Okay-pop star Rosé and Bruno Mars will carry out stay their viral megahit APT. for the primary time right this moment at an award ceremony in Japan’s Osaka, the occasion organiser mentioned. The artists’ catchy collaboration — impressed by a South Korean ingesting recreation — was launched final month and its music video has been considered practically 400 million occasions on YouTube. Its rhythmic chant of “apateu”, that means house in Korean, and electro-pop refrain has introduced world chart success and unleashed a social media dance craze, with the observe ranked among the many hottest on TikTok in current weeks.
South Korean TV music channel Mnet introduced on its web site that the artists will give the “world’s first efficiency” of APT. right this moment on the MAMA Awards in Japan. The annual occasion, the Mnet Asian Music Awards, is a prime ceremony for the Okay-pop cultural phenomenon. It has been held in numerous international locations over time, and the 2024 present is break up between one night time in Los Angeles and two nights within the western Japanese metropolis of Osaka.
Rosé, 27, is a member of the ultra-popular Blackpink — the primary Okay-pop lady group to succeed in the highest of the US Billboard 200 and the primary Asian artists to headline Coachella. She started working with US singer Bruno Mars after signing a solo take care of Atlantic Data, which can also be Mars’s label, based on an interview with youth tradition journal i-D.
“I knew individuals would wish to dance to it, however I simply did not know that everybody would soar on it so rapidly after the discharge, as a result of we teased it so last-minute,” Rosé informed i-D.
Some South Korean college students have been even avoiding APT. forward of a vital college entrance examination final week, saying the music was simply too catchy and distracting. Rosé, whose actual title is Roseanne Park, was born in New Zealand to a South Korean household and grew up in Australia earlier than coaching as a Okay-pop idol.
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