ROSÉ Reminisces on Her BLACKPINK Audition, Shows Jimmy How to Play the APT. Drinking Game (Extended)

Welcome back. Thanks for being a guest on the show and talking to me. Oh my gosh. Thank you for having me. I feel like I'm dreaming right now. No, my God. What are you talking about? Well, I mean, your album's out. Are you excited about this? I'm super excited. It's finally out. Yeah. Do I call you Rose or do I call you Rosie? Whatever is comfortable. My friends and family call me Rosie. And I've made this rule where, you know, like 80% of the lyrics on my album, you can call me Rosie. All right. Perfect. I'll call you Rosie. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. When you were when you were a kid, did you ever dream that you'd be this big of a star? I mean, you're big. You're big. I mean, I'll go into the numbers. But yeah, I mean, you're just going at this dream. Do you realize it could be your international? Yeah. Well, no, I mean, I don't even know what to say. Yeah. Well, I actually I grew up in Australia. And so it always felt like it was not it wasn't really much of a possibility for me to like be a singer. So I never really dreamed of it. But I do remember like singing till like midnight every day. And my my dad eventually just kind of sent me to an audition because he kind of wanted to kick me out. He could hear you in your bedroom just singing? No, just like in the living room with the piano. I just like sing till like midnight and like fall asleep like on the piano. No way. So you had it in you. I just like it was form of entertainment because it's really boring. Australia is really quiet. Oh my God, no. But then when did you learn guitar? Around the same time. You did? Yeah. YouTube was kind of like hitting off back then. And like all these YouTubers, like online, they look really cool. And so I was like, I want to be like them. Just like picked it up. Really? Yeah. Do you remember your first guitar? Yes, I do. It was a blue with $70. My dad bought it for me. Yeah. I remember it was like it was a cheap one. So like my fingers hurt so much. That's how you learn. That's how you learn. Yeah. But it was like crying because it was like really cheap and like my fingers were really hurting. And so like I remember I got together all of my pocket money that I had saved up my whole life for like 14 by then. And I got like, I still have it. It's like still my favorite guitar. It's a Taylor GS Mini. So yeah. And then so you take that guitar and that's how you audition for Blackpink? Yes. Do you remember the song you played? Yes, I do. It was around the time Jason Mraz had released a song called I Won't Give Up. And I just learned it. I was like, yeah. Did you realize right there after the audition, you go, I got this? Not at all. Not at all. I walked in like I thought it was a joke. I was like, this is funny. I'm not going to get it at all. And so and like my dad and I had flown all the way from Melbourne to Sydney for the auditions. I was like, might as well make some good memories. And so I kind of went, hi. I did it and I was like, bye. Yeah. And then cut to. They called me and I'm like, what's happening? You're going to be in one of the biggest groups ever. Yeah. And now here you are with the first full length solo album. Congratulations. Did you always know that you wanted to call it Rosie? No, actually, there was like a big debate. I have a song called Number One Girl. So that was initially like the rough idea. Like people call it Number One Girl. But then, yeah. So like Bruno actually tried really hard to convince me. He was like, because Rosie was one of the options. And he's like, it has to be Rosie because your friends and family call you Rosie. He's brilliant. Bruno Mars. He's been a great mentor and friend. We love him. When you also produced this, but also wrote every song in this. How do you land on a lyric or a song title? Does that one lyric come to you first or the title come first? I think like stories come first. Just like we were just chitchat and like. Do you write them down or record them on your phone or something? I will like I jot down like a bunch of ideas. And sometimes I like text my songwriter friends. And and so like it's just like phrases and words that kind of pop up. Just anything you want to write about and like kind of get off your chest. Does it ever get confusing if you're just sending someone just a title? Like, why don't you love me anymore? No, I've done that before. I texted Michael Pollak. He wrote a few songs on my album. And I'd be like, for example, I'd be like, how dare you? And you'd be like, excuse me. How dare you? We have to write this next week. We have to. Let's talk about APT. Congratulations on this song. It's giant. The music video has half a billion. Half of a billion views. It's the number one song on the Billboard Global 200 for seven weeks now. It is a massive, massive hit. Can you explain where the idea came from for APT? Yes. APT is a Korean drinking game that I like. I remember when I turned 20, my Blackpink, the girls in my group, they got like all the alcohol we could get. We're like, we're going to drink tonight. It was the day I turned 20, legal age in Korea to drink. And yeah, that's kind of started. And we'd like play drinking games. And APT was one of them. So APT is a drinking game? It's a drinking game. I have a shot of something. What is that? This is soju. Soju. This is soju. Yeah. Can you teach me the... Yeah, sure. Soju means apartment. So you're basically stacking floors of the apartment. Okay. And if it's your favorite game, then you will call out the number. Okay. And we'll stack, like after the chant, we stack it. And then whoever lands on that floor takes the shot. Okay, gotcha. It's very simple. I have to say that it's my favorite game? Yeah. We'll sing it like... It goes, Jimmy's favorite game. Game start. Okay, ready? And then it goes, a-pa-ta-pa-ta, a-pa-ta-pa-ta, a-pa-ta-pa-ta. And then you do this. And then the thing. Okay. Does everyone want to join in? Yeah, yeah, we can do this. Everyone, you want to yell that part? Do you think I have to repeat it? All right, yes. You ready? Yeah, let's sing it with us. Ready? Jimmy's favorite game. Game start. A-pa-ta-pa-ta, a-pa-ta-pa-ta, a-pa-ta-pa-ta. Three. One. Two. Let's hear it. Three. All right, here we go. Cheers to your new album, Rosé. Smooth. Rosé, everybody.