‘JYP‘s new artist’ Kickflip, Day6’s Young K → Park Jin-young‘s special lecture impressed “I’ll take it to heart”

It was a precious experience that money can‘t buy. JYP Entertainment’s (hereafter JYP) new boy group Kickflip received a ‘JYP debut special lecture’ from JYP‘s senior artists.

Kickflip, who officially debuted on the 20th of last month, sequentially released a total of 6 videos of their own content ‘JYP Debut Special Lecture’ on their official SNS channels for 5 days from January 27th to February 1st. For this series, JYP’s senior artists including Park Jin-young, head producer of JYP, Young K of DAY6, Nayeon and Momo of TWICE, Changbin and I.N of Stray Kids, Yezi and Lia of ITZY, and Haewon and BAE of NMIXX joined together for their debut kickflips. They participated in a special debut lecture for kickflips, including a surprise camera.

The seven members, Gye-hoon, Amaru, Dong-hwa, Joo-wang, Min-je, K-ju, and Dong-hyun, did their best, showing explosive reactions to the playful and unexpected ideas of their JYP seniors. Young K, who was in charge of writing the lyrics for ‘WARRIORS’ on Kickflip‘s debut album ‘Flip it, Kick it!’, asked if it would be a good idea to add a whisper rapping reciting the address of the JYP building, and showed his fresh charm by agreeing with TWICE’s Nayeon and Momo‘s opinion that “Spin Kick!” is more catchy than “Flip it, Kick it!” as a group greeting.

In addition, Stray Kids’ Changbin and I.N suggested that a groundbreaking performance using the whole body rather than hand gestures would be better for the choreography of the pre-released song ‘Yeah Yeah’, and the members successfully performed it. When ITZY‘s Yeji and Lia gave high-angle, close-up shots as selfie tips, the members actively participated while sweating profusely. NMIXX Haewon and Bey’s live broadcast accident surprise camera fooled them and showed their rookie-like appearance.

Park Jin-young, who appeared in the long-awaited last episode, added a video with congratulatory comments from JYP senior artists and explained that in fact, their mischievous pranks contained a mission to celebrate the debut of Kickflip. He also gave warm advice to Kickflip, following Young K, Nayeon, Momo, Changbin, I.N, Yezi, Lia, Haewon, and Bey, so that they can continue their promotions. “Several people gathered to discuss Kickflip‘s music and choreography, and all of them agreed right away that there was nothing more to touch. This is the first time that Kickflip has done that,” he said, giving them strength. “Now that you’ve debuted, I hope you have an exciting heart and enjoy yourself, and I hope you don‘t get tired and overcome the difficult road ahead.” Congratulations on your debut.”

The Kickflip members said, “We are truly grateful to our seniors who gave us their precious time. We were deeply touched by your sincere congratulations. We will not forget the advice you gave us and will work hard to become great Kickflip.” Donghwa bowed deeply. They also said, “We are confident in the song and choreography that the seven of us do. “Going forward, we want to become a team that brings out the strengths of each member and becomes one,” he revealed his aspirations.

Meanwhile, Kickflip’s first mini-album ‘Flip it, Kick it!’ contains a total of six tracks, including the title track ‘Mama Said (What Are You Trying to Be?)’(마마 세드), ‘Yeah Yeah’, ‘WARRIORS’(워리어스), ‘Knock Knock’(낙 낙), ‘Like A Monster’(라익 아먼저), ‘See You Tomorrow’. The title track was written by Amaru, the track ‘Yeah Yeah’ was written by Amaru and Donghwa, and ‘Like A Monster’ was written by Gye-hoon, Amaru, and Min-je. Here, JYP senior artist DAY6‘s Young K took charge of writing the lyrics for the third track, ‘WARRIORS’, and top writers such as Jo Yoon-kyung, danke, and Lee Hae-sol participated.

Kickflip recorded 322,000 copies of its debut album based on Circle Chart shipments, taking first place on the weekly album chart and weekly retail album chart (2025.01. 19~2025.01. 25).

Jeong Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com

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