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The Album is the first full album by K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, released on October 2, 2020. This is their first release to feature English songs, including collaborations with American artists Selena Gomez and Cardi B, though half of the songs are still mainly in Korean. This album is followed by 2022's Born Pink.
For the Abba album, see ABBA: The Album.
Tracklist:
- "How You Like That" (3:00)
- "Ice Cream" (featuring Selena Gomez) (2:55)
- "Pretty Savage" (3:19)
- "Bet You Wanna" (featuring Cardi B) (2:39)
- "Lovesick Girls" (3:12)
- "Crazy Over You" (2:41)
- "Love To Hate Me" (2:49)
- "You Never Know" (3:49)
Baby, you deserve a trope:
- Album Closure: The climactic ballad "You Never Know"
- Alternate Album Cover: The Japanese version of the album replaces the Minimalistic Cover Art with a Face on the Cover of a Musical Squares variant.
- Double Entendre: "Ice Cream", naturally, has a lot of ice-cream innuendos."You're the cherry piece, just stay on top of me, so
I can't see nobody else for me, no." - Intercourse with You: Multiple songs, but "Ice Cream" stands out due to it being the most innuendo-heavy one.
- Lampshaded Double Entendre: The last lines of "Ice Cream.""I'm nice with the cream, if you know what I mean."
- Longest Song Goes Last: "You Never Know" (3:49) is also the only song longer than 3.5 minutes.
- Love Is a Drug: Mentioned in "Lovesick Girls""Love is a drug that I quit
No doctor could help when I'm lovesick." - Lyrical Cold Open: "Love to Hate Me" has an a capella intro. "You Never Know" has no intro.
- Lyrical Dissonance: "Lovesick Girls" sounds rather upbeat for a song about constant heartbreak.
- Mesodiplosis: "Ice Cream" uses a "like" Mesodiplosis, as part of Shout Outs to other movies, like Free Willy, Billie Jean and Hot Wheels:
- "Get it free like Willy
In the jeans like Billie
You be poppin' like a wheelie"
- Minimalistic Cover Art: The cover is a pink crown on a black background.
- Singer Name Drop: In addition to the usual "Blackpink in your area" catchphrase, there is Lisa name-dropping herself as "Mona Lisa kinda Lisa" in her rap in "Ice Cream".
- Shout-Out: In "Ice Cream":
- T-Word Euphemism: "Pretty Savage""F boys, not my boys"
- A Wild Rapper Appears!: Courtesy of Cardi B in "Bet You Wanna"
- But we're still looking for tropes.
