Current Event 20/09/16

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---- [Current Events are bi-weekly writing assignments for my junior year history class. The instructions are to find a recent article, summarize it, and describe your personal opinion on it.]

https://www.allkpop.com/video/2020/09/loona-drops-cinematic-teaser-announcing-their-comeback-in-october

 

  Today, September 16th at 11:00 A.M. EST, marked the release of the first teaser video of the much anticipated comeback of the Korean Pop girl group LOONA. This article discusses its hype among fans and its mystifying contents. The video was dropped with minimal warning, being posted on the group’s Twitter account as a YouTube video link. It was puzzling, albeit insanely intriguing. Altogether, two things can be concluded certainly from that teaser: LOONA were dropping a new mini album titled 12:00 and the release date is October 19. 

  I, along with millions of fans around the world, are excited out of our minds. Moreover the fact that this is the group’s first time releasing music since March of this year, and that all of this is happening as their company is struggling with a lawsuit, the teaser video appears to have twelve cutscenes. If you’ve watched it, you would obviously see that it shows twelve major cities around the world, along with a clock counting down to midnight in Seoul’s timezone. What’s so interesting about this is that the group’s leader and main vocalist, Haseul, has been on a hiatus for health reasons for almost a year. For the majority of 2020, LOONA has been promoting as eleven members, as Haseul was absent. I miss her; we all do. But, as I said, in this video there showed twelve locations, one of them being Reykjavik, Iceland. Coincidentally, Haseul’s designated location from her debut back in 2016 was Iceland. Now, if it wasn’t clear enough, Haseul is most definitely returning for this album and I absolutely cannot wait. The end of the teaser also showcased a short audio of which will likely be the instrumental of the song, if not, then at least on the album somewhere. My opinion on it? It sounds heavenly. From what I can gather, this sounds like a very high energy and lively song, straying from their original concept, but not too different from their last album’s theme. Personally, from that short sneak peak on the video, I already think this is going to be better than their last song, but of course, I could be blinded by the raw, raging exhilaration rushing through my veins right now. Anyway, I wish them the best of luck this comeback, and I sincerely hope their old lore-writer returns here and gives us the thrilling plot description on their music videos again. LOONA is coming.