TWICE gained wider global recognition in the summer of 2025 following their feature on the smash-hit soundtrack for KPop Demon Hunters, but the real-life girl group known for bops like “TT”, “What Is Love?”, “FANCY” and “The Feels” was already one of the most successful K-pop acts of all time. Debuting in 2015 out of the idol survival show Sixteeen, Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung and Tzuyu are popular worldwide for their bright discography, catchy choreo and prolific output. ENEMY, their second full-length album release of 2025, is specifically targeted at Japan, where Korean idol music is a part of the mainstream pop scene and TWICE is incredibly popular. (Three of the group’s members, Momo, Sana and Mina, are from Japan.) ENEMY is TWICE’s sixth full-length Japanese album, following 2018’s BDZ, 2019’s &TWICE, 2021’s Perfect World, 2022’s Celebrate and 2024’s DIVE. The album’s rock-infused title track stretches the boundaries of TWICE’s self-described “colour pop” sound while still fitting seamlessly into the group’s tradition of self-empowerment songs. “Even a flower cannot bloom without swaying,” members Dahyun and Chaeyoung rap in Japanese on the second verse of the pop-rock song about persisting through hardship. Though ENEMY flirts with other sounds across its nine tracks—like cheerful summer bop (“Up to you”), laidback electropop (“FINE”), meandering jazz-pop (“Love is more”) and sweet acoustic ballad (“Glow”)—it returns to J-rock for album-ender “Like 1”, a sentimental song composed by Taku and Toru, members of the veteran Japanese rock band ONE OK ROCK. The track’s lyrics were written by TWICE leader Jihyo, leaving listeners on a poignant, ambiguous note: “Know there will come a time/For a bittersweet salute (I wanna)/Stay in this moment now/But we don’t get to choose.”