{"id":137422,"date":"2025-02-07T04:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=137422"},"modified":"2025-02-07T04:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:47:24","slug":"newjeans-officially-change-their-name-to-njz-despite-legal-feud-with-hybes-ador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/newjeans-officially-change-their-name-to-njz-despite-legal-feud-with-hybes-ador\/","title":{"rendered":"NewJeans officially change their name to NJZ despite legal feud with HYBE&#8217;s ADOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that has fans shook, <strong>NewJeans<\/strong> officially rebranded as<strong> NJZ<\/strong> on February 7, 2025! The news arrives amid an ongoing legal feud with their former agency, <strong>HYBE&#8217;s ADOR<\/strong>, which hasn\u2019t stopped the quintet from trying to move forward. Hours before the big reveal, member Hanni teased fans with a cryptic Instagram Story that asked, \u201cBunnies\u2026Are you ready?\u201d hinting at the exciting re-brand-new era.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1887681587107537248\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">K-pop girl group NewJeans have officially renamed to NJZ. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RFoN6xNhjo\">pic.twitter.com\/RFoN6xNhjo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Crave (@PopCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1887681587107537248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterward, the group unveiled new edgy photos and launched their fresh Instagram handle, <strong>@njz_official.<\/strong> While the group is still scheduled for an April 3 court hearing amid the HYBE&#8217;s ADOR feud, they refuse to lay low! NJZ announced their first comeback performance at ComplexCon in Hong Kong this March and revealed they&#8217;ll perform a new track at the event.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/TWITTER.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1887762706175799669\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NJZ gives their first interview following the rebrand.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hi we are NJZ!&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9cIbSOC15y\">pic.twitter.com\/9cIbSOC15y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; About Music (@AboutMusicYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1887762706175799669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The members\u2014Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein\u2014promise this rebrand will bring bolder concepts and a liberated sound under NJZ. Fans are already counting down the days until their March performance, where the group will showcase<strong> new music<\/strong> and a <strong>fresh style<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that has fans shook, NewJeans officially rebranded as NJZ on February 7, 2025! The news arrives amid an ongoing legal feud with their former agency, HYBE&#8217;s ADOR, which hasn\u2019t stopped the quintet from trying to move forward. Hours before the big reveal, member Hanni teased fans with a cryptic Instagram Story that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":137423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137422"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=137422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}