The Backstreet Boys‘ 25th-anniversary celebrations for signature album Millennium are about to be larger than life, with the band announcing a revamped version of the LP along with three more Sphere residency dates Friday (Feb. 14).
As revealed Valentine’s Day morning by bandmates Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean, Kevin Richardson and Howie Dorough on Instagram, Millennium 2.0 will arrive on July 11, a whole quarter-century after the original album first topped the Billboard 200 for 10 weeks. The anniversary edition — for which the group members recreated their iconic album cover, futuristic all-white outfits and all — will feature remastered versions of all the songs on the original tracklist, plus a few uncovered demos and some live recordings from their 1999-2000 Into the Millennium World Tour.
The LP will also include the band’s new single, “Hey!,” which fans can hear as soon as they pre-save Millennium 2.0. “Thank you for still loving this album more than 25 years later and we can’t wait to make a ton of new Millennium Memories with you!” the band wrote. “It’s time for (us) to go to work y’all …”

五十岁之后，答案没比较多，疑问不那么急；
不急著去哪里，也不需要什么指引；
浪慢慢冲、山慢慢爬，
感觉对了，就走吧！
7/23 《跟著感觉走》数位专辑 正式上线
【在《我是海雅谷慕》《远走高飞》之后】
相隔十二年发行专辑《跟著感觉走》，生活在前、创作在后的区间，张震岳一贯轻松的分享：「有时在冲浪路程，有音乐旋律就哼出来，用手机录，收集出来做歌。」不刻意的创作状态，让生活自然地流进音乐，所有日常皆收拢在这张全新创作专辑中，从生活微观，到能对生命全景的宏观，在新专辑《跟著感觉走》做了不同维度的跨越。
在音乐市场的快速流转中，他始终不急不徐，不打造人设，由生活自然成了人设，在乐坛中有了自成一派的识别；在乐迷期盼新专辑的这些年，也随著张震岳的自然，自然的继续汇聚，不断听著不同时期的歌曲，用来覆盘青春年少，在他的音乐里找到曾经任性的应许之地；用来探问生活觉醒，在他的音乐里拆解情绪、关系、生命之必然，学会虚假的尽头有著生活。
《跟著感觉走》这不仅是张震岳久违的专辑，更像是老朋友的照面，轻松写意又真诚赤裸，谈著我们都有却难以面对的失意、失去、失败。
【《跟著感觉走》收集普通人的牢骚 偷渡普通人的情感】
「我话不多，喜欢在角落看著故事发生，喜欢偷听隔壁桌在说什么，很有趣。」摊开专辑十首歌曲，谈论普通人在普通日子里的缺失；张震岳在每个故事现场写生，远看潦草轻率，近看却细腻的耐人寻味。
专辑的前半张制作，去了宜兰山上和花莲海边，在看得到山、海的空间搭建录音设备，边录音边玩耍，制作人黄冠豪谈及制作说到：「移地录音是我希望我跟阿岳的转速一致，我觉得这样的作品才会强壮。」一天录音的进度完成，阿岳就会在附近走走，带大家探路爬山，晚上一起煮烧酒鸡，边享用边弹弹唱唱，所有制作团队，也更有机会走入他的视角，亲身体验他懂得生活才创作的音乐经历，一起在同一个频率上制作一张普通人的专辑。
