TikTok isn’t just a playground for Gen Z anymore—it’s become the music industry’s favorite teaser reel. And nobody knows how to ride that wave better than Alex Warren.
A few days ago, Alex uploaded what seemed like a typical lip-sync video. He mouthed the lyrics, “But now, I just wanna let you know / Maybe the clouds are painted / A perfect shade of yellow across the sky.” Pretty standard fare—until a familiar face quietly slipped into frame for a split second.
It was BLACKPINK’s ROSÉ.
She popped in, barely showing half her face, then vanished like nothing happened. But sharp-eared fans immediately caught what was going on: the crisp clarity of ROSÉ’s voice layering perfectly with Alex’s gruff tone in the background. Like mixing bourbon with morning orange juice—it shouldn’t work, but somehow it does.
Alex didn’t drop a release date for their upcoming track On My Mind, but his TikTok caption raised a few eyebrows: “It’d be crazy if we dropped it this month, right?” Which in influencer-speak usually means, yes, it’s coming way sooner than anyone expected.
It’s the kind of unexpected collaboration that feels almost too perfect for the internet to handle—a rising TikTok-born pop artist teaming up with a global K-pop icon? Fans in the comment section lost it. It’s not every day you see two artists from such different universes collide—and actually make something that sounds this good.
For those still catching up on Alex Warren’s rise, a quick scroll through the Billboard charts will tell you all you need to know. Just last week, his Jelly Roll collab Bloodline debuted at No. 32 on the Hot 100. And on the exact same week, his solo track Ordinary jumped to No. 1 on the multi-genre singles chart—where it’s stayed for two weeks straight.
All three tracks—Bloodline, Ordinary, and now On My Mind—are part of Alex’s upcoming LP, You’ll Be Alright, Kid, set for release on July 18 via Atlantic Records. It adds 10 new songs to the 2024 project You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1), cementing his breakout moment as more than a viral fluke.
Meanwhile, ROSÉ has been riding her own high. Her debut solo studio album Rosie, released in December 2024, recently hit its six-month mark. The album broke records as the highest-charting project by a Korean female artist in Billboard history. It includes the Bruno Mars-assisted global hit APT., plus follow-ups like Number One Girl and Toxic Till the End. Her voice—silky with an edge—feels like velvet blown by a night wind: soft, but impossible to ignore.
What makes this collab so refreshing is how it defies the usual formulas. On one side, you’ve got a self-made, internet-sparked pop guy. On the other, a meticulously trained superstar from the K-pop machine. Different paths. Different systems. And yet, they meet in the middle to prove one thing: the future of pop is borderless.
Think about it. Somewhere on a Los Angeles freeway, an Uber driver plays Bloodline on the stereo. A high schooler in the front seat turns her head and says, “Wait—is that ROSÉ?” That double take, that split-second spark of recognition between two worlds, is exactly what On My Mind is poised to deliver.
And as for the release date? If Alex says “maybe this month,” it probably means definitely this month. Just like his sudden rise to fame, there’s no big build-up, no scheduled countdown. It happens fast, it hits hard, and somehow, it’s always right on time.
Who says pop music is all carefully curated and commercially calculated? Sometimes, it’s just a late-night phone call between two artists from opposite ends of the world. Alex and ROSÉ lit the match—now we’re just waiting to watch the whole thing burn bright.
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