Big Bang singer Daesung has announced plans to release new solo music next month.
On March 17, Big Bang’s Daesung announced his upcoming first mini-album, titled ‘D’s Wave’. The record will notably be the singer’s first-ever Korean record, having released two Japanese albums and three Japanese EPs from 2013 to 2017.
The K-pop star’s last solo music releases were the singles ‘Flow’ and ‘Falling Slowly’, which came out in 2023 and 2024 respectively. Last year, he also reunited with bandmates Taeyang and G-Dragon on the latter’s single, ‘Home Sweet Home’.
Daesung’s upcoming mini-album ‘D’s Wave’ will be released on April 8 at 6pm KST. More details about the project, including its lead single, tracklist and more, are expected in the coming weeks.
‘Home Sweet Home’ has since made it onto G-Dragon’s latest solo album ‘Übermensch’. The record received a glowing four-star review from NME‘s Rhian Daly, who praised the record for being “firmly on par with G-Dragon’s best work and yet more proof of his unwavering greatness”.
In support of the new album, G-Dragon is set to embark on his first world tour in eight years in 2025. He will also be joining Asian-American music label 88rising’s Head In The Clouds Festival in Los Angeles this May as a headliner, billed as his “exclusive 2025 North American festival performance”.
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.”