没有停止创作的张震岳，他的音乐经历像徒步般，没有错过生活，拥有了时间；十二年，从Demo走到专辑制作完成，众人期盼已久的摇滚岳、情歌岳正式开张了，这次的创作有别以往，钢琴的运用比吉他更多，转变源自阿岳近年对音乐喜好的变化；制作上也加入了丰富的和声与管乐编排，综观整张专辑，融合阿岳最经典的摇滚与抒情，同时注入崭新的爵士风格；在贯彻「跟著感觉走」精神的创作过程中，每一首歌，各个层面也渐渐走到专辑核心，那些关于我们总是太想「找到」，却忘了「走著」本身就很值得的常态，成就了这张没有包装，只有真心的专辑。
【歌曲介绍】
● 浪人的... Surfer's Love Story
「浪人的等待。」
将浪拟人化，等不到的妳，正如同等不到那道理想的浪。歌曲中鼓与bass的律动缓缓推进，反复堆叠出情绪的起伏。制作过程中，团队花了大量时间来回讨论，只为捕捉那股在海面流动、忽远忽近的氛围。温润细腻的合声与管乐加入，让编曲层次更为丰富，情绪线条更加饱满。
● 搬家 Sadly Moving On
「要把过去丢掉，哪些要丢、哪些要留？」
讲述一段男女感情已到尾声。搬家的过程中，整理物品过去的回忆也随之不断重播，在心里反复上演，歌曲中的主角，也同时对自己生活做自我重整。音乐编排上隽永氛围的开场，渐进预告著搬家不难，自己的问题和回忆最难。
● 梅雨季 Rainy Season
「回过头来，才心动。」
创作灵感从梅雨季的湿热与空气中的气味展开，延伸至当初感情里的误解与不理解，最终成了遗憾。爵士曲风成为阿岳近年创作中偏好的元素，恰如其分地诠释这段悠远的情感故事。
● 感情勒索 Emotional Blackmail
「歹戏拖棚，与时间一起受伤的故事。」
以男性视角揭开情人关系中如同监牢般的痛苦束缚。歌曲段落的旋律高度重复，编曲巧妙透过不同节奏与层次的变化，划分段落，呈现主角的精神状态转折——从压抑沉重到逐渐释放。
● 好糟糕的派对 Want To Take You Home
「我只想带妳回家。」
张震岳的创作，脱离不了派对、酒精、男男女女。糟糕的派对、把不到的女孩子，纯情里埋藏著坏坏幻想的故事场景，戏谑有趣；是专辑中录制的第一首歌曲，为完成混乱画面，合声名单落落长，名单内藏有彩蛋嘉宾，提示：浑厚的声音。
● 操场酒吧 Errand Boy
「他＊的我是傻瓜。」
操场酒吧，存著不少张震岳偷到的故事，那里有形形色色的人物，对他来说很值得纪念的青春也都在那里；这首感情工具人之歌，写实直白的歌词，将主角的傻和骨气一吐之快。
● 跟著感觉走 Go With The Flow
「我其实也不喜欢他们说的大道理。」
熟悉的摇滚岳，阿岳说：「这首歌就是简单、直接、记忆点强烈的吉他Riff。加上另类时期的节奏氛围，产生出爽朗富有活力的情绪。」是一首多年前写的歌被选入专辑当中，体现耐听纯粹的作品，不被时间所影响，每个时代的任性也是。
● 亏欠 Let Me Go
「可不可以让我离开你，我并没有亏欠。」
取材自朋友的故事，在感情停损点的独白，放弃预约有你的未来，唱透感情始末和遗憾。
● 妈妈的眼睛 Mama's Eyes
「有人说 ，当你想起一个人，就是他来找你。喔原来，妈妈一直都在，然后在某个夜晚，怀疑与愤怒也散了，就写下这首歌。」——张震岳
这首歌诞生于张震岳生命中幽暗的篇章，那段时间，他选择走向孤独，在孤独之中，并将这段旅程写进歌里。在专辑中的定位是福音歌曲，音乐制作上保留Demo的质地，强化细节；歌曲后段制作人与阿岳决定歌曲加入儿童合唱团的和声，如同一道开阔的出口，为留下来的人，留下希望。
● 答案 Answer
「内心的声音，或许它会给你答案。」
制作人黄冠豪形容：「这首歌是一首灵性和自省的歌曲，像电影一般。」因从Demo中被触动，选择了手碟鼓带出歌曲中的灵性，再以声响节奏引出部落歌谣，保留了原味的律动；从一个人自省，到磅礴的答唱回应，建立出像是一个人面对大山大海般找寻答案的画面感。
【专辑曲序】
1.浪人的... Surfer's Love Story
2.搬家 Sadly Moving On
3.梅雨季 Rainy Season
4.感情勒索 Emotional Blackmail
5.好糟糕的派对 Want To Take You Home
6.操场酒吧 Errand Boy
7.跟著感觉走 Go With The Flow
8.亏欠 Let Me Go
9.妈妈的眼睛 Mama's Eyes
10.答案 Answer

