So Long

[DAHYE TWITTER]

설정같죠? ㅇㅇ설정임. 오늘 슈키라 팬들덕에 더 씐나게 했어요.🙌  낼 비몽사몽으로 보십시다. ….힘내세요다들ㅠㅠ 오늘도 다혜는 팬레터에 웁니다….(먹을거..도..)

Seems fixed doesn’t it? Mm-hmm it’s a set up. Thanks to the fans I did today’s Sukira more excitingly.🙌 I look half-asleep. ….find strength guysㅠㅠ Dahye is crying from her fan letters today too….(I’ll eat..too..)

The dress code for the CHAT-SHOW was ‘flower’ as flipping the number 2 to look like an ‘S’ and adding a ‘3′ to it looked like a flower. The title of the event was also ‘A Bunch of Twenty-three′

“Just writing the number 23, it looks like flower petals. Doesn’t it? Am I the only one that thinks so? It’s in the lyrics for ‘Twenty-three’ too. It goes like ‘a bunch of twenty-three~’. I think the age of 23 is just like a flower.”

“I’m in a really good mood right now. More people are listening to my songs than I thought and I tell them that too. My songs are doing really well. Am I being arrogant right now? It’s the first album I’ve done producing for, so the sense of responsibility I have for it is really different from before. I searched it up at 1am and was like, oh, I made it! I was really thankful. Really, I thought to myself that I have to live as a good person from now on (I guess she means for good karma). I’m being really excited right now, isn’t it?” “I wrote all the lyrics. There were a lot of things I wanted to say. Also, the topics were not light ones. These are songs that contain some of my serious concerns. Originally I thought of having an ordinary album title like ‘People’. Or ‘Purple’ as an extension from ‘People’. I didn’t want to make it sound so serious for everyone. That’s why I put a layer of protective film on the album title. ‘These are not serious words, but just my idle talk (which is where the ‘CHAT’ in CHAT-SHIRE comes from).’ Like this.” The title song ‘Twenty-three’ is inspired by the cheshire cat from ‘Alice in Wonderland’. When Alice gets lost, the cheshire cat appears in front of her and she asks, ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ to which the cheshire cat replies, ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.’ “I don’t know what’s real, really. An article about me appears on a web portal. On some days, it puts me in a good mood? Uwah, I’m just staying at home, but there’s an article on me? But on some days I think to myself that I just want to hide somewhere. I don’t know for sure what I really want and all I have are short moments. Is it like that for you guys too?”

IU sang ‘Zeze’ for a fan with relationship issues. It’s a song that uses the motif of the main character, Zeze, from ‘My Sweet Orange Tree’, which is about an angelic boy with a gentle heart who is at the same time a devil and incorrigible.

“It’s the most fun song I’ve written. I thought Zeze’s temper was sexy. Despite his two sides, I was supporting Zeze and fell in love with him as I read the novel. I become the Minguinho (tree) and the song contains my message for Zeze. I left a lot of things open to interpretation as I was writing this song, so if you read the lyrics, you’ll find it quite interesting.”

To a fan with family issues, IU said, “I hope you know that you’re being really cool” and sang ‘Red Queen’ to the fan as a gift. This is a song about the Red Queen in ‘Through the Looking Glass’. A woman everyone hates, a story about a time she was pretty. IU got her inspiration from a picture that f(x)’s Sulli drew. "I went to Sulli’s house to play, saw the picture and thought of the Red Queen so I wrote this song. ‘That woman’ is mentioned a lot in the lyrics, but to everyone a different person would probably come to mind. Although I called her a ‘woman’, you can think of the person as a man too. Actually the lyrics to this song are rather bitter. So I tried to sing it as cunningly as possible. In order for my voice to sound cunning in talking about that woman, people listening to the song might find the woman quite poor thing and take her side. Did I manage to pull off the cunningness well?”

To a fan troubled about career and aspirations, IU sang ‘Knee’. This song was written on a sleepless night because of how much doubt she felt about herself and she missed the times when she lay in her grandmother’s lap and could sleep without any worries. "I feel the same way. I’m 23 now, but why have I not adapted to life yet? Spending each day clumsily like an amateur. ‘Knee’ is song I love the most on the album. I think it’s the first time I almost felt like crying while recording. I was feeling so sad that I couldn’t take it.”

IU won’t be promoting this album. From November onwards she’ll start her nationwide concert tour. “This year, I was involved in all kinds of activities. Other than for my concert, I think I’ve spent all the rest of my energy. I wouldn’t want the emotions I felt while producing this album to mix with those while doing broadcasts. I just want to end on a happy note. That’s what I wish for.”

Sad to part with the fans, she said she would create such opportunities for them again. IU went down from the stage and took a group photo with the audience and promised to post it on her Instagram.

“I’ve got to go and work now. Today was really fun. It’s such a pity, I find it a pity too. Two of my ex-classmates are here. You guys are my true friends. I really really had fun and thank you for coming. Get home safely. It’s a burning Friday, so go have fun somewhere. Don’t just go straight home. Annyeong~”

Source: Newsis

IU said, “Telling myself I should go to bed and doing so at a regular timing seems to be something of the distant past. ‘Knee’ is a song that I wrote on a night that I had a lot of trouble sleeping and got really angry because of my insomnia. I wondered to myself, ‘Why can’t I go to sleep?’ and it came to my mind that if I rested my head on those knees, I would be able to sleep.”

The fans then asked, ‘On Jang Giha’s knees?’ to which IU replied, “Don’t you start imagining whose knees those are. I wrote the song thinking about my grandmother. I felt that if I rested my head on her knees while she ran her hand through my hair just like when I was young, I would be able to sleep well. I recall that in those days I could sleep peacefully.”

“It’s a song I wrote thinking about those days when I could sleep peacefully. I hope you listen to it a lot. Although we made it into a piano version, I put the guitar version on Youtube (Note: IU posted the song on Youtube as a gift for fans after she won awards at MAMA in 2014.)”

Source: http://news.nate.com/view/20151023n43966

IU held her comeback CHAT-SHOW on October 23rd.

She read out the story shared by one of the fans that he/she was having a difficult time taking care of household affairs. IU replied, “But didn’t you start doing that from a young age? It makes you feel really nice and matured.

“I have a grandmother at home as well. Since young, we were very close and my grandmother brought me up. However, recently my work and time has become more important, so I haven’t been able to take care of my family. My grandmother took care of me since I was a baby and I really love my grandmother. I want to do everything I can for her, but I can’t do it like you can. To be honest, once I end my work, sleeping is more urgent and occasionally, I even think of it as a hassle to check on how my grandmother is doing. So I think