Releasing the 2nd album 'Last Fantasy'... Wrote the lyrics to 6 of the songs and "decided to not go to college, I went to the album jacket photoshoot on the day of the college entrance exams."
'The Lee Minsoo and Kim Leena combo', 'Stressing on the Real Sound', 'Completing the Nagging-Good Day-You & I series', 'Bringing out the sound from a musical on the stage'.
When meeting IU on the 28th at Seoul Donga Media Center, she took the reporter's computer and typed the words shown above. It was during that time the reporter was taking the time to listen to the new album's title song, 'You and I'. Originally, he had been expecting her to be lively and state 'Nice to meet you! Please show a lot of love for my second album'.
Beneath the black hoodie was her long, black hair. Her voice was husky, due to the fact that she "didn't sleep". When asked intimate questions, she did not take more than 2 seconds to think and still gave a clear and meaningful answer unlike most adult singers. Born in 1993, next January she will be 20 (in Korean age).
"Instead of songs like 'I feel like I'm going to die' and 'I'm going to go crazy', I think a calm song about daily life after a break up will be more moving. How many kids around my age do you think have experienced a really bad break up?"
IU has returned, not as "the Uncle Fans' cute girl" but as "the Uncles' musician", saying goodbye to being in her teens. In her second album, Last Fantasy, which IU released on the 29th, the credits are filled with first class musicians such as Kim Kwangjin, Yoon Sang, Jung Jaehyun, Lee Juk, Kim Hyungsuk, Jung Sukwon, Kim Hyuncheol, Yoon Jongshin, Lee Minsoo etc. IU herself composed one of the songs ('A Stray Puppy') and wrote the lyrics for six of the songs.
After seeing a stray puppy last September, she was inspired to compose the song 'A Stray Puppy'. "The theme is mainly about how it would feel to be loved then thrown away. It could be about lovers, orphans, or just about some lovers being afraid of growing apart..."
The song 'Uncle' (Track 6) is a song dedicated to the uncle fans. Lee Juk composed it and IU wrote the lyrics to it. In the recording studio, when IU asked Lee Juk "Should I call you Uncle", he replied, "No, never, even if I die call me oppa." IU laughed and stated, "Although I have a lot of 30-year-old uncle fans, I had received a fan letter from a 57-year-old uncle fan. Since their handwriting looks close to a font it made it look more elegant."
For the title song 'You & I', like what she typed into the reporter's computer, the feeling from 'Good Day' was continued while making it more complex to make the music quality higher. IU stated, "The sound became a lot wider. Since it uses majors and minors in many different types of chords, after listening to it, it would be hard to tell if it was supposed to be a happy song or a sad song. Due to that, my facial expression on stage will become more important." In two days time, on KBS TV 'Music Bank', she is planning to wear the outfit that she wore for her jacket photo; putting her hair into pigtails and wearing the 'bib dress' in order to put an emphasis on her neck line.
IU's idol, English female singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, gave her a new song. IU, who received the song along with the guide that Rae had provided, named the song '4AM' and for a week she woke up at 4AM to write down how she felt during that time.
When asked "Do you think you'll do well this time?" she answered "It's already doing well. I fulfilled my wish to compose a song, I released my second album before turning 20, and I got to work with the dream team. I'm more afraid of the musical evaluation than the popularity."
Unlike most of the kids her age, she had given up trying to go to college. "When you're in your teens you're supposed to dream, when you're in your 20s it's supposed to become reality but I already had a really good "dream". When I debuted in 9th grade, I had already decided not to go to college. I'm not longing for a college life. On the day kids took their college entrance exam, I went to my album jacket photoshoot. I decided to follow my dreams."
Translation: -Hope @ WeHeartIU.com
Edited by: TheFly @ WeHeartIU.com
Source: dongA
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