Jennie Brings ‘The Ruby Experience’ to Los Angeles for a Sweet and Sultry Intro to Her Solo Era: Concert Review

variety.com:

Thania Garcia Blackpink member Jennie played the first of her four “intense but intimate” concert dates at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday night, taking the stage at practically the moment her first full-length solo album, “Ruby,” was released.

When the red curtains split, Jennie‘s vision became clear: a ballerina, nimble and delicate and draped in white, pranced across the stage, disappearing only when the K-pop superstar emerged, powerful and statuesque, in an oversized fur coat and baby blue stockings, to sing “Start a War,” a song about loving someone so ferociously that you’d go to war for them.

This contrast — sugary sweet yet rugged and sexy — set the tone for “Ruby,” and for Jennie, who by nature, has been labeled the more rebellious or edgy member of the highest-charting Korean girl group in the United States.

No stranger to commanding the attention of thousands of rabid fans, Jennie debuted “Ruby” in a theatre, a more intimate setting than Blackpink’s usual arenas and stadiums.