"showcasing the range massively" EXACTLY! Kudos to the girls for showing their versatility.

timestamps: 1. pink venom (already heard it) - 0:45 2. shut down (already heard it again) - 1:58 3. typa girl - 4:26 4. yeah yeah yeah - 6:10 5. hard to love (solo by rosè) - 8:56 6. the happiest girl - 10:34 7. tally - 12:33 8. ready for love - 14:20

The versatility of Lisa and Jisoo in this album is chef's kiss. 🔥 ofc, Jennie and Rosé did amazing as well. This is a no skip fvckin amazing album.

The violin in Shut Down is a sampling of the violin in La Campanella by Paganini from the 1800's. Sounds so good with that beat.

They have been doing hip hop for the longest time now, this is a breath of fresh air you should check out their other songs like kill this love,pretty savage, playing with fire and more...

Jisoo improved so much in this comeback . She literally slayyed her vocals in this album . Can’t wait to hear them live .💖

LISA vocal on the happiest girl going viral, and Lisa's fast rap on Typa girl she ate🔥

Jon, as a blink I'll let you know the blackpink cult secret : it's impossible to have a top list. BP songs are all bops for a certain mood. enjoy the ride 🍹

fun fact, now that you mentioned Abel at 9:20 actually Jennie is Abel’s friend and she’s set to start in his next series, The Idol. funny thing is, both yeah x3 and hard to love definitely give me some “how do i make you love me”/“in the night” vibes

Tally hits hard for Jennie because she's been attacked NON STOP since debut for breathing. Was even attacked for dating. In case you didn't know, Jennie is the most loved and the most hated Kpop Idol in the world. It's insane. Tally saying "I do what I want with who I am" is so satisfying 🤌

I love Pink Venom but Shut Down is unquestionably a better track - one of their absolute best

Jisoo is incredible on happiest girl.

I love both pop and hip hop on the same level so for them to make this album more pop when their last album had more hip hop elements to it, was a cool difference. Plus even with their pop they can easily add attitude and grimy to it. One thing I also liked is that the format to a lot of these songs are not their typical format which is them all starting off the first verse, then a hip hop verse with Jennie or Lisa or both JenLisa with Jisoo and Rosé doing the vocals, and for the final verse it’s like a big dance party or the hook repeatedly. Not that I mind that format tho cus shit DDU-DU DDU-DU, Crazy Over You, As if it’s your Last still slaps for me but it’s a difference that I noticed in this album.

Shut down is better if we are comparing Shut Down with Pink Venom, but in this album THE HAPPIEST GIRL is the best song and I love it more because Lisa could showcase her beautiful voice. She always slays with her bars but in this album we heard her soft voice and the song is very sentimental. So in my opinion, THE HAPPIEST GIrl is the best track in that sense.

personally i love the more pop feel of this album, makes it stand out a bit more in their discography

I would have liked one or two more songs. The Rose solo was unexpected but i really don't care because the song is a masterpiece with Roses voice! This makes me feel happy because now that they introduced a solo song in the album, maybe means that after Jisoo solo debut, they will add more solo songs or duos in their future albums!

You were on point about their global appeal and authenticity! Check out their Netflix documentary if you'd like to know more about the girls and/or the kpop industry in general. Also, please check out Lalisa by Lisa!! She is incredibly talented and versatile. The fact that she can spit bars in Korean and English, none of which is her first language (she's Thai) is just amazing. Check it out pls!

Born Pink is the album of the year! Very versatile and unique throughout this whole album you get everything. They’re very talented, rapping, vocals and dancing they do it all! 11/10 it’s above and beyond for me. The Happiest Girl is probably my favorite cause it’s a very beautiful song with strong lyrics and their vocals are top tier very soothing to hear.

This is actually their most different album and I love it!

If you'd like some more hip hop song i would listen to their other albums. This one is more of a pop album.

