist on Spotify, but it is said that she has a special version of the playlist with a few sentences whispered in her own voice added to it. Jisoo has a strange routine before going to sleep: she checks the weather forecast on her phone and tries to dream about it. She claims that she has dramatic dreams before rainy days.
Lisa sleeps in a room lit only by red light at night. She thinks blue light disturbs her sleep, so she sets her phone screen to night mode and doesn't turn it toward her face. She also makes sure to stretch for 10 minutes before going to sleep.
Silent Rituals and Untold Moments Within the Group
There is a silent ritual that the members perform together but is not captured on camera: After every concert, they gather their hands together without speaking and hold them for a moment. This is a moment to share their feelings before saying, “We did it.” Jennie sometimes prefers to use only emojis for communication within the group. Especially after exhausting rehearsals, she sends only 🐻 or 🌸 to the group to indicate her mood. The members have learned over time what each emoji means to her.
Rosé and Lisa have made it a habit to sit in the same seats on the tour bus. But this is no coincidence. There is a rare combination of seats where they can both put on headphones and listen to their own music while stretching their legs at the same time, and they share it.
Interesting Obsessions and Little Quirks
Jisoo's obsession: the symmetrical arrangement of pillows in hotel rooms. She adjusts the direction and alignment of the pillows in every hotel room she enters. If she sees asymmetry, she can't sleep. Jennie always carries at least three different lip balms in her bag. She uses them not randomly, but according to her mood. She says she has established a kind of “mood control” between the mint, lavender, and neutral versions. Lisa always chooses a window seat on planes, but not to look outside. It's just because it's a place where she can rest her head. “There have been flights where I didn't look outside even once,” she says.
Gift-Giving Habits Among Themselves
BLACKPINK members prefer to surprise each other with small, personally meaningful objects rather than big gifts on their birthdays. Rosé once gave Lisa a glove she had worn during an old concert when she fell off the stage. It came with a note that read, “You held me with this glove.”
Jennie once gave Jisoo a small perfume bottle she made herself. It contained both lavender and ylang ylang essences because she noticed that Jisoo could distinguish these notes from two different perfumes she frequently used. The strangest gift Lisa gave Rosé: a small soap shaped like a turtle. The reason was that during a tour, Rosé had said, “I wish life were as simple as this soap.”
Non-Musical Sources of Inspiration and Silent Influences
Rosé occasionally reads books about the life of painter Frida Kahlo and expresses her admiration for her loneliness. In an interview, she said, “I learned how to turn pain into art from Kahlo.” She also has a small Kahlo illustration in her home.
Jennie cites architecture as one of her sources of inspiration outside of dance. Browsing magazines about Japanese minimalist design is a stress-relieving activity for her. In her free time, she draws house plans as a kind of mind-clearing game. Jisoo is more influenced by video games than one might expect. She says that she brings the “lonely but in control” nature of her favorite game character, Lara Croft, to her stage energy.
Personal Items Carried While Traveling
Lisa takes a childhood photo with her on every trip. She folds the photo to fit in her wallet and places it on her bedside table in the hotel room. This serves as a “mental reset” object for her. Rosé always brings an old analog camera with her on flights. She says she doesn't enjoy taking photos with her phone and believes digital images are “too easy to delete.”
Jisoo has a small collection of stones that she carries with her. These stones are ones she has found in different cities that “make her feel good.” One of them is a white pebble she found in front of the studio on the day they first appeared on the Billboard charts.
BLACKPINK's Secret Language
The group uses coded words among themselves. For example, when they say “blue day,” it means “I'm not in the mood to be outgoing today.” This expression has become a way for them to warn each other during behind-the-scenes shoots. Rosé and Jennie have a silent “eyebrow raise code” they use to motivate each other. During rehearsals, if one raises their eyebrow in a certain way, it means “keep going, you're nailing it.”
Lisa sometimes calls Jisoo using short Thai words instead of Korean. This is a playful but also intimate way for the two to connect. Especially on stressful days, the question “arai na” (are you okay?) is a kind of expression of affection used by Lisa.
Fashion Choices and the Unseen Side
Jennie wears some of the pieces she wears on stage only once, but instead of throwing them away, she keeps them in a special place. She writes little notes inside each outfit and folds them up: “I felt this on this stage,” for example. Fashion is not just about style for her; it's a memory archive.
Jisoo sometimes chooses to wear a dress her mother made for her when she was a child as her off-stage outfit, even at special events. These dresses are often very simple and nostalgic pieces. Lisa says that she feels most comfortable in a combination of wide-leg pants and a cropped T-shirt. However, she usually wears this outfit when she is away from the cameras because she says, “I don't want to be recognized like this.”
