When Tame Impala mastermind Kevin Parker announced that BLACKPINK’s Jennie would be joining a reworked version of his song “Dracula,” the collaboration made sense in a way that surprised almost no one who’d been paying attention. Parker and Jennie are, as Billboard put it, “geographically… cousins” — she was born in South Korea and raised in New Zealand, right next door to Parker’s native Australia. The two had also crossed paths at the 2026 Grammy Awards, where Parker was spotted wearing Jennie merch just days before their collaboration was announced.
The original “Dracula” first appeared on Tame Impala’s fifth studio album, Deadbeat, released October 17, 2025, via Columbia Records — the band’s debut release on the label. Co-written with Sarah Aarons, the disco-tinged electropop track was already a commercial success on its own, peaking at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and landing at No. 3 on Triple J’s Hottest 100 for 2025. Its music video, directed by Julian Klincewicz, leaned into Western Australia’s rave and “bush doof” festival culture and earned a nomination for the Audience Choice Award for Favourite Australian Music Video at the AACTA Awards.
The “Dracula (JENNIE Remix),” released February 6, 2026, took the song somewhere entirely new. Jennie doesn’t just add a guest verse — she’s credited as a vocalist, lyricist, composer, and remixer, reworking the original’s playful lyric “Shut up Kevin, just get in the car” into “Shut up Jennie, just get in the car,” and adding her own rap verse into the mix. Parker praised the addition in a statement, saying Jennie’s voice has “this effortless, airy quality that fits perfectly into the hazy textures of the song,” adding that “she didn’t just add a verse; she altered the DNA of the track.”
Commercially, the remix became a genuine phenomenon. It peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking the first top-ten hit in the US for both Tame Impala and Jennie individually. It also reached as high as No. 2 on the Billboard Global 200, topped the charts in Germany, Switzerland, the UAE, and across the MENA region, and spent nearly 20 weeks atop the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. The remix’s success made Jennie, following BLACKPINK bandmate Rosé, the second member of the group to score a solo top-ten hit in the US, helping BLACKPINK become just the fourth all-female group in history — after Destiny’s Child, Fifth Harmony, and the Go-Go’s — to have multiple members chart solo top-ten singles.
Part of what made “Dracula” spread so quickly was its TikTok life: the song became the soundtrack for a wide range of trend formats, from transformation edits to festival-style dance clips, helping push streaming numbers well past the song’s original 2025 run. For listeners who track how genre boundaries continue to dissolve in mainstream pop, the “Dracula” remix stands as one of 2026’s clearest examples: a psych-rock/electropop cult favorite and a K-pop global superstar meeting in the middle and creating something that neither of their existing fanbases could have fully predicted — but that both embraced completely.
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