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• Released on July 11, 2025, "Jump" was BlackPink's return to the spotlight after nearly two years since their last single, "The Girls," and almost three since their chart-topping sophomore album, Born Pink. During that quiet spell, the members scattered to the winds for solo projects, endorsements, acting gigs, fashion takeovers and occasional world domination on Instagram.
• On July 5, 2025, BlackPink roared back with a live concert in Goyang, South Korea - their first show since September 2023 - and debuted "Jump" 15 songs deep into a 21-track setlist.
• "Jump" is a neon-lit rally cry for a night out with the girls, equal parts empowerment anthem and club floor manifesto. It opens with Rosé and Jisoo delivering a cool farewell to a presumed ex, making it clear the only thing they're committed to now is the beat. Jennie joins Rosé on the chorus, urging us to, well, jump and follow them into the unknown. The second verse, sung by Jennie and Lisa, pivots toward themes of sisterhood as liberation.
• Musically, "Jump" swerves away from the pop-driven releases that once made up BlackPink's signature sound and heads straight into hardstyle territory. For the uninitiated, hardstyle is a frenetic subgenre of EDM that originated in the late '90s in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy. That means rapid-fire synth stabs, pounding four-on-the-floor rhythms, and a quaking beat.
• "Jump" originated in January 2024 at a writing session inside Sony Studios Miami, where Diplo, Ape Drums (Diplo's Major Lazer bandmate), and Argentine producer Zecca - best known for his work on Bzrp's 2023 smash "Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53" - had originally gathered to create Latin music. But Diplo had a different itch to scratch: something in the spirit of early-2000s electroclash.
  
  "I thought it'd be like an 'Emerge'-style acid song," he told Billboard, "and Major Lazer would do it, I'd throw a vocal on it, and it'd be fun and happy - we'd find a way to make it work."
  
  The track instead landed with Argentinian duo Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, who helped arrange and record it with Diplo. At the time, the pair were still largely unknown outside Latin America, but their profile soared after a Tiny Desk Concert in October 2024. "They had this sound - jazz, Latin, Moroccan influences - and the song didn't really make sense for them anymore," Diplo explained.
  
  By then, the track was over a year old, but Diplo refused to abandon it. "I was courting a lot of people and just kept writing," he said. "I was like, 'I'm going to make this f–king idea work. I'll take it to the finish line, no matter how hard it is.'" At one point, he even considered releasing it under Major Lazer, calling the project "a home for my craziest music that doesn't fit anywhere else."
  
  Then came a turning point: a studio session with Teddy Park, the longtime BlackPink producer and creative director. Diplo played him a stack of material. "He was like, 'Cool,'" Diplo recalled. "Then I was about to leave and pulled up this one track. I said, 'This is probably the craziest thing I have that might work.' And he said, 'That's it. This is exactly what we need - something radical.'"
  
  Diplo emphasized how rare that kind of creative freedom is: "If I said to someone like Adele, 'Hey, I've got this trance/Jersey Club track,' that's already off-limits. But BlackPink was like, 'We just want to shock people. We don't care if it's different.'"
  
  He passed the track to Teddy and BlackPink in May 2025. Diplo didn't hear it again until the group had recorded their vocals, sent him the stems, and he completed the final production.
• The finished version features a global roster of writers, including Diplo, Ape Drums, Zecca, Teddy, Korean producer 24 (a frequent BlackPink collaborator), Swedish pop artist Zikai, UK singer-songwriter Claudia Valentina, German producer Jumpa, genre-hopping artist Malachiii (best known for his vocals on Adam Port & STRV's "Move"), and songwriter Jesse Bluu. Production credits went to 24, Teddy, and Diplo.
• "Jump" throws in a sample of German DJ Da Hool's 1997 techno classic "Meet Her at the Love Parade." The producers wove its trancey, looping synth riff woven into the energetic hardstyle production of "Jump."
• The Dave Meyers-directed music video sees dancers entranced by the power of BlackPink, creating a chaotic and celebratory vibe.
• "Jump" was Diplo's first collaboration with BlackPimk as a group, but he previously worked with Jennie on her solo single "Like Jennie."