The rare all-female rock band in Korea’s pop industry, QWER burst onto the fifth-generation scene in late 2023 with a unique story and sound. Founded by a fitness YouTuber and composed of a pair of Twitch streamers (drummer Chodan and bassist Magenta), a TikTok cosplayer (keyboardist Hina), and a former J-pop idol (main vocalist Siyeon), the quirky group gets its name from the <i>League of Legends</i>’ hotkeys.

From debut single “Discord” to third mini album <i>In a million noises, I’ll be your harmony</i>, QWER’s J-rock-inspired music bursts with energy and optimism for a better future. While “Dear,” the 2025 mini album’s exuberant lead single, may explore a heavy theme (“Left here in the rain/I don’t want to cry alone/Please tell me/How to hold back tears”), QWER keeps the tone bright, pairing pop-punk guitar with Siyeon’s soaring soprano. “잘 지낼게요,” she refrains in the outro, with the rest of the band behind her: “I’ll be OK.”

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Released in June 2025, fromis_9’s <i>From Our 20’s</i> acts as a bridge between the K-pop girl group’s time as a nine-member squad under HYBE’s Pledis Entertainment and their time as a quintet under ASND Entertainment. Following up on their 2024 summer song success with “Supersonic,” fromis_9 leads the six-track EP with “LIKE YOU BETTER,” an explosive, Carly Rae Jepsen-esque bop designed to be sung with the car windows down. The feel-good, pop-rock vibes continue in “REBELUTIONAL” and “Love=Disaster,” the fizzy summer pop track “Strawberry Mimosa” (co-written by member Park Ji-won), the emotionally charged “Twisted Love” (co-written by member Song Ha-young), and the upbeat album-ender “Merry Go Round.”

“Gnarly,” the lead single from KATSEYE’s <i>BEAUTIFUL CHAOS</i> EP, is both a comeback and a cannonball into the girl group’s new era. It’s a revved-up, hyperpop fever dream that’s braggadocious and tongue-in-cheek in equal measure (“Hottie, hottie/Like a bag of Takis/I’m the shit,” they chant), with generous cursing that cuts as sharply as its knife-slashing sound effects. It’s almost hard to believe this is the same group that debuted just a year earlier with 2024’s <i>SIS (Soft Is Strong)</i>, whose breakthrough single “Touch” was a sweet kiss-off wrapped in candy hearts. But that’s the point: KATSEYE are no longer the rookies pieced together by label giants HYBE and Geffen. “Gnarly” marks their charge into bolder, more daring territory that reflects who they really are: chronically online, fierce yet funny, mature yet refreshingly unfiltered.

<i>BEAUTIFUL CHAOS</i> continues down that path, exploring the complexities of modern womanhood—dating, digital personas, and, in KATSEYE’s case, six distinct personalities living under one roof—across an eclectic range of tracks. On “Gabriela,” they warn off a romantic rival atop a breeze of Spanish guitars, with member Daniela delivering the group’s first Spanish-language verse. <i>SIS</i> fans will find an older sister to “Touch” in “Gameboy,” a pastel rebuff layered in 8-bit bleeps and hopscotch percussion, while the balladic “Mean Girls” lets the group’s vocal runs and harmonies shine as they rise above online haters. But closer “M.I.A” steers KATSEYE back to the club, reasserting their self-worth (“Don’t be like this/No, you won't put a leash on a bitch”) over a gritty, throbbing beat and ready to dash into the night.

In their first decade as a nine-member K-pop girl group, TWICE became masters at exploring new facets of their concept without ever losing the unwavering cheerfulness that defines it. For <i>THIS IS FOR</i>, TWICE’s fourth full-length album since their 2015 debut, the third-generation squad slides into a comparatively subdued cool-girl persona to explore overlapping themes of female empowerment and romantic frustration, artfully navigating the space between K-pop’s “girl crush” and “bubblegum pop” false binary.

The cool-girl persona is especially on display in <i>THIS IS FOR</i>’s title track, a high-energy song that starts with a chuckle and a shout-out: “This is for all my ladies who don’t get hyped enough/If you’ve been done wrong, then this your song, so turn it up.” TWICE makes room for feelings of otherness on “THIS IS FOR” before using the synth-pop bop “MARS” to expand on the theme: “Do you ever feel like/You don’t belong in the world?” The tale of tested confidence continues in the rolling rhythms of “G.O.A.T.,” a subunit song that has members Mina, Dahyun, and Chaeyoung comparing themselves to a phoenix rising from the ashes in the aftermath of a breakup: “Got me on a roll, yeah, I breathe fire/Try to bring me low but I go higher.”

Released in TWICE’s 10th year as a K-pop group and in the immediate aftermath of the JYP Entertainment squad’s successful contributions to the <i>KPop Demon Hunters</i> soundtrack, <i>THIS IS FOR</i> sees the group also preparing for their This Is For world tour. The 14-track, mostly English-language album includes five subunit songs that fit particularly well into a high-energy set list as an opportunity for non-participating members to rest. In addition to “G.O.A.T.,” they include “BATTITUDE” (Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, and Mina), “DAT AHH DAT OOH” (Sana, Jihyo, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu), “LET LOVE GO” (Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, and Tzuyu), and “TALK” (Nayeon and Jihyo).