來自內在的召喚，不為誰的凝視而定義
She is not made to please the gaze.
She is made to echo the voice within.
Sinners in the garden of The Seven Deadly sins,
This is your Mommy!
暌违六年！华语流行天后蔡依林重磅来袭，第15张全新专辑《Pleasure》即将在6月跟大家见面，新专辑同名单曲〈Pleasure〉更将于5/28抢先推出。透过全新专辑中的11首歌曲，探讨各种“欲望”的面貌，蔡依林这回也担纲专辑制作人，参与专辑内大部分的词曲创作。
全新专辑《Pleasure》透过文学戏剧中常探讨的“七宗罪”去挖掘“欲望”的面貌，蔡依林想强调“欲望不是原罪”，并在首波释出的概念视觉中，头顶着赤蛇缠绕的“美杜莎欲望桂冠”搭配直击人心的灵魂凝视，邀请大家加入这场Pleasure探索之旅。在东、西方的神话故事中，女娲、美杜莎皆以蛇做为形象，分别展现不同的女性力量，让Jolin认为非常适合诠释“Pleasure”的主题，也是对自己内在欲望的灵魂提问。
蔡依林这回担纲专辑制作人，参与专辑内大部分的词曲创作，她说：“之前等合适的歌词卡关了两三年，有天突然想说不然我来试试看，写了第一首歌后觉得很有成就感，就愈写愈多首，一写完就发给经纪人看。”她笑称歌词创作犹如自我疗愈，专辑制作过程也因为求好心切的个性，其中一首歌的编曲就改了34个版本，坦言自己是属于不断自我推翻又重建的制作人，最后也分享心情“整个制作过程就是我的Pleasure旅程，愉悦不等于极致的快乐，会先感受到痛苦，获得满足之后又感受到自负，又再回到内心的自我怀疑，不断轮回。”

