i-dle answer their 2019 EP 'I made' with a ninth mini-album, 'We made,' out July 6

Seven years ago, a rookie girl group called (G)I-DLE released an EP titled I made. On July 6, the same group, now going by i-dle in all lowercase, releases one called We made. The rhyme is deliberate. Cube Entertainment has set the ninth mini-album for a 6 p.m. KST drop, led by a title track called "Gimme Dat Love," and the callback to 2019 is the point. A group that once staked its name on building itself is now framing the story as something built together.

What "We made" actually is

The EP carries five songs and one CD-only alternate:

1. "Mono (Feat. skaiwater)"
2. "Gimme Dat Love" (title track)
3. "Morning"
4. "Crow"
5. "Love Is Pain"
6. "Mono (Feat. skaiwater)" (Mono ver., CD only)

Two of these are already out. "Mono," a collaboration with the British rapper and producer skaiwater, landed as a digital single on January 27. It was an odd, welcome swerve for a mainstream K-pop act, reaching outside the usual production circle toward an artist better known to the hyperpop crowd than the music-show crowd. "Crow" followed on June 15 as the pre-release, with its video posted the night before. By the time "We made" arrives, half the tracklist will already have been in the world for a while, which is its own quiet statement about how the group paces a release now.

The title track, and who built it

"Gimme Dat Love" is the one still under wraps until Monday. What is known is the room it was made in. The song was produced with Daramola and Samantha Cámara, writers whose credits run through Anitta and Becky G, and Soyeon co-wrote it under her studio alias icebluerabbit. That is a Latin-pop-leaning production team steering an i-dle single, which is not where you would have placed a bet after "Tomboy" or "Queencard." Whether it pushes the group somewhere genuinely new or just swaps one hook factory for another is the question the song has to answer on its own.

It matters because Soyeon has written or co-written most of what i-dle has put out. The self-authorship is the group's real signature, more than any single concept. When (G)I-DLE dropped the parenthetical and became i-dle in 2025, the through line held: this is a group that keeps its hands on its own material. "HIDE AND SEEK" earlier this spring already carried the new name. "We made" is less a reintroduction than a continuation with a tidy piece of catalog symmetry stapled to the front.

The bookend

The I made to We made framing is smart, and it is worth being clear-eyed about why. In 2019, "I made" was the EP with "Senorita," back when the group was still arguing for its place. Seven years and a name change later, the argument is settled. Calling the new one We made turns a title into a small thesis about survival: the same group, a shorter name, a longer discography, still writing the script.

That is a good story. It is also the kind of narrative that can paper over a thin song, and a title track nobody has heard yet cannot be graded on its concept. The bookend earns its keep only if "Gimme Dat Love" belongs next to "Tomboy" and "Nxde" instead of trailing them. We find out Monday.