Member of Korean girl group BLACKPINK, Rosé made a quick rise to the top of the charts with the K-pop quartet. Ahead of the group’s first studio album [THE ALBUM], they dropped two pre-release singles; the record-smashing hit [How You Like That] in June 2020 and [Ice Cream (with Selena Gomez)] in August 2020, which debuted at No.13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Along with this immense worldwide recognition, [THE ALBUM] released in October 2020 surpassed 1 million pre-orders, the first K-Pop girl group to reach this milestone.

In March 2021, Rosé released her first single album ‘R’, achieving the highest pre-order sales in a day amongst Korean solo artists. With her highly anticipated debut as a solo artist, she hopes to share the heartfelt message that resonated with her from her songs, On The Ground’ and ‘Gone’.

Sometimes, Mitski feels life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what’s truly hers, what can’t be repossessed or demolished, she sees love. “The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” she says. “I wish I could leave behind all the love I have after I die, so I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I’ve created onto other people.” She hopes her newest album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, will shine love long after she’s gone. That’s precisely how it feels: like a love that’s haunting the land.

“This is my most American album,” she says. The music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country, in all of its private sorrows and painful contradictions. Sonically Mitski’s most epic and wise album, the songs introduce wounds and then actively heal them. Here, love is time-traveling to bless our tender days, like light from a distant star.

It's full of the ache of the grown-up, seemingly mundane heartbreaks and joys that are often unsung but feel enormous. It’s a tiny epic. From the bottom of a glass, to a driveway slushy with memory and snow, to a freight train barreling through the Midwest, and all the way to the moon, it feels like everything and everyone is crying out in pain, arching towards love. Love is that inhospitable land, beckoning and then rejecting us. To love this place, this earth, this America, this body takes work. It might be impossible. The best things are.

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