VIVIZ 정규 1집 [A Montage of ( )]
- VIVIZ, 7월 8일 첫 정규앨범 ‘A Montage of ( )’ 공개!
- 사랑으로 인해 완전해진 VIVIZ의 이야기 ‘La La Love Me’
- 다양한 색과 감정이 쌓아 올려진 다채로운 장르의 총 9곡 수록!
VIVIZ가 데뷔 후 첫 정규앨범 ‘A Montage of ( )’를 발매했다.
이번 앨범은 VIVIZ가 2022년 데뷔 이후 선보여 온 다양한 음악들로 성장한 모습을 담아낸 앨범이자 앞으로 채워 나갈 VIVIZ의 새로운 가능성과 서사를 상징한다.
총 아홉 개의 트랙으로 구성된 이번 앨범의 타이틀곡은 ‘La La Love Me’로 일렉트로닉과 아날로그 사운드가 조화를 이루는 유니크한 비트와 경쾌하게 반복되는 캐치한 후렴구가 인상적인 댄스 팝 곡이다. 사랑이 시작되는 찰나의 설렘과 확신이 교차하며 서로에게 물들어 가는 과정을 VIVIZ만의 감성으로 표현해 마치 사랑에 빠진 듯한 몰입감을 선사한다.
또한 몽환적인 이미지와 다채로운 화면 전환으로 ‘나비가 되기까지의 여정’을 담아낸 뮤직비디오와 부드러움 속 절도있는 동작을 표현한 Kany의 안무를 통해 한층 더 성숙하고 완성도 높은 VIVIZ의 모습을 확인할 수 있다.
타이틀곡 외에도 VIVIZ만의 색채가 담긴 음악으로 다채롭게 첫 정규앨범을 채웠으며, 특히 세 멤버의 솔로곡은 각자가 가진 개성과 음악적 깊이를 드러내며 앨범을 더욱 풍성하게 만든다.
신비의 ‘Hipnotic’은 힙합 댄스 곡으로, 파워풀한 트랙과 단숨에 시선을 사로잡겠다는 당당한 애티튜드의 가사가 더해져 신비의 압도적인 존재감을 그대로 드러낸다.
엄지의 ‘Love Language’는 몽환적인 엄지의 음색이 매력적으로 다가오는 R&B 팝 곡으로, 엄지가 작사에 참여해 내면의 감정으로 연결되는 깊은 교감을 감각적으로 풀어냈다.
은하의 ‘Milky Way’는 꿈결 같은 분위기를 자아내는 신스 사운드와 다채로운 리듬 변주가 특징인 팝 곡으로, 상대에게 이끌려 환상처럼 밀려오는 아득한 감정을 섬세하게 표현했다. 은하가 직접 작사와 작곡에 참여해 더욱 특별한 의미를 더했다.
이 외에도 묘한 감정의 경계선을 시네마틱하게 표현한 ‘Hands Off My Heart’, 잊지 못할 여름날의 기억을 담은 ‘Citrus’, 매혹적인 신스와 스트링 사운드가 인상적인 다크한 무드의 일렉트로 팝 곡 ‘Sticker’, 몽환적인 코드 진행과 리드미컬한 베이스라인이 돋보이는 R&B 팝 ‘Toxic’, 그리고 VIVIZ 세 멤버가 팬들에게 진심을 전하는 따뜻한 하모니의 ‘Wildflower’까지 다채로운 트랙들이 유기적으로 이어져 완성도를 더한다.
올해로 데뷔 4년 차를 맞이한 VIVIZ는 그동안 걸어온 길과 앞으로 나아갈 길의 교차점에 서 있다. 이번 ‘A Montage of ( )’는 각 멤버의 음악적 정체성과 VIVIZ만이 그릴 수 있는 감성으로 깊은 공감과 여운을 선사한다.
1. La La Love Me
Lyrics by 서가을 (INHOUSE), Alphabet(153/Joombas), 김성경(XYXX), jonjon(XYXX), Rizin(153/Joombas),
UYEON (INHOUSE), Ludwig Lindell, Daniel Caesar, Paulina 'PAU' Cerrilla, Josefin Glenmark
Composed by Ludwig Lindell, Daniel Caesar, Paulina 'PAU' Cerrilla, Josefin Glenmark
Arranged by Ludwig Lindell, Daniel Caesar
타이틀 곡 ‘La La Love Me’는 일렉트로닉과 아날로그 사운드가 조화를 이루는 유니크한 비트와 경쾌하게 반복되는 캐치한 후렴구가 인상적인 댄스 팝 곡으로, 사랑이 시작되는 찰나의 설렘과 확신이 교차하며 서로에게 물들어 가는 과정을 VIVIZ 만의 감성으로 표현해 마치 사랑에 빠진 듯한 몰입감을 선사한다.
2. Hands Off My Heart
Lyrics by Newny (INHOUSE)
Composed by Doplamingo, Zarah Christenson, Nina Sundstrom
Arranged by Doplamingo
