{"id":536958,"date":"2026-07-21T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/536958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:57:22","slug":"blackpinks-jennie-to-release-new-solo-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/536958\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACKPINK&#8217;s Jennie to release new solo single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9991cabc-9177-4058-8208-b1f67781ed48.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 560 \/ 332; width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"Jennie from K-pop girl group BLACKPINK \/ Courtesy of OA Entertainment\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jennie from K-pop girl group BLACKPINK \/ Courtesy of OA Entertainment<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Jennie of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will release a new solo single titled &#8220;Less than a Lover&#8221; this week, OA Entertainment said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Less than a Lover,&#8221; set for release at 1 p.m. Friday (local time), is a summer song featuring lo-fi guitar sounds and a vintage electric keyboard, layered with more subdued and mature vocals, according to her agency. The track marks a stylistic shift from Jennie&#8217;s previous performance-focused releases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Jennie participated in writing the lyrics and directing the music video while also contributing to the overall production process, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The singer has already unveiled the song at several major international music festivals, including the Governors Ball Music Festival 2026 in the United States, Denmark&#8217;s Roskilde Festival, Poland&#8217;s Open&#8217;er Festival and Spain&#8217;s Mad Cool Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Jennie is scheduled to continue performing at global festivals next month, including Lollapalooza Chicago in the U.S. and Summer Sonic 2026 in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennie from K-pop girl group BLACKPINK \/ Courtesy of OA Entertainment Jennie of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-536958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}