(G)I-DLE is the latest K-pop group to collab with Jennifer Lopez!

The K-pop group (G)I-DLE and American singer Jennifer Lopez have collaborated and released a song together. Here's the detail on the K-pop group behind this unexpected collaboration...

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(G)I-DLE is a K-pop girl group that consists of five members, Minnie, Miyeon, Soyeon, Yuqi, and Shuhua.

The group is managed by Cube Entertainment, which is responsible for raising some of K-pop’s biggest stars, such as Rain, Hyuna, Pentagon, and Beast/Highlight.

Image: Cube Entertainment

The backstory of (G)I-DLE's lineup is intriguing, as the members have interesting and diverse pre-debut stories.

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Soyeon had represented Cube Entertainment in the Chinese reality TV program ‘Produce 101’, reports News Inside. She had also participated in Mnet’s reality TV rap competition, ‘Unpretty Rapstar’, where she finished third, reports Naver.

According to an interview with Cube Entertainment, Miyeon was a trainee under YG Entertainment for five years, and was initially slated to debut in Blackpink. She left after quitting YG Entertainment to join Cube.

The same interview goes on to say that Miyeon was cut from Blackpink's final lineup for breaking a rule, which reduced the group from its original five members to the four we know today.

According to iQiyi, Minnie was originally from Thailand and had joined Cube Entertainment after being urged by her mother to audition for the company to be a K-pop star when Cube Entertainment was holding international auditions in Thailand back in 2014.

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Just like Minnie, Yuqi, is one of three members of (G)I-DLE who are not originally from Korea as she is a Chinese citizen. She participated in Cube Entertainment’s casting auditions when they were held in Beijing and passed, reports iQiyi.

Shuhua is (G)I-DLE’s Taiwanese member. According to an interview with Cube Entertainment, Shuhua decided to pursue a career in K-pop after being inspired by Hyuna, and she passed Cube Entertainment auditions in Taiwan.

As (G)I-DLE, the group is known for hits such as ‘Latata’, ‘Uh-Oh’, ‘HWAA’, and ‘Oh My God’.

Image: Cube Entertainment

Did you know?: Members of (G)I-DLE are part of the online virtual girl group, owned by Riot Games, ‘K/DA’?

The group has often combined K-pop and the American music market. Miyeon and Soyeon worked alongside American music artists Madison Beer and Jaira Burns to voice virtual superstars, Dazed reports.

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The collaboration with ‘K/DA’ earned not just Madison Beer and Jaira Burns, but (G)I-DLE members Miyeon and Soyeon a platinum music award for the song ‘Pop/Stars’ by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)!

The collaboration marked by ‘K/DA’ would not be the last of (G)I-DLE’s collab in the American markets, as in 2024, Allkpop reported in March that (G)I-DLE has scored a collab with one of America’s biggest stars, Jennifer Lopez!

The collaboration between (G)I-DLE and Jennifer Lopez is on a remix of Lopez’s song, ‘This Time Around’, released on March 14. Korea JoongAng Daily reports that despite being a remix, the song’s lyrics and composition have been reworked by the K-pop group and Lopez together.

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