ATEEZ Leader Hongjoong Explains His Solo Song About Having 'Enough'

Hongjoong of ATEEZ discusses his solo track ENOuGH, describing it as about feeling enough and the journey to find belonging beyond chasing constant deficiency, including a space-themed concept with collabs (Bazzi) and planets representing different emotions. He explains the song’s visual story of traveling to other planets, but ultimately home is his group and Earth—ATEEZ is his home and the driving center of his identity.

# ATEEZ Leader Hongjoong Explains His Solo Song About Having 'Enough' Author: Jeff Benjamin Published: 2026-09-19T00:00:00+00:00 Source: billboard.com (billboard.com) Language: en ## Story ATEEZ Leader Hongjoong Explains His Solo Song About Having 'Enough' Hongjoong Tyler Shields # During ATEEZ’s Biggest Year, Leader Hongjoong Wanted to Share a Song About Having ‘Enough’ The Korean superstar talks about his new Bazzi collaboration, the first vacation of his career and why every change ultimately ends in the same place: "My planet is ATEEZ." By Jeff Benjamin 9/18/2026 In April, Hongjoong returned to Coachella with nothing to do. Two years earlier, he had been on the Indio Valley stage when ATEEZ became the first K-pop boy band to perform at the festival. This time he was a guest, watching other people work. “That day I got so many inspirations,” he says of a trip where he linked up with Teddy Swims, PinkPantheress, Central Cee, Swae Lee and Daesung of BIGBANG. “I really love to experience everywhere.” He came back to Los Angeles, booked a session and crafted an atmospheric pop song that he specifies is “not just chill” but about a feeling he had been chasing his whole life. That song arrives Friday (Sept. 18) as “ENOuGH,” a collaboration with Bazzi, that is unhurried, openly emotional and, perhaps most notably, sounds nothing like the group he leads in the midst of their biggest season yet. On June 26, ATEEZ unleashed GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 and made a headlining debut at London’s BST Hyde Park in the U.K. just two days later. The EP gave the group it…

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