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The K-pop girl group"s "What"s Your Name?" EP is T-ara"s first after dropping down khổng lồ a quartet following the departure of two members.

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Since 2009, T-ara has incorporated eight different women, released a dozen albums, had some of Korea’s biggest dance hits, and won the fan hâm mộ Army Face-Off on multiple occasions. But things haven’t been easy for the K-pop girl group, which found its career suffer due to lớn internal turmoil between members in 2012at the peak of T-ara’s popularity. Earlier this year twomembers left the act, leaving the group as a quartet khổng lồ release what is expected khổng lồ be their last album ahead of the expiration of their contracts with their label, MBK Entertainment, in December.


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The album containstwo other group efforts, the retro funk throwback “Reload” and the ballad “20090729,”which references theday T-ara debuted. The focal point ofWhat’s My Name?, however,are the four solo tracks.Qri’s sultry alternative text pop track leads into Hyomin’s refreshingly upbeat “Ooh La La,” which in turn runs into Eunjung’s R&B-tinged “Real Love.” Jiyeon’s pop rock melody “Lullaby” brings the album to lớn a close, aside from a Chinese languageand instrumental alternate versionof the title track.

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What’s My Name?is a solid show of the group’s strength & the individuality of the foursome. Originally planned as a May release,T-arareturned khổng lồ the studio as a quartet after Boram & Soyeon departed so asto re-record the album’s tracks even as Korean truyền thông media reported that they would disband later this year.


Though their future is precarious ahead of the contract renewal, the members didn’t say anything definitive regarding their prospectsduring a recent showcase performance in Seoul. ”A lot has happened in the past eight, nine years,” said Qri, according to the Korea Herald, “But we’ve felt like we don’t want it khổng lồ end… We don’t yet want khổng lồ let it go.”

If they vày break up in December, T-ara will join other prominent Korean girl groups who met their kết thúc end in 2017, joining the ranks of Wonder Girls, Sistar, Kara, and several others.