{"id":567877,"date":"2026-08-13T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/567877\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:32:13","slug":"katseye-voices-support-for-sophia-manon-during-tonight-show-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/567877\/","title":{"rendered":"Katseye voices support for Sophia, Manon during &#8216;Tonight Show&#8217; appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group appears as four ahead of third EP &#8216;Wild,&#8217; set for release Friday<\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/news-p.v1.20260813.79716bb956be488d9d6e78dedac8649b_P1.jpg\" alt=\"Katseye members speak to Fallen during their appearance on NBC's &quot;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&quot; that aired Wednesday. (The Tonight Show's Instagram account)\"\/>     Katseye members speak to Fallen during their appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&#8221; that aired Wednesday. (The Tonight Show&#8217;s Instagram account)  <\/p>\n<p>Katseye, a girl group formed between Hybe and Geffen Records, voiced support for members Sophia and Manon during an appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&#8221; that aired Thursday, a day before the release of its third EP, &#8220;Wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Host Jimmy Fallon noted that the group looked different from its previous appearance in February, acknowledging that Sophia and Manon were taking breaks and praising the members for supporting them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have nothing but so much love and support for Sophia and Manon, and it&#8217;s beautiful to see how the Eyekons (Katseye&#8217;s fandom name) give them so much support and also continue to support us as we&#8217;re here,&#8221; member Lara said.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon introduced &#8220;Wild,&#8221; set for release Friday, and the documentary &#8220;Katseye: Wild Hearts,&#8221; which opened in theaters this week, while highlighting a year that included an American Music Award win, a Grammy nomination and a Coachella performance.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the new EP, the members chose words including &#8220;maturity&#8221; and &#8220;growing up.&#8221; Lara, who wrote &#8220;Unloveu&#8221; for the album&#8217;s special edition, said writing a song for Katseye had been &#8220;my biggest goal for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Daniela described the choreography for main track &#8220;Hootie Frutti&#8221; as &#8220;stamina killing,&#8221; while Lara joked that the tight formation for pre-release single &#8220;Animal&#8221; made it &#8220;a miracle&#8221; the members had not collided onstage.<\/p>\n<p>The group also recalled meeting &#8220;Animal&#8221; co-writer Ed Sheeran at France&#8217;s NRJ Awards, where he told them, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got this song for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the girl group will kick off its &#8220;Wildworld&#8221; arena tour in September, with tickets selling out within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>jaaykim@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Group appears as four ahead of third EP &#8216;Wild,&#8217; set for release Friday Katseye members speak to Fallen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-567877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567877","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=567877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}