‘Hands Off My Heart’는 빈티지한 신스와 서정적인 멜로디가 어우러진 댄스 팝 곡으로, 사랑이라 부르기엔 이른 애매하고 묘한 감정의 경계선을 시네마틱하게 그려냈다.
3. Citrus
Lyrics by 구여름
Composed by vangdale
Arranged by vangdale
‘Citrus’는 무게감 있는 베이스와 다이내믹한 전환을 이끄는 보컬 드롭이 귀를 사로잡는 팝 곡으로, 여름날의 향기와 함께 떠오르는 잊지 못할 기억을 담아 깊은 여운을 남긴다.
4. Sticker
Lyrics by Colde, yukon, Milena
Composed by Colde, basecamp, The Fridge Club
Arranged by Colde, basecamp, The Fridge Club
‘Sticker’는 매혹적인 신스와 스트링 사운드가 인상적인 다크한 무드의 일렉트로 팝 곡으로, 사랑을 장난처럼 여기는 상대에게 더 이상 휘둘리지 않고 떼어내겠다는 직설적인 가사가 감정을 극대화한다.
5. Toxic
Lyrics by 김성경(XYXX), 3! (라라라스튜디오), 구삼영(153/Joombas), 황수민(ARTiffect), jonjon(XYXX), Alicia Haynes
Composed by EastWest, yuka (AVEC), MADEWELL (AVEC), 희연 (AVEC), LEY (AVEC), ROSESIA, Alicia Haynes\n
Arranged by yuka (AVEC), MADEWELL (AVEC)
‘Toxic’은 몽환적인 코드 진행과 리드미컬한 베이스라인이 돋보이는 R&B 팝 곡으로, 지금껏 본 적 없던 새로운 모습을 예고하며 중독적인 매력에 헤어 나올 수 없이 빠지게 될 것이라는 당찬 메시지를 담았다.
6. Hipnotic (SINB Solo)
Lyrics by bay(153/Joombas), 전세희(153/Joombas), 김상은(Jamfactory), HYEZIN(ESMP), Rizin(153/Joombas), Christopher Smith, Lauren Amber Aquilina, Louise Udin
Composed by Lauren Amber Aquilina, Louise Udin, RISC
신비 솔로곡 ‘Hipnotic’은 트랩 비트와 808 베이스 기반의 힙합 댄스 곡으로, 파워풀한 트랙과 단숨에 시선을 사로잡겠다는 당당한 애티튜드의 가사가 더해져 신비의 압도적인 존재감을 그대로 드러낸다.
7. Love Language (UMJI Solo)
Lyrics by 엄지 (UMJI), Alina Smith, Annalise Morelli, Elsa Curran
Composed by Alina Smith(153/Joombas, LYRE), Annalise Morelli(153/Joombas, LYRE), Elsa Curran
Arranged by Alina Smith (LYRE)
엄지 솔로곡 ‘Love Language’는 그루비한 사운드 위로 펼쳐지는 엄지의 몽환적인 음색이 매력적인 R&B 팝 곡으로, 엄지가 작사에 참여해 말보다 내면의 감정으로 연결되는 깊은 교감을 감각적으로 풀어냈다.
8. Milky Way (EUNHA Solo)
Lyrics by 구삼영(153/Joombas), 은하 (EUNHA)
Composed by FRANTS, 은하 (EUNHA), 박문치, 1Zone
Arranged by FRANTS
은하 솔로곡 ‘Milky Way’는 꿈결 같은 분위기를 자아내는 신스 사운드와 다채로운 리듬 변주가 특징인 팝 곡으로, 은하가 작사/작곡에 참여해 상대에게 이끌려 환상처럼 밀려오는 아득한 감정을 섬세하게 표현했다.
9. Wildflower
Lyrics by 조윤경
Composed by HUMBLER, rokman, samUIL (Decade+), SiKA (Decade+), Christie-Jade Mananga Makayabo
Arranged by HUMBLER
‘Wildflower’는 감정의 흐름을 따라 부드럽게 전개되는 사운드의 미디엄 템포 R&B 팝 곡으로, 매 순간 피어나는 단단한 사랑의 마음을 들꽃에 빗댄 시적인 가사로 표현했으며 세 멤버의 따뜻한 하모니로 팬들을 향한 진심을 전한다.

