BLACKPINK’s Lisa Lets Out How YG Entertainment Destroyed Her Confidence 

BLACKPINK member Lisa‘s solo documentary has sparked heated reactions online after revealing previously unexplored parts of her trainee life.

Lisa’s documentary, Always Lalisa, recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Though the general public will have to wait until October to see the full thing, the internet is already abuzz with first-hand accounts from those who caught the premiere.

According to several posts, the documentary showed Lisa confessing that she had lost confidence in her singing for years due to an incident during her trainee years under YG Entertainment.

While recording a dance practice video, Lisa was apparently singing instead of rapping. YG Entertainment then made her redo the entire video for that reason, which destroyed her confidence in her singing. She admitted that she didn’t feel confident enough to re-explore that part of her craft until the one-year break from BLACKPINK’s group activities.

lisa revealing in the documentary that yg made her redo an entire dance practice video because she was singing instead of rapping and that it genuinely damaged her confidence in singing for years… only for her to slowly regain that confidence during her one-year break from…

— ًً (@fileslm) September 12, 2026

Some other posts also mentioned a separate incident that damaged her confidence, where Lisa had recorded a Bruno Mars cover for a monthly evaluation. Although her vocal coach was impressed, a YG Entertainment mentor told her to stick to rapping after listening to it. This was yet another blow to her self-confidence, which led her to abandon her passion for singing. The repercussions followed her well into her solo career.

Lisa once recorded herself singing a Bruno Mars song for a monthly evaluation, and a YG mentor told her that she should stick to rapping, even though her vocal coach was very impressed by her singing. That led to her becoming skeptical of herself. Since that incident, she ignored… pic.twitter.com/p3FDGu2qTw

— ra ra girl³²⁷ (@lalisamgger) September 12, 2026

These stories have stirred up massive outrage on social media, with fans calling out YG Entertainment for trying to force Lisa into a pre-determined mold and stunting her artistic growth.

there were videos from pre-debut where fans were recording footage from outside YG building of practice sessions and Lisa’s singing voice was so powerful and good that everyone thought she was gonna debut as a vocalist, YG you fucker pic.twitter.com/t8s1xqf74F

— SaWaDiKa (@gagisa327) September 12, 2026

No one in that company will ever find peace

— Akshaya Ravi (@akshaya55598) September 12, 2026

I knew it😭 YG was the reason she lost confidence in singing cos back in Thailand she was a singer and a dancer!

— 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑎🛺RIA (@trituseben) September 12, 2026

Bigbang’s taeyang was impressed, 2NE1’s Dara was impressed, her vocal coach was impressed too but guess they had a box for her doesn’t matter if she had the talent or worked hard

— Lili (@Liliblinksr) September 12, 2026

That’s why she always said she wanted to sing more. Fuck you yg really for forcing her into this box when she’s obviously capable of so much more.

— lia (@lalisadgaf) September 12, 2026

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