“I all the time had a curiosity of what it will be prefer to work as a solo artist and create my very own music and do my very own stage efficiency, and that curiosity type of developed right into a sure stage of ardour for it,” Tzuyu explains by way of a translator on Zoom with The Hollywood Reporter.
The 25-year-old Ok-pop star is the youngest member of worldwide sensation Twice. Having debuted in 2015, Tzuyu and the remainder of the nine-member group have spent the final practically 9 years rising in entrance of the general public eye.
All through their profession, Twice, as soon as dubbed the nation’s lady group, has topped Korean music charts and the Billboard 200, bought out stadiums all over the world and, in recent times, branched out into solo work and sub-groups for its members.
Tzuyu is the third member of the group to go solo, following two albums from the group’s eldest member Nayeon and one album from the group’s chief Jihyo. Very similar to her fellow group members with their solo efforts, Tzuyu is hoping that her debut EP, abouTZU, will supply Twice followers, identified collectively as As soon as, an opportunity to see a aspect of herself that they haven’t seen earlier than.
Tzuyu says the method started in February after she requested her label, Korean leisure firm JYP Leisure, about the opportunity of releasing solo work and so they agreed. “Since this was my first album, I felt lots of challenges,” she says.
Twice’s Tzuyu has launched her debut solo album.
Courtesy of JYP Leisure
“I obtained lots of assist from the members and that helped me out loads,” she continued, shouting out the opposite members of Twice. She admits that doing solo “By working with my label, we tried to indicate many various [and] new sides of me on this album.”
The EP’s first music, “Run Away,” serves because the album’s lead single. The synth-pop observe is addictive and gives Tzuyu an opportunity to showcase the extra mature aspect of her efficiency expertise. The 25-year-old seems elegant within the haunting music video.
“As a Twice member and as a solo artist, I need to be somebody that followers are naturally drawn to and really charming. That’s what I aspire to be,” Tzuyu says of how she needs followers to view her work on the album. “I hope my songs and my stage performances present some form of assist and vitality to our followers all all over the world.”
Amongst Tzuyu’s favourite tracks on the six-song album, “Fly” and “Lazy Child” sit on the high of the listing. “Fly,” a stupendous ballad written by the 25-year-old, is seemingly fairly significant to the singer. “That is the primary time that I solely wrote the lyrics on my own,” she says.
“It tells my story rather well,” she continues. The music acts as an inspirational message for her and her followers with opening lyrics of “You give me wings to fly once more” earlier than later declaring “Anyway I’m gonna attempt / You’re the cause why, ’trigger I-I-I / I do know I’m alive.”
Throughout Twice’s current fifth world tour, the members had been in a position to showcase their particular person abilities by way of solo levels. Tzuyu, having beforehand carried out a dance-oriented efficiency, opted to sing a ballad at their current encore reveals in Japan. “Followers reacted very positively as a result of they obtained to see me in a distinct mild and their response actually gave me lots of braveness and vitality to attempt extra new issues sooner or later,” she explains.
Twice’s Tzuyu has launched her first solo album.
Courtesy of JYP Leisure
“Lazy Child,” which Tzuyu says she hopes to carry out on stage, options Korean-based American rapper pH-1. The enjoyable and “quirky,” as Tzuyu places it, music is a standout on the album with a refrain that repeats “I’m a lazy child” and has lyrics that each college students and employees can relate to: “What you gonna do? Nothing / Once you gonna do it? Not but.” The singer feels it’s “simply so completely different from the title music.”
Tzuyu says all through the method of making an album, she watched different feminine solo artists and gained inspiration from them. When it comes to private musical favorites for the time being, the singer says she listens to Celine Dion “loads” and “actually loves” Korean singer Yerin Baek. Her favourite film, no less than at that second, is the 2013 Rachel McAdams movie About Time. “It’s so romantic, and on the similar time, it offers me an opportunity to think about what I might do if I might flip again time,” she provides.
As Twice approaches their ninth anniversary as a bunch, Tzuyu is ready to look again on her profession and supply a world of recommendation to anybody hoping to have their very own Ok-pop profession. “Getting ready my solo album, I had lots of worries and fears, however this has been my dream for a extremely very long time, so I made a agency determination to turn into extra brave and to do one of the best as I can,” she begins.
“My recommendation for youthful individuals who aspire to be idols, or my youthful self, is to don’t have any worry when you have desires to pursue,” she continues. “The whole lot is an expertise, good or dangerous.”
The singer assures hopefuls that they’ll be taught a lot alongside the best way. “Simply go forward and don’t have any worry,” Tzuyu says. “That’s my recommendation.”
