xikers have released the powerful new single, ‘Iconic’ – check it out below.
Last Friday (August 01), the KQ Entertainment K-pop boyband returned with ‘Iconic’ several months after their fifth EP ‘House Of Tricky: Spur’. ‘Iconic’ takes on a trap sound, with a blend of Western-inspired guitar riffs.
The group sing on the chorus: “Turn up the heat, yeah, I’m about to blow / Live my life, so iconic / They’re gonna think I’m ironic / I want so much more what you’re waiting for / I want so much more from it / What ya waiting for from me? / Y’all thought I would hide from it / I just put some ice on it / They’re gonna hear me roar, got that animal / Live my life, so iconic / They’re gonna think I’m ironic”
Check out xikers’ ‘Iconic’ below.
The release of ‘Iconic’ comes around four months after the group dropped their fifth EP ‘House Of Tricky: Spur’. That EP included the tracks ‘You Hide We Seek’, ‘Breathe’, ‘Highway’, ‘Roller Coaster’ and ‘Rock Your Body’.
Prior to releasing ‘Iconic’, the group embarked on their 2025 ‘Road to XY: Enter the Gate’ world tour, featuring concerts in Rosemont, Atlanta, New York and more. It all kicked off in early May with a show in Seoul, South Korea.
In other K-pop news, ILLIT have enlisted rising Canadian singer-songwriter and social media star Sophie Powers for a new version of their song ‘Jellyous’. The original version of the track arrived in June as part of their ‘Bomb’ EP.
Madonna revealed that she saw her late mother "on the other side" while she was in a medically induced coma in 2023.
In a conversation on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast on Monday, the Queen of Pop explained that she was treated in intensive care and remained in a coma for two days after doctors discovered a "serious bacterial infection" that developed after a mild fever.
Thinking back to the health scare, Madonna shared that she experienced a vision of her mother, also named Madonna Ciccone, who lost her life to breast cancer in December 1963.
"I was almost there on the other side, and I had a conscious moment," she said. "My mother appeared to me, and she said, 'Do you want to come with me?' And I said, 'No.'"
She added that her assistant was present in the room and heard her say the word, "No."
"And then, when I did eventually wake up, I realised that the 'no' was about me needing to forgive and make good with people that I still held grudges against," the 67-year-old explained.
One of the long-standing conflicts she chose to release was her troubled relationship with her brother Christopher Ciccone.
The artist passed away from pancreatic cancer at 63 in October 2024.
"For my brother, I didn't speak to him for, you know, for years, years, and years. And it was him being ill (and) reaching out to me and saying, 'I need your help.' And me having that moment like, 'Am I going to help my enemy?' You know, that's how it felt. And I just did," the Ray of Light singer said. "And I ended up (helping) and I felt so relieved. And it was such a load off my back, such a weight that was removed, baggage that I could put down to finally be able to be in a room with him and holding his hand, even if he was dying and saying, 'I love you and I forgive you.' That was really important."
