Less than a month later he drowned in his swimming pool at age 27. By June 1969, he was a liability, and the Stones fired him. He was still going strong when this song was released in 1966, but fell off a year later when his drug use caught up to him and his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, left him for Richards.
Jones was a founding member of the Stones and key to their early success. Jones did the arrangements for "Paint It Black" and many other songs around this time, but according to Keith Richards, he never presented a finished song to the group, which kept him off the credits. No matter if “Pink Venom” isn’t a particularly boundary-breaking release for the group it’s doing exactly what the lyrics intend: reminding the world who’s in charge.Brian Jones had a lot of input into this song, but was left off the songwriting credits (Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are the credited writers). Jennie takes a similar bow with “I talk that talk, runways I walk, walk,” pointing to her own deal with Chanel. In “This the life of a vandal, masked up and I’m still in Celine/ĭesigner crimes or it wouldn’t be me, ooh,” rapper Lisa references her global ambassadorship with the fashion house, for which she walked the runway this May. Other lyrics are more direct references to the group members’s growing status as international icons. (Petition for a Blackpink feature on 1989 (Taylor’s Version), please and thank you.) The song is catchy but discombobulated, a disorienting blend of rap, floating vocals, and an anti-drop chorus, featuring a few choice Easter eggs in the lyrics.įans have already pointed out that “Kick in the door” is likely a reference to Biggie Smalls, while “One by one and two by two” is a nod at Rihanna’s “Pon de Replay.” The group’s venom references wouldn’t be complete without a wink at the artist perhaps best known for making the snake her sigil: The phrase “Look what you made us do” seems an almost certain hat-tip to Taylor Swift’s Reputation. “Pink Venom” itself was met with mixed reviews among Blackpink fans-known as Blinks-who have waited multiple years for a new, exciting drop from their idols. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Jennie later added, “Some worry that we might stray away from our identity, but we believe it’s the most distinct and clear way to represent us.” “Since ‘pink’ and ‘venom’ have contradicting images, we thought they were kind of reminiscent of us…It’s pink venom, a lovely poison, it’s words that most express us.” “Since our album’s title is Born Pink, we wanted to relay our identity in the song as much as we could,” Jennie explained during an online press conference in Seoul timed to the “Pink Venom” release. Don’t ever mistake their kindness for weakness. Such a paradox, it’s implied, is a good representation of their ethos as a group. “Pink Venom,” they insist, is an inherent contradiction: sweet but deadly, unassuming but powerful. In the new single “Pink Venom,” released ahead of the group’s forthcoming album Born Pink, the Blackpink crew-Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo, and Rosé-attempt to create the right alchemical mix of sugar and spice.
As Poison once instructed in the final breath of the ’80s, every rose has its thorn, and the modern K-pop sensation Blackpink would like to capitalize on that proverb.
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