Stereogum

Four Years And One Remix Later, SAINt JHN’s “Roses” Is A Global Smash

For months it's been approaching from afar, like some dot on the horizon growing larger as it comes careening into focus. Remixed into an electronic party track by a Kazakh DJ named Imanbek, "Roses," ...
Vulture

Saint Jhn’s ‘Roses’ Got a Miraculous Chart Boost From TikTok

James Charles’s TikTok with “Roses” has over 30 million views. Photo: James Charles/TikTok The fun thing about TikTok music discovery is that even when it feels like you’re hearing something new, you ...
Rolling Stone

Sorry, But the Song of the Summer Is ‘Roses’

A core concept of quantum physics is that objective reality doesn’t exist until we observe it. For example, a photon can be neither here nor there, neither strictly a particle nor strictly a wave, ...
Variety

Pitch-Shifted and Perfect: How Kazakhstani Remixer Imanbek Rode Saint Jhn’s ‘Roses’ to a Grammy Nomination

One of 2020’s biggest songs is also among its most surprising success stories. Credit 20-year-old Kazakhstani producer Imanbek who, in 2019, was virtually unknown to most of the world. That changed ...
New York Post

‘Roses’ singer SAINt JHN on working with Kanye, Beyoncé and Blue Ivy

With his Grammy-nominated hit “Roses (Imanbek Remix),” singer-rapper SAINt JHN’s career has been in full bloom in 2020. But the 34-year-old Brooklyn native — whose real name is Carlos St. John ...