“HOT” is a pop, hip-hop-influenced, genre song that highlights the harmony of western guitar sounds. It delivers the message of SEVENTEEN’s walking their own path forward the future when showing the group’s more mature identity and ultimately resembles their current goals and energy as the artists.

The song works as a lead track from the group’s fourth full-length album, Face the Sun, following the album’s theme of facing own fears and making the courageous choices for the future.

The music video’s story line is a continuation of the video for a previous single off the same album, “Darl+ing.”