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BTS‘ RM is a big baby in the trippy video for his single “Come Back to Me.” The cinematic clip directed, produced and written by Beef creator Lee Sung Jin that dropped on Friday morning (May 10) features a scene where the singer plays an adult-sized infant, one of several roles he takes on in the twisty, nearly seven-minute mini-movie.
“Come back to me/ Like you used to/ Now, I could see/ What a life is about/ I told you I’m fine tonight/ Staying good/ Spring always been here/ I will sleep in her eyes,” the 29-year-old K-pop star sleepily croons over acoustic guitar and whistling. Elsewhere in the visual, RM is a devoted dad and a man at odds with his girlfriend.
The single from RM’s upcoming 11-track second solo album, Right Place, Wrong Person (May 24) was first performed last August during a surprise appearance at BTS bandmate Suga’s Seoul concert on his SUGA | Agust D Tour ‘D-DAY’ The Final outing. “Through ‘Come Back To Me,’ RM explores the central theme of the new album, ‘right and wrong,’ delving into the paradoxical desire to venture into new territories while longing to remain content in the present,” reads a statement announcing the video that co-stars actress Kim Minha (Pachinko).
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RM wrote the lyrics for the song, which also features guest musicians OHHYUK from South Korean band HYUKOH — who composed and arranged the track — as well as guitar and bass from Kuo of Taiwanese band Sunset Rollercoaster and contributions from singer/songwriter JNKYRD and San yawn of Balming Tiger.
“The music video captures the uncanny yet familiar sensation of feeling like a stranger in different surroundings, echoing the theme of the upcoming album,” adds the statement of the clip that ends with a surprise twist.
RM’s first solo LP, Indigo, was released in Dec. 2022, and peaked at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200 and featured guests including Anderson .Paak, Erykah Badu and others. The members of BTS are all in the midst of completing their mandatory military services in South Korea, which RM enlisted in in December alongside band mates V, Jimin and Jung Kook.
Watch the “Come Back to Me” video below.
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NCT DREAM rolled out the dates for their upcoming 2024 world tour on Wednesday (May 8), with dates in Latin American, the U.S and Europe as part of their 2024 NCT DREAM World Tour .
After kicking the outing off last weekend with three sold-out shows at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome, the new dates will bring the seven-member K-pop group to Latin American for four shows, followed by seven gigs in the U.S. and five stops in Europe. Currently on tour in Asia — with arena and stadium concerts scheduled in Indonesia, China, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines through August 11 –the new dates will kick off on August 31 at Movistar Arena in Bogota, Colombia.
The U.S. shows will launch on Sept. 12 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, and include stops in Oakland, Fort Worth and Washington, D.C. before winding down at the United Center in Chicago on Sept. 26.
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According to a release, the tour is the group’s biggest global run to date, with tickets for the U.S. gigs going on sale with a Weverse fan club presale beginning on May 16, followed by a general onsale kicking off on May 17 at 3 p.m. local time here. Tickets for the Latin America swing will also start with a Weverse fan club presale beginning on May 13 (check local listings for more information), while the European Weverse presale will launch on May 15, followed by a general onsale beginning on May 17 at 10 a.m. local time (check local listings).
NCT — comprised of members JAEMIN, JISUNG, JENO, RENJUN, HAECHAN, MARK and CHENLE — recently released the video for “Smoothie,” the lead single from their just-released DREAM( )SCAPE EP.
