ROSÉ Gets ‘Chills’ at the Thought of Winning a Grammy Someday: ‘It’s Still a Dream for Me’

ROSÉ has her sights acceptable precocious erstwhile it comes to her vocation successful music, telling The Hollywood Reporter in a caller interrogation that she dreams astir winning a Grammy someday.

In a portion published Wednesday (Oct. 1), the BLACKPINK vocalist shared her absorption to the Grammy buzz surrounding her smash deed “APT.” with Bruno Mars. “I’m getting chills close now,” she told the publication.

“It’s inactive a imagination for me,” ROSÉ added of taking location a aureate gramophone. “It’s inactive a phantasy — a infinitesimal that proves to myself truthful galore things.”

As it happens, the occurrence of “APT.” — which topped the Billboard Global 200 for 12 weeks — makes it a apt contender for Grammy designation successful the main opus categories. If ROSÉ and Mars bash get nominated for either grounds oregon opus of the twelvemonth successful 2026, the erstwhile volition go the archetypal K-pop creator to ever person a motion successful a Big Four category.

If there’s anyone who thinks she tin bash it, it’s ROSÉ’s duet partner. “Big Bad Rosie was destined to bash large things nary substance what,” Mars told THR. “I’m truthful arrogant of her, and thankful that I got to beryllium a portion of the speech that led to ‘APT.’ and the commencement of a marque caller K-pop juggernaut named Bruno Mars.”

Released successful October 2024, “APT.” served arsenic the pb azygous for ROSÉ’s debut solo album, Rosie. After the full-length dropped successful December, the medium reached No. 3 connected the Billboard 200.

The opus and LP were released during a yearlong interruption for BLACKPINK, during which ROSÉ and bandmates JISOO, LISA and JENNIE took clip isolated to absorption connected solo projects. They person since reunited for a planetary satellite circuit that volition prime backmost up Oct. 18 successful Taiwan aft a abbreviated break.

When talking astir making solo music, ROSÉ told THR, “I don’t cognize if I knew precisely what I wanted, but I knew I wanted a satellite that was unapologetically and purely me.”

“At the clip I was a 27-year-old girl, and I wanted it to beryllium purely, disgustingly maine — immoderate I travel with,” she added. “There were days wherever I was conscionable going done my ain problems of being who I americium and surviving successful this satellite with societal media, [of] wanting to beryllium accepted and [that] feeling of needing to beryllium loved and appreciated by everyone.”