YG Entertainment Idol Goods Fan Products YG Select BLACKPINK SQUARE UP 1st Mini Album Black Ver.

Just what I hoped for, I ordered the black version and plan to order the pink version soon.

I m blink. This is awesome.

Items arrived damaged. Pictures speak for themselves. I love BlackPink and bought the CD electronically as well. I like to have something on the shelf as well. Poster damaged, stickers damaged.

This BlackPink album contains four new tracks plus “As If It’s Your Last,” a rerelease from a previous album. (It’s just the same song as before; it’s not a remix or acoustic version or anything.)The presentation of this new CD is stunning! The pictures don’t do it justice. The CD comes in a thick cardboard box along with a photo album and three photo cards, one of the group and two random photos of single members.There IS a difference between the two album boxes besides the outside color. The photobooks that come with each are completely different. If you can’t decide which to buy, it may help to know that the pink version’s photobook has almost twice as many pictures inside. The black version’s photobook has a lot of blank, black pages inside so you actually get fewer pictures.The new music is amazing. Track 1, “뚜두뚜두,” and Track 4, “See U Later,” are awesome dance anthems. BlackPink has been teasing Track 2, “Forever Young,” for some time now. There are long music breaks in between vocals but somehow the lyrics still get you like an earworm. Track 3, “Really,” is my least favorite new song, just because I'm not a fan of love ballads, but it’s growing on me. The lyrics are pretty basic so if you have even just an elementary grasp on the Korean language, you can understand them easily. And, like I said, Track 5 is “As If It’s Your Last,” which is another fun, dance song.One last thing I want to note is that both my CDs have some surface damage that looks like puncture marks or bubbling. I ordered my copies from YesAsia and it is obvious they are factory defects, not damage caused during shipping. I found it odd that both CDs have this flaw. Neither CD will play in my car’s CD player, and I’m not sure if that’s due to the warping (which doesn’t seem to have any effect in my computer’s disc drive, so I can still listen to them) or if the CDs have been encoded to not play outside of Asia. (Some years ago I heard that Japan was working on that type of technology, which is very disappointing as an overseas fan in the West.) Maybe someone else can provide some insight?Also, I did not opt to receive any posters from YesAsia (which charges you extra for those types of things) so I can't comment on them.