Blockberry Artistic has unveiled the tracklist for LOONA‘s January comeback as an 11-member group, their first new music because the expulsion of Chuu earlier this month.
The tracklist was launched by way of LOONA’s official social media earlier at this time (December 14) at midnight KST, detailing the 5 new tracks to be anticipated on the upcoming report ‘The Origin Album: 0’. The EP will probably be led by title monitor ‘Freesm’, accompanied by 4 B-sides: opener ‘0’, ‘Comet’, ‘B.U.R.N (Be U Proper Now)’ and ‘Flash’.
The tracklist additionally detailed the composers, lyricists and producers who labored on the songs. Manufacturing home MUMW – whose oeuvre consists of songs from f(x), BoA, EXO and extra – labored on each ‘Freesm’ and ‘B.U.R.N (Be U Proper Now)’, whereas 153/Joombas and Monotree producers and songwriters had been credited on the tracks ‘Comet’ and ‘Flash’ respectively.
The five-part undertaking is slated for official launch on January 3, 2023.
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This new launch will mark the band’s first music since Chuu was faraway from LOONA final month, with Blockberry Artistic alleging that she was “expelled” resulting from “violent language and misuse of energy” in direction of its employees. After the announcement prompted backlash and skepticism from followers, the label later printed a second assertion clarifying that it didn’t make its preliminary assertion “with the objective of exposing Chuu’s misuse of energy to the general public and media”.
That second assertion additionally responded to requires Blockberry to substantiate its allegations of Chuu’s “misuse of energy”, saying: “It’s the rights of Chuu herself and the employees who was harmed to offer the reality or proof of this.”
Quickly after Chuu’s elimination from the group, information outlet JTBC reported that 9 of LOONA’s members – except for Hyunjin and Vivi – filed injunctions to terminate their contracts with Blockberry Artistic. The corporate later denied these experiences, calling them “groundless” in a press release to Sports activities Dongah.
The next day, Chuu broke her silence on her expulsion from LOONA by way of her Instagram Tales, sustaining in a quick message to followers that she “[hasn’t] accomplished something that might be shameful to [her] followers”. “Sooner or later, as my place is determined, I’ll share one other assertion. Thanks a lot on your concern and for trusting in me,” Chuu stated.
The singer first made her debut in 2017 as a founding member of LOONA, releasing her self-titled single album in December that yr. That report featured title monitor ‘Coronary heart Assault’. She later grew to become a member of the LOONA sub-unit LOONA / yyxy, alongside former bandmates Yves, Go Gained and Olivia Hye, with whom she dropped the 2018 EP ‘magnificence&thebeat’.
LOONA’s forthcoming music will mark their first since mini-album ‘Flip That’ launched in June. One notable B-side within the six-track undertaking is ‘POSE’, a music they launched for the finale of actuality competitors sequence Queendom 2 in Might.
Final week, Chuu launched her first post-LOONA single, the duet ‘Pricey My Winter’ with Okay-R&B singer George.