Ruby was the final of the four blackpink solo projects to be released, and it was received very well by critics and the overall kpop community. It’s not a bad album, but after sitting with it for a while I really don’t think it’s anything special or particularly good. The lyrics are generic, the production feels like it’s trying to be artsy without saying much, her collaborations outshine her on every track…some of the songs are serious duds too. I don’t get the hype for with the IE, it’s so cringey to me. I think Ruby is getting way more praise than it deserves because Alter Ego and Rosie were both underwhelming. People had high expectations for Alter Ego, and it ended up being the worst solo project of the four. Rosie was just mid and got overshadowed by Apt, most people listened to it once when it came out and then forgot about it. Jisoo’s EP went under the radar, it was only four songs and well…it’s Jisoo, we all know she’s more focused on acting than singing. Ruby seems amazing in comparison, but the bar is just really low. It also helped that Alter Ego came out only the week before and was critically panned, and the pitchfork reviewer for Ruby had an axe to grind with Lisa stans for harassing him over his review of AE, which I definitely think contributed to Jennie’s high score. But if you take it out of that context, is Ruby really that strong of an album? I don’t think so. I think we’re glazing it just because the bar was significantly lowered by the time it came out. submitted by /u/etoilez [link] [comments]
Ruby isn’t that good, it just benefitted from Alter Ego and Rosie under-delivering
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