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).

是历经千帆后最赤诚的告白，
是每一寸光、每一粒尘、每一次心跳共振凝结而成的感谢。
谢谢世界容纳我们渺小的存在与宏大的梦想；
谢谢世界赐予我们音乐，作为我们探索、表达、联结未来的桥梁；
谢谢所有奔赴在路上的际遇，无论好坏与否，掌声有无，都是最动人的风景。
世界奔涌向前，音乐生生不息。
这声「谢谢」将化作照亮未知的光，温柔地投向下一个百年。
Supper Moment 新专辑《谢谢你啊世界》共收录 11首歌曲。在解构世界的表象之下，饱含乐队最核心的炽热与真诚。这是酝酿了三年之久的专辑。歌曲里有对世界的探索、对情绪的记录以及对爱的回应。由概念构思、音乐创作、编曲，到前往日本进行录音、混音的工作，这张专辑的新曲目在上海、重庆、杭州、北京的四站巡演中以每站两首的新颖形式面世。
音乐班底展默契 好友配合蕴含惊喜
新专辑制作乐队分工更为明确，凝聚了每位成员的心力与期待。Martain 主导前期制作，CK 则负责后期混音，阿达和Sunny 主要负责歌词创作与旋律构思。这也是乐队第一次分别在中山、香港、广州以及日本多地完成专辑的制作工作。制作班底还加入了Supper Moment的好友杨子为负责配唱编辑以及和音制作，为新专辑注入了新元素。
首次尝试巡演现场解锁新歌 四个城市、八首新歌、每站两首
Supper Moment 带着新专辑《谢谢你啊世界》开启「谢谢你啊世界」巡演。新歌的发布方式回归音乐本质，尽显音乐现场感的魅力：巡演每站解锁两首普通话新歌 Live 首唱，现场乐迷抢先聆听，演出结束后零点准时上线，独特体验无可替代。在「谢谢你啊世界」巡演北京站完成之际，《谢谢你啊世界》这张专辑八首普通话新歌整体概念也随之揭晓，让乐迷在每一站巡演中共同见证着专辑的诞生。

Introduced to the world as a bubbly TikTok influencer, the singer/dancer/actor spent 2024 pulling off what looked like a total reinvention—screaming over the remix of mentor Charli xcx’s “Von dutch” remix, then releasing the steamy “Diet Pepsi,” a single charming enough to seduce even the doubters. In fact, Addison Rae was just reintroducing herself. “I always knew that I wanted to make music, I knew I wanted to perform,” Rae tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “That was something that was really obvious to me since I was a little girl.” And TikTok was the best way for a teenager from Lafayette, Louisiana, to catapult herself into the seemingly inaccessible world of showbiz.

Pursuing her pop-star dreams in LA studio sessions to write the songs that would become her first EP (2023’s polarizing <i>AR</i>), Rae found herself deferring to the professionals. “When I moved here and started doing sessions, I was like, ‘I need as much guidance as possible,’” she says. “Then, over time, I really started to lean on myself. I really started to lean on my abilities.” In February 2024, Rae met songwriter/producers Elvira Anderfjärd and Luka Kloser (both part of the publishing camp of Swedish pop powerhouse Max Martin) and wrote the effervescent hook of “Diet Pepsi” that same day. “[‘Diet Pepsi’] was such a natural beginning to all of this,” says Rae. “I think it was a perfect introduction in so many ways.”

Cue a string of curveball singles, each one presenting an unexpected new facet, from the moody, minor-key “High Fashion” to the Björk-inspired “Headphones On.” It feels apt, then, that her debut album drops the “Rae” and simply goes by <i>Addison</i>—a collection of dreamy, intense pop songs that sound like self-discovery, tied together less by genre than by mood. Tracks like “Fame Is a Gun” and “Money Is Everything” expertly straddle camp and sincerity: “You’ve got a front-row seat, and I/I got a taste of the glamorous life!” she winks on the former, a dizzy synth-pop number on the perils of hitting the big time.

The songs on <i>Addison</i> are not exactly club bangers, though they’re informed by Rae’s childhood as a dancer; nor are any of them obvious hits. But Rae relished the opportunity to let her creative instincts run wild. “Once you start playing it safe, feeling like, ‘Okay, I’m going to respond with what people want,’ you lose all your freedom,” she says. “You lose all desire for the whole purpose of starting it, and feeling like it’s a form of expression and a reflection. It’s more scary to let that go and give people exactly what they think they want.”

As for what Rae learned in the process of writing the album? “Let yourself play. Let yourself have fun, let yourself mess up,” she says. “I’m not saying, ‘All right, this is the real me now.’ No—it’s always been the real me, and those experiences have completely guided and shaped me to where I am now. It is about arrival—arrival to who I feel like I’ve become, and who has experienced all these ups and downs, to now land here, in this person that I am now.”

I Quit is the upcoming fourth studio album by American rock band Haim. It is scheduled to be released on June 20, 2025, in the United States by Columbia Records and internationally by Polydor Records, as their first studio album in five years, following Women in Music Pt. III (2020).

