Review | As Twice announce 2022 US tour dates, their new K-pop album Formula of Love: O+T=＜3 investigates love and celebrates their fans
- The nine-member K-pop girl group’s third album continues their upward trajectory with its examination of love, their career and love for their fans
- Following its release, the group announced some tour dates in Korea in December and five dates in the US in February 2022
When K-pop girl group Twice debuted in 2015, they shot to fame right away. Now in 2021, after years of hits, they’ve released their third LP, Formula of Love: O+T=<3, which offers a snapshot of where they are in their career.
With a title referring to how their career has been bolstered by their bond with their fandom Once, and can be read as “Formula of Love: Once plus Twice equals love”, the 16-track release explores a variety of dance-pop styles as Twice sing about different elements of love.
Formula of Love: O+T=<3 arrived just a few days before the K-pop group announced they would be returning to international touring in 2022 with five dates in the United States in February, which will follow several shows in South Korea at the end of December.
The album is fronted by the single Scientist, a bass-driven synth-pop song, which declares there is no actual reason to approach romance in a formulaic, scientific sense despite the album’s name.
The rest of the tracks explore a wide range of emotions relating to love, and different types of love, with regrets over past romance put front and centre in Cruel, self-love getting a big anthem in Icon, and one for coffee lovers around the world: an ode to caffeine, Espresso.
