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NMIXX have dropped their fourth mini-album ‘Fe3O4: Forward’, alongside a music video for title track ‘Know About Me’.
‘Fe304: Forward’, released on March 17, marks the third and final entry into the NMIXX’s ‘Fe3O4’ trilogy. The series began in early 2024 with ‘Fe3O4: Break’, featuring title track ‘Dash’, followed by ‘Fe3O4: Stick Out’ in August with lead single ‘See that?’. ‘Dash’ would later go on to be named by NME as one of the 25 best K-pop songs in 2024.
Leading ‘Fe304: Forward’ is single ‘Know About Me’, which was accompanied by a music video where the girl group perform the song a futuristic departure hall. Later, the K-pop act take off into space on a rocketship.
“Let me show you that, show you that, mm mm / Know about me / (That’s that) Show you that, show you that, mm mm / Know about me / Won’t let you down, down, take my hand / Trust me, stepping forward to the next next,” they sing on the chorus.
‘Know About Me’ is the second track on ‘Fe3O4: Forward’ to receive an accompanying music video, after they released a performance visualiser for pre-release track ‘High Horse’.
NMIXX are set to resume their ongoing 2025 ‘NMIXX: MIXX Lab’ fan concert tour in Asia this April, starting with a two-night show in Taipei. The band will then head to Hong Kong, Manila, Tokyo and Macau through to June.
In other news, BTS rapper J-hope recently announced a new single titled ‘Mona Lisa’, out. March 21. It will mark his second single this year, after he collaborated with American singer-songwriter Miguel earlier this month on ‘Sweet Dreams’.
Reneé Rapp is seen as a “huge inspiration” by SZA.
The 25-year-old artist performed SZA’s Good Days in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, accompanied by two acoustic guitarists and a harp player. SZA, 35, was deeply moved by the rendition.
She posted a short video of the moment on Instagram Stories and wrote: “Renee is a HUGE inspiration, energy, voice spirit.”
During her chat with the BBC, Renee shared her thoughts about the track. She said: “I mean, I love SZA. I mean, she was one of my favorite artists in high school. And she's remained one of my favorite artists to this day. I think she's amazing. She's also, I mean, she's an incredible songwriter, but I think because she has so much swag. People don't realize how good of a singer she is. She's a fantastic vocalist and is really, really, really articulate. And I don't cover a lot of songs anymore. So I wanted to cover something that was, like, slightly challenging and also really vocally impressive, and frankly, hard for me to do.”
Renee is currently in the middle of promoting her second album, Bite Me, and opened up about how much more enjoyable it was to create compared to her first project.
She explained: “I mean, I feel like everything was incredibly different. I stopped listening to people that don't make music, because if you don't make music, then why the hell am I listening to you. And I also think the biggest difference, I think I just got a lot better. I think I have just become a better songwriter. I think I understand how to make pop music now in a way that I didn't really before. And I was very sure about what this album was and thematically, what it needed.
“So I felt like I was quite like, headstrong in like, what was gonna work and what wasn't. Because, nobody knows something better than yourself. I think a lot of things were different. I also just, like, had a lot of fun making it, like, I made it with like, three people, mostly, like, it was always like, four of us in the studio all the time, and we got so close, and some of us were already so close. So it was also just like a mess. It was such a mess, like we were just tweaking every day. It was so fun. And I don't think I enjoyed making the first one as much.”