Studio Habits and Their Creative Spaces
Jennie prefers to be completely alone in the studio during recording. Even the producer controls the sound from another room. She sees this solitude as a creative space, saying, “I want to try without judging my own voice.” Rosé always lights a candle when writing lyrics and focuses on the flame while writing. Her statement, “If the candle flickers, the writing should too,” reflects the emotional intensity of her writing process.
Jisoo typically stares silently at the wall for 10 minutes before entering the studio. During this time, she says she doesn't form sentences in her head but rather images. She enjoys using her visual memory to incorporate metaphors into melodies. Lisa's studio habit is a bit more physical: she jumps five times and touches her feet before the beat comes in. This is her belief that “the mind cannot enter without the body entering the music.”
Silent Retreats and Micro Escapes
Jisoo sometimes enters “communication-free modes” where she doesn't even look at her phone for several hours. During these periods, she disconnects from the outside world and solves sudoku puzzles. This is her way of detoxing from the digital world. Jennie deletes all social media apps from her phone during busy periods and replaces them with a notebook. During this temporary digital detox, she writes down her feelings in her notebook.
Lisa enjoys getting lost in crowded places. For example, she says she sits in the corner of a café in Paris for hours watching people come and go, feeling “invisible” in this way. Rosé gives herself a “song-long silent walk” break at the end of busy days. This usually means putting her phone in airplane mode, putting on her headphones, and walking for the duration of a single song without talking to anyone.
Home Rituals and Moments of Solitude
Lisa feels like she's “starting the day incomplete” if she doesn't drink her morning coffee from the same mug. She has a handmade mug she brought back from Thailand and even says she won't drink coffee if it breaks. Jennie cooks to classical music when she's alone. She especially likes to play Baroque composers and cook slowly by herself. This is both meditative and a habit that “slows down the flow of time” for her.
Another detail that stands out in Jisoo's home: all the mirrors have small, positive phrases written on them. Phrases like “Do you have a beautiful thought today?” or “Can you see yourself?” are written in the corners of every mirror. Rosé sometimes turns off all the lights in the house and listens to old vinyl records with only a single nightlight on. She tries to disconnect from the modern world and find balance through an “analog feeling.”
Daily Routines Connected to Childhood
Lisa still maintains a habit she learned as a child in Thailand when she washes her face in the morning: she washes her face three times and then gently pats her cheeks with her palms. This is a morning ritual left over from her mother, who would say, “Say good morning, remember to wake up.”
Jisoo still keeps miniature copies of puzzle books she played with as a child. She carries the pages from exam periods with her because they remind her of emotional balance. Sometimes before concerts, she even goes back to questions she couldn't solve in the past.
Rosé keeps the lyrics she wrote as a child in a notebook and occasionally revisits those notes to compare them with her current emotional state. “Sometimes I realize I can write more honestly than I did when I was 10,” she once said. Jennie's beloved stuffed animal from childhood still sits on her bedside table. She doesn't take it with her when she travels, but it's the first thing she checks for when she returns home. For her, this toy is a constant reminder that time hasn't changed.
Silent Habits Related to Fans
Lisa sorts the letters she receives from her fans by date and keeps them in special envelopes. After each tour, she reads only the letters from that tour and then puts them away. She says it's a method that forces her to “stay in the moment.” Jennie archives drawings made by fans and sometimes uses the details from these drawings as inspiration for stage costumes. For example, a broken heart detail from a drawing inspired a ring used in her SOLO stage performance.
Rosé reads the poems sent by fans especially before going to bed at night. She describes this as a kind of “goodnight story” and has mentioned trying to set some of them to music with her guitar. Jisoo occasionally prints out and saves the long messages written to her on social media. Out of fear they might disappear digitally, she has physically archived some of the special messages.
“Normalization” Rituals Upon Returning from Travel
When Rosé returns home after a long tour, the first thing she does is lie down on her bed without taking off her shoes. It doesn't matter if they're dirty or clean; she says, “I need to reconnect with that bed.” Lisa doesn't plan anything for the day she returns. She doesn't eat, take a shower, or talk to anyone. She just spends time with her cats and says, “I'm waiting for my body to get used to being home again.”
Jennie starts doing laundry as soon as she gets home, but she doesn't just wash the clothes; she checks each item by hand and folds them again. This is her way of regaining a sense of control. Jisoo says the thing she missed most about being home was “opening the window.” Since opening windows was prohibited in hotel rooms, the first thing she does when she gets home is open the window and stick her head out.