The Title Says Coward, but the Song Is About Finding Courage

In three lines

• PENTAGON's single 'Coward' arrived yesterday, September 11, at 6pm. It is a 10th-anniversary project single.
• It is their first new song in two years and eleven months, since October 2023's 'Promise (With UNIVERSE)'.
• Their tenth anniversary falls on October 10, so this arrived a month ahead.

What arrived last evening

Item	Detail
Artist	PENTAGON — Jinho · Hui · Hongseok · Shinwon · Yeo One · Kino · Wooseok
Single	'Coward' — one track
Release	September 11, 6pm
Last release	'Promise (With UNIVERSE)' (October 10, 2023)
Debut	October 10, 2016 · first EP 'PENTAGON'
Lyrics	Kino · Kim Eana · Baek Eun-byeol · PAAK
Music	Kino · VTL · APRO · PAAK · Laewoo

The title and the content point opposite ways

The title is 'Coward'. But the content the label describes runs the other way: overcoming the fear inside you and finding the courage to approach someone you have long missed.

Put the word coward in a title and it usually becomes a song that stays in that state. Here the word is a starting point. The song begins where a coward starts to move.

So the title is less a condition than a label. They call themselves that first, then sing the process of shedding it.

A gap of nearly three years

The last release was 'Promise (With UNIVERSE)' on October 10, 2023. Two years and eleven months to this single.

As it happens, that song's release date was also October 10 — the same date as their debut. This team has a habit of putting something out on October 10.

But this anniversary single did not use that date. It came on September 11, because something else is scheduled for October 10.

What sits on October 10

The Seoul dates of the 10th-anniversary tour are October 9 at 7pm and October 10 at 6:30pm, at Blue Square Woori WON Banking Hall in Seoul.

The second night is the tenth anniversary itself. A stage rather than a recording is placed on that date. The single goes out a month early, and on the actual anniversary they stand in front of people.

A song made by a member

Member Kino took part in both the lyrics and the music, and handled the overall production. Kino's name also appears in the executive producer line of the credits.

Kim Eana and Baek Eun-byeol also wrote. The label introduces Baek Eun-byeol as a writer who published a bestseller in the second year of middle school.

The person who made the song is inside the team, and one of the people who wrote the words writes fiction. These are the names attached to a song in the tenth year.

What to check today

Listen with the title in mind. Where the word coward turns over is the first thing to check.

Then read the credits. The same name repeats across lyrics, music and production.

Last, remember October 10. What this team does on the day it turns ten is something that day will tell you.

That's the last of the numbers. Now, the music.