Week in Review, 4/27 to 5/3
Key takeaways
Quick summary- 1Here’s all the news you might have missed over the past week:DEBUTS & COMEBACKS * TWS’s “You, You” brought more dance beats to their bright and refreshing soun…
- 2* XngHan&Xoul went all-in on house music in “Glow.” * 82Major include
- 3Welcome to another edition of SB Week in Review.
Welcome to another edition of SB Week in Review. Here’s all the news you might have missed over the past week:
DEBUTS & COMEBACKS
* TWS
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’s “You, You” brought more dance beats to their bright and refreshing sound.
* XngHan&Xoul went all-in on house music in “Glow.”
* 82Major included surreal elements in their MV for “Sign.”
* Lee Chaeyeon declared that there are “No Tears on the Dance Floor” in her first comeback with a new company.
* NMixx
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dropped a pre-release single, the restrained yet powerful “Crescendo.”
* Their EP Heavy Serenade will follow on May 11.
* Cravity
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donned priests’ robes in the dramatic MV for “Awake.”
* Hype Princess previewed their hip hop concept in pre-debut release “Stolen.” Their self-titled debut album will drop on May 27.
* Lucy returned with the upbeat “All Ages,” their first comeback since Gwangil completed his military service.
* Park Jihoon
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came back with the midtempo track “Bodyelse.”
* Soyou’s “Girl” contended that she is “not a cool girl” despite her high-fashion appearance.
* Yuju claimed that “First Love is a Curse” in her groovy new single.
* Illit
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asked “Who’s your bias?” and answered with “It’s Me!”
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TEASERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Babymonster
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released mugshot-style “moving posters” for Choom, out on May 4.
* Cortis
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teased the MV for “TNT” and previewed other tracks from their first comeback EP GreenGreen, also out on May 4.
* Lee Hi announced the May 5 release of a two-track single album, 2 Easy 2 Be Honest.
* Billlie will return with The Collective Soul and Unconscious: Chapter Two on May 6. Meanwhile, Gobelins Paris threatened to file legal action against Mystic Story for plagiarizing their short film Niccolo in Billlie’s teaser video for the album.
* Kiiras will make their return with Ta Ta on May 6.
* Rain will come back with digital single “Feel It” on May 11.
* VVS will follow up their debut with Dash on May 11.
* Got7
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’s Park Jinyoung
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dropped a trailer for Said and Done, out on May 13.
* NCT
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* Zerobaseone
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will also return with their new lineup on Ascend that day.
* Taeyang‘s fourth full album Quintessence is also scheduled for a May 18 release.
* Itzy
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started sharing short videos of each member explaining her personal Motto. The EP will drop on May 18.
* I.O.I posted a track list for their May 19 reunion EP Loop, which includes five new songs and one recorded in 2016.
* Alpha Drive One
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will have their first comeback with a “prologue single” called “No School Tomorrow” on May 26.
* TripleS announced a three-release project called Love&Pop, with Love out on June 1 and other parts to follow.
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OTHER NEWS
* CIX will conclude group activities after their contracts with C9 Entertainment expire this spring. Seunghun posted a letter stating that he will leave the idol industry.
* SM Entertainment won their lawsuit against YouTuber Sojang for defamation of Exo
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, and Red Velvet
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members.
* NCT’s Jaehyun
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* Galaxy Corporation apologized for G-Dragon wearing a racially offensive shirt on stage on May 2.
(YouTube.. Instagram: [1][2][3]. Naver: [1][2]. G-Dragon. Images via JYP Entertainment, Swing Entertainment, C9 Entertainment).
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