ROCKSTAR

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 showcase 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.

Credits

Pearl Abyss credits the following contributors on official Rockstar releases:

GALACTIKA is a Korean creative collective. Star Wars (the artist name of one member) is the lead lyricist and a co-producer, Woo Bin is a fellow member who shares music credit, and SameTime rounds out the production team.

Sound and Style

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 comfortably 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 pick up the English hooks while Korean speakers get the full lyric narrative and romanized passages bridge the two.

Public Release Timeline

The major public Rockstar moments to date are:

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 is shared.

Cultural Impact

The 2021 Gamescom trailer drew very strong word-of-mouth online, and a sizable share 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.

Common Confusion

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 written and performed 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.

Unconfirmed Details

Several practical aspects of Rockstar have not been publicly itemised yet: