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Jennie Kim at Cannes Film Festival 2023

Jennie Kim (also known mononymously as Jennie, also credited as Jennie Ruby Jane) is a South Korean singer, rapper, and actress. She is a member of BLACKPINK, one of the 21st century's most successful K-Pop groups. Kim made her debut as a solo artist in 2018 as well, through a song aptly titled "Solo." Her first acting gig was pretty splashy, a significant role in Sam Levinson's The Idol starring Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd.

Kim is a global ambassador for Chanel, and is widely nicknamed "Human Chanel" due to her associations with the fashion house. She is the first Korean to model for the French luxury brand Boucheron and the most followed Korean on Instagram (at this time of writing).

Kim is fluent in Korean and English. She briefly lived in New Zealand.

Her first solo full album, Ruby, was released on March 7, 2025.

Discography

For her discography with BLACKPINK, check out the group's page.

Studio Albums

• Ruby (2025)

Singles / Music Videos

Filmography

• The Idol as Dyanne (credited as Jennie Ruby Jane)

I'm troping solo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo:

• Album Closure: Ruby ends with "Twin", an acoustic ballad.
• Album Intro Track: "Intro: Jane" for Ruby.
• Boastful Rap: Many of her songs will feature at least one of these.
• Break-Up Song: "Solo" is of the "I'm breaking up with you" variant.

  "Used to be your girl
  Now I'm used to being the GOAT
  You're sittin' on your feelings
  I'm sittin' on my throne
  I ain't got no time for the troubles in your eyes
  This time I'm only lookin' at me, myself and I
  (I'm goin' solo)
  I'ma do it on my own now
  Now that you're alone, got you lookin' for a clone now
  (So low) That's how I'm gettin' down
  Destined for this and the crown
  Sing it loud like"

• Call-Forward: "You & Me" was released after "How You Like That" but recorded before while also containing "Look at you, now look at me."
• Concept Video: "Love Hangover" has Jennie in a series of disastrous dates that become fatal.
• Even the Girls Want Her: In "Mantra," she sings that she's so pretty that she can "make you wanna go both ways."
• Female Empowerment Song: "Mantra" has shades of this. One of the rules of being a pretty girl, according to the song, is to defend other girls.
• Genre Roulette: The first half of Ruby juggles pop, R&B, and hip-hop. The second half is mostly more consistently R&B, but it still has the percussion-heavy "Zen" and the acoustic ballad "Twin".
• Homage: The opening scene of "Mantra," with the little girl in the car singing Jennie's new track, references Rush Hour.
• Hotter and Sexier: Although BLACKPINK was already one of the most fanservice-y girl groups, Jennie's solo work takes it up a notch, most notably when she undresses herself at the laundromat in the "Solo" MV.
• No Ending: "Mantra" ends abruptly with "pretty-".
• Starts with Their Funeral: The "Love Hangover" video starts at Jennie's funeral with her starting singing from her coffin. We then see a string of disastrous dates, the last of which has her being carried away by a balloon and struck by lightning, leading directly to the funeral.
• They Killed Kenny Again: The "Love Hangover" video has Jennie's multiple dates with Charles result in her getting into fatal mishaps, played for Black Comedy.
• A Wild Rapper Appears!: Dominic Fike has a brief rap interlude in the middle of "Love Hangover". She doesn't rap on this song despite her being one of the rappers in Blackpink.

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