K-pop girl group Kara back in the limelight with release of Move Again, their first album since 2015
K-pop girl group Kara back in the limelight with release of Move Again, their first album since 2015’s In Love
By Dong Sun-hwa
K-pop girl group Kara have returned to the limelight with their new release, Move Again – an album celebrating the 15th anniversary of their debut.
The music video for When I Move, the lead single of the album that dropped on November 29, has had more than 3.5 million views on YouTube.
A YouTube video of the group’s performance at the 2022 MAMA Awards ceremony at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan, has also drawn over 1.5 million hits, with another clip featuring Kara’s takes on previous hits – Mister (2009), Lupin (2010), and Step (2011) – attracting more than four million views.
When I Move tops the real-time chart on Bugs, one of the major streaming platforms in Korea. After the K-pop stars performed Mister, Lupin, and Step at the MAMA awards, the songs all rose up the charts.
It has been more than seven years since Kara’s seventh EP, In Love, in 2015. Members Nicole and Jiyoung quit the act in 2014, but rejoined to drop Move Again, which has three more tracks: Happy Hour, Shout It Out and Oxygen.
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“I thought it would be impossible for us to make a comeback,” Kara member Seungyeon said. “We just wanted to try some small things that we can do this year, but we have reached this point. It is still unbelievable and we are so thankful.”
Another member of the group, Gyuri, added: “As the title of our album implies, we made it to show Kara’s music and performance again.”
After bursting onto the K-pop scene in 2007 with their first full-length album, The First Blooming, Kara put out a series of hits, including Mister, and positioned themselves as one of the most popular second-generation girl groups, along with Girls’ Generation and Wonder Girls.In 2013, they became the first K-pop girl group to play a concert at the Tokyo Dome, the biggest baseball stadium in Japan’s capital city, which can accommodate more than 40,000 audience members.
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