Lisa at the 97th Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood. Gilbert Flores/Penske Media
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LISA is looking back at her past as she gets ready to move forward as a soloist. In a Vanity Fair cover story published Tuesday (June 23), the BLACKPINK member reminisced on meeting her bandmates back when they were trainees and revealed that she’s already started work on her next album.
An origin story that many BLINKs may know by heart, LISA was the second of the quartet to enroll in YG Entertainment’s training program. There, she met JENNIE, who showed her the ropes, after which JISOO came along. “We went out together, even though I can barely speak Korean and she can barely speak English,” LISA told the publication, “but we figured out how to have a conversation, a great conversation.”
But it was ROSÉ, who arrived roughly a year later, with whom LISA says she got particularly close in those days. Because they were the only ones whose family lived abroad, the White Lotus star says of ROSÉ, “We became like twin sisters.”
The foursome would go on to become one of the biggest girl groups in the world, charting four entires on the Billboard 200 — including 2022 No. 1 album Born Pink — and 11 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 to date. In 2025, LISA released her debut solo album, Alter Ego, and according to VF, she’s currently working on her sophomore solo effort in the U.S.
The publication didn’t have much more detail than that, other than the fact that LISA is in the “exploratory” recording phase and has the “loose” idea of her second LP supporting her upcoming Las Vegas residency. As announced in March, the performer will set up shop at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace for two weekends in November.
But while she’s now one of the most in-demand singers and dancers around, LISA’s mom originally had a different plan for her. “When I was little, my mom wanted me to be a kid actor, and she sent me to an acting school,” she told the publication, noting that she didn’t like it back then — even though she’s since made her screen debut in White Lotus and is considering other acting projects. “I feel like acting was always one of the things that I never [wanted to] try.”
See LISA on the cover of Vanity Fair below.
