poppop - The 2nd Mini Album - EP
poppop - The 2nd Mini Album - EP
Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025
For their sophomore mini album, K-pop boy group NCT WISH leans into love. poppop came out a little more than a year after the NCT subunit’s long-awaited debut in February 2024, and it bops from a place of youthful earnestness. In the onomatopoeic dance-pop title track, members Sion, Riku, Yushi, Jaehee, Ryo, and Sakuya compare love to cloudlike cotton candy, soda pop in the starlight, and juicy bubblegum, evoking a sweet, retro flavor of infatuation.
The sense of wide-eyed wonder continues on tracks like “Silly Dance,” a high-energy song about letting loose in front of one’s crush, and “Still 3PM,” an R&B-inspired pop track about waiting for the person you like to come over. The latter song references Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, a classic story that also inspired NCT WISH’s SM Entertainment sunbaenim RYEOWOOK. Notably, all six tracks on poppop are sung in English and Korean despite the group featuring majority Japanese members, highlighting the multinational fluidity of NCT WISH.
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