LE SSERAFIM tell us about their new mini-album ‘Hot’: “You have to set your body on fire to maintain the flame”
nme.comLE SSERAFIM have spoken to NME about their latest mini-album, ‘Hot’, and their upcoming world tour. Check out the music video for the former NME Cover stars’ new title track below, alongside our full interview with the K-pop girl group.‘Hot’ wraps up the five-piece’s latest trilogy of records, which began with the mini-album ‘Easy’ in February 2024.
On that release, they wanted to highlight the work they put in behind the scenes to make their output look effortless. Last August, the group shared the second instalment, ‘Crazy’, on which they embraced chaos and threw themselves into their passions.Continuing that narrative, the new mini-album (out today, Friday March 14) finds LE SSERAFIM giving everything they have for the things and people they love.“In ‘Easy’, we wanted to express our inner anxieties, thoughts and struggles in a very candid manner, and in ‘Crazy’, we decided not to succumb to those fears and just go crazy,” Kim Chaewon told NME in Seoul. “In ‘Hot’, we wanted to portray wholeheartedly accepting the things that we love.
Hopefully, through this trilogy, we show that LE SSERAFIM have become very resilient and solid.”Hong Eunchae added that she felt that she and her bandmates had all grown while working across the three records, thanks to the messages behind them. “If you have inner anxiety and concerns, it’s really hard to start something because you probably have fears,” she said. “Finding something that you really like and want to do is a difficult task in and of itself, but once you [do and get] start[ed], there’s so much to learn, regardless of the outcome.
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