TWS
TRY WITH US
Albüm · K-Pop · 2025 · PLEDIS Entertainment
With their third mini album, TRY WITH US, fifth-generation K-pop group TWS continues expressing their self-described “boyhood pop” genre. Seemingly limitless in its energy and optimism, the bright, dynamic pop style is meant to evoke the ordinary emotions and experiences of teen-boy life. Though a few of TWS’s six members had entered their twenties when TRY WITH US was released in mid-2025, the mini album stays in the backpacks-and-bus-stops schoolboy space that defined the group’s debut just a year earlier.
Like TWS’s 2024 breakout hit “plot twist,” the title of TRY WITH US’s lead single has a more specific, playful meaning in its Korean-language incarnation. Called “Countdown!” in English, the Korean title “마음 따라 뛰는 건 멋지지 않아?” translates to “Isn’t it cool to follow your heart?” The cheerful pop song is about going for what you want, even if you need a countdown to build courage first. Other subjects explored in the mini album include TWS’s gratitude towards their fans (“Lucky to be loved”), a call to indulge in the fun of youth (“Random Play”), and the scariness of planning an honest love confession (“GO BACK”).
TRY WITH US
TWS
With their third mini album, TRY WITH US, fifth-generation K-pop group TWS continues expressing their self-described “boyhood pop” genre. Seemingly limitless in its energy and optimism, the bright, dynamic pop style is meant to evoke the ordinary emotions and experiences of teen-boy life. Though a few of TWS’s six members had entered their twenties when TRY WITH US was released in mid-2025, the mini album stays in the backpacks-and-bus-stops schoolboy space that defined the group’s debut just a year earlier.
Like TWS’s 2024 breakout hit “plot twist,” the title of TRY WITH US’s lead single has a more specific, playful meaning in its Korean-language incarnation. Called “Countdown!” in English, the Korean title “마음 따라 뛰는 건 멋지지 않아?” translates to “Isn’t it cool to follow your heart?” The cheerful pop song is about going for what you want, even if you need a countdown to build courage first. Other subjects explored in the mini album include TWS’s gratitude towards their fans (“Lucky to be loved”), a call to indulge in the fun of youth (“Random Play”), and the scariness of planning an honest love confession (“GO BACK”).
