guiducci (Global Editorial Director - @VanityFair) IG story update:
“Read my editor’s letter about our Summer Issue accidentally became the K-pop issue”
Editorial Letter:
“…. If you don't already know Lalisa Manobal, it may be unsettling to learn that she is inconceivably famous to a large portion of the world. So famous that the Labubu craze has been traced to her personal obsession. So famous that White Lotus producer Dave Bernad calls her ‘the Princess Diana of Thailand.’ And so famous that tickets for her upcoming Vegas residency, priced at thousands on the higher end, sold out within 10 minutes…”
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As Lisa delves into acting, she’s learning to find parts of herself in each character.
And onstage? “I’m not trying to pretend that I’m someone else. It’s just me, plus a little more confidence."
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And then there is the topic of a NEW ALBUM, which Manobal casually reveals she's been working on now that she's back in the US.
She won't say much-it's early days and she's been doing some exploratory recording sessions. The loose idea is for the album to support her Vegas residency. She wants people who've seen her perform to have a new experience. She is, AMBITIOUS as ever, also ready for MORE.
“I feel like after I came out and talked about how there’s no privacy for me, [fans] now respect that a lot more,” Lisa tells Vanity Fair.
She loves her fans and loves meeting them in public spaces, “but they know that being in this position is not easy. Sometimes it’s just a little too much, and sometimes I just want to be normal.”
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Lisa became the first nonethnic Korean trainee at YG Entertainment—for all intents and purposes, pop star boot camp—when she moved from Thailand to South Korea at 14 years old:
“I had to start from zero, but I felt like I really wanted to do this.”
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There is Lisa, the confident pop star who speaks with ease about performing, acting, and making music. And there is Lalisa, her more private self: sweet, a little bashful, yet assured in what matters most to her—her health, her family, her privacy, and maintaining a boundary between her public image and her personal life.
And yet, the star insists those two versions of herself are not so different.
“Lisa or Lalisa, it’s still me.”
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To much of the world, Lisa is one of the biggest stars on the planet.
But in person, her mega fame can be surprisingly easy to forget—until moments like the one ‘The White Lotus’ producer David Bernad recalls from a night out in Los Angeles.
“At some point I turned around and every single person in that club was staring at us,” he tells Vanity Fair. “Five hundred people just staring at Lisa. It was this moment in which we were like, ‘Oh yeah, she is one of the most famous musicians in the world.’”
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Acting was one of the things Lisa never imagined herself doing.
“When I was little, my mom wanted me to be a kid actor, and she sent me to an acting school,” she tells Vanity Fair. At the time, she wanted to dance.
Now, after more than a decade as a pop star, Lisa finds herself looking for new creative challenges. That search led her to audition for ‘The White Lotus,’ where she made her acting debut as Mook. Then, after wrapping Blackpink’s latest tour, she went on to film her first movie, ‘Tygo.’
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Presenting our Summer Issue cover star, Lisa.
As one fourth of Blackpink, Lisa became one of the most famous pop stars on planet earth. Now, after a role on ‘The White Lotus’ and with a sold-out Vegas residency on the horizon, she is aiming to become K-Pop's first true crossover success.
Can "the Princess Diana of Thailand" make it in America? https://t.co/253nRs2gFu