Rosé Shares the Drinking Game Origin Behind Hit 'APT.'

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There it is. Look at that timing. The song just
wrapped up and Rose zooms right in. I mean we're coordinated. Hi,
how are you? Nice to meet you? Hi?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Everyone loving to mean you.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
So I'm Ryan. That's Sisini there Be in the chorl
and Tommy mcdenham. Hi, Rose, Hi, love to meet you all.
This is one of those great moments I live for
over the years where we get to meet an artist
for the first time and you just get to see
what they're about, and you know that they're on this
trajectory to be, you know, an incredible artist with staying power,

(00:36):
and these we get excited for these moments to get
to know somebody new. You look back at all the
different artists. I've been doing this for too long, but
you know, people were not even born when I started it,
came on the show and became big artists. So congratulations Rose,
good to have you. Thank you. What is if you
were in our position playing your song? What would you

(00:58):
call it? The hit song? Right now? I don't want
to say what it is because I want to hear what
you call it. This is all right, so it stops
slagging with the apt sic. Hi, Oh my gosh, I
am the one that told you to pronounce it, but
was so tell us the origin story of upatah uh.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah. So I was in and out of the studio
I would say a bit over a year ago, and
we were we were like very exhausted after a full
day session, and I was like, how about I teach
you guys some Korean drinking games. And I taught them
my favorite one, which is up, and I taught them
a few other ones. But then they were they seemed

(01:49):
really excited over this one chant, which was puts up,
put up, but they kept doing it all night, like
this is interesting. Everyone's really liking it. So I, for
a joke, was like we should make a song out
of it, And the next day we ended up writing up.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
So that seems relatively quickly and obviously organic, but that's
like at that's a fast process. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
It was quite great. I was I was determined to
write it that night, but it was a bit too late.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
It was. Yeah, it was like one drinking drink.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
We weren't drinking. We were doing it over like just
coke zero. Yeah, we're like take the shot and we're like,
oh damn, I have to think this coke next question, how.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Did you team up with Bruno Mars?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
So, yeah, I had that song, so like over a
year ago. We had the song and then like I
kind of freaked out after I wrote it because I
had no other Korean friends are out in the session
with me, so I told everyone to delete it off
their phones, and we kind of forgot it for about
a year. And then by the time I signed with
the label and we were trying to we're tracking back
with all the songs, a lot of people were giving

(03:06):
good feedback about up to It, and everyone was like
seemed to really like it. So I was like, oh, okay,
this is obviously doing something. And then I signed with
Atlantic and I found out that Bruno was part of
the label, and I had just become a fan of
him like a year year before as well. He had
performed in Korea and I was like the biggest fan,

(03:27):
and so I told the label and then I asked
if he would if if they thought he would jump
on a song with me, and then he asked for
us to pitch three songs, and Upa it was one
of them, which I was very positive about. I was like,
it has to be up to it, and then he
was like, what what what is this song? What does
it mean? I was like, it's a drinking game. He's like,

(03:48):
I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
In that moment, you could have told him anything. Yeah,
it was about anything, and he wouldn't have known. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, I mean that's the only thing I could say.
He's like, what does apt mean? It means apartment, but
it's actually it means apartment.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, it means apartment in Korean, so it's like it's apartment.
And then we're kind of linked it up with meet
me at the let's tennis up into a club.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
I mean even in English it means apartment. Yeah. Oh yeah,
my first language, and I didn't even connect that myself,
focusing so much on the Korean. Yeah, it means it
means apartment. So what can you tell us about your

(04:41):
album coming up? Is there something very exciting terms of
like a track or two that you're really excited about.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
I'm excited about the whole album because I feel like
they're all my my babies and uh as in like
every song that was selected to be part of the
album is it's all songs that kind of speak to me,
and there's songs that have that I've really healed through

(05:08):
Othery're just small like stories that I've had kind of
being growing up in my twenties, and so like they
all kind of mean something to be so I'm excited
for every single one of them.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Actually, Rose is with us the album Rosie. It's out
tonight and you can actually listen to Rose guest host
the American Top forty Countdowns. You're gonna fill in for me.
I'm very excited that you're doing that. Thank you for
saying yes. I don't even know if you know you
are doing that yet, but thank you.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Thank you so much for allowing me to.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Counting down the biggest songs in the USA. And of
course everybody very excited to hear that. So eighteen forty
you can hear Rose doing it. So nice to meet you.
We look forward to you being nearby where we can
see you in person, and super excited for all the
success you're having and we'll continue to have.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Thank you so much. I'm a huge fan by the way,
I've literally grew up dreaming to be an artist and
I've watched this radio so much, so I'm really excited
to be on it.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
So thank you so much. Thank you well, we wait.
We wait for you to arrive nearby soon. Thanks for
coming to see.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Bye, bye bye everyone.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
So now we know how to say it. I go bab.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Now, SE's like crazy, You go this me At puts
it up.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
She said. The right way to say is which is
what she says. You may hear U s a p
t upita because I might forget you sing it like.
In order to say it right, I have to sing
it all right. That was Rose the Rosie tonight. Very
exciting coming out next to those jingle ball tickets for

(06:52):
you