Check out the full list of dates for the 2024 NCT DREAM WORLD TOUR below:
May 18 – Jakarta, Indonesia @ GBK Stadium
June 15 – Hong Kong, China @ AsiaWorld-Arena
June 16 – Hong Kong, China @ AsiaWorld-Arena
June 22 – Bangkok, Thailand @ Rajamangala National Stadium
June 23 – Bangkok, Thailand @ Rajamangala National Stadium
Sat Jun 29 – Kallang, Singapore – Singapore Indoor Stadium
June 30 – Kallang, Singapore @ Singapore Indoor Stadium
August 10 – Manila, Philippines @ SM Mall of Asia Arena
August 11 – Manila, Philippines @ SM Mall of Asia Arena
August 31 – Bogota, Colombia @ Movistar Arena
Sept. 2 – São Paulo, Brazil @ Espaço Unimed
Sept. 5 – Santiago, Chile @ Movistar Arena
Sept. 9 – Mexico City, Mexico @ Palacio de los Deportes
Sept. 12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Intuit Dome
Sept. 14 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
Sept. 17 – Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
Sept. 19 – Duluth, GA @ Gas South Arena
Sept. 21 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena
Sept. 24 – Washington, D.C. @ Capital One Arena
Sept. 26 – Chicago, IL @ United Center
Oct. 30 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Rotterdam Ahoy*
Nov. 3 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena*
Nov. 6 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Arena*
Nov. 9 – Paris, France @ Adidas Arena*
Nov. 12 – London, UK @ OVO Arena Wembley*
*Non Live Nation date
BLACKPINK‘s Lisa brought some pink venom to the Miami International Autodrome on Sunday when the K-pop star served as the Formula 1 Grand Prix flag-bearer and met the Oracle Red Bull Racing team. On Tuesday (May 7), Lisa posted photos from the event on Instagram, writing that she felt “Honored to wave the flag at […]
RM‘s second solo album Right Place, Wrong Person is still a few weeks away, but the BTS star is giving fans a visual sneak peek at the project ahead of time. The K-pop star shared a batch of concept photos Thursday (May 2) teasing the aesthetics of his upcoming 11-track LP, which drops May 24. […]
K-pop group SEVENTEEN dropped their anticipated greatest hits album, 17 Is Right Here, on Monday morning (April 29), along with the futuristic video for the lead single, “Maestro.” The two-CD, 33-track compilation pulls together the Korean versions of eight previously released Japanese singles, 20 singles from the 13-man band’s Korean releases, as well as four new tracks and a digital-only instrumental version of the boy band’s 2015 debut single, “Adore U.”
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Fresh single “MAESTRO” will be followed by the hip-hop team’s “LALALI,” the performance team’s “Spell” and the vocal team’s “Cheers to youth.” The edgy “MAESTRO” visual, directed by Han Sungsoo, drops group members Woozi, S. Coups, Wonwoo, Mingyu, Vernon, Jeonghan, Jun, DK, Joshua, Hoshi, Dino, The8 and Seungkwan into a sleek future scape filled with dancing robots and mechanical dogs in which they bust out high-energy choreo with their machine companions and conduct a gothic symphony orchestra through the hip-hop-influenced track’s dance attack.
“Aligning with the group’s core message around solidarity, this captivating dance R&B track illustrates how together, we can orchestrate our own universe like a ‘maestro,’” read a statement announcing the clip. To further the message, it aded that the video is set in a dystopian future where “anything, including music and art, can be easily created with technology.”
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According to the band’s label, 17 Is Right Here got more than three million pre-orders as of April 19. During a press conference announcing the album on Monday, SEVENTEEN also announced plans for a world tour int he fall, with the full roster — including U.S. dates — to be announced later.
Listen to the album and watch the “MAESTRO” video below:
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J-Hope‘s Hope on the Street Vol. 1 tops this week’s new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (March 29) on Billboard, choosing the BTS member’s solo mini-album as their favorite new music release of the past week. Fans showed major support for J-Hope’s latest project, which won the poll by a landslide, bringing […]
NewJeans will double-up this summer with a pair of single album releases as the follow-up to their Jan. 2023 single album OMG. The single albums (which are akin to EPs), will drop on May 24 and June 21, with the first, How Sweet, slated to feature the title track, as well as “Bubble Gum” and […]
K-pop septet NCT Dream dropped a new mini album on Monday morning (March 25), DREAM()SCAPE [pronounced “Dream Escape”], the follow-up to their 2022 EP, Candy. According to a release announcing the six-song project — featuring writing and production from several of the members — it “highlights more mature and intensified musical color from the K-pop […]
From Christina Aguilera and Megan Thee Stallion to Olivia Rodrigo, everyone seems to be enamored with Ariana Grande‘s “The Boy Is Mine.” And now, NewJeans‘ Hanni is the latest star to show the track some love following its March 8 release on Eternal Sunshine. The K-pop star filmed a video of herself nailing a dance […]
K-pop boy band TOMORROW X TOGETHER announced the dates for their upcoming 2024 U.S. tour, which will hit eight cities across 11 shows. The outing is slated to kick off in Tacoma, WA at the Tacoma Dome on May 15, followed by gigs in Oakland, two nights at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and shows […]