Flip it, Kick it! - EP
Flip it, Kick it! - EP Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025 KickFlip The first major K-pop debut of 2025 belonged to JYP Entertainment’s KickFlip. Named after a classic skateboarding trick, the seven-member boy group is partially composed of winners from the 2021 survival series LOUD (Kyehoon, Amaru, Keiju, and Donghyeon) and partially composed of new faces (Donghwa, Juwang, and Minje). With mini-album Flip it, Kick it! , the group joins the music company’s pantheon of boy bands, which has included 2PM, GOT7, and Stray Kids. KickFlip’s proper introduction comes in the form of “Mama Said,” a lead single that throws off the weight of parental expectation with playful pop ease (“Mama said what are you trying to become/I don’t wanna/I don’t wanna”). The theme of easygoing defiance continues in bouncy, pre-release bop “Umm Great” (“Who’s nagging again this time?/Telling me I can’t do it?/Fine, I’ll just let it slide”) and the Young K-penned power-pop B-side “WARRIORS” (“I really hate fixed...