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-Welcome back. Thanks for being
a guest on the show.
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And talking to me at this time.
-Oh, my gosh.
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Thank you for having me.
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I feel I'm dreaming right now.
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-Oh, my God,
what are you talking about?
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Well, I mean, your album's out.
Are you excited about this?
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-I'm super excited.
-It's finally out. Yeah.
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Do I call you Rosé
or do I call you Rosie?
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-Whatever is comfortable.
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My friends and family
call me Rosie.
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And I've made this a rule
where if you know,
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like, 80% of my the lyrics
on my album,
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then you can call me Rosie.
-All right, perfect.
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I'll call you Rosie.
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-Yeah?
-Yeah. Of course.
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When you were a kid,
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did you ever dream that you'd be
this big of a star?
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-Ahh. Mm...
-I mean, you're big. You're big.
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I mean, I'll go into
the numbers, but yeah.
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I mean,
you're going at this dream.
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Did you realize it could be --
you're international?
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-Yeah. Well, no.
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I mean,
I don't even know what to say.
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Well, I actually I grew up
in Australia,
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and so it always felt like
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it wasn't really
much of a possibility
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for me to, like, be a singer,
so I never really dreamed of it.
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But I do remember,
like, singing, um,
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until like midnight every day.
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And my dad eventually
just kind of,
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like, sent me to an audition
because he kind of, I think,
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wanted to kick me out.
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-He could hear you
in your bedroom just singing?
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-No, just like
in the living room.
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-Oh, in the living room.
-I just, like, sing till, like
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midnight and, like, fall asleep,
like, on the piano.
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-No way.
So you had it in you.
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-Just like it was a form
of entertainment
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because it was really boring.
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Australia is really quiet.
-Oh, my God.
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[ Laughter ]
-It's like...
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-But then when did you --
-Not much to do.
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-When did you learn guitar?
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-Around the same time.
-You did?
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-Yeah. YouTube was kind of like
hitting off back then.
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And like, all these YouTubers,
like, online,
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it looked really cool.
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And so I was like,
I want to be like them
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and just, like, picked it up.
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-Really?
-Yeah.
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-Do you remember
your first guitar?
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It was a blue.
It was $70.
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My dad bought it for me.
-Yeah.
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-And I remember it was
like it was a cheap one.
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So like,
my fingers hurt so much.
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And then --
-That's how you learn.
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That's how you learn.
-Yeah.
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But I was, like, crying
because it was,
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like, really cheap and, like,
my fingers were really hurting.
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And so, like, I got together
all of my pocket money
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that I had saved
up my whole life --
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I was probably like 14 by then.
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And I got, like --
I still have it.
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It's like still
my favorite guitar.
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It's a Taylor GS Mini.
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And, so, yeah.
[ Chuckles ]
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-And so you take that guitar
and that's
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how you audition for Blackpink?
-Yes.
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-Do you remember the song
you played?
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-Yes I do, it's uh, uh...
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it was around the time
Jason Mraz
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had released a song called
"I Won't Give Up,"
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and I just learnt it.
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So I was like, I did it.
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-Did you realize
right there at the audition,
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you go, "I got this"?
-Not at all, not at all.
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I walked in, like, I thought
it was a joke.
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I was like, "This is funny.
I'm not gonna get it at all."
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And so --
And like, my dad and I
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had flown all the way from
Melbourne to Sydney
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for the audition,
so I was just like,
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"I might as well
make some good memories."
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And so I kind of went,
"Hi." [ Chuckles ]
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-And just --
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-I did it and I was like, "Bye."
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-Yeah. And then cut to --
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-They called me and I'm like,
"What's happening?"
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-You're gonna be in one
of the biggest groups ever.
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And now here you are with your
first full-length solo album.
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Congratulations.
[ Cheers and applause ]
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-Did you always know that
you wanted to call it "Rosie"?
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-Uh, no, actually.
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There was, like, a big debate.
