SEOUL – BigBang, as soon as considered one of Okay-pop’s greatest boy bands, is again with a bang.
Followers have been hyperventilating since information broke on Monday (Feb 7) that the quartet can be releasing a single a while within the coming months.
It will likely be the group’s first outing since 2018’s Flower Highway, which was their farewell tune earlier than they enlisted for South Korea’s necessary nationwide service.
Making their debut in 2006, BigBang was one of the vital influential Okay-pop exports again within the day. The present 4 members are T.O.P, Taeyang, G-Dragon and Daesung.
A fifth member, Seungri, left the band in March 2019 after a scandal involving medicine and prostitution at a well-known Seoul nightclub, Burning Solar, and was later sentenced to 18 month in jail.
South Korean leisure web site Soompi reported that the band’s administration company, YG Leisure, had launched a press release: “BigBang can be releasing a brand new tune this spring. They’ve already accomplished recording their new tune and they’re at the moment making ready to shoot the music video.”
YG Leisure additionally introduced that T.O.P can be leaving the company after 16 years to tackle “all kinds of latest challenges as each an artiste and an entrepreneur”.
It added: “We respect T.O.P’s need to broaden the scope of his particular person actions other than simply his promotions with BigBang and he efficiently got here to an settlement about this with the opposite members. So long as the situations are proper, he’ll all the time take part in BigBang’s actions each time he’s ready.”
BigBang had been meant to have made their comeback at music pageant Coachella in 2020, however that was cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
On websites reminiscent of South Korean portal Naver, China’s Weibo, Yahoo Japan in addition to Twitter, the information has been trending.
Followers who had been ready for this reunion for years have taken to social media to rejoice, with many saying that they had been crying from happiness and pleasure.
One netizen wrote: “Let’s gear up. It has been some time.”
One other commenter stated: “I really feel outdated studying and understanding these names.”
