Twice's Nayeon collaborates with BTS producers, Kiss Of Life's Julie and more on new album
Nayeon will release her second solo EP on Jun 14.
Nayeon's upcoming album Na will feature collaborations with multiple renowned artistes including Kiss Of Life member Julie (right). (Photos: Instagram/nayeonyny, kissoflife_s2)
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Get ready to make it pop, pop, pop once again this June as Twice member Nayeon returns with her second EP Na – a play on the first syllable of her name as well as the Korean word for "me". On Wednesday night (May 15), Nayeon's agency JYP Entertainment uploaded the Na tracklist – revealing a surprisingly-stacked team behind the album.
Collaborators include BTS' primary producer and several K-pop artistes.
The title track of Na is called ABCD and is composed and arranged by Pdogg and Ghstloop – both of whom are producers at HYBE, the agency behind K-pop megastars BTS. Pdogg, whose real name is Kang Hyo-won, was one of the people who discovered BTS member RM and brought him to Big Hit Music, which is now one of HYBE's many sub-labels. As a producer, Pdogg has worked on multiple BTS classics including I Need U, Fire, DNA and Boy With Luv.
Also working on ABCD is JY Park, the founder of JYP Entertainment. He has written multiple hit songs for Twice including What Is Love?, Feel Special and I Can't Stop Me.
The collaborations don't stop there. Julie, a member of the rising K-pop group Kiss Of Life, is featured as a guest singer on the track Magic. Despite being a relatively new group, Kiss Of Life has slowly amassed a fanbase worldwide. In April this year, the group struck gold with the song Midas Touch which charted high on Singapore's charts.
Fun fact: One of the group's members, Natty, was a contestant on Sixteen – the reality competition that led to the formation of Twice.
Other collaborators include Akmu member Lee Chan-hyuk on the song HalliGalli, American singer-songwriter Sam Kim on the song Heaven and former WSG Wannabe member Sole on the song Count It.
Na is set to be released on Jun 14 – about two years after Nayeon's debut EP Im Nayeon which spawned the viral hit Pop!. The song received acclaim for its catchy lyrics and addictive dance. Even newly sworn-in Prime Minister Lawrence Wong got in on the action by performing part of the dance during a summit in Bali in 2022.
