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Aespa recruit G-DRAGON for ‘WDA (Whole Different Animal)’ as they set up second album ‘LEMONADE’
Aespa enlist G-DRAGON on new single “WDA (Whole Different Animal)” and announce their second album, LEMONADE, due May 29.
Aespa have brought in BigBang’s G-DRAGON for a new single, “WDA (Whole Different Animal),” while also confirming the arrival of their second studio album, LEMONADE.
The album is due out on May 29 via SM Entertainment, with pre-order and pre-save available here. The record is being positioned as a broad reset of sorts, one that stretches the group across “electronic dance, hip-hop, rock, and R&B pop” rather than locking them into a single lane.
“WDA” is the first clear signal of that shift. Built on heavy, physical beats and glossy synths, the track leans into a more feral, high-impact register than the polished futurism Aespa are often associated with. G-DRAGON appears throughout, delivering the line: “She a whole different animal”.
The accompanying video pushes the same sense of instability further, with the members blurring and morphing into one another in a surreal visual sequence.
The timing matters too. Aespa are heading into their COMPLæXITY world tour soon, opening on August 7 with a two-night run at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome. That Asian leg continues through Taipei before the group moves on to São Paulo on September 4 for the start of the Latin American dates.
After that, the tour passes through the US and then lands in the UK and Europe in January 2027, beginning at Manchester’s AO Arena on the 14th. London follows two nights later at the O2 Arena, before the run continues through Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Milan and Barcelona, ending at Paris’ Accor Arena.
Tickets are already on sale, with UK tickets available here and US tickets here.
Elsewhere, the group’s own sense of pressure and expectation has already been part of the story they’ve been telling. When we spoke to Aespa last September, NingNing described the way the group handle ambition without attaching themselves to outcomes they can’t control.
“We always have high expectations and look forward to something, but it doesn’t always come true,” she said. “So instead of focusing on that, we want to always deliver what’s best and also try very hard and keep that positive energy within us. If we do that, we can then achieve more than expected and get what we don’t even expect in the future.”
For a group that has spent much of its career being measured against scale, concept and reach, LEMONADE looks set to widen the frame again, with G-DRAGON’s presence adding another layer of generational weight to the rollout.
