KATSEYE, LE SSERFIM and ILLIT Come Together For Digital Single ‘Iconic By Mistake’
The three HYBE girl groups will officially release the video for the song 11 a.m. ET on Thursday (June 11) after dropping a mind-blowing teaser on Monday (June 8).
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Three of HYBE biggest K-pop girl groups are teaming up for a joint single. “Iconic By Mistake,” a superstar collaboration between KATSEYE, LE SSERAFIM and ILLIT will be released as a digital single at 12 a.m. on Friday (June 12), with the song’s official video slated to drop at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday (June 11).
KATSEYE teased the collab on their Instagram on Sunday (June 7) via a 20-second video featuring a baroque piano snippet playing under an image of a screen covered in white bird feathers. Five seconds in, the reverie is interrupted by a brief, grinding industrial sound that shakes most of the feathers loose, followed by another rumble that uncovers the song’s title in playful cursive script made up of cartoon teeth, skulls, bones, tombstones and bird silhouettes. “I am iconic by mistake,” a lone voice sings as the final feather drops.
A short time later, KATSEYE posted a second teaser video, this one zooming in on the icons from the previous one, revealing a googly-eyed bird with its wings spread and all three groups’ names arrayed across its wings.
A 30-second teaser for the official video previewed what looks to be a super-intense, action-packed visual, opening with a shot of the women on what looks like a spaceship, followed by a brief image of a golden tooth slamming into an electrical outlet. In quick succession, we see a vicious windstorm, a creepy visit to the dentist and one of the singer’s top row of teeth covered with a glittering “ICONIC” grill, with a trickle of blood seeping out of her right nostril.
At press time no additional information was available about the song, its producers or writers. The five-member LE SSERAFIM released their second studio album, Pureflow Pt. 1, in May, featuring the singles “Boompala” and “Celebration.” Currently five-member group KATSEYE — co-founder Manon Bannerman is on an indefinite hiatus — are prepping the release of their WILD EP on Aug. 14; to date they have released the high-energy single “Pinky Up,” but the full tracklist for the five-song mini album has not yet been revealed. Five member ILLIT released the single “It’s Me” earlier this year from their five-track Mamihlapinatapai EP.
Check out the “Iconic By Mistake” teasers below.
