ROCKSTAR

Rockstar (also stylized ROCKSTAR) is the original song commissioned by Pearl Abyss for the marketing campaign behind DokeV. Performed by the singer 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. For a higher-level introduction to the game itself, see the Overview, and for first-time players the Getting Started guide is a useful 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, and 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. Its arrangement leans on confident vocal hooks, layered synths, and a steady dance-pop pulse, sitting comfortably alongside the K-pop tracks the genre's mainstream is best known for while keeping a distinct identity tied to the game's branding.

Vocally the song mixes three layers: lines in Korean, lines in romanized Korean, and lines in English. The blend is part of the appeal: international audiences pick up on the English hooks while Korean-speaking listeners get the full lyric narrative, and the romanized passages bridge the two for fans who want to sing along without reading Hangul.

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 with the public.

Cultural Impact

When the 2021 Gamescom trailer surfaced online it drew very strong word-of-mouth reactions, and a noticeable share of the conversation was about the music as much as the gameplay. The Rockstar track became the part of the trailer that played in cuts, in viewer reactions, and in shared clips, which gave DokeV an unusually strong audio hook for an unreleased game. Since then it has functioned as a signature for the project: even in years when no new gameplay footage was shown, the song kept Rockstar (and by extension DokeV) circulating in fan compilations, dance covers, and music-sharing platforms. By the time of the 2021 official music video at the year-end awards show, Rockstar was effectively the soundtrack of DokeV's public identity.

Common Confusion

DokeV's Rockstar shares its title with several unrelated songs released by other artists. The most common mix-up is with the 2010 UK drum-and-bass single also titled Rockstar by DJ Fresh and Sigma. That track is a separate piece of music from a different country, a different genre, and a different 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 drum-and-bass single or to any of the various pop and rap tracks named Rockstar by other artists.

Unconfirmed Details

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

Until those points are addressed, anything beyond the credits and showcase history above should be treated as fan speculation rather than confirmed fact.