Thank you for doing such a great reaction! I’ve been watching your videos since you reacted to Lana Del Rey (one of my favourite artists), and I’m so glad that I can share my emotions of listening different types of music with someone like you even through the screen😅. Thank you again. Wish you good luck and will be waiting for new videos.

A weeknd featured is a must indeed. Especially some of the songs are synth vibes. I love this album

I am just so happy that YG used Jisoo's potential in this album... She made the album lively... No hate to others always an OT4 But, Jisoo's vocals made me cry in happiest girl... Just literal goosebumps

Hard to love is EASILY the best track! I don’t listen to kpop usually but I cant deny that these are some bangers

I've been watching all of your reactions to blackpink ever since you discovered them, you seem so genuine and nice i enjoy your reactions a lot!! Thank you for supporting blackpink ❤ they are a great group and i'm so glad more and more people are recognizing their amazing skills and talent

Hard to Love is my fav in the album.❤️

love this album! tally is so good i’m surprised you weren’t feeling it! to me they gave really good hailey williams and taylor swift vibes on different parts of the album. both the rapping and ballad stuff isn’t corny either. really amazing production too!

I love your honest reactions! Thanks ❤️

My favourite one is hard to love. After listening shut down and pink venom I was thinking that an injustice was done to Rose.Fortunately They gave Rose what she deserved with the song "Hard To Love" P.s. I love all of them equally.

CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 400K AFTER THE PATREON VID!! keep going onward and upward. Always stay honest and fear no one's opinion on yours.

Tally is my fave song on this album, i dunno why, but it is my fave. speaks to me on a deep level. but it is okay that it is not your fave haha

The fact that you admit that something isn't your cup of tea lends more credence to the fact that you actually enjoy the rest, without pandering to us as fans. So that is actually really important. I'm not a big fan of Ready for Love, it feels like fat trimmings off the perfect BP steak.

amé tus reacciones a BLACKPINK! Acabo de suscribirme, espero muchas reacciones a las chicas en sus próximos proyectos, eres genial!

400K is indeed smashed, congrats! Have a good weekend man, celebrate!

yaaaay so quick was excited to see u react!!!

Congrats on 400k! 🎉

Man i popped in as soon as I saw the notif!!

Loved ur reaction as usual!!

Been waiting!!!👍🏻

It's a bit of a risk this album. Less of their signature style & perhaps a tad more conventional. But Rosé mentioned in Light Up The Sky how she missed her training days despite the grueling hours & harsh critiques because back then it was all about music & exploring all different types of music. As with actors I guess musicians can get typecasted. What brings you fame & success may not be the only type of creation you enjoy making. Fans & critics can enslave you to a particular style of music & music-making can lose all its joy & passion. It's smart of the girls to capitalise on their success so far to put out something that perhaps they always wanted to explore, but the management company were reluctant to release for fear of disappointing fans & critics. Reception for the next album may be affected by this shift in direction. But I respect & support their right to make music that they enjoy making. As a long time Blink I will support them whichever direction they want to explore despite being mostly a hiphop fan myself. I have faith they'll execute well. It's not like I haven't listened to & enjoyed other genres before. So I'm keeping my mind open & curious about what these 4 want to try next. I'm a Blink not just because of the music, but because of these 4's personalities & friendship. I want to know more about them as individuals. To me they're not just music commodities to be left by the wayside when the next flavour of the month comes around.

omg a remix with the weeknd would be the bomb, I agreeeeeeee

Hope you can also react to their 1st full album titled the album. All their music are just sooo gooood.

Hard to love is a Rose solo song

It’s funny that you mention The Weeknd Jennie is going to appear in The Idol

English is Lisa third language. Her native is thai and she learnt korean when she moved to korea at age of 14 to be a kpop idol

best and the most honest reactor! Thank you for doing Blackpink again

I feel this is a more complete album than the first, but i think one more HipHop like track could been nice.

