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Get Up (2023)

Where the lyrics of Get Up take you, and where it was really made.

Six of the EP's tracks were written in a few days in Copenhagen by a mix of outside musicians, and the group's first US number-one album was built on that session.

Key places

Mixing at The Sound Factory Studios (2023)

Recording site The Sound Factory — Several tracks on the EP were mixed at The Sound Factory Studios in Los Angeles, California, alongside two other studios. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Mastering at Becker Mastering, Pasadena (2023)

Recording site Becker Mastering — The EP was mastered at Becker Mastering in Pasadena, California, the final stage of the studio work before release. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Get Up: second extended play (EP) by South Korean girl group NewJeans
• Released 21 July 2023 by ADOR
• Produced by Park Jin-su, 250, Frankie Scoca, Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt
• Six tracks, about 12 minutes long
• Draws from R&B and dance styles including UK garage, drum and bass, Baltimore and Jersey club
• Lively beats and synthesizers define the sound
• Lyrics mainly center on feelings from friendship and love

Background

• Follows the debut EP New Jeans and the first single album OMG
• ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin said in January 2023 that NewJeans was preparing an album
• Release date and tracklist announced 19 June 2023, with a snippet of a B-side track
• Three singles: "Super Shy", "ETA" and "Cool with You"
• Hybe's share price rose 3% in one day after the announcement

Recording

• ADOR organized a studio session in Copenhagen with long-time collaborators and outside musicians
• The group wrote four of the EP's six tracks during the session
• Recorded, engineered and edited at Hybe Studio
• Mixed at Brecks Farmhouse Studios, The Sound Factory Studios and Chapel Swing Studios
• Mastered at Becker Mastering in Pasadena, California

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• NewJeans is a South Korean girl group formed by ADOR, a sub-label of Hybe.
• The group was originally a quintet; Danielle had her contract terminated in 2025.
• Members of the group are Minji, Hanni, Haerin, and Hyein.
• Initial preparations began in 2019, with Min Hee-jin as creative director; the project moved to ADOR in late 2021.
• The group debuted in July 2022 with the single "Attention".

Members

• Current members: Minji, Hanni, Haerin, Hyein.
• Former member: Danielle (2022–2025).
• Hanni is Vietnamese-Australian and Danielle is Australian-born; both had pre-debut experience in Melbourne and South Korean television.

Career

• The self-titled debut EP was released in August 2022; its physical version sold over one million copies.
• "Ditto" from the first single album OMG (January 2023) became the longest-running number-one song on the Circle Digital Chart.
• The second EP Get Up (July 2023) reached number one on the US Billboard 200.
• The group released "Supernatural" and "Right Now" in June 2024, marking its official Japanese debut.
• A contract dispute with Hybe began in 2024 and led to court injunctions, a hiatus, and Haerin and Hyein returning to ADOR in late 2025.

Reception

At release

• Music critics generally praised the production as experimental, refreshing and engaging
• NME's Rhian Daly gave a five-star review and praised the six songs
• Pitchfork's Joshua Minsoo Kim described the group's lively dance music and club-inflected pop songs
• Named on year-end best-music lists by British GQ, Paste and Rolling Stone
• Featured in NPR's list of best new music on release

Records

• South Korea: debuted at number two on the Circle Album Chart, selling 1.65 million copies in its first week
• United States: debuted at number one on the Billboard 200
• Top five in Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand and Scotland
• Japan: debuted at number five on the Oricon Albums Chart with 27,304 copies
• United States: sold 332,000 copies by year end, the fifth best-selling CD album there according to Billboard

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Get Up came out a day before NewJeans' first anniversary since their debut
• Min Hee-jin produced all of the music videos for the six tracks
• Music videos for "Cool with You" and "Get Up" were released as a two-part video two days before the single's release
• The EP's lead single "Super Shy" was promoted through a dance challenge with YouTube Shorts
• The group's first US live performance came at Lollapalooza on 3 August 2023

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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