Rookie Ok-pop woman teams NewJeans, LE SSERAFIM, IVE and NMIXX have carried out covers of hits by iconic senior acts at this yr’s Gayo Daejeon pageant.
On December 24, SBS aired its 2022 Gayo Daejeon year-end pageant, at which a number of Ok-pop acts carried out their newest hits in addition to never-before-seen performances. In one particular section of the present, rookie woman teams NewJeans, LE SSERAFIM, IVE and NMIXX took to the stage to carry out songs by high woman teams.
Following a quick introduction by every act, quintet NewJeans carried out a bubbly Y2K-inspired rendition of Wonder Girls’ 2007 hit single ‘Tell Me’, from their debut studio album ‘The Wonder Years’.
This was adopted by IVE’s cowl of KARA’s 2008 single ‘Pretty Girl’, which featured a brand new disco-inspired instrumental harking back to their newest single ‘After LIKE’. Meanwhile, LE SSERAFIM remixed Girls’ Generation’s ‘The Boys’ with their very own May 2022 debut single ‘Fearless’.
The sequence of covers was capped off by JYP woman group NMIXX’s rendition of BLACKPINK’s 2020 single ‘How You Like That’ from their debut studio report ‘THE ALBUM’.
NMIXX, NewJeans and LE SSERAFIM additionally carried out their respective debut singles ‘O.O’, ‘Attention’ and ‘Fearless’ later that night time, whereas IVE unveiled a ballad model of ‘After LIKE’, adopted by a Christmas-inspired remix of their April 2022 single ‘Love Dive’.
Among the 4 rookie acts, NewJeans, LE SSERAFIM and IVE all made two entries every on NME’s 25 greatest Ok-pop songs of 2022, with NewJeans’ ‘Hype Boy’ topping the record.