The cover art for <i>Virgin</i>—an X-ray of a pelvis with a visible IUD—was a far cry from that of Lorde’s bright, beachy third album, 2021’s <i>Solar Power</i>, whose sun-soaked, jasmine-scented songs drew from Laurel Canyon folk and Y2K soft rock. Looking back, that album’s free-spirited imagery was a bit idealistic—a projection of how the New Zealand native turned New Yorker wished she could be. Her fourth album, as she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, is a portrait of the 28-year-old singer as she is, without edits or apologies: “Kind of like a photo of yourself that you don’t love, but captures something true about you.”

The resulting songs, written between 2023 and 2025, are forthcoming and visceral, trading <i>Solar Power</i>’s New Age-chill for beats you can feel in your gut. (It’s her first album since her 2013 debut not co-written and -produced by Jack Antonoff; instead, she shared production duties with the LA-based electronic musician Jim-E Stack.) Surrealist introspection gives way to throbbing bass on opening track “Hammer,” where a walk down Canal Street ripples with psychedelic visions. “I had just come off my birth control, and I could not believe how I was feeling,” Lorde told Lowe about the song’s inception. “Everything was pure possibility. That first sound feels like it’s coming from a very guttural place in the body. My sister said, ‘It sounds like it’s coming from your womb.’”

Cue the aura readings, 3 am cigarettes, broken mirrors, pregnancy tests, ego death. On “Man of the Year” and “Favourite Daughter,” questions beget more questions on the subject of what it means to be a woman, and moreover, a woman who’s now been famous for nearly half her life. The latter is at once a love letter to her mother and a meditation on being a teenager thrust into global pop stardom. “There’s been this dynamic for the last 10 to 12 years—and then further back—of wanting so badly to be loved, and to get this approval, and to be the favorite,” she told Lowe. “And it was really moving to me how, even as I was singing this song about my foremost idol and the person who I think is the most amazing in the world, I was also singing about what a crazy thing it is to have happened to you, what happened to me at 16.”

Now the superstar finds freedom in the freefall: “I’ve been up on the pedestal/But tonight I just want to fall,” she sings on the shuffling “Shapeshifter.” “I still don’t know what happens when you put out a record that is like this,” she admitted about the unfiltered portrait <i>Virgin</i> presents. But in its full transparency, she arrives at something like peace.

將團員間的深厚羈絆以及對歌迷滿滿的愛，注入第 10 張迷你專輯《Girls Will Be Girls》，ITZY 正如專輯標題所示盡展女孩本色，她們不僅在〈Kiss & Tell〉中揮灑自信，也在〈Promise〉中流露真摯柔情。專輯發行前，ITZY 更釋出了電影感十足的預告片，由 RYUJIN 飾演失去生命力的女孩，在成員的幫助下重獲心跳，傳達著她們希望借助作品帶給聽眾的共鳴。以下由 ITZY 為我們獨家分享逐曲介紹，說明她們如何透過「自帶氣場的主角能量」和對歌迷 MIDZY 的感謝之情，塑造出專輯新風格。

<b>〈Girls Will Be Girls〉</b>
YUNA：「這首歌講的是當我們在一起時，我們之間的連結就更加強大，強勁突出的節奏也與歌曲傳達的訊息完美搭配。」

<b>〈Kiss & Tell〉</b>
CHAERYEONG：「這首迷人的歌曲節奏明快，歌詞表達了毫不在意他人看法的自信。啾咪！」

<b>〈Locked N Loaded〉</b>
LIA：「這首歌捕捉了內心深藏的黑暗逐漸浮現的感覺，當你跟著唱並沉浸在旋律之中，它能幫助你釋放這些情緒，帶給你自由的感覺。」

<b>〈Promise〉</b>
YEJI：「這首歌想表達『成為彼此的光』。我很高興我們能為 MIDZY 帶來這首溫暖有如春天般的粉絲歌曲。我們會永遠陪伴你們，打勾勾！」

<b>〈Walk〉</b>
RYUJIN：「這首充滿魅力的歌曲融合了 House、電子樂和舞曲。它的節奏令人難以抗拒，如果邊走邊聽，會讓你覺得自己充滿主角氣場。」

