Blackpink’s Jennie and G-Dragon are a couple made in K-pop heaven, but how far back does their reported romance really go?
- Korean news portal Dispatch reported that Blackpink’s Jennie has been secretly visiting the BigBang member’s luxury Seoul penthouse
- The K-pop idols played a couple back in G-Dragon’s 2012 That XX music video and today they are both Chanel global ambassadors – so who made the first move?
While YG Entertainment – the agency behind both groups – have made it clear that they will not comment on their artists’ private lives, there’s plenty of potentially romantic history to look back on. The pair’s close relationship is widely known, with Jennie and G-Dragon first collaborating back in 2012 when Jennie was still a trainee – a whole four years before BP’s debut.
So when exactly did business turn into pleasure? Here’s our timeline of the YG agency-mates’ public appearances together to date. You’ll have to guess the rest.
Jennie’s breakout turn in G-Dragon’s That XX music video
Behind the scenes footage also shows the two smiling together and getting along rather well. With Jennie still a 20-year-old trainee at the time, we see her quite shy in front of camera, letting GD, eight years her senior, take on the mentor role. “The cameras will follow you everywhere at anytime. You’ll have to get used to it,” he tells her sagely.
Back for more – and on the mic – with Black
Just a year later, as if to prove their chemistry once again, Jennie again featured in a G-Dragon track, this time looking sultry in the Black MV, part of the “Coup d’etat” album. But this time Jennie did more than act; she supplied the track’s main female vocals, her soulful voice playing alongside G-Dragon’s powerful rapping, billed pre-Blackpink at the time as “Jennie Kim”.