TWICE’s Jihyo has made her highly-anticipated solo debut along with her eclectic new seven-track EP, Zone.
The EP is led by the one “Killin’ Me Good,” which captures the singer’s sincere and pure feelings and her wealthy, rhythmic voice inside its up-tempo pop framework. “Killin’ me, killin’ me good,” she sings within the monitor. “Feeling things I never knew that I could/You make me feel this way/Thinking about you every 10 seconds/I never thought I’d be like this.”
Jihyo stars within the music video and is seen happening a date, in between scenes of impeccable choreography.
Elsewhere on Zone, Jihyo groups up with 24kGoldn on “Talkin’ About It.” The monitor marks the primary time TWICE or any of its members have labored with a Western artist on considered one of its songs. “Don’t Wanna Go Back” options Korean singer Heize, whereas Jihyo composed these two tracks, plus “Room” and “Nightmare.”
This solo launch comes on the heels of what has already been a momentous 12 months for Jihyo with TWICE. TWICE kicked off 2023 on the Billboard Women in Music Awards, the place they have been honored with the Breakthrough Award, then headed to New York to have a good time the discharge of their twelfth mini album, READY TO BE, with a ceremonial lighting of the Empire State Building in partnership with Musicians On Call and a efficiency of title monitor “SET ME FREE” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
The mini album was hailed by Rolling Stone as “as brash and compelling as anything in the pop music landscape today,” and entered the entered the Billboard 200 chart at No.2. READY TO BE holds the largest pure gross sales week for an album by a feminine Okay-Pop act within the U.S., and the debut prolonged TWICE’s document for probably the most high 10 debuts on the chart amongst all Okay-Pop feminine acts, now totaling 4. The mini album additionally secured the No.1 spot on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart – the group’s third primary placement on the chart.
Earlier this summer season, TWICE wrapped their fifth World Tour “READY TO BE.” The group performed 13 exhibits in North America, starting with a sold-out efficiency at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. This tour made TWICE the primary feminine Okay-Pop lady group to play each SoFi Stadium and MetLife Stadium.
Zone tracklist:
1. Killin’ Me Good
2. Talkin’ About It (feat. 24kGoldn)
3. Closer
4. Wishing On You
5. I Don’t Wanna Go Back (feat. Heize)
6. Room
7. Nightmare