Blackpink’s Jisoo has confirmed that she referenced Resident Evil’s Ada Wong within the music video for her solo tune, Addicted.
The tune debuted over Halloween weekend, with its accompanying music video exhibiting Jisoo sporting quite a lot of totally different appears. One in every of these outfits, nevertheless, struck a chord with sure members of her fanbase as a result of how startlingly related it regarded to a personality from Resident Evil.
Originally of the music video, Jisoo wears a black bob and a purple bodycon-style costume — a glance that’s principally synonymous with Ada Wong, who virtually at all times wears some variation of this model in every sport she seems in.
Followers couldn’t assist however discover the similarities and requested the Okay-pop star if this was intentional on her very personal app. “Purple outfit + brief hair look is completely Ada Wong from Resident Evil,” one wrote.
Surprisingly, Jisoo confirmed that this was really intentional. “I like Biohazard (Resident Evil) sooo a lot, so I needed to repeat it,” she mentioned in a reply.
Jisoo is open about her love for Resident Evil; she spoke concerning the sequence on Sizzling Ones earlier this yr, saying she was “addicted” to the video games.
“It’s fast-paced,” she defined. “One thing will all of a sudden come out at you, so it’s important to be fast and course of all of it and handle the state of affairs. That’s why it’s capable of maintain my consideration, and time simply flies proper by.”
Funnily sufficient, Jisoo isn’t the one Okay-pop star to attract comparisons with Ada Wong just lately; in August, Babymonster’s Asa acquired related feedback from followers after she posted pictures of herself on social media sporting a black bob and a purple costume, sparking a cute portmanteau of ‘Asa Wong’ from her fanbase.
Whereas Asa hasn’t but responded to those remarks, Jisoo is an unabashed fan of the video games, to the purpose the place she made positive Ada was by some means represented in her newest tune.
In different Resident Evil information, Zach Cregger, who directed the sequence’ most up-to-date film adaptation, mentioned he would nonetheless wish to be concerned indirectly if a sequel will get made, although not as a director. To this point, it’s unclear whether or not or not one other Resi film is within the works, however provided that Capcom has doubled down on its plans to proceed increasing its IP with merch, new content material, and flicks, it’s doable that we get one other have a look at Raccoon Metropolis — particularly given how profitable the primary movie was on the field workplace.