Handlebars
by Jennie (featuring Dua Lipa)

Album: Ruby (2025)
Charted: 41 80
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Songfacts®:

  • I always go all in, all in, all in
    Over the handlebars
    Hitting the ground so hard


    There are many ways to describe falling in love - poets have spent centuries agonizing over it - but Jennie and Dua Lipa have gone for something unique: crashing a bike. "Handlebars" captures that mix of exhilaration, recklessness, and mild terror that comes with hurtling into love without a helmet, knee pads, or, frankly, a shred of common sense.
  • Jennie and Dua Lipa trade lines and occasionally melt into sweet, synchronized harmonies. It's their second time working together, having previously collaborated on Blackpink's "Kiss and Make Up" back in 2017. According to Jennie, working with Dua Lipa "doesn't even feel like work, it's more like hanging out with a friend."
  • Lipa co-wrote the playful track with Rob Bisel, Amy Allen, Brittany Amaradio and James Ghaleb. Bisel produced the track.

    Rob Bisel is one of SZA's go-to collaborators. In 2020, Rick Rubin recommended Bisel to SZA, who had booked Rubin's studio and home in Kauai to begin recording her SOS album. Bisel engineered the album, mixed 10 songs, and co-produced 11 of the album's 23 tracks.

    Amy Allen is a prominent songwriter in the pop industry. She co-wrote every track on Carpenter's Short n' Sweet album and has also worked with Harry Styles and Tate McRae.

    American singer-songwriter Delacey's resumé includes Halsey's "Without Me," Zara Larsson's "Ruin My Life" and Jennie's Blackpink colleague Lisa's "Rockstar."

    James Ghaleb has collaborated with the Jonas Brothers as a songwriter and musician, including on "Comeback" and "Five More Minutes." Beyond his work with the Jonas Brothers, Ghaleb has written and composed music for artists such as Troye Sivan, Lukas Graham and The Script.
  • For those experiencing a faint flicker of déjà vu, yes, there was indeed another "Handlebars" song, a 2008 hit from Flobots. That song is more concerned with societal change and personal agency, whereas Jennie and Dua Lipa's take is firmly in the category of head-over-heels romance and emotional freefall.
  • Shot by the directing duo BRTHR (Charli XCX, the Weeknd), the "Handlebars" music video is a fever dream of neon-soaked surrealism. Jennie and Dua Lipa ultimately wind up entangled with Dua Lipa in a glittering, heart-shaped spider web. The symbolism is clear: love is both beautiful and inescapable.

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