In an interview with ELLE Magazine, the first BLACKPINK member to sign with YG Entertainment, Jennie, revealed her first impression of her fellow members.
Jennie mentions in the interview that she was the first member of the team to join the company as a trainee, so she "got to watch everybody come in." She was first introduced to K-pop while residing in New Zealand as a student, and though her mother planned to move her to the United States in Florida at the age of fourteen to continue her studies, her family supported her dream to pursue music and moved back to South Korea in 2010.
That same year, she auditioned for the company by singing Rihanna's "Take a Bow". Obviously, she passed!
"We all lived together since the beginning," Jennie revealed. "After our training time was over, we would go home together and order food, talk about how scary the trainers were, how the word was too much. And just like how kids at school become friends, we just got along. It was very easy - we did not really have to try."
