{"id":2446485,"date":"2019-07-18T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=860640"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:49:18","slug":"hear-nct-127s-sleek-summer-vibes-on-highway-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-nct-127s-sleek-summer-vibes-on-highway-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear NCT 127\u2019s Sleek, Summer Vibes on \u2018Highway to Heaven\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/highwayheavan.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Nine-piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/k-pop\/\" id=\"auto-tag_k-pop\" data-tag=\"k-pop\">K-pop<\/a> group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nct-127-james-corden-superhuman-flinch-fruit-835538\/\">NCT 127<\/a> have released their latest single \u201cHighway to Heaven,\u201d produced by the American pop duo Social House (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ariana-grande\/\">Ariana Grande\u2019s<\/a> \u201cthank u, next,\u201d \u201c7 Rings\u201d). The single release includes an entirely English-language version of the song alongside the original version in Korean.<\/p>\n<p>The single arrives on the heels of the group\u2019s recent performances on <em>Good Morning America<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Late Late Show with James Corden<\/em> and&nbsp;<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> along with their sold-out North American Tour, \u201cNEO CITY: USA \u2013 The Origin.\u201d Like similar big-ticket K-pop groups, the Seoul-based act has become a runaway hit in the States, receiving \u201cthe Beatles\u2019 welcome\u201d in New Jersey, as noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nct-127-tour-kpop-827299\/\">our concert review of their performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-content t-copy\" readability=\"33.5\">\n<div class=\"c-content t-copy\" readability=\"37\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Korean, so I grew up around K-Pop,\u201d said one teenage fan at the show. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of mind-blowing because I don\u2019t think there\u2019s much Asian representation in America, so the fact that K-Pop and Korean culture is blowing up in America \u2026 that\u2019s really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nct-127-highway-to-heaven-860640\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine-piece K-pop group NCT 127 have released their latest single \u201cHighway to Heaven,\u201d produced by the American pop duo Social House (Ariana Grande\u2019s \u201cthank u, next,\u201d \u201c7 Rings\u201d). The single release includes an entirely English-language version of the song alongside the original version in Korean. The single arrives on the heels of the group\u2019s recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 19:52:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}