ROCKSTAR

Rockstar (also stylized ROCKSTAR) is the original song commissioned by Pearl Abyss for the marketing campaign behind DokeV. Performed by Luena with songwriting and production from the Korean creative collective GALACTIKA together with 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 the project's audio identity. See the Overview for the game itself, or the Getting Started guide for a player-facing primer.

Credits

The song is the work of a small named team. Pearl Abyss credits the following contributors on its official releases:

GALACTIKA is a Korean creative collective. Star Wars (the artist name of one of its members) is credited as the lead lyricist as well as a co-producer, Woo Bin is a fellow GALACTIKA 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 a distinct identity tied to the game's branding. Vocally it mixes three layers: lines in Korean, lines in romanized Korean, and lines in English. International audiences pick up on the English hooks, Korean-speaking listeners get the full lyric narrative, and the romanized passages bridge the two.

Public Release Timeline

Rockstar has rolled out across several official DokeV showcases. The major public moments to date are:

Each beat in that timeline aligned with a high-profile press moment for DokeV, and Pearl Abyss has continued to use the song as a recurring audio signature whenever new footage is shared.

Cultural Impact

The 2021 Gamescom trailer drew very strong word-of-mouth reactions online, and a sizable share of the conversation was about the music as much as the gameplay. The Rockstar track became the audio that anchored cuts, viewer reactions, and shared clips, which gave DokeV an unusually strong hook for an unreleased game. Even in years when no new gameplay footage appeared, the song kept Rockstar (and by extension DokeV) 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 by other artists. 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 of the various pop and rap tracks also called Rockstar.

Unconfirmed Details

Several practical aspects of Rockstar have not been publicly itemised yet. Open questions include: