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Diplo collaborated with BLACKPINK on their newest single, “JUMP,” and the producer shares how quickly the song came together, why he wanted to work with the sensational group, the stage presence the girls emulate and more!

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00:00They like literally, if you listen to some old Blackpink or old BTS or old ATEEZ,

00:04they're gonna put six genres in a song.

00:10I saw them live at SoFi, I'm like, man, their chemistry is so good on stage, too,

00:14because it feels like they're grown up, they've been together for nine years,

00:17and I saw them afterwards, and they were like, oh, we were like, this is messed up,

00:20and I was like, that's what makes your show so perfect.

00:23I don't know who else could carry a song that's that audacious besides Blackpink, you know?

00:34I think music should go back to, like, let's shock people,

00:37and I think that song does that, that's why it's kind of got a reaction like it has.

00:46What's their audience? It's very young people.

00:48And young people, like, they want to fucking hear something that's, like, theirs,

00:51and it feels, like, crazy and exciting and new and, you know,

00:58they want to jump up and rave.

01:04The music is a drug, you know, you want to, like,

01:06ooh, this is a rush, this is new, this is exciting.

01:09So, I mean, there's that difference, and it makes you move,

01:12it makes your body move, you know, you have to,

01:15I think they showed that in the video in their own way, like,

01:18this is, like, infectious, this beat, this is, this is, you know,

01:22we're infecting the, the whole, our crowd.

01:25Like, we're like, God, Jesus.

01:27One of them FaceTimed me from the studio,

01:29because I didn't know what was going on.

01:30I had done the song, and then I had, like, a demo.

01:34They sent me with, um, some scratch on it,

01:36and then Ginny, like, FaceTimed me, but it was Korea,

01:39so I couldn't, I was, like, on Bulgaria, I don't know where I was,

01:41and I was like, what? Why she calling me?

01:44And I realized that was because of the song,

01:45and I, we talked a little bit, but I couldn't hear her,

01:47and then I didn't hear it again until they finished cutting it,

01:50and then they sent me all the files, and I worked on it.

01:52But it, it can't, it happened so quickly.

01:54Probably heard the record in, in May, beginning of May,

01:57and then fully finished the video on July 11th.

02:00Like, two and a half months, which is insane for a Korean record,

02:04because they need so much to lead up.

02:06But I think Blackpink is, you know, maybe one of the biggest acts of,

02:11for sure, right now.

02:13Maybe all time, as far as, like, reach,

02:15and, and people following them in whatever journey they want to go to.

02:19So, I think, uh,

02:21so it does take a lot of time to mobilize,

02:23but they also were on, on solo records.

02:25They did Coachella just, like, two months ago.

02:27They're, some of them are still touring a little bit,

02:29and acting, and so it was very,

02:32they had to, kind of, run it really quick.

02:35And I think, um, I was just in the right place at the right time

02:38to help them do it.

02:39So, I got really lucky.

02:46They're like, we want to just do something that shocks people,

02:48and we don't care if it's different.

02:49I'm surprised it's, like, got so much radio play this week, actually,

02:52because it is a very hard, crazy song,

02:55but it has, like, a lot of bubble gum to it,

02:57because it's the girl, and they're so cute.

02:58Right.

02:59And if you watch the video, and you take the music away,

03:01you just might think they're doing, like,

03:03it could be, like, any kind of music.

03:04If you mute the song and watch the video,

03:06they're so fucking cute, and they're performing,

03:08and they're just, they're so awesome,

03:10and there's some of, like, the, I saw them live at SoFi.

03:13I'm like, man, their chemistry is so good on stage, too,

03:15because it feels like they're grown up.

03:17They've been together for nine years,

03:18and, and I saw them afterwards.

03:20They were like, oh, we were like, this is messed up.

03:22And I was, I was like, that's what makes your show so perfect,

03:24is that you guys are, like, grown up, and you can kind of, like,

03:26catch cues and be funny and be online and be on the camera

03:30and get, like, really cool clips.

03:36This song was actually started as a Major Lazer song.

03:39Like, it was a Major Lazer idea.

03:40Right.

03:41And I spent on it for a while.

03:42I never was like, it doesn't really make sense,

03:43and we couldn't find the right person to sing it or feature it,

03:46and I had this, like, it was just wild.

03:49And I remember being in the studio with Teddy and his team,

03:54and I played a bunch of stuff that I thought was interesting.

03:56And he's like, cool.

03:58And I was like, well, I was about to leave,

03:59and I pulled this song up.

04:00I was like, this is probably the courageous thing that I have

04:03that could maybe work.

04:05And then he was like, that's the perfect idea.

04:07Like, this is what we need to do, something this radical.

04:10My sole goal as a producer is to just destroy all genres if I can.

04:21Just, like, just kill them all and try to do everything

04:24and mix everything that people don't allow

04:26or push the limits of things and, like,

04:29do genres that I shouldn't be allowed to do

04:31and, you know, put out a dancehall record and a country record

04:34in the same two weeks.

04:35Like, whatever it is, that's been my whole, like,

04:37MO since I've started music and being kind of, like,

04:40the enemy for journalists and even audience

04:44who are confused all the time by what I release.

04:46But that's what K-pop is.

04:49They don't give a fuck.

04:50They, like, literally, if you listen to some old Blackpink,

04:52or old BTS, or old ATEEZ,

04:54they're gonna put six genres in a song.

04:56This isn't just, like, Psytrance or Techno.

05:01It goes into Drill and Jersey Club,

05:03and then I even, like, the fill is, like, from, like,

05:05a Brazilian, like, um,

05:08a genre called, um,

05:11from Bahia.

05:12Like, the fill I did is, like, took it from,

05:14there's, like, so much you can do there

05:15and it all sounds like the right song.

05:17And for your ears, but for me,

05:18I knew there was, like, five different genres

05:21that we put together in the song.

05:23And if you're really specific,

05:24even the outro is, like, a hard techno

05:26and, you know, the beginning drums,

05:28like, more kind of, like, Europop from the 90s

05:30with the guitar line and the whistle.

05:32So, that's one thing you can do with K-pop

05:36and I can't do that with anybody else.

05:37Blackpink in your area

05:39But there we are.

05:43You

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