TXT have the tracklist and a preview medley for their upcoming mini-album ‘minisode 2: Thursday’s Child’.
The group have also shared the production and writing credits for the new record, which will feature creative contributions from four of the five members.
Yeonjun is credited on the title track ‘Good Boy Gone Bad’, ‘Trust Fund Baby’ and ‘Lonely Boy’, while Taehyun contributed to ‘Trust Fund Baby’ and ‘Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go’. Hueningkai worked on the lyrics for ‘Lonely Boy’ and Beomgyu co-produced ‘Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go’.
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The tracklist for ‘minisode 2: Thursday’s Child’ is as follows:
‘Opening Sequence’
‘Good Boy Gone Bad’
‘Trust Fund Baby’
‘Lonely Boy’
‘Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go’
TXT have also shared a preview medly of the mini-album’s five tracks, set to moody visuals that capture the dark feelings captured in the record’s songs. ‘Opening Sequence’ and ‘Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go’ are accompanied by scenes bathed in red light, while ‘Trust Fund Baby’ is based in a beautiful garden. ‘Lonely Boy’ features Yeonjun and Hueningkai in blurry bathroom scenes, while ‘Good Boy Gone Bad’ finds the whole band lighting a spark under the night sky.
On April 19 at midnight KST, the group’s label Big Hit Music uploaded a 13-second concept concept teaser for TXT’s forthcoming fourth mini-album, titled ‘minisode 2: Thursday’s Child’.
The visual contains a clip of a single rose on fire, accompanied by ominous background music, before it begins to glitch out while occasionally switching to negative colour. The highly-anticipated record is due out on May 9 at 6pm KST.
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The boyband previously unveiled the mini-album’s release schedule, which dates all the important drops between now and the record’s arrival. Various music video teasers will be released from May 6 to May 8.
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TXT had previously introduced their refreshed logo through a special clip in light of their forthcoming comeback. It features a dynamic animation of the logo adopted for TXT’s last album, ‘The Chaos Chapter: Freeze’, which then morphs into a rougher-looking version in red and black.
‘minisode 2: Thursday’s Child’ will arrive approximately nine months after the release of ‘The Chaos Chapter: Fight Or Escape’, a repackaged version of their sophomore album ’The Chaos Chapter: Freeze’.
Since then, the members of TXT have released several collaborations and solo covers. In February, Taehyun and Yeonjun lent their vocals to American singer-songwriter Salem Ilese’s ‘PS5’, a cut from her ‘Unsponsored Content’ EP. Notably, Ilese had co-written TXT’s viral 2021 track ‘Anti-Romantic’ from ‘The Chaos Chapter: Freeze’.
In the same month, Hueningkai released a cover of Canadian singer Avril Lavigne’s early-2000s hit ‘Sk8er Boi’, shortly after Lavigne responded to a tweet by the idol, where he referenced the track.
Lavigne has since shared his rendition of her song on Twitter, where she praised it as “amazing”. Hueningkai’s version of ‘Sk8er Boi’ is the latest cover song he has released on the official TXT YouTube channel.