When izna announce a comeback produced by TEDDY, the K-pop industry pays attention. The WakeOne girl group's third mini album 'SET THE TEMPO' — five tracks anchored by the TEDDY-produced title song 'METRONOME' — arrives on June 8, 2026, and it represents the most sonically assured statement the I-Land 2 group has made since their November 2024 debut. The izna SET THE TEMPO comeback is built around a central concept that doubles as artistic manifesto: finding your own rhythm, refusing to measure yourself by anyone else's standard, moving at the pace that the music — and the group — demands. TEDDY, whose production fingerprints are on the biggest songs in the YG Entertainment catalogue, is not a collaborator who arrives for a minor release. His involvement signals that 'METRONOME' is built to move.
'METRONOME': TEDDY, KUSH, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF A COMEBACK TITLE TRACK
The title track 'METRONOME' was created by TEDDY alongside producers KUSH, VVN, and IDO — a production team whose combined résumé encompasses some of the most commercially dominant K-pop releases of the past decade. TEDDY's work with BLACKPINK alone — 'DDU-DU DDU-DU,' 'How You Like That,' 'Pink Venom,' 'Shut Down,' 'Crazy Horse' — represents a body of production that has shaped the international perception of K-pop's sonic potential. For izna, whose previous releases established an energetic pop identity without yet producing the definitive song that crystallises what the group is for, 'METRONOME' is the candidate. The production team assembled for it does not indicate a tentative mid-career release; it indicates a calculated push for the group's first truly era-defining moment.
The conceptual frame of 'METRONOME' — a device that sets a fixed beat regardless of what surrounds it, that maintains its tempo independently of external pressure — maps directly onto the album's philosophical position. izna's 'SET THE TEMPO' is framed as the group's declaration of self-determination: setting their own standard, moving by their own measure. In a K-pop landscape where groups are routinely repositioned by market pressure and label direction, the message carries genuine weight. The metronome is not a metaphor for rigidity — it is a metaphor for internal consistency. You don't match the room. The room matches you.
THE FULL 'SET THE TEMPO' TRACKLIST: FIVE SONGS, ONE DIRECTION
Across five tracks, 'SET THE TEMPO' constructs a tight argument about autonomy and identity. Alongside 'METRONOME,' the mini album includes 'R.I.P.,' 'INFINITY,' 'ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS,' and 'LEAN ON ME.' The track 'INFINITY' features lyric-writing contributions from members Bang Jeemin and Ryu Sarang — a detail that reflects the group's growing investment in creative ownership and continues a trajectory toward internal artistic engagement that distinguishes the most durable second and third-year K-pop acts from those who remain wholly dependent on external creative direction. 'LEAN ON ME' closes the mini album on a note of mutual dependence that balances the assertive individualism of 'METRONOME' — a structural choice that suggests the album's concept was developed with genuine artistic intention rather than assembled as a marketing package.
IZNA IN 2026: A GROUP FINDING ITS FORM
izna debuted in November 2024 as the group formed through Mnet's I-Land 2 reality competition series — a production that attracted significant viewership and generated genuine anticipation for the eventual lineup. The six current members — Mai, Bang Jeemin, Koko, Ryu Sarang, Choi Jungeun, and Jeong Saebi — have spent their first eighteen months establishing the group's identity across a debut EP and two subsequent mini albums, while navigating the departure of original member Yoon Ji-yoon in August 2025 due to health-related reasons. The six-member configuration that arrives with 'SET THE TEMPO' is the group in its current form: tested, adjusted, and now in possession of the TEDDY-produced title track that could be their first moment of mainstream crossover. The debut EP 'N/a' introduced them. Their first mini album deepened the portrait. 'SET THE TEMPO' is the project that asks whether they are ready to set the terms of their own story.
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