{"id":153878,"date":"2025-12-11T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=153878"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:59:09","slug":"blackpinks-rose-and-bruno-mars-reveal-how-apt-was-created-in-a-recent-billboard-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/blackpinks-rose-and-bruno-mars-reveal-how-apt-was-created-in-a-recent-billboard-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACKPINK\u2019s Ros\u00e9 and Bruno Mars reveal how \u201cAPT.\u201d was created in a recent Billboard interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BLACKPINK\u2019s Ros\u00e9<\/strong> and <strong>Bruno Mars<\/strong> recently sat down for a Billboard interview, which was revealed today, December 11, 2025. The pair revealed they met in the summer of 2024 at his Los Angeles studio, when Ros\u00e9 was gearing up for her solo debut album \u201c<strong>Rosie<\/strong>.\u201d The BLACKPINK member showed up to the studio, convinced it would be their first and last meeting. Instead, the moment sparked one of the biggest collabs of these past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Before their record-breaking single \u201c<strong>APT<\/strong>.\u201d was born, it was simply Ros\u00e9\u2019s favorite drinking game that she jokingly taught to her collaborators, but Mars instantly heard something special in her voice. What began as a casual game ended up becoming a full creative moment, with Bruno insisting they figure out the \u201cpuzzle\u201d together.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1999143069413744930?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bruno Mars on why he chose to collaborate with Ros\u00e9 on \u2018APT\u2019:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018It\u2019s about drinking? You got me. But truthfully, it was Rosie\u2019s voice, it was her saying this hook that just had this magic to it. And after talking to her it became, \u2018Let\u2019s build on this, let\u2019s figure\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RigAJFWBoX\">pic.twitter.com\/RigAJFWBoX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1999143069413744930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;But truthfully, it was Rosie\u2019s voice, it was her saying this hook that just had this magic to it. And after talking to her it became, \u2018Let\u2019s build on this, let\u2019s figure this puzzle out.\u2019 That\u2019s what all these songs are, right? And I thought it was beautiful that it was from her culture; she didn\u2019t just send me a pop song talking about love or whatever. She really put me on game,&#8221; he revealed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>Their friendship grew as Ros\u00e9 continued creating \u201cRosie,\u201d while working with the songwriter Amy Allen. However, it was still Bruno who became her biggest cheerleader and an important collaborator in the studio. The artist co-wrote and co-produced several tracks, including the album opener \u201c<strong>Number One Girl<\/strong>,\u201d and several other tracks that didn\u2019t make it to the record, but it was \u201cAPT.\u201d that changed everything. Since its release in October 2024, the song has become a massive hit, carrying over its success into 2025 with billions of streams.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1999140816070099371?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bruno Mars tells Billboard he has worked on more songs with Ros\u00e9:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, yeah, there is. And we love that song that we worked on \u2014 I won\u2019t say the title\u2026 We\u2019re just trying to figure out when, or how.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IpNRkdKGQh\">pic.twitter.com\/IpNRkdKGQh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1999140816070099371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By September 2025, \u201cAPT.\u201d made history again, winning Song of the Year at the <strong>MTV VMAs<\/strong>. In November, Ros\u00e9 became the first lead K-pop artist nominated in multiple major <strong>Grammy categories<\/strong>, including Record and Song of the Year for the song. She found out at 2:50 in the morning after brushing her teeth, laughing at the surreal timing. What started as one nervous studio visit turned into a global phenomenon, proving that sometimes all it takes is building up a friendship, an iconic mentor, and an irresistible drinking game to make history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLACKPINK\u2019s Ros\u00e9 and Bruno Mars recently sat down for a Billboard interview, which was revealed today, December 11, 2025. The pair revealed they met in the summer of 2024 at his Los Angeles studio, when Ros\u00e9 was gearing up for her solo debut album \u201cRosie.\u201d The BLACKPINK member showed up to the studio, convinced it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":153879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[17,1034],"class_list":{"0":"post-153878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-blackpink","11":"tag-rose"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}