Girls Generation are accelerating their comeback with the release of their first album for five years. Forever 1SM Entertainment will release the album on August 8. Coinciding with the K-Pop group’s 15-year anniversary, the project will feature all eight members: Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona, and Seohyun.
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SM Entertainment first announced Girls Generation’s grand return in March earlier this year, hinting at the group’s plan to reunite for the first time since their sixth studio album, Holiday NightArrived in 2017 prior to their hiatus.
While it was emphasized that the group wouldn’t be disbanding during the break, Tiffany, Sooyoung, and Seohyun left SM Entertainment to pursue solo endeavors, with a select set of other members doing the same while remaining with the agency.
“We’re at a great time where K-Pop is an amazing pop form, and it’s turned into this thing where it’s about the feeling you get when you hear a song, even if it’s not a language that you know,”Tiffany said Rolling StoneIn 2018, ahead of her solo debut. “I want the audience to connect that way.”
Forever 1 marks the first musical release of the group’s comeback, but their return was subtly set in motion last year when all eight members appeared on the variety show The Block QuizBefore they announced their Soshi TamTam which began airing earlier in the month.