Shut Down hands down best Single for me, because Classical x HipHop x K-Pop just blend in and build up to Mysterious vibe and Femme Fatale, and thru the song i'm not mad for the end of song of Shut Down, Teddy just took the route not every song must drop freestyle dance. Typa Girl, The Happiest Girl, Shut Down, Tally and Pink Venom my fav.

I like both. It's just that it's very apparent who was leading the production for the songs. Teddy is the main producer for BP albums, however, since R.Tee came in, his influence just changed how BP sound. He's the same guy who made simpler beats to Kill this Love and PV's chorus drop, to which fans called lazy. And now this album is generally simpler and laid back. I do believe this is R.Tee's strong influence in the production. And I'm loving it. I like cleaner songs than the usual kpop sounds. Also, I'm older, by age and in kpop.

Honestly .... the only bad thing about Blackpink album is it ends.

i feel like blinks can appreciate this album more cuz i know many blinks were complaining about all of their songs being so similar & this album gave us something else

Great reaction. You have to readjust expectations when it comes to Blackpink. They have had Comebacks with a single song. They had something like 9 songs in their first 4 years after debuting. This is 4 years of material in Blackpink terms.

absolutely love your reactions! if you're interested in getting into more kpop i'd really recommend Stray Kids, they more of a rap group with pop elements! a good few songs to start with would be their most viewed ones like God's Menu, Back Door, Thunderous and Maniac :)

Now that you said something about the guitar in Tally, I think it sounds a little similar to the guitar sound in Every Breath You Take by The Police

Hard to love is my favorite song

That guitar tone in Truly sounds like a slowed down SOAD “Toxicity” and/or incomplete riff of Linkin Park’s “A Place for My Head”. I thought of those two immediately.

I love this whole album been a fan from the start! I love these girls so much! Side note Rina Sawayama just put out her new album.

The dancing in the end of ready for love 😂 and yeah we were mad when they announced 8 tracks, but that’s how they do, quality over quantity. Their previous album had more hip hop tracks. I recommend Pretty Savage (there are live performances worth watching), Love to hate me and Crazy over you. Oh and btw the song yeah yeah yeah (80’s sound) was written by one of the members Jisoo, if you liked that, maybe you’ll also enjoy other song she wrote for their last album, Lovesick Girls… there’s this 80’ sound and the lyrics is interesting, approaches love in a different perspective. And there’s a music video for that too.

Congrats on the 400K . Thank the Blinks

CONGRATS ON 400K yayy

fun fact: Hard to love was only Rosé and she killed it

I think the reason YG had some copyright issues with your video this time is because there were so many leaks for this album so they had to crack down on the copyright ©️

Your inputs are interesting! 🖤❤️

you have a really great video editor!

You have the best reaction ever

I think the song you're referring to in Tally is "Toxicity" by System of a Down.

good reaction, also RINA SAWAYAMA released her second album Hold the Girl, will you react to it?

Ready to Love (one of my favourites) and Hard to Love are such great songs and Rosé delivers a sublime vocal performance especially in the latter track, but both songs don’t belong in Born Pink album. As it is the album already feels incomplete, but Ready to love makes it lyrically and musically an even stranger way to end the album. Hard to Love is lyrically completely Rosé, not Blackpink. It fits the lyrical themes of her previous solo work better; like a continuation. Doesn’t fit Blackpink at all because the other Pinks aren’t the sort to be hyper critical of themselves, at least not in their music. Weird that it was included in a Blackpink album instead of giving Rosé another solo album. If she has ready songs, just release the 2nd solo album already. Hard to Love could be a no. 1 solo record for her. I still do love the mini album and give it a solid 8 or 8.5/10

Rose and Jisoo wrote YEAH YEAH YEAH

I agree, I felt one more hype/hip hop track would have balanced it out well - but I’m also biased because that is my favourite style of music.

This album is just so freaking good.

