BLACKPINK's "The Girls" Has Finally Arrived

K-pop girl band BLACKPINK has finally released the highly-anticipated single and visual for “The Girls”.

"The Girls" is dropped as part of the soundtrack for their mobile game, "BLACKPINK The Game", which was officially released in May. 

Originally teased back in May, the visual for “The Girls” features animated avatars resembling Rosé, Jisoo, Lisa, and Jennie repeating the phrase, “Don’t mess with the girls,” performing cartoon-ified versions of the band’s real-life trademark group choreography. 

For now, the track and video can only be accessed in “The Game,” however a poster shared by BLACKPINK’s official Twitter reveals that the digital single will arrive on Friday, August 25. 

The four bandmates celebrated the long-awaited release of “The Girls” with a viewing party hosted on their YouTube channel. Before playing several games as a group, they watched their new music video for the first time together and marveled over how adorable their cartoon replicas were.

“The choreo is super cute,” said Lisa of the animated BLACKPINK’s dance number, according to YouTube’s Korean-to-English translation.

“Can we pull that off in real life?” added Rosé.

“The Game” launched back in May, with “The Girls” expected to arrive soon after. The app’s team, however, announced in July that work still wasn’t finished on the animated visual, apologizing to fans on Twitter for the “endless and frustrating” wait. 

“Our deep desire to present the highest quality of content flawlessly took longer than expected, and therefore our initial plan to release the M/V simultaneously with the game release was delayed significantly,” read their statement.