JENNIE’s “Ruby” Was Selected by Billboard as the Third Best K-Pop Album of 2025
JENNIE’s global resonance rests on a rare duality: commanding spectacle at the highest level shaped by BLACKPINK’s maximalist precision while maintaining a closeness that feels candid and human through her public persona. Her first solo album, Ruby (named after her full stage name, Jennie Ruby Jane), gives sonic references to the multi-layered images and a […]
JENNIE’s “Like JENNIE” Ranked 4th on NME’s List of the Best K-Pop Songs of 2025
It may be brazenly braggadocious to centre an entire song around your own name, but if anyone can pull it off, it’s Jennie. On ‘Like Jennie’, a raucous masterclass in girlbossing, the BLACKPINK singer marks her spectacular emergence as a solo star. The production meshes Brazilian funk’s relentless drive with metallic thrums of kinetic energy, […]
RollingStone Ranks JENNIE’s “RUBY” as the 29th Best Album of 2025
The latest in this year’s series of solo projects from Blackpink’s four members, the quick-moving Ruby leans heavily into the ideas that dominated R&B-leaning pop in the 2000s and ’10s, sometimes updating them in intriguing fashion. If there’s any artist whose specter hangs over the album, it’s Rihanna. Not only does Jennie have an impressive […]
