Standard CD cover.
Born Pink is the second full album by K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, released on September 16, 2022. Like with their previous album, 2020’s The Album, the lyrics are largely in English. Half of the songs on this album are entirely in English, and all but one of the rest have several English lines, including fully English raps. This album cements Blackpink as the most commercially successful K-pop girl group in the West by being the first album by a female Korean act to top the Billboard 200.
Tracklist:
- "Pink Venom" (3:06)
- "Shut Down" (2:55)
- "Typa Girl" (2:59)
- "Yeah Yeah Yeah" (2:58)
- "Hard to Love" (2:42)
- "The Happiest Girl" (3:42)
- "Tally" (3:04)
- "Ready for Love" (3:04)
Trope that pink venom:
- Breaking Old Trends:
- This is the first group release to include a solo by a member (Rosé on "Hard to Love")
- They stop censoring their own profanity on this album. Some of their Japanese releases, most notably the Japanese version of "Ddu-du Ddu-du", had done that, but this is the first time they have done so on a Korean release, albeit only on the English songs.
- Breather Episode: Retro pop song "Yeah Yeah Yeah" is one of the rare Silly Love Songs that Blackpink has done. It appears in the middle of what is probably their edgiest comeback.
- Cluster F-Bomb: "Tally" repeats "I say fuck it when I feel it" several times.
- Content Warnings: This is a rare K-pop album to have a Parental Advisory warning due to hard swearing on some songs (most notably "Tally") and implied references to drugs and alcohol in "The Happiest Girl".
- Drowning My Sorrows: Implied in "The Happiest Girl" as a way to get over a the collapse of a bad relationship."All it takes is a smooth pop of a bottle top to fix a heart"
- Female Empowerment Song: Feminism is a prominent theme in the English songs: the "I Am Great!" Song ("Typa Girl"), rejecting love ("Hard to Love"), refusing be sad over a bad relationship falling apart ("The Happiest Girl"), and telling off people who judge them for being sexually liberated ("Tally").
- "I Am Great!" Song:
- "Shut Down" is about Blackpink telling off their haters.
- "Typa Girl" is an expression of confidence about being "everybody’s type".
- Mesodiplosis: In "The Happiest Girl"
- "The doors we slammed
The plates we smashed"
- Minimalistic Cover Art: A pair of pink snake fangs over a void background (black on the CD; light grey on the digital), reflecting lead single "Pink Venom".
- Product Placement: Lisa name-drops Celine, a brand of luxury clothes and leather products she endorses, in "Pink Venom.""Masked up and I'm still in Celine, designer crimes or it wouldn't be me."
- Sampling: Shut Down samples Franz Liszt's "La campanella".
- Singer Namedrop: "Shut Down" has the usual "Blackpink in your area" catchphrase and "It's black and it's pink once the sun down."
- I can stop the tropes if I want to.
