The group Stray Kids will be releasing a new digital single today (the 21st) and celebrating their 7th debut anniversary.

Stray Kids will be releasing their digital single ‘Mixtape: dominATE’ on March 21st at 1 PM (midnight EST). This is a surprise gift prepared by Stray Kids, who are celebrating their 7th debut anniversary on the 25th, to express their gratitude to their fans, and it is more meaningful because it was officially released four days before the special anniversary.

This digital single is the fifth work as part of the ‘Mixtape Project’, which has been ongoing since 2019, following ‘Mixtape: Gone Days’ (December 2019), ‘Mixtape: Even a Fool Knows’ (March 2020), ‘Mixtape: 애’ (June 2021), and ‘Mixtape: Time Out’ (August 2022).

Through the project, Stray Kids has been singing about various stories with the group‘s unique style and sensibility. Led by producing team 3RACHA consisting of Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han, all members of the group participate in the production of songs for each album, and as befitting a ‘self-producing group’, the songs that have melted into their unique musical world have garnered favorable reviews from fans.

The new album contains a total of five tracks, including the title track ‘GIANT (Korean Ver.)’(Giant (Korean Ver.)) and unit songs with fresh member combinations ‘Burnin’ Tires (Changbin & I.N)’(Burning Tires (Changbin & I.N)), ‘Truman (Han & Felix)’(Truman (Han & Felix)), ‘ESCAPE (Bang Chan & Hyunjin)’(Escape (Bang Chan & Hyunjin)), ‘CINEMA (Lee Know & Seungmin)’(Cinema (Lee Know & Seungmin)). The dream combination that STAY (fandom name: STAY) had been longing for has come true, receiving an explosive response, and the signature teasing content ‘UNVEIL: TRACK’, which gives a preview of a portion of the song, has been ranked on the music video worldwide trending rankings.

Through each unit song, Changbin & I.N show the harmony of powerful rap and sweet vocals, Han & Felix show an intense rap style that has never been shown before with different pitches of voice, Bang Chan & Hyunjin show a mature and sensual mood that continues ‘Obsessed (Bang Chan, Hyunjin)’, and Lee Know & Seungmin show off fantastic vocal synergy. In particular, they will present the unit song stage for the first time during the world tour ‘’, which will resume in Santiago on March 27-28 (local time).

Stray Kids, who previously thrilled audiences with solo stages that maximized the musical colors of each of the eight members, will delight fans with a unit stage this time and prove that they are artists who continue to develop and grow musically. The ‘’ tour, which boasts ‘its its largest scale’ with 55 performances in 34 regions around the world, will be held grandly at stadiums throughout Latin America, North America, Japan, and Europe until the end of July, and Stray Kids are expected to mobilize a total of 2.2 million audiences through the tour, setting a new record for ‘the most attendees in K-pop history’ for a single tour.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com Reporter jhj@donga.com

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