The lefty guitar player and backup singer is her close friend and long-time collaborator, Jehwi. He is the composer of Through the Night, and she wrote the lyrics for his debut song, Dear Moon (featured in her My Mister drama, and her live performance of that song on KZread is amazing). You should check out IU’s ‘sloppy live’ where she and Jehwi play many songs impromptu (she sings BTS songs, Moana theme song, lots of random stuff requested during Covid from fans)

The song is based on a Brazilian children's book called My Sweet Orange Tree. IU is an avid reader, you can see her reading Brothers Karamazov in the reality show Hyori Homestay. Literature was her best subject in school that she maintained the grade while the rest suffered because of her trainee days & budding singing career.

@mikeduplessis8069

8 күн бұрын

In her song 'Blackout' IU references the book 'Mrs. Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf

You should watch the version of Zeze live performance during her 10th debut anniversary concert titled "dlwlrma" way back 2018. It has a different arrangement & you'll gonna love her look too(with long ponytail & glasses)

You should also check out Knees and Cant Love You Anymore duet live clip its 1 video together

can you react to eight acoustic version live 😍😍😍waiting for reactions

I'm glad you reacted this thank you so much one of the favourite ❤❤❤

I would recommend listening to Pierrot Smiles at Us and Obliviate. Also Can't Love You Anymore by IU featuring Oh hyukh is a must listen

This is art

Thanks again. See you next sunday ;-)

This song caused quite a little scandal when it came out and IU's company released a 'diplomatic' explanation of the lyrics that seem a bit sanitized. To me it sounds like IU fantasizing about her early life as an idol trainee surrounded by all those pretty boy fellow trainees.

@sakura_sake7459

9 күн бұрын

More like a jab to her being sexualized especially at that early year of her career. I remember at that time, before Chat-shire era, her M:F fans were too disproportionate. An explanation to her 'sexualizing zeze (character from a novel) scandal' that knetz complained about (2015): "How you interpret something is up to the reader. IU was clearly pulling out some of the qualities of Zeze that she recognized in herself and constructing a song around it. She described it as both the duality of the character and as the way that some people would call Zeze wicked while others saw him as innocent. She knew that it was about perspectives, if you watched her V app interview you would've known that. This is not dissimilar to how she's been simultaneously sexualized and infantilized both as a minor and an adult. She used the motif of duality in Zeze to explore how people (through the pov of the tree) will see her as both innocent and cunning. The subject of the song is clearly not a child, because a simile is used comparing the subject to a child. There was one poster in the last post who comically tried to say this didn't mean the subject was not a child. If you can't tell what a simile is, then I don't know what to say. Thus, it was pretty easy to end up at the conclusion that IU was actually talking about how people attacked her for being sexual (the photo scandal) when she had an innocent image, yet she was fetishized for her innocent image too. She is the one who was sexualized at a young age. I wonder if people care as much about the writer of the song actually being thrust into a lolita image as a minor in real life, one that she has said she didn't want to do. (You could read this song as a satire of that as well.)" This song interpretation makes the song complementary to her title track on that album "Twenty Three" with the lyrics: "Pretend to be a fox that pretends to be a bear That pretends to be a fox Or completely different one Which one? Choose only one whatever it is Being seen through the sunglasses I'm used to it now"

@Chiacchi86

8 күн бұрын

​@@sakura_sake7459The best comment I have ever read about this song 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