{"id":815490,"date":"2026-08-16T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815490\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:04:17","slug":"seventeens-vernon-shares-his-playlist-digs-into-v8-inspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815490\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen\u2019s Vernon Shares His Playlist, Digs Into V8 Inspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/seventeen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_seventeen_1\" data-tag=\"seventeen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seventeen<\/a> member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/vernon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vernon_1\" data-tag=\"vernon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon<\/a> is digging into the inspiration behind his latest album, V8, which he made with fellow group member The 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIt was The 8 who suggested this unit in the first place to both me and our label,\u201d Vernon tells The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cI said yes because I felt like I could do something fun with him. I think we have relatively synchronized taste in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/music\/\" id=\"auto-tag_music_1\" data-tag=\"music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a> out of Seventeen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKnown for his love of hyperpop, the 28-year-old rapper, a New York native, is a member of the popular K-pop boy group Seventeen. He, along with The 8, decided to branch out from the group\u2019s typical sound to release the hyperpop-filled duo album. Understandably, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-playlist\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-playlist_1\" data-tag=\"the-playlist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the playlist<\/a> Vernon made for THR is filled with gems from the genre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFeaturing Jack \u00dc, Bladee and Mechatok, 100 Gecs, Blur and Madeon and LMFAO, his playlist is never boring. \u201cI usually make playlists when I want to focus on listening to a specific sound or genre, or when I\u2019m working on a song and I want to pull different references from different songs for the song,\u201d Vernon says. \u201cI frequently shuffle or just let the algorithm take me wherever it does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tVernon and The 8\u2019s lead single, \u201cSingasong,\u201d even features some LMFAO-inspired shuffling choreography. \u201cI went to a Korean middle school, but even in Korea, everyone was infected by [\u2018Party Rock Anthem\u2019]. Every time a period ended, I went out to the hallway and everybody would be just shuffling nonstop like crazy,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cAfter finishing our song, \u2018Singasong,\u2019 I knew we had to dance for this, but I kept contemplating what kind of dance we should do,\u201d he says. \u201cThen I saw Romance Planet, which is a different musician who shuffles to his own music, and that really inspired me to maybe just bring back the \u2018Party Rock Anthem\u2019 shuffle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn a new episode of The Playlist, Vernon takes THR through some of his favorite songs that inspired V8, what it was like working with The 8 on their album and how he feels K-pop has changed sonically over the years.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventeen member Vernon is digging into the inspiration behind his latest album, V8, which he made with fellow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,25702,216,260331,346143,109411],"class_list":["post-815490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-k-pop-news","tag-music","tag-seventeen","tag-the-playlist","tag-vernon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}