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I have a song called
"number one girl,"
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so that was initially,
like, the rough idea.
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Like, maybe we'll call it
"number one girl,"
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but then, um...
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So, like, Bruno actually, uh,
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tried really hard
to convince me, he was like --
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Because "Rosie" was one
of the options, and he's like,
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"It has to be Rosie.
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Because your friends and family
call you Rosie."
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-He's brilliant -- Bruno Mars.
-Yeah.
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Yeah, he's been
a great mentor and friend.
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-Yeah, we love him.
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You also produced this
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but also wrote every song
on this.
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How do you land on a lyric
or a song title?
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Does that one lyric come to you
first or the title come first?
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-Uh,
I think stories come first.
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Just like, uh, we would just
chit chat and like --
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-Do you write them down
or record them on your phone
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or something?
-I will, I jot down
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like a bunch of ideas
and sometimes I, like, text
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my, um, like, songwriter friends
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and so, like,
it's just like phrases and words
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that kind of pop up
and just anything
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you want to write about
and like,
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kind of get off your chest.
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I think that's
how I usually do it.
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-Does it ever get confusing
if you're just
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sending someone just a title,
like,
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"Why don't you love me anymore?"
-Yeah. [ Laughs ]
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I've done that before.
No, I've done that before.
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I texted uh, uh,
Michael Pollack --
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he wrote a few songs
on my album --
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and I'd be like, for example,
I'd be like, "How dare you?"
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And he'd be like, "Excuse me?"
-[ Laughs ]
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"How dare you?"
-Yeah.
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We have to
write this next week.
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-We have to.
Let's talk about, uh,
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"APT,"
congratulations on this song.
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It's giant!
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The music video has...
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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Half a billion --
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Half a billion views.
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It's the number one
song on the Billboard Global 200
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for seven weeks now.
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It is a massive, massive hit.
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Can you explain where
the idea came from for "APT"?
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-Uh, yeah, APT is a Korean
drinking game that, um, I like.
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I kind of, uh, like, I remember
when I turned 20,
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my Blackpink, the girls,
in my group, they got,
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like, all the alcohol
we could get.
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We're like,
"We're gonna drink tonight."
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It was the day I turned 20,
um, legal age in Korea to drink.
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And, yeah, like,
that kind of started it.
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And we, like, played drinking
games and APT was one of them.
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-So, APT is a drinking game.
-It's a drinking game.
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-Uh, now, can you --
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I have a shot of something.
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-What is that?
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Is that vodka?
-I think this soju.
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-Soju.
-This is soju.
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Yeah.
-Oh, my God.
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-Can you teach me the --
-Yeah, sure.
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So just, uh --
-Apateu.
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-Apateu means apartment.
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So you're basically stacking
floors of the apartment.
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-Okay.
-And if it's your favorite game,
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then you will call out the
number, and we'll start, like,
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after the chant, we stack it,
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and then whoever lands
on that floor takes the shot.
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-Okay.
-It's very simple.
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-Now, I have to say that it's my
favorite game first?
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-Yeah, we'll say it like --
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It goes, "Jimmy's favorite game.
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Game start."
-Okay, ready.
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And then it goes
"Apateu, apateu, apateu, apateu,
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apateu, apateu,"
and then you do this
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-And then - Okay.
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Does everyone want to join
in the --
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-Yeah.
Yeah, we can do this.
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Everyone,
do you want to yell that part?
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-Do you think
I have to repeat it?
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You ready?
-Yeah, they'll sing it with us.
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-Jimmy's favorite game.
-Jimmy's favorite game.
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-Game start.
-Game start.
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Apateu, apateu,
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apateu, apateu,
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apateu, apateu.
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-Three.
-One.
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-That's you.
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Three!
[ Laughter ]
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-All right, here we go.
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Cheers to your new album,
"Rosie."
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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Rosé, everybody!
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Her new album, "Rosie,"
is out now.
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Rosé performs when we come back.
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Stick around, everybody!