Ok-pop boy band BOYNEXTDOOR dipped into the members’ private tales for the tracks on new EP 19.99. Singer Taesan tells Billboard that the seven-track mini-album “explores the feelings skilled simply earlier than turning 20. Particularly, the tracks specific the intricate feelings that precede and comply with turning 20.”
Group chief Jaehyun provides that the album is very near the singers’ hearts as a result of it includes numerous “true tales” from their private lives. “We felt numerous some form of ache, some form of completely satisfied and a few form of grateful. We at all times really feel ache of progress, rising, so that’s our album’s story,” he says.
The EP that dropped on Monday (Sept. 9), was preceded by the uptempo single “Harmful,” which the group says represents their “mischievous facet,” wherein they fantasize about such rule-breaking actions as not listening to their mothers, hanging out with associates all evening and different shenanigans they pulled off earlier than turning 20. And whereas their goal was to precise all kinds of emotions in a uniquely BOYNEXTDOOR vogue, boys additionally, after all, simply wanna have enjoyable.
Then once more, lead single “Good Man” presents the flip facet of that harmful perspective, with lyrics Jaehyun says are humorous and witty, which, after all, wouldn’t be as humorous in the event that they have been all of their 30s. (All of BOYNEXTDOOR’s members — which additionally embody Sungho, Riwoo, Leehan and Woonhak — are between 17 and 20 years previous.) “However we’re 20, or 19, 17, so I feel that time is a very good level and ‘Good Man’ is [like a] flirt to somebody,” he says.
As a result of the members of HYBE’s newest boy band write and co-produce numerous their songs, Taesan — who co-wrote and co-produced “Harmful” — says he additionally integrated numerous his personal tales and an anecdote involving certainly one of his siblings on the EP that focuses on “real-life experiences” reasonably than extra generalized popular culture references from TV and films. “We tried our greatest to make use of lyrics and melodies that really feel genuinely relatable from our on a regular basis experiences,” he says.
BOYNEXTDOOR scored its highest charting album thus far within the U.S. when How? entered the High Album Gross sales chart at No. 7 on the Could 4-dated tally. The group launched its first single album, Who! in Could 2023, adopted by the EP, Why.., in Sept. 2023 and this yr’s How?
Watch BOYNEXTDOOR’s interview with Billboard above.
