ENEMY

TWICE gained wider global recognition in the summer of 2025 following their feature on the smash-hit soundtrack for *KPop Demon Hunters*, but the real-life girl group known for bops like “TT,” “What Is Love?,” “FANCY,” and “The Feels” was already one of the most successful K-pop acts of all time. Debuting in 2015 out of the idol survival show *Sixteeen*, Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu are popular worldwide for their bright discography, catchy choreo, and prolific output. *ENEMY*, their second full-length album release of 2025, is specifically targeted at Japan, where Korean idol music is a part of the mainstream pop scene and TWICE is incredibly popular. (Three of the group’s members, Momo, Sana, and Mina, are from Japan.) *ENEMY* is TWICE’s sixth full-length Japanese album, following 2018’s *BDZ*, 2019’s *&TWICE*, 2021’s *Perfect World*, 2022’s *Celebrate*, and 2024’s *DIVE*. The album’s rock-infused title track stretches the boundaries of TWICE’s self-described “color pop” sound while still fitting seamlessly into the group’s tradition of self-empowerment songs. “Even a flower cannot bloom without swaying,” members Dahyun and Chaeyoung rap in Japanese on the second verse of the pop-rock song about persisting through hardship. Though *ENEMY* flirts with other sounds across its nine tracks—like cheerful summer bop (“Up to you”), laidback electropop (“FINE”), meandering jazz-pop (“Love is more”), and sweet acoustic ballad (“Glow”)—it returns to J-rock for album-ender “Like 1,” a sentimental song composed by Taku and Toru, members of the veteran Japanese rock band ONE OK ROCK. The track’s lyrics were written by TWICE leader Jihyo, leaving listeners on a poignant, ambiguous note: “Know there will come a time/For a bittersweet salute (I wanna)/Stay in this moment now/But we don’t get to choose.”