You could just barely hear it through the raucous screams of excitement from the studio audience, but K-pop boy band ENHYPEN did indeed make their U.S. television debut on Thursday night’s (April 10) Jimmy Kimmel Live! Dressed casually in ripped jeans and T-shirts, HEESUNG, JAY, JAKE, SUNGHOON, SUNOO, JUNGWON AND NI-KI kicked things off in a straight line formation before busting out their shriek-inducing, flawless choreo.
“I can feel my heart racing, it’s so hard to keep cool/ Am I being too patient?/ Too hot, got me sweatin’ on the floor,” they began, as their sensual body rolls pushed the scream-meter past 11. By the time they got to the Motown-meets-Pharrell falsetto chorus — “Loose/ I’ve been waiting to get next to you/ I can tell how bad you want it too” — each pop, lock and hip thrust was met with increasingly hoarse-sounding yelps.
The performance glided to a close with all seven men reclining on one elbow on the stage before popping up for a last run of perfectly synched choreo and a final straight line pose to soak up the adulation.
Last week, music fans picked “Loose” — ENHYPEN’s first new music of 2025 — as their favorite music release of the week in a Billboard poll. “Loose” took a commanding 91% of the vote, easily outpacing other recent releases including Miley Cyrus‘ “End of the World,” Elton John and Brandi Carlile‘s Who Believes in Angels?, Ed Sheeran‘s “Azizam” and Djo‘s The Crux, among others. The group’s sophomore album, Romance: Untold, ran up to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 2024.
Watch ENHYPEN on Jimmy Kimmel Live! below.
