Most pop stars start out as pop fans. Then, if they are determined, agile, pretty and lucky enough, they’ll get to become something like the stars they spent years studying and idolising. Rosé, one of the biggest pop stars in the world, never got to be a superfan. “See, that’s a big thing I don’t think I really got to experience,” she says. The singer, born Roseanne Park to Korean immigrant parents in New Zealand, was raised in Melbourne, Australia, and never had any posters of pop stars on her bedroom walls. She never spammed an idol’s Weverse, never wrote homoerotic fanfic or queued for hours outside a concert venue. She really only started to learn about music and music culture at 16, right before she was whisked away to…
