{"id":599879,"date":"2026-09-14T08:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T08:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599879\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T08:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T08:14:10","slug":"girl-group-illit-to-return-with-new-ep-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599879\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl group ILLIT to return with new EP next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/c0d138c1-98f8-4803-8237-f27dfc833d8e.png\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1184 \/ 735; width: 100%\" alt=\"K-pop girl group ILLIT \/ Captured from ILLIT's X\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>K-pop girl group ILLIT \/ Captured from ILLIT&#8217;s X<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">K-pop girl group ILLIT will release its fifth EP, &#8220;Break Even,&#8221; on Oct. 26, its agency said Monday, marking the group&#8217;s first new music in about six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The upcoming album follows the group&#8217;s fourth EP, &#8220;It&#8217;s Me,&#8221; released in April. Its title was inspired from the economic term &#8220;break-even point,&#8221; referring to a state where neither profit nor loss occurs, according to Belift Lab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The label said the new project delivers a clear message from the speaker: she will no longer invest time and emotion on relationships that lack mutual return, pivoting away from the direct, unreserved approach she previously held toward her love interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K-pop girl group ILLIT \/ Captured from ILLIT&#8217;s X K-pop girl group ILLIT will release its fifth EP,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-599879","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\/599879","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=599879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}