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11 Rockstar (also stylized ROCKSTAR) is the original song commissioned by Pearl Abyss for DokeV's marketing campaign. Performed by Luena with songwriting and production from the Korean collective GALACTIKA and SameTime, the track has appeared in every major DokeV show since the game's first reveal and is widely treated as the public face of its audio identity. See the Overview for the game itself, or Getting Started for a player primer.
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33 Credits
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55 Pearl Abyss credits the following contributors on official Rockstar releases:
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88 RoleCreditPerformerLuenaLyricsStar Wars (of GALACTIKA)MusicStar Wars and Woo Bin of GALACTIKA, with SameTimeCommissioning studioPearl Abyss, for DokeV's marketing campaign
9-GALACTIKA is a Korean creative collective. Star Wars (an artist name of one member) is the lead lyricist and co-producer, Woo Bin is a fellow member with music credit, and SameTime rounds out the team.
9+GALACTIKA is a Korean creative collective. Star Wars (an artist name of one member) is the lead lyricist and co-producer, Woo Bin is a fellow member with music credit, and SameTime rounds out the team. The dance routines that accompany the song in its 2021 music video are credited separately to Lia Kim of the studio 1 MILLION; see Choreography and Motion Capture below for production details.
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1111 Sound and Style
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1313 Rockstar is built around a K-pop-tinged hybrid sound that fits the bright, modern look of DokeV's reveal footage. The arrangement leans on confident vocal hooks, layered synths, and a steady dance-pop pulse, sitting alongside mainstream K-pop while keeping an identity tied to the game's branding. Vocally it mixes three layers: lines in Korean, romanized Korean, and English, so international audiences catch the English hooks while Korean speakers get the full lyric narrative and the romanized passages bridge the two.
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15+Choreography and Motion Capture
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17+The 2021 music video is staged as a dance performance: characters rehearse and perform routines for a crowded in-game audience while ROCKSTAR plays. The choreography is credited to Lia Kim of the Korean dance studio 1 MILLION, with motion capture work done at Pearl Abyss's in-house motion capture stage. Captured performances were then imported into the BlackSpace Engine and rendered against the same character models and environments that appear elsewhere in DokeV. Lead producer Sangyoung Kim has described the music video as a way of repaying the community for the response to the 2021 gameplay reveal rather than as a marketing piece in its own right.
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1519 Public Release Timeline
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1721 The major public Rockstar moments to date are:
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19-DateEventDecember 5, 2019Lyric video released alongside in-game screenshots, shortly after DokeV's first revealAugust 25, 2021Featured in the World Premiere Gameplay Trailer at Gamescom Opening Night LiveDecember 2021Official music video shown at The Game Awards 2021SubsequentTAK Remix released through Pearl Abyss's official channels
23+DateEventDecember 5, 2019Lyric video released alongside in-game screenshots, shortly after DokeV's first revealAugust 25, 2021Featured in the World Premiere Gameplay Trailer at Gamescom Opening Night LiveDecember 2021Official music video shown at The Game Awards 2021December 11, 2021Music video aired at the MAMA awards ceremony, the first time a video game music video was presented at the show.SubsequentTAK Remix released through Pearl Abyss's official channels
2024 Each beat aligned with a high-profile press moment for DokeV, and Pearl Abyss continues to use the song as a recurring audio signature when new footage appears.
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2226 Cultural Impact
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2428 The 2021 Gamescom trailer drew very strong word-of-mouth online, and much of the conversation was about the music as much as the gameplay. Rockstar became the audio anchoring cuts, viewer reactions, and shared clips, an unusually strong hook for an unreleased game. Even in years when no new footage appeared, the song kept circulating in fan compilations and dance covers, so by the time of the 2021 official music video Rockstar was effectively the soundtrack of DokeV's public identity.
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2731 Common Confusion
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2933 DokeV's Rockstar shares its title with several unrelated songs. The most common mix-up is with the 2010 UK drum-and-bass single also called Rockstar by DJ Fresh and Sigma, a separate track from a different country, genre, and decade with no creative or licensing overlap with DokeV. The DokeV song is an original Pearl Abyss commission by Luena, GALACTIKA, and SameTime, and despite the matching title it has no connection to the UK single or to any other pop or rap track also called Rockstar.
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3135 Unconfirmed Details
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3337 Several practical aspects of Rockstar have not been publicly itemised yet:
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3539 TopicStatusStreaming distributionWhich official platforms host the song, and under which artist or label entry, has not been broken down.Full production creditsThe full chain of engineer, mixer, and mastering credits beyond the named lyricist, composers, and performer has not been published.Language versionsWhether full-Korean or full-English versions exist beyond the trilingual original and the TAK Remix has not been confirmed.In-game integrationWhether Rockstar will play inside DokeV itself, for example through an in-game radio, rather than only in promotional material, has not been stated.