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在以行船和骑马下江南的时代，
江南，就像一道时光的水袖，
绣满一千个春天。
我们的歌，以音为舟，以声为马，
那么简单
这么江南
春歌破雾，紫竹缠烟，
太湖上，橹声欸乃，
一如摆渡之舟
船影将琉璃天幕剪成粼粼碎片。
采红菱的背篓上犹带露珠，
转身又见，芦柴似雪落满船，落满头
莫停，莫停，
驾船直过板桥西，
道不尽的情思，晕染了归人的流年。
无锡巷中蒸腾茶雾；
西湖波里掩映塔影。
茉莉花的尾音，如刺绣的针脚，
于烟雨中编织出，
我们关于江南的初见
取一支珊瑚为笔，蘸取暮色为墨，
将未来的谜底写进泛黄的竹简。
待思念洇透了时光，
唯余一句叩问于风中流转：
——能不忆江南？
就又绿了此刻
千江之南

ENHYPEN continues their vampiric agenda with <i>DESIRE : UNLEASH</i>, the K-pop boy group’s sixth EP. The septet’s “concept” (used in K-pop to define a fixed aesthetic and/or narrative theme) had been supernatural since their debut in 2020, but they made their vampirism explicit with 2023’s “Bite Me,” a Y2K-inspired pop track that beckons listeners closer (“Just come kiss me and bite me, yeah”)—at their own risk.

Two years later, by <i>DESIRE : UNLEASH</i>, members Heeseung, Jay, Jake, Sunghoon, Sunoo, Jungwon, and Ni-ki have become masters at evoking a sense of dangerous desire with a vocal flourish or turn of phrase. “Out in the world, you’re just an angel/But here in the dark, my sacrifice,” they sing in dance-pop lead single “Bad Desire (With or Without You),” which sees “Bite Me” producer Cirkut returning to work with the group.

While the album’s theme may stick tight to the titular unleashed desire, the mode of expression shifts: future bass (“Flashover”), hip-hop trap (“Outside”), pop-rock (“Helium”), and piano-led pop (“Too Close”). <i>DESIRE : UNLEASH</i> also includes the album release of “Loose,” the funky, mid-tempo pop track ENHYPEN originally released in preparation for their first Coachella performance in spring 2025. The track trades supernatural lore for something softer, but keeps the seductive focus: “I don’t wanna waste another second tonight/So in five, four, three, two, one, let’s let it.”

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In the same year IU, aka Lee Ji-eun, starred in the decade-spanning historical drama <i>When Life Gives You Tangerines</i>, the Korean superstar released the third entry in her <i>A Flower Bookmark</i> series. The series, which began in 2014 with <i>A Flower Bookmark</i>, is a nostalgic collection of albums that reinterprets iconic Korean songs in the pop star’s lyrical style. <i>A flower bookmark, Pt. 3</i> was IU’s first addition to the series in eight years, following 2017’s <i>A Flower Bookmark, Pt. 2</i>, and it features collaborations with Korean rapper-singer Wonstein and Korean music collective Balming Tiger.

IU’s six song choices, which feature Korean megahits from the 1970s to 2000s, would be familiar to domestic listeners but new to most international listeners. Lead single “Never Ending Story” was originally released in 2002 by Boohwal, the legendary Korean rock band formed in the 1980s that found a new generation of listeners with the naughts-era breakup ballad. The song had previously been covered by many popular artists, including FTISLAND and MeloMance. IU’s interpretation was arranged by Seo Dong-hwan, who also composed the singer’s 2024 hit “Love wins all.”

Other songs covered by IU in <i>A flower bookmark, Pt. 3</i> include “Red Sneakers,” initially released by Park Hye Kyung in 2002; “October 4th,” originally released by Seo Taiji in 2004; “Last Scene” featuring Wonstein, originally released by Roller Coaster in 2002; “A Beautiful Person” featuring Balming Tiger, originally released by Shin Jung-hyun and the Yupjuns in 1974; and “Square’s Dream,” originally released by White in 1996.

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