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K-pop girl group aespa is bottling adversity into a dance track. The group’s second studio album, “LEMONADE,” drops Friday, anchored by a synth-heavy eponymous title track built around the idiom “if life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” The four-member group — Karina, Winter, Giselle and Ningning — met with the press Thursday afternoon at a hotel in Seoul’s Songpa district, a day ahead of the album’s 1 p.m. release. The 11-track album follows aespa’s 2024 debut full-length album “Armageddon,” which produced two major hits in the title track of the same name and prerelease single “Supernova.” SM Entertainment, the group’s label, said the new record features songs “that add to the listening experience through music capturing sincere emotions and attitudes toward life, each in its own genre and mood.” “The new studio album carries a lot of meaning for us,” Karina said. “So many people showed love for our first one, so we’ve been preparing with both pressure and excitement. We put a great deal of thought into what to show people. I think we’ll be able to show how much we’ve grown.” The t