The Outfit Jisoo Wears in Lovesick Girls

You know the one...

I’m far from the only one to notice that Blackpink’s latest single “Lovesick Girls” sounds like early 2010s EDM-pop. It’s like if “Ur Love Is My Drug” was remixed by 18 Months era Calvin Harris, which is the highest possible compliment I could give a song. It’s the best thing they’ve released since its aesthetic predecessor, 2016’s “Playing With Fire.”

The oddly recent nostalgia doesn’t stop with the music. In the MV and on their recent Inkigayo stage, our visual queen of queens Kim Jisoo is wearing an outfit that I am 100% positive I wore in 2009. It’s a magenta baby tee tied up around the waist paired with a plaid miniskirt far flouncier than the typical skater skirts most girl groups wear and a pair of fishnets peeking up over the waistband. She’s wearing what looks like a men’s hooded jacket, in a duller plaid that doesn’t match the rest of the outfit at all, bundles of chains hanging around her neck and waist. The accessories look inexpensive, like something you could buy at H&M. The jacket looks borrowed. Her yellow nail polish is chipped. 

I was taken aback by this aesthetic. The early 2010s are probably the most recent period in pop culture that a person could reasonably be nostalgic for. Anything later just feels basic. Late 90s and early 00s nostalgia has become common enough in recent kpop that ski goggles and lettuce hems and chunky highlights no longer surprise me. But dressing like me ten years ago does, so credit to Jisoo and her stylists for bringing us this excellent look.