I liked the fact that this album is more pop than hip hop, I mean in a pop song how hip hop can you get more than shut down and pink venom, so they gave us that.. but the rest of the album was different from what bp mostly put out so I was so happy of their choice of these songs this time even tho I appreciate the hard hitting hip hop songs more.. if you want more hip hop there is their other album for that "the album" so you can check it out

please react to their debut ep square one ,whistle and boombayah are their best songs,and don’t forget the single as if it’s your last.

you should check Ateez - Guerrilla! Also their whole album is crazy good! They are the kings of live performances in Kpop!!

Their older stuff is more hip hop and EDM like oriented. Stuff like bombayah and whistle

Hello love your reaction ! the happiest girl is my fav off the album Are you open to react to other groups ? I would love to see you react to NCT 127 - 2 Baddies !!

Ready for Love with the MV hits different 🥺 please react with the MV, also Ice Cream and Lovesick Girls and Kill this Love 🙏

i agree with u about being short and to the point. The album did just that but this does not justify them only having few new songs and not totaling up to at least 10 tracks to call it an album after a two year hiatus. That’s ridiculous. I know 3 min song meta days are slowly phasing out..but some songs on this album could’ve been longer than 2 min and some change. The only disappointment we as casual listeners/fans feel is once again.. the actual content of the album. I think we all fear their upcoming dungeon days after the world tour. They need to negotiate better terms once their contract is up next year or just fuck it and leave and go on about your life. Some of us dealt with this shit since Gummy, lexi, big mama, bigbang, and 2ne1.

Yeah yeah yeah is really taking me to another level🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Enjoyed the vibing 😂 this is my favourite album of theirs. I love that Lisa got more vocal lines and Jenny got more rap and Jisoo has improved her English pronunciation and her and Rose's vocals have levelled up like crazy, didn't think it was possible, but they slayed this comeback! Since you love the hip hop side of things, I'd love to see your reaction to Stray Kids! Not necessarily hip hop but the group officially has some of the best rappers in kpop. I'd recommend starting with: God's Menu, Thunderous, Easy, Miroh, Tortoise and the Hare, Domino, Freeze, Venom. I'm sure you will not regret checking them out!

Try reacting to Somi's (a soloist) Dumb Dumb or XOXO, some of her production team also work with BLACKPINK

Hope you do others kpop groups too, there's a lot of girlgroups and boygroups!!!

hi jon, were you able to watch BLACKPINK in BST hyde park? THANK YOU.

PLEASE REACT TO THE NEW $B ALBUM Ik you probably haven't listened to much of their work in awhile but the new album they put out is next level and I feel you would extremely enjoy as much as us g59 fans do, keep up w the good work 🔥💯💯

Hi can you react to an album of PNB Rock? Going Thru The Motions or Catch These Vibes?

LISa's rap in Typa girl🔥

TYPA GIRL & TALLY ARE THE BEST SONGS IN ALBUM🔥🔥

hey for tally, i was actually reminded by one of my favourite songs SECRETS by onerepublic

Honest and nice reaction, I liked it. If you like hip hop tracks but also you are keen on listening to artists with a big musical range, I recommend BTS. An additional layer to BTS artistry is that their albums are linked and many topics they are covering in their songs are linked to modern society problems and literature tropes. Analyzing lyrics would be crucial to understand the group's message so I recommend you to do this while listening to the songs.

I think Pink Venom is superior to Shut Down in regards to the production and mix of styles but compared to all the BP discography is the same formula that's why I prefer Shut Down, but I love the entire album.

I come back here just to say they got #1 Album in the UK omg

when are you reacting to me quedo contigo by rosalia, i know you love rosalia😁

There are always lyric videos with full translations

John would you officially consider yourself a BLINK? 🤔🖤💗

U should react to “talk about me” video by denzel curry, Jid and kid cudi imo on of the song of the years so far

My faves have to be hard to love and typa girl

All killer no filler, agreed!

Im enjoying watching your that time then suddenly the video got deleted😭😂

what an album

TYSM for this reaction !!!