Whiplash

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Five months after the release of their first studio album <i>Armageddon</i>, which included the megahit “Supernova,” aespa returned with <i>Whiplash</i>. The six-track EP is the girl group’s fifth mini album since their explosive debut on the K-pop scene in 2020, and it continues their reign as the queens of hyperpop hook. “One look, give ’em whiplash/Beat drop with a big flash,” cool girls Giselle, Karina, Ningning, and Winter express on the title track, an EDM-driven dance track about aespa’s ability to make everyone look twice. Elsewhere on the album, the intentionally abrasive hip-hop dance song “Kill It” is simultaneously a declaration of K-pop dominance and a warning to any haters in the audience (“I’ma shine as I watch the bodies drop”), while the R&B track “Flight, Not Feelings” slows things down to confess a commitment to letting go of negative feelings (“I'm not tryna hurt myself, tryna burn myself”). .

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