# @popbase on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DckdGSohxM0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69782597-popbase-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/3765f61805.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28T04:00:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pop Base (@PopBase) — https://gondola.cc/PopBase

## Caption

6 years ago today, BLACKPINK & Selena Gomez released “Ice Cream.”

Selena Gomez co-composed 'Ice Cream' alongside a stacked writing team that included Ariana Grande, Victoria Monét, Teddy, Tommy Brown, Bekuh Boom, and Mr. Franks, blending electropop and bubblegum pop with light trap touches. The collaboration came together after Gomez first connected with BLACKPINK members Jisoo and Rosé at New York Fashion Week in 2019, while the group revealed they'd long been fans of Gomez's music, having danced to her songs back when they were still trainees. Teasers began rolling out in late July 2020, with fans speculating "#AriPink" before Gomez was confirmed as the mystery collaborator that August.

Sung mostly in English aside from a Korean verse from Lisa, the track serves as a double entendre, using its playful, summery ice cream imagery to hint at flirtation and desire. Its music video, released the same day, shows Gomez driving an ice cream truck through a pastel-colored world populated by the group, matching the song's bright, candy-colored energy. The rollout also included a real-world tie-in, with Gomez releasing an actual ice cream flavor through Serendipity Ice Cream, a brand she partly owns, to coincide with the single's release.

Reception was strong out of the gate, with the video pulling in 79 million views in its first 24 hours and eventually surpassing 238 million within weeks, while the song landed in the top five of both global and US Spotify charts. It served as the second pre-release single ahead of BLACKPINK's debut full album, 'THE ALBUM,' that October, further cementing the group's rapid rise as one of the most successful crossover acts bridging K-pop and Western pop at the time.

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music, aripink, selenagomez, blackpink, popculture

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