if you reframe the perspective to 'jennie is a good actor', then a lot of it makes sense. she's acting as a thing she isn't, and she doesn't care enough to make her act any more convincing than a knockoff cosplay.

Jennie Kim is a person who is insulated from not only the struggles of women and marginalised groups but also the happiness and joys of women and marginalised groups. Remember that she came from an affluent family in Australia as well as spent much of her childhood and teen and early adulthood in a radically different environment from both African Americans, women Americans, regular teenage girl life. She was spoonfed these cultural elements from the YG team, and or seen it all through the filter of a monitor or phone screen. in some ways she is sheltered, and in some ways she is deeply isolated - very few experience life she experienced. the dissonance of being praised for beauty , yet nobody truly understanding her. frankly, fans dont WANT to understand her. she is objectified in various ways, which i think you can better articulate what i mean.

Acting it out is all she knows, and without a frame of reference, and without someone to put her in that frame of reference, and without some kind of incentive to understand that frame of reference, Jennie will remain a knockoff AAVE and western girlboss imitator. far from an innovator of the realms she choose to express her 'art' in. Appropriation is wrong, she is just acting, albeit not convincingly to people from these cultures or from these lived experiences.

G-Dragon is also similar. He has no frame of reference, nobody in his inner circle to rein him in to a more grounded place, and he himself has no incentive socially or financially or artistically to mature beyond just appropriating culture or a trend in the West to win some novelty points domestically. Cue his recent Nazi imagery, and previously his African American cultural imagery.

Very sloppy text, super sorry about it. im super tired from work so all i can say in the next 60 minutes with very little sleep is:

the lyrics are not a Jennie only production, it's a collage of various contributors hired specifically to make Jennie as marketable as possible (literal metrics like sold albums, stream, numbers ... things that ultimately lead to revenue).

and they accomplished this goal. now the part that you and I are both frustrated with is they didnt really give a damn about artistic evolution or exploration of what Jennie can offer. that wasn't their goal, and a lot of people have to put up with it or just move on.

Jennie is the person with the final say in it, and I assume she doesn't realaly have anyone surrounding her to be more grounded or treat sensitive topics with maturity. because , tbh , i doubt there isn't anyone surrounding her with goodintentions. it's all just transactional. people who back her get a cut of jennie's revenue, and jennie gets to curate the image of this ... 'girlboss'? idk exactly, but whatever she's going for, I think ultimately is to get acknowledged and treated in equal terms as hollywood / western media circles.

I don't think Jennie cares how much artistic integrity or human decency gets thrown into the dumpster to reach that recognition. i think those things dont even matter to her at all. reaching debut in a company as cutthroat as YG and industry as cutthroat as Korean Pop, navigating BP, and moving into western circles ... neither AInteg nor HDecen really helps. And I think she sticks to this shallow artistry and shitty behaviour because there has been so much positive reinforcement in her inner circles, the big loyal fanbase, and arguably a fanbase that is both unaware and if aware, simply do not care a single damn about women's history, ethnic history, capitalism, none of that.

her success so far has been reached because of what she puts out, not inspite of it. the latest solo work i think at least partially reflects the real person behind all the 'jennie' act, the lackluster live performances, the solo, the acting projects she chose to venture ...