Blackpink take over James Corden’s ‘Carpool Karaoke’ ahead of second Coachella appearance, talk K-pop and rock out to Spice Girls

While driving through the streets of Los Angeles, Rosé, Jennie, Lisa and Jisoo reflected on their early careers and jammed to songs by TLC and the Spice Girls

The quartet became the first K-pop act and girl group to headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival and will return for the festival’s second weekend

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Blackpink at the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Centre in New Jersey. The quartet took over James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke” to talk about their early careers and to rock out to the Spice Girls. Photo: TNS

Published: 1:46pm, 20 Apr 2023

After making history at annual music festival Coachella and announcing a show in Los Angeles in California, Blackpink continued their US takeover this week by appearing on the latest edition of James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke”.

While driving through the streets of Los Angeles, K-pop idols Rosé, Jennie, Lisa and Jisoo reflected on their early careers and jammed to hit songs by girl groups including TLC, the Spice Girls and, of course, Blackpink.

After belting “Pink Venom” – the lead single of their second album, Born Pink, and their opening number at Coachella – the women of Blackpink described to Corden the intensive training they underwent to become K-pop stars. During the training programme, they took singing, dancing and language classes – starting at 11am and running as late as 2am the next day.

“Even on weekends,” Rosé said. “We would get one day off every fortnight on a Sunday.”

Rosé added that when she left her home country of Australia at 16 to start K-pop training in South Korea, her childhood friends thought it “was so weird” and wondered where she was going.

“I couldn’t explain,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Just wait and see. I will show you.’”