BTS’ V & Park Hyo Shin Have a New Vacation Tune Coming: Free up Date

V is doubling down on vacation releases this 12 months, with the BTS celebrity pronouncing a brand new seasonal duet with Park Hyo Shin titled “Iciness Forward” Thursday (Nov. 21).

Arriving Nov. 29 forward of V’s extremely expected “White Christmas” collaboration with Bing Crosby, “Iciness Forward” is described in a liberate as a jazz-pop collaboration impressed through the 28-year-old K-pop celebrity’s “want for his fanatics to have a heat and blissful iciness.” It’ll upload to an extended line of Christmastime releases from V, who has prior to now rung within the festive season with the tracks “Snow Flower” and “Christmas Tree.” The celebrity additionally coated “It’s Starting to Glance a Lot Like Christmas” in 2022.

V has lengthy been open about his love of jazz, and in my view reached out to Park — with whom he has a “longstanding friendship,” in accordance the discharge — to file “Iciness Forward” in combination. The music was once written through Jesse Harris, the songwriter at the back of Norah Jones’ recent jazz-pop staple “Don’t Know Why.”

The collaboration will come only one week earlier than every other festive duet from V, who teamed up with the Crosby property to liberate a brand spanking new model of “White Christmas.” Produced through Gregg Box, the music will mix the “FRI(END)S” singer’s voice with a restored, remoted recording of some of the overdue legend’s archival performances of the well-known music.

“I’m so thankful to have had the danger to be featured in a tune with my all-time favourite jazz artist, Bing Crosby,” V mentioned in a remark when the mission was once first introduced Nov. 6. “I grew up taking note of his tune ‘It’s Been a Lengthy, Lengthy Time’ numerous occasions an afternoon, and I think extremely lucky and venerated to have sung alongside on ‘White Christmas’ with the voice of any individual I imagine an idol.”

V is recently completing out his necessary provider within the South Korean army, as are 4 of his BTS bandmates: SUGA, RM, Jimin and Jung Kook. Previous this 12 months, Jin and J-Hope one at a time completed their provider duties, 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 mission reached No. 2 at the Billboard 200.