Moments in Timelessness

Girls Will Be Girls - EP Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025 ITZY The K-pop industry is intentionally teeming with “main-character energy,” internet slang describing a self-assured person who embraces a sense of agency in their own life story, but fourth-generation girl group ITZY makes it explicit in their 2025 EP  Girls Will Be Girls . “It makes you feel like the main character,” member RYUJIN tells Apple Music of “Walk,” one of five powerful tracks on the dance-pop mini album. A performance-oriented group, ITZY both reinforces and subverts the expectation of what that main-character energy might sound like on  Girls Will Be Girls , balancing the boldness of lead single “Girls Will Be Girls” and confident club banger “Kiss & Tell” with the soft sincerity of fan ballad “Promise.” As ITZY tells Apple Music in their exclusive track-by-track below, it’s all in the pursuit of expressing their unbreakable bond with one another, and their love for their fans, known as MIDZY. “Girls Will Be Gi...

GOLD Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2024 ITZY After almost a year of touring and recording without vocalist Lia, K-pop girl group ITZY was restored to a quintet in   GOLD . The 11-track album bridges the time before Lia’s medically necessitated hiatus and after. The first half of   GOLD   offers six new tracks, including double lead singles “GOLD” and “Imaginary Friend,” while the final five songs—“BORN TO BE,” “UNTOUCHABLE,” “Mr. Vampire,” “Dynamite,” and “Escalator”—are rerecordings of songs released without Lia on ITZY’s January 2024 EP   BORN TO BE . This time, they include all five members, and are identified as “final versions.” GOLD ’s new tracks are a return to performance powerhouse form for ITZY. JYP Entertainment tapped two high-profile hitmakers, Ryan S. Jhun and Dem Jointz, for “GOLD,” the high-energy title track that opens the album, promising in a synchronized member chant that “day and night we beaming, blazing just like that.” Second lead single “Imaginary Friend” ...

BORN TO BE ALBUM ∙ K-POP ∙ 2024 ITZY