The appearance of Rose (Blackpink) and Bruno Mars was one of the biggest surprises of the 2024 MAMA Korean music awards ceremony. Both artists had never attended this award ceremony before.
Many people think that Rose and Bruno Mars “saved” the first awards night of MAMA 2024 in Japan. Because without the appearance of the couple, this would have been a bland awards night.
After MAMA, the interaction between Blackpink member and American male artist continues to excite Kpop fans.
Bruno Mars posted a photo of him and Rose sitting in the guest seats with the caption: “Rose, tell me I’m beautiful.” Rose reshared the photo and replied: “You don’t look bad either.”
Notably, Bruno Mars' line (tell me I look pretty) is taken from the lyrics of the song "Number One Girl" that was just released by Rose and Bruno participated as a producer.
On November 23, Bruno Mars continued to share photos of him and Rose walking together at MAMA. There was also a moment when Bruno sat enjoying fruit next to the MAMA trophy that the two received (Global Sensation award).
Bruno wrote: “Rose made me a Kpop boy! Thank you MAMA for my first MAMA award, thank you Rose for letting me be your partner last night. It was so much fun! Hope everyone enjoyed our performance.”
The audience was surprised because Bruno Mars supported Rose so enthusiastically, even solemnly posting a photo of the MAMA trophy, even though this was just a secondary award. While he is an artist who has won 15 prestigious Grammy awards in his career.
On the online community theqoo, Korean audiences commented: “He calls himself a “companion”, so sweet”, “And he left the MAMA trophy like that, so delicate”, “He made the MAMA trophy look so cool”, “He helped raise the prestige and quality of this awards ceremony”, “The photo with Rose is so beautiful”…
On the afternoon of November 24, Rose once again excited fans when she posted a series of photos of herself eating pizza with Bruno after the awards ceremony. Rose thanked MAMA and Bruno for a fun night in Osaka and making her feel like “girl number 1”.
Thanks to the MAMA effect, Rose and Bruno Mars' song "APT." has returned to the Perfect All-Kill position in Korea (topping all music charts on iChart). "APT." currently has 282 hours of Perfect All-Kill, the biggest achievement in 2024.
