BLACKPINK’s very own LISA dropped a pair of singles today with “LALISA” and “MONEY,” marking her first time releasing solo material. The songs drop just under a year after BLACKPINK’s last group album, THE ALBUM, and a few months after her fellow group member ROSÉ shared her own solo project, R.
She raps primarily in Korean on “LALISA,” but delivers the second verse in English:
Baby, get the megaphone, put it on speaker
I said I can’t hear you, so you need to speak up
Put that sh-t on stereo, everyone else on very low
Protect it like a barrier, promise there’s nothing scarier
“I don’t write lyrics, but Teddy [Park] always asks me: ‘Do you have anything you want to deliver to the fans? What’s the vibe you want to do?’” she told Billboard. “I told him that in ‘Lalisa,’ I wanted to put some Thai vibes in it, and he actually put some Thai traditional music into the dance break. This is my first solo, and I want to represent that I’m Thai to all the fans around the world.”
“MONEY,” meanwhile, finds LISA flashing her cash:
I came here to drop some money, dropping all my money
Drop some money, all this bread so yummy, yeah
Twerking, twerking, when I buy the things I like
Dolla', dollas dropping on my ass tonight
“The number one thing is the confidence I learned throughout the whole process of preparing my solo,” she said to Billboard. “When I’m with the other members, we rely on each other a lot. There’s a lot of things I learned during my solo prep that include things like leadership – I have to make all these decisions on my own. I hope I can carry this back into the group when we promote together.”
Read all the lyrics to Lisa’s “LALISA” and “MONEY” on Genius now.
