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Megan Thee Stallion will officially be releasing her highly-anticipated third studio album, Megan, later this month. She announced the project on Sunday night while performing in Atlanta for her Hot Girl Summer tour. After the show, she confirmed the news on Instagram. She's been teasing the project's release for months.
Sharing the cover artwork, Megan wrote: "SURPRISE HOTTIESSSS!!!! My New Album 'MEGAN’ will be coming out JUNE 28. Click the link in bio to PRE-SAVE NOW!" Fans in the comments section were elated by the announcement. "A world tour AND a new album!?!? we’re really outside this summer," one user wrote. Another added: "A SELF TITLE ALBUM??? OH MY GOD IM NOT READY."
Megan discussed what fans can expect from the new project during an interview with L’OFFICIEL earlier this week. “This is music I would like if I wasn’t Megan Thee Stallion. I don’t want to say I’m tapping into other genres. I’m just tapping into other sounds. But it’s still very much Megan Thee Stallion. It won’t feel like I went so left. It’ll feel true to me,” she told the outlet. “You’ll almost be like, ‘I wouldn’t have thought she would’ve rapped over that, but this sounds great.’” Megan will be dropping on June 28.
The album announcement comes after she and GloRilla teamed up with Cardi B for a remix of “Wanna Be,” last week. In the coming weeks, she'll be performing in Raleigh, Tampa, and more cities on her Hot Girl Summer tour. Be on the lookout for further updates on Megan Thee Stallion and the new album on HotNewHipHop.
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K-pop girl group NewJeans have dropped the second part of their ‘Supernatural’ music video.
Last month, NewJeans made their official Japanese debut with their single album ‘Supernatural’. The group have now dropped a second music video for the title track, this time featuring a Korean-language version of the single.
The new visual continues the TV series concept of original music video, this time with the members investigating the strange weather phenomena from the first clip. The story culminates with the girl group discovering a colony of rabbit-like aliens on a neighbouring planet.
“I don’t know what we’ve done / I don’t want to go back / I already know / Don’t know what we’ve been sold / I’ll find out, so it’s sure,” they sing on the chorus.
Last weekend, NewJeans held their two-night ‘Bunnies Camp’ fan concert in Tokyo Dome, becoming the fastest K-pop group to perform at the iconic venue after debuting. The concert was held less than a week after they dropped ‘Supernatural’.
The show featured special performances with Japanese pop duo YOASOBI and Japanese-English singer Rina Sawayama. The latter also teamed up with NewJeans member Hyein to perform her 2020 song ‘Bad Friend’ at the concert.
NewJeans’ Japanese debut came just a month after they made a domestic comeback with their single album ‘How Sweet’. The project included the lead single ‘How Sweet’ and ‘Bubblegum’ as well as their instrumental versions.
In a three-star review of ‘How Sweet’, NME’s Tássia Assis wrote that the two-song release would be “adequate additions to any of their previous releases”, but “lacks the effervescent impact” of their past singles.
In other K-pop news, (G)I-DLE have ropped a music video teaser for ’Klaxon’, the lead single of their upcoming mini-album ‘I Sway’. It will be their second release of 2024, arriving six months after their second studio album ‘[2]’ in January.
