ICYMI: D.O. from EXO is finally making his solo debut this July 26, 2021! He will be making his solo debut with an 8-track album titled “Empathy”, with the title track’s lyrics (and English bonus track!) written by D.O. himself!
“Rose”, the mini-album’s title track, was described by SM Entertainment as a “heart fluttering acoustic folk song” in a tweet teasing fans for the album’s upcoming release. Fans are both excited and unprepared for the solo debut of EXO’s main vocal, sending their reactions and thoughts to the original tweet.
YESSS!!!!! KYUNGSOO RELEASING SONG OF THE YEAR!!!! pic.twitter.com/UJZzm9RVzR
— klau (@kokokbop) July 15, 2021
The world is healing. Rose is coming y’all pic.twitter.com/2SrDt6sHzc
— viel (@exoviella) July 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/citybyuns/status/1415499851106709508?s=20
However, fans are even more bewildered when they saw an Instagram post by 220musik of D.O.’s mood sampler video who tagged another K-Pop music artist/producer, who is none other than eaJ Park, more popularly known as Jae from DAY6.
hold up jae was tagged on kyungsoo’s teaser that 220 uploaded on ig 😳 pic.twitter.com/h5fnGO9Dzs
— el´- (@daysixedt) July 16, 2021
Upon seeing this Instagram post, fans are beginning to speculate on this possible collaboration between two talented artists, with some even trying to “connect the dots” with some of Jae’s former tweets and Instagram lives.
• 210119 – Day6's Jae Video about selling a song. He also tweeted about selling a song, and recording some nice guitar
• 210125 – Kyungsoo confirmed his solo album
• 210629 – Day6's Jae tweeted "it's time for some new music"
• 210701 – SM released official date (cont)— Maggie – Mars as a lifestyle (@saranghaedks) July 16, 2021
of Kyungsoo solo album 공감
• 210716 – 220musik posted Kyungsoo's Mood Sampler Ver 1. and said "them guitars on the first teaserrrr + He tagged Day6's Jae & Andreas on his instagram posthttps://t.co/cWJ6gKDzrl— Maggie – Mars as a lifestyle (@saranghaedks) July 16, 2021
jae be letting us on kyungsoo’s solo since march🤡😳but we were all busy clowning about some other stuff happening in exoplanet🥲 pic.twitter.com/9nu3hooM4U
— ⋆͛ C ☺︎ (@eggsooshi) July 16, 2021
Jae from Day6 was tagged when the producer posted the mood sampler of Kyungsoo Empathy. oww 👀
“them guitars on the first teaser” pic.twitter.com/QWtawg8Vu9
— 핑키훈 (•͈⌔•͈⑅) (@xunonme) July 16, 2021
jae is getting to work with D.O. the DOH KYUNGSOO FROM EXO. legendary idol-actor and other idols look up to. THIS IS A BIG DEAL & SO HUGE FOR JAE.
— ❁ (@letterwithsoul) July 16, 2021
crazy how jae was associated with exo kyungsoo yesterday then now 5sos michael replied to jae’s invitation to rust and we’re here like pic.twitter.com/ldonPyoczz
— meow (@gabjagi_) July 17, 2021
ok and if jae really participated on kyungsoo's album now what????? nOW WHAAATTTT????? pic.twitter.com/IeeAhOxPSO
— 데우주🌌 (@day6scosmos) July 16, 2021
Connecting the dots!!
Jae Parked helped in making Kyungsoo’s Solo Album?? 🥺🥺 pic.twitter.com/xq5mh2Cjt8— 开🌹🍑🎀 (@dkscacti) July 16, 2021
no because there's a HUGE huge chance jae sold the song to kyungsoo and i'm so happy not just because kyungsoo is one of my favourite singers as well but because this is so big for jaeeee ;___; im so happy
https://t.co/8B3vm1NwrX— jano (@day6suh) July 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/jaenthusiast__/status/1416062230026588163?s=20
NO CAUSE THAT'S DO KYUNGSOO OF EXO AND JAE WROTE A SONG OR EVEN RECORDED A GUITAR FOR HIM THATS SO HUGE FOR JAE. KYUNGSOO IS AN ACTOR-SINGER LIKE MOST OF THE IDOLS LOOK UP TO
— louise (@loverkyh) July 16, 2021
Never thought I’d see the day where DAY6 was Trending in an EXO topic… excited for Jae’s song on Kyungsoo’s album!! pic.twitter.com/DEcLMGg4pf
— Ro // ✴︎🌹🍓🌖 (@rokissoo) July 16, 2021
Do note though that this isn’t confirmed (yet), so let’s just take a breather and wait (although I know that’s hard).
Can July 26, 2021 come any sooner? We all can’t wait for D.O.’s solo debut!
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