After rumours about GOT7’s new album circulated a couple of 12 months in the past, the boy band lastly put a cease to the questions with an announcement of the discharge of the self-titled EP GOT7.
On May 9, the band’s new company Warner Bros Korea stated that GOT7 is at the moment gearing up for a comeback. Set to be launched on Monday, this marks the septet’s return in a couple of 12 months since its earlier work, Encore.
The information first broke on April 22 as native media retailers reported that the band is making ready for a “full group” comeback someday in May. They added that the bandmates’ solo actions will likely be placed on maintain in the interim to give attention to their return to music.
Soon after the information made headlines, member BamBam wrote “7” on his social media account, hinting on the group’s comeback as a seven piece.
Through its newest music, the band goals to put out an album that finest reveals who GOT7 is for followers and listeners who’ve waited for its new batch of songs, in accordance to the company.
The title of the group’s new album is a self-titled EP penned, written and produced by the seven bandmates.
Leading the six-track bundle is the title observe NANANA, composed by chief Jay B. Apart from the titular music, he has additionally penned two different sidetracks: Truth and Don’t Leave Me Alone. Main vocalist Young-jae wrote Drive Me to the Moon, and Yu-gyeom’s self-composed observe TWO and Jin-young and Yu-gyeom’s co-written Don’t Care About Me will spherical out the album as properly.
Debuting in January 2014 underneath K-pop powerhouse JYP Entertainment by the EP Got it? GOT7 has carved its personal path as a performer and self-produced idol group. The band then discovered world fame in and overseas by megahits like A, Just Right, If You Do and Hard Carry.
But the seven bandmates introduced their departure from the company final 12 months to embark on their solo journeys in music, trend and performing.
Mark continued his musical profession, dropping a slew of English-language singles, with Jackson doing the identical. Jay B, Young-jae, Yu-gyeom and BamBam have centered on their careers in Korea by becoming a member of a new leisure label right here, whereas Jin-young turned to a sequence of performing tasks.
Despite having wrapped up its promotions as a complete group, GOT7 promised followers it could proceed to be lively as a group.
The group appears to have fought off the seven-year jinx, the interval after which contracts for many K-pop bands expire and when teams collapse. After the group parted methods with the corporate, the seven bandmates launched the digital single Encore to show to followers they had been right here to maintain their guarantees.
And because the title of the album suggests, GOT7 alerts a new starting as it’s the K-pop act’s second return since its departure from JYP and its first comeback underneath the new company.
Ahead of releasing the new album on Monday, the septet will meet followers in particular person by a fan live performance titled “GOT7 Homecoming 2022 FanCon”. The two-day occasion will likely be held from Saturday to Sunday on the SK Olympic Handball Stadium in Seoul. The second day of the occasion will likely be held offline and on-line, and the band will showcase new songs from its upcoming album.
This marks the band’s first official fan occasion in additional than a 12 months because it final hosted a web-based fan assembly in December 2020 to have fun its sixth anniversary. – By Park Jun-hee/The Korea Herald/Asia News Network
