After a long studio session in Los Angeles, Rosé needed to let her hair down. So she taught her collaborators — songwriters Omer Fedi and Amy Allen — a Korean drinking game over late-night McDonald’s. It involved a chant that casually resurfaced the following day. “She randomly started saying, ‘ Apateu , apateu ,’” producer Cirkut recalls. “And that was it — we knew we had to make that song.”

That song became “APT.,” a Grammy-nominated collaboration with Bruno Mars that bridges languages, cultures and genres in a way not seen since Psy’s 2012 smash “Gangnam Style.” For Rosé, the success of “APT.” provided validation. “It feels surreal, because the song carries so much of my culture,” she says. “It proves to me that even if I can stay true to my authentic self, I can still break re

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