V is doubling down on vacation releases this yr, with the BTS star asserting a brand new seasonal duet with Park Hyo Shin titled “Winter Forward” Thursday (Nov. 21).
Arriving Nov. 29 forward of V’s extremely anticipated “White Christmas” collaboration with Bing Crosby, “Winter Forward” is described in a launch as a jazz-pop collaboration impressed by the 28-year-old Okay-pop star’s “want for his followers to have a heat and joyful winter.” It’ll add to an extended line of Christmastime releases from V, who has beforehand rung within the festive season with the tracks “Snow Flower” and “Christmas Tree.” The star additionally coated “It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Christmas” in 2022.
V has lengthy been open about his love of jazz, and personally reached out to Park — with whom he has a “longstanding friendship,” in accordance the discharge — to file “Winter Forward” collectively. The monitor was written by Jesse Harris, the songwriter behind Norah Jones’ modern jazz-pop staple “Don’t Know Why.”
The collaboration will come only one week earlier than one other festive duet from V, who teamed up with the Crosby property to launch a model new model of “White Christmas.” Produced by Gregg Discipline, the monitor will mix the “FRI(END)S” singer’s voice with a restored, remoted recording of one of many late legend’s archival performances of the well-known monitor.
“I’m so grateful to have had the prospect to be featured in a music with my all-time favourite jazz artist, Bing Crosby,” V stated in a press release when the undertaking was first introduced Nov. 6. “I grew up listening to his music ‘It’s Been a Lengthy, Lengthy Time’ numerous instances a day, and I really feel extremely lucky and honored to have sung alongside on ‘White Christmas’ with the voice of somebody I contemplate an idol.”
V is at the moment ending out his necessary service within the South Korean navy, as are 4 of his BTS bandmates: SUGA, RM, Jimin and Jung Kook. Earlier this yr, Jin and J-Hope individually completed their service obligations, and full-band actions are anticipated to renew in 2025.
Only a couple months earlier than he enlisted, V dropped a six-track EP titled Layover in September 2023. The undertaking reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
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