BLACKPINK And Mickey Guyton Named In TIME’s People Of The Year 2022
The K-pop girl group and the rising country star both spoke to the publication about their last 12 months and their approach to their art
BLACKPINK and Mickey Guyton have been honored by TIME, both securing titles in its People Of The Year 2022 list.
The K-pop girl group, who released their second album BORN PINK in September, were named the 2022 Entertainer Of The Year by the publication.
“The foursome released its highly anticipated second studio album, Born Pink, in September, which notched a record as the best-selling album by a Korean girl group, with over 2 million album sales,” TIME’s Raisa Bruner said.
“It continues to dominate on YouTube, where BLACKPINK is the biggest musical act with over 83 million subscribers. You don’t accomplish all that by being like other pop groups. Most have a limited life span: they age out, flame out, or see one member rise above. But BLACKPINK has managed to become the biggest girl group in the world precisely by allowing its members to be solo stars in their own right. The group may be bigger than the sum of its parts, but each of its parts is bigger than most other pop groups’ combined efforts.”
Speaking to the magazine, rapper Jennie discussed the high expectations the group faces in the K-pop industry. “If we consider this in the business way, we wouldn’t be able to do this,” she said. “We do it out of our heart.”
Guyton, meanwhile, was named 2022’s Breakthrough Artist Of The Year, spurred on by her breaking down barriers for Black artists in the country scene.
“This year, the country singer Mickey Guyton represented America on its biggest stages, belting out the national anthem at the Super Bowl and hosting PBS’s July 4 celebration from the Capitol Lawn,” TIME’s Andrew Chow wrote. “She became the first Black nominee for Best Country Album at the Grammys in the award’s history.”
In an interview, Guyton recalled singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl, saying: “It was the most nervous I’ve ever been. I felt like I was about to give birth for the first time or walk down the aisle and get married to the wrong guy. To be honest, it’s really hard right now with what’s going on in this country. I wanted to be proud of singing the national anthem. So if you had noticed the choir, it was really important to show what I saw America as. We chose someone with a disability, a Black trans woman, an Asian man.”
The TIME Person Of The Year 2022 will be revealed on Wednesday (December 7).
Last week (December 1), BLACKPINK began teasing the release of B.P.M., a new behind-the-scenes YouTube series that will chronicle the making of BORN PINK. The first episode was released on Friday (December 2) and showed a glimpse of the filming for their “Pink Venom” music video.
BTSJeans
December 7, 2022 at 3:59 am
Lal*sa:
• Even after all the facial surgeries, doesn’t look any better, her overall face length is too short, her eyes look like filler has migrated into them, her nose still looks botched and she has low cheekbones.
• When she smiles the lines don’t show any high apples of cheeks but come down low into her jaw and chin. Her jawline got shaved too much, not strong, and looks like her face has grown into her neck. Her old more boyish and rough look is coming back again from excessive re-filling and dissolving and shaving the face. Also, get a load of that big pudgy forehead! The bangs are needed. 3.5/10
BTSJeans
December 7, 2022 at 4:01 am
J*nndog:
• Is the 2/10 femcel-looking bitch out of the 4, has the most boring and insipid face ever. Plain, the little nips and tucks couldn’t help.
• Face length is too short, shape is too round, eyes look lowkey swollen like they’ve been cut too much. Nose, the nostrils look like they’ve also been cut too much, different shape.
• Her cheekbone filler did make them higher than Lal*sa’s though, but chin is a little too inward sloping and jawline is so weak from the shaving it also seems like her face grew into her neck. The botox seems to have worked the most though, her more pedo stans like her because they think she looks like an overgrown babyface.
Lal*sa:
• Even after all the facial surgeries, doesn’t look any better, her overall face length is too short, her eyes look like filler has migrated into them, her nose still looks botched and she has low cheekbones.
• When she smiles the lines don’t show any high apples of cheeks but come down low into her jaw and chin. Her jawline got shaved too much, not strong, and looks like her face has grown into her neck. Her old more boyish and rough look is coming back again from excessive re-filling and dissolving and shaving the face. Also, get a load of that big pudgy forehead! The bangs are needed. 3.5/10
BTSJeans
December 7, 2022 at 4:01 am
R*sé:
• Has the longest face of them all, a cross between a rectangle and cresent-moon shape. Her features look draggy and weighed down with it. Long faces are one of the hardest to fix in surgery, cannot shave it very much length-wise.
• Her eyes have been cut too far in, you can see the red flesh at the inner corners and the outer parts look more slopy than sharp with a weird stretch to them.
• Her nose implant shows up too much in the middle, her cheekbones look bulky and overfilled, like cement, and her chin is too long and jutty. The face-shaving at the sides of her face only served to weaken her jawline shape and make her face look longer. And, about that jawline, looks too small against her neck, like it got blended into it. Very bad.
• Also her skin bleaching injections did not work, R*sé’s blonde hair looks so blended in with her skin tones, sometimes she look like she’s bald or her hair is growing into her face & arms. 3/10
BTSJeans
December 7, 2022 at 4:02 am
J*soo:
• Reportedly got the least work done, but receipts beg to differ.
• Mouth-breather. J*soo’s jawline is the worst out of the 4 members. Made the sides of her face so thin, Jisoo can’t even stick her chin and jaw out from her neck that far anymore, because her lower face has grown into part of her neck. Probably mouth-breathed since young and when singing and dancing too. Hard to tell where the sides of her face end and neck begins. No wonder Jisoo wears curtain bangs and side hair pieces to frame her face, her jawline is gone.
• Crosses her eyes too much. She won’t look into the camera properly without at least one eye leaning into her nose, all of Jis*o’s photos and videos show her black eyes CROSSED everytime. And her eyes look too close together.
• Jisoo’s ears are too big and stick out too much sideways. She needs her ears pinned back.
• Her nose is turning from small and slim into big and bulky at the bottom, one surgery is undoing itself. The cheekbones have been overfilled, because she has an overbite and needs her cheekbones to look like they come first before her bulgy mouth. Chin is slanted in, needs more filler.
• Jisoo has a very long face. Mostly from the mouth-breathing, it drags her features down, but the length vertically from forehead to chin is still too long. Looks like a horse. And she is still mouth-breathing whenever she dances or sings or pants. 2.5/10, mouth-breathing is bad.