LISA was determined to fare better than BLACKPINK bandmate ROSÉ on Hot Ones, with the former appearing on the web series Thursday (Feb. 27) to take on the wings of death.
Her sit-down comes about three months after the “APT.” singer joined host Sean Evans for the hot-wing challenge, and LISA said that her bandmate had prepped her beforehand. “I did some homework,” the Thai rapper-singer told Evans. “I asked my friend, my teammate, Rosie. She was like, ‘It’s really spicy.’ She told me to take ice cream.”
As she answered questions about being multilingual, working with Rosalía on single “New Woman” and making her acting debut on the latest season of White Lotus while eating progressively tongue-numbing wings, LISA — though still having to dab her face and air out her tongue — fared better overall than ROSÉ. (The latter struggled quite a bit with the Scoville levels, which brought her to tears and led her to deliver a few meaningful last words to her dog, Hank, just in case she didn’t “survive.”)
In fact, the “Lalisa” musician at one point jokingly boasted, “I’ll show Rosie that I’m not going to cry. I won’t cry. I’ll prove her wrong.”
The K-pop star’s appearance on the show comes one day ahead of her debut solo album, Alter Ego. Led by singles “Rockstar,” “Moonlit Floor (Kiss Me)” and “Born Again” with Doja Cat and RAYE, the Feb. 28-slated project finds LISA exploring five different sides of her personality expressed through characters named Roxi, Kiki, Vixi, Sunni and Speedi.
“It represents five characters of me as well, like I feel related with them,” she told Evans of the concept. “It feels like I can express myself in a different version of me, and it’s fun. I can’t wait for my fans to listen to this album, to really enjoy this album and see a different side of LISA.”
LISA also shared her unorthodox trick for handling spicy foods — not that she fell back on it during her Hot Ones appearance. “It’s a little too crazy, but it really helps when I have something too spicy,” she told Evans as one particularly hot wing sent her into a slight panic. “I have to take my saliva out, and I can be like, ‘Nothing happened!’ I want to do it now, but I know it’s going to be so bad on the camera. I should keep my image nice.”
Watch LISA’s Hot Ones episode above.