Rosé is heading into the 68th Grammy Awards with three nominations for her inescapable collab with Bruno Mars, “Apt.” The song is nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year — making her the first K-pop artist to garner a nod for one of the Big Four categories as a solo act.
As the big day approaches, Rosé sat down with Alex Cooper of Call Her Daddy for a special episode titled “Alex Cooper Presents: A Grammy’s Special,” which arrives tomorrow. They discuss her remarkable career while visiting a cafe in Seoul, enjoying a traditional Pocha lunch, a karaoke stall, a lounge in Tokyo, and Rosé’s recording studio-turned-podcast set.
In an exclusive Rolling Stone clip from the upcoming CHD episode with the Blackpink star, Cooper asks the question that’s on every fan’s mind: “Do you think you would ever tour solo?”
After acknowledging that it’s been a “big subject” and both she and her fans are itching for her to be on tour, Rosé says that she wants to be able to present crowds with a “solid world” first but didn’t want to “feel rushed.” The singer explains that her first solo album, Rosie, was a “learning curve” and she needed time to “really learn about” the LP.
“I feel like to create a whole world onstage, I need more time to build on that with extra songs as well, because right now we have, what 12?” she continues. “And I don’t feel ready to create a whole body of work for everyone yet.”
Still, Rosé hints that “it’s slowly gonna kind of come closer once I feel like my second album or more music comes out.” Addressing fans, she adds, “I just want everyone to be patient because I feel like once I do start, I feel like I’d love it so much that I would want to do it for so long. So I don’t want to ruin that experience.”
This year’s Grammy Awards will be hosted by Trevor Noah and held on Sunday, Feb. 1, broadcasting live on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Rolling Stone has predicted that Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.,” a track based on a Korean drinking game, will take home Record of the Year, calling it a “collaboration that was impossible to forget.”
