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GOLD Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2024 ITZY After almost a year of touring and recording without vocalist Lia, K-pop girl group ITZY was restored to a quintet in GOLD . The 11-track album bridges the time before Lia’s medically necessitated hiatus and after. The first half of GOLD offers six new tracks, including double lead singles “GOLD” and “Imaginary Friend,” while the final five songs—“BORN TO BE,” “UNTOUCHABLE,” “Mr. Vampire,” “Dynamite,” and “Escalator”—are rerecordings of songs released without Lia on ITZY’s January 2024 EP BORN TO BE . This time, they include all five members, and are identified as “final versions.” GOLD ’s new tracks are a return to performance powerhouse form for ITZY. JYP Entertainment tapped two high-profile hitmakers, Ryan S. Jhun and Dem Jointz, for “GOLD,” the high-energy title track that opens the album, promising in a synchronized member chant that “day and night we beaming, blazing just like that.” Second lead single “Imaginary Friend” ...
