{"id":480164,"date":"2026-06-16T13:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/480164\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:34:14","slug":"seventeens-the8-vernon-to-launch-new-unit-v8-with-debut-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/480164\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen’s The8, Vernon to launch new unit V8 with debut EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Seventeen<\/p>\n

Seventeen members Vernon, left, and The8 \/ Captured from Seventeen’s social media<\/p>\n

The8 and Vernon, both members of K-pop boy group Seventeen, will debut a new subunit, V8, later this month, the group’s agency, Pledis Entertainment, said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The duo will release its first EP, “V8,” on June 29 as the group’s sixth official unit following BSS, Jeonghan x Wonwoo, Hoshi x Woozi, S.Coups x Mingyu and DK x Seungkwan.<\/p>\n

The album explores themes of recovery and growth discovered through wandering and confusion from the past, the agency said.<\/p>\n

It will feature eight tracks, including lead single “singasong,” an electronic song rooted in hyperpop, and co-composed by German DJ and producer Mechatok alongside the two members. Other tracks include “Friend,” “Beat,” “Mia,” “Coloring,” “girlsnboys,” “8DM” and the digital-only “rat race.”<\/p>\n

“Girlsnboys” was written, composed and produced by Pharrell Williams, a 14-time Grammy Award winner, with longtime Seventeen collaborator and producer Bumzu also contributing to the track.<\/p>\n

V8 will hold its first standalone concerts on July 11-12 at the KINTEX convention center in Goyang, west of Seoul, in what will be the first Seventeen unit show to adopt a standing format. The pair will then perform in Hong Kong from July 17-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventeen members Vernon, left, and The8 \/ Captured from Seventeen’s social media The8 and Vernon, both members of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-480164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}