"Ice Cream" is a song by the South Korean girl group Blackpink and American singer Selena Gomez.
"Ice Cream" received critical acclaim and appeared on numerous rankings for the best songs of the year, including lists by Billboard, Rolling Stone, and The Associated Press.
An accompanying music video for the song features Blackpink and Selena Gomez in a number of colorful sets themed around ice cream and was filmed in South Korea and the United States.
[2] Fans on social media started the "#AriPink" hashtag in hopes that the collaboration would be with singer Ariana Grande.
[4] On August 11, 2020, the unnamed artist was revealed to be American singer Selena Gomez, with Grande later being confirmed as one of the songwriters.
[22] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times described "Ice Cream" as "relentlessly bouncy and chipper" and described the singing as "a little playful, a little taunting, a little distant".
[35] Blackpink are then shown riding bikes and dancing in a colorful, Candy Land-like[16] cul-de-sac,[14] while Gomez stands outside of the ice cream truck wearing a Puma romper with a green visor.
Gomez appears in a polka-dot yellow top with blue culottes for her next verse,[36] standing in front of a wall which reads "Ice Queen" in graffiti.
[41] Blackpink are shown dancing and holding cat ice cream pillows during Lisa's rap verse.
[34] As the song closes, Blackpink drive around in metallic pink Mercedes-Benz Power Wheels cars and, in a separate scene, play on a blow-up slide, wearing crochet outfits.
[42] On September 2, an animated dance performance version of the music video was released via the group's YouTube channel.
[43] In it, Blackpink and Gomez appear as 3-D Zepeto avatars dressed in outfits similar to those worn in the original music video, and virtually team up to perform a dance routine to the song, that also included parts of the original choreography, while surrounded by "suspended ice cream cones" and other related imagery.
[73] In South Korea, "Ice Cream" debuted at number 51 on the Gaon Digital Chart issue dated August 23–29 with less than two days of tracking.
[75] In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at number 39, making Blackpink the first Korean act to achieve five top 40 singles in the country.