"Believe-and-listen" Monsta X (MONSTA X) Jooheon releases new record "光 (INSANITY)" and brightly reinforces his presence as a solo artist.
According to his agency Starship Entertainment, Jooheon will release "光 (INSANITY)" ("Gwang Insanity") today (the 5th) at 6 p.m. on various music streaming sites.
The new record "光 (INSANITY)" features Jooheon participating in writing and composing all tracks and is an album that embodies the moment when "madness (狂)" and "light (光)" come together in music. Through this album, Jooheon captures the process in which the impulsiveness of the young man who first embraced music and the weight of the artist who had to be responsible for the light on stage merge into a single "light." Jooheon directly asserts his presence as a solo artist through an independent worldview with his own emotional language and structure.
The album includes seven tracks in total: the title track "STING (Feat. Muhammad Ali) (hereafter 'STING')," "광 (Gwang)," "Fear," "Push (Feat. Rey of IVE)," "Bite," "Until the head touches the sky (Feat. Tiger JK)," and "NO BRAIN NO PAIN." Jooheon composed seven chapters that translate a person's inner self into different textures and sings the narrative of the light encountered after a period of anguish. With a featuring lineup that includes Muhammad Ali, Tiger JK and IVE's Rey, curiosity about the new record, including "STING," is building, and interest among domestic and international listeners is particularly rising for "Until the head touches the sky," which unveils Tiger JK for the first time today.
The title track "STING" is a song that reveals the truth of "pain" over a pop-hip-hop based beat. Jooheon weaves Muhammad Ali's phrase "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" into the lyrics and merges the identity of his symbol, the "bee," and his artistic instinct into "STING." Choosing raw instinct and direct power over overwhelming scale, this song will most clearly display the identity of the solo artist JOOHONEY.
Earlier, on the 4th, Jooheon raised comeback excitement by releasing an album preview video containing highlight audio of all tracks from the new record on Monsta X's official social media channels. In the video, Jooheon captivated attention by perfectly portraying each mood with various looks, and by encompassing diverse genres he signaled limitless musicality, sharply increasing anticipation for the full tracks.
This mini album 2 "光 (INSANITY)" is an album that concentrates the full spectrum of Jooheon expanded as a rapper, singer, producer and director. As the album message "Only by going crazy do you truly shine" implies, through the new record Jooheon records a new starting point he pushed himself to find and foreshadows future expansion.
Meanwhile, at 6 p.m. (KST) on the 5th, Jooheon will release the new record "光 (INSANITY)" on various music streaming sites and begin full promotions with the title track "STING."
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