{"id":557133,"date":"2026-08-03T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557133\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:24:10","slug":"red-velvet-returns-with-new-ep-after-2-year-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557133\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Velvet returns with new EP after 2-year hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7d3cc280-3a89-4c64-83e9-62fde843e34d.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1440; width: 100%\" alt=\"K-pop girl group 'Red Velvet' \/ Courtesy of SM Entertainment\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>K-pop girl group &#8220;Red Velvet&#8221; \/ Courtesy of SM Entertainment<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\"> K-pop girl group Red Velvet will make a full-group comeback Monday with a new EP, ending a more than two-year wait for fans since its last release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">SM Entertainment, the group&#8217;s agency, said the five-member act will drop &#8220;Velvet Summer&#8221; at 6 p.m., featuring the lead track &#8220;Surfin&#8217; Boy,&#8221; a dance song described as having &#8220;cool yet dreamy&#8221; vocal harmonies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The group&#8217;s last full-group release was the EP &#8220;Cosmic,&#8221; released in June 2024. The members have since focused on solo activities in music, acting and other projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">In statements released ahead of the launch, leader Irene thanked the group&#8217;s fandom, known as &#8220;ReVeluv&#8221; for its patience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;We&#8217;re so grateful to our ReVeluvs for waiting more than two years,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It feels great to be back together \u2014 the lively practice room and everything is just wonderful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K-pop girl group &#8220;Red Velvet&#8221; \/ Courtesy of SM Entertainment K-pop girl group Red Velvet will make a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-557133","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\/557133","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=557133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}