REVIEW: ROSÉ - -R-

4/5

Rosé In Your Area.

Fireworks lighting up the sky like the Blackpink Netflix documentary that promised some solo music from this New Zealand Rosé, as she swings through the lights they make. Seeing her name in that same type of bright like the big city of Seoul that is the heart of this K-Pop group that's putting South Korea on the map like 'Parasite', as her girls hotter than Spice take the world by storm like BTS. Cinematic echoes to the music videos of fellow Korean pop icon KATIE whose 'Time Is Blue' as limousines explode in balls of flames, this one really drives Rosé's star power home like give her a Hollywood script, or at least one for a K-Drama. A star is born like the reason she came into this world. But this songwriting genius has something else on the cards as she deals with anti-Asian racists with a fireball that's going to break America and the Internet. Coming down to earth, the meteorite is about to off the scale hit like the top of the charts. 

Right 'On The Ground' and a first single that shakes the foundations like if this solo act was leaving her group. Yet fear not, still in your area the only break-up here are the ballads from the Blackpink hit hook maker. Besides like the D-2 Suga of brother band BTS, Lisa's got next. Whatever the idols can do, the girls can do better. And as this singer stands on the throne of a coliseum that reads, "Roses are dead. Love is fake", we see the symbolism for all it's worth. The explosive lead single off '-R-' features lyrics like, "My life's been magic, seems fantastic/I used to have a hole in the wall with a mattress/Funny when you want it, suddenly you have it /You find out that your gold's just plastic." Moving us in metaphors that shows that all that glitters and all that (isn't all that). This is all you need for a "work hectic" that "seems electric". Now heed the warning in her hauntingly evocative lyrics for love lost. "I'm tryna send a message and let you know/That every single minute/I'm without you, I regret it." Trust me. Everything in terms of competition is now on the ground. 

But the B-Side to this Blink and you'll miss it, two-track '-R-' album shorter than those one-inch tall barriers of subtitles you need to get over like Trump (although this NZ K-Pop singer delivers it all in the Queens), is where the truth remains like a N-Sync group their as popular as...no solo strings attached. 'Gone' is just right there like the backing guitar of the acoustics it started out as. "I thought that you'd remember, but it seems that you forgot/It’s hard for me to blame you when you were already lost/Oh, yeah I'm tired of always waiting/Oh, yeah, yeah/I see you changed your number, that's why you don’t get my calls/I gave you all of me, now you don't wanna be involved/Oh, yeah, yeah I really gotta face it/Oh, yeah, yeah." If you thought 'Ground' was haunting then wait until you hear the ghosts of the ghosting of modern love 'Gone' on this compelling cut that's the deepest like the first. On reflection the writing is on the wall like the full name in the mirror, shining. Roséanne Park is here to stay no matter who in her personal life has left. She puts it all into the healing of music that will revive you the minute you drink it's epic elixir from the ears of your headphones. This hit and run that leaves us numb and reeling with feeling ugly crying. As those who break hearts for fun have no idea what they've done. Numb for the "eight in the morning/hate in the morning". It's a new time Gen-Z...and it's all because of her. Holding her stage in front of a stretch in flames. Rocking a black and pink dress, looking and sounding like straight fire. This ex is EXplosive. Like Pink blossom this season, Rosé is in bloom. Now how you like that? TIM DAVID HARVEY.