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‘IU' Mini Album Vol. 6 [The Winning]
This is my first album in my thirties.
The conclusions and details are different, but the energy is like that of when I was twenty-three. I've become an adult with different desires than the ones I craved back then, but either way, the essence of being a 'greedy person' remains the same. I erased the question marks I was pondering and drew exclamation marks in their place. The first slot on the list of desires I will newly write in my thirties is filled with 'victory'. Now I'm not confused about what I want. For the first time in a while, I'm having fun with this version of myself again.
1. Shopper
The story of shoppers who sweep up what they want with their own tastes and standards in a store that never closes.
The items they put in their carts are very personal. They may seem too trivial, excessive, strange, or not very valuable from the standards of others or the world. But shoppers don't care. They listen carefully to realize what they truly want and accurately choose items that will make them happy. They are simply satisfied by filling their carts with their desires and tastes to their heart's content.
In this shop, the price tag for the value of one's desires is only set by the shopper themselves. He alone judges whether that choice is valuable or not.
What I, as a shopper, put in my cart are the emotions and moments I encountered at the 'The Golden Hour: Under the Orange Sun' concert in 2022. At that concert, I strongly felt desires with a resolution that was somewhat unfamiliar to me.
The two days of the concert, which I encountered while feeling a bit of burnout from work, completely overturned the theme and atmosphere of this album, which I was preparing in advance, and my energy itself in approaching it. I wanted to put aside what was easy and comfortable for a while and challenge myself again as if pouring it out. It was the audience on that hot night that clearly organized my head, which had been circling in the same place without admitting burnout, postponing the completion of the album day after day.
Tens of thousands of voices came into me as clearly as one person's voice and awakened new desires. I crammed the courage and overwhelming feeling I felt as a result into this song. This time, I hope my voice will give those who listen to this song the 'courage to be sure of what they want'. /
An Electro-Pop Rock track with an intense sound.
Based on a cool guitar sound, various transitions constantly stimulate the ears.
IU's vocals repeatedly alternate between restraint and release throughout the song, providing a fun experience as if carbonation is bursting in your head.
The witty FX sources added in the middle of the song add to the exciting feeling of shopping at a market.
2. Holssi (Dandelion Seed)
In 'CHAT-SHIRE', the first album I directly produced in my 20s, I compared my age to a flower.
Whether it's a splendid flower or a small flower. At that time, I believed that I would be a flower that would bloom in due time.
In my 30s, having realized that not everyone in the world has a reason or needs to become a flower, I want to live as a dandelion seed fluttering in the sky. Like a tireless shopper, I want to wander around without a destination, looking around and putting various options displayed in my world into my cart. /
A track with a unique composition based on Hip-Hop/R&B.
On top of the heavy Drum & Bass, IU's voice expresses various charms with her vocals, sometimes with the flexibility of an R&B singer, sometimes with the confidence of a rapper, and sometimes with the cheerfulness and simplicity of children singing a nursery rhyme.
3. Shh.. (Feat. HYEIN, JOWON SUN & Special Narr. PATTI KIM)
'This is not just a story of friendship.
It's not just a love story either.
There was something more complicated between her and me.'
Names that always win against me.
Names that don't go out of fashion in my heart.
Names that guided me to who I am now,
Names that make up me somewhere inside.
To those who will be special and complicated for a long time. /
It is a song based on deep Blues sensibility, but attention should be paid to the genre change depending on the singer.
The sound is configured to be optimized for the tone of each artist, such as IU's part with a Soul Blues feel, NewJeans Hyein's part with an R&B base, and Jo Wonsun's part that transforms into a Rock sound.
The unique and skillful interpretations of each vocalist dealing with the same melody, the top-notch playing of the IU band members, and the voice of 'master' Patti Kim, who closes this confusingly attractive song, make you feel both the diversity of generations and genres, and the harmony that encompasses all layers.
4. Love wins all
Some say that now is an era of great hatred.
It certainly doesn't seem like a time when love is prevalent.
In a gray world that is getting colder and colder with noticeable animosity and indifference,
Sometimes it feels absurd to hope for victory with invisible love as a weapon.
But as I have experienced firsthand, hatred is always alone, even in moments of good momentum.
On the other hand, even while running away, breaking, and fading, love is terribly together.
Love has a good chance of winning.
It tells the story of those who struggle to love to the end in a world that hinders love.
As an aside, this album containing five songs has two songs dedicated to the people I love, especially my fans, one of which is this song Love wins all.
From the age of eighteen, when my life suddenly changed overnight with unexpected great love, until now.
There hasn't been a day that I haven't imagined about fading. I vaguely felt lonely, scared, and thought it was natural.
But after thinking about it every day for more
Author: IU
Publisher: KAKAO ENTERTAINMENT
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