Who Says Growing Up Has to Be Graceful?
K-pop’s rebellious rookies, YOUNG POSSE, are back—and they’re not playing nice. The five-member girl group (Jung Sunhye, Wi Yeonjeong, Jiana, Doeun, Han Jieun) dropped their fourth EP, Growing Pain pt.1: FREE, today, August 14 at 6 PM KST, across all major streaming platforms.
‘FREESTYLE’ Breaks Free from Expectations
Anchoring the album is title track ‘FREESTYLE’, a high-energy anthem about rejecting outside judgment to create art on their own terms. It’s a genre-blending firecracker—think punk hip-hop with flashes of jazz, metal, and rap, all stacked on top of a gritty beat. Raw, no-filter lyrics drive home their free-spirited message.
Music Video Mayhem (in the Best Way)
The ‘FREESTYLE’ music video is as chaotic-good as you’d hope. The visuals throw the girls into mismatched environments—moody sets, rebellious styles, and unexpectedly fierce moves. It’s their way of showing they’re no longer just ‘K-hip hop’s little sisters’ but evolving into ‘K-hip hop unnies’—the grown-up, tougher older sisters, radiating unapologetic ‘hip-crush’ energy.
7 Unfiltered Tracks, 1 Explosive Coming-of-Age Moment
The EP features seven raw and reflective tracks:
- ‘YSSR’: A rebellious clapback to society’s intrusive questions.
- ‘ADHD’: A brash ode to being unapologetically yourself.
- ‘School’s Out’: A real diary-entry-style story from Sunhye and Doeun about leaving school to chase music.
- ‘MON3Y 8ANK’: Wrestling between realistic ambition and big dreams.
- ‘soju’: Rebellious teenage angst served unfiltered—no chaser.
- ‘Same Shit 中 Another One’: Embracing their odd-one-out identity among K-pop groups.
A New Chapter Begins for YOUNG POSSE
‘Growing Pain pt.1: FREE’ is their first comeback since the special album COLD dropped in March—and it marks a loud-and-proud chapter in their story. With strong creative input from the members themselves, the project feels like a self-written coming-of-age novel—messy, impulsive, but refreshingly real.
YOUNG POSSE’s journey is just heating up. Who says a little growing pain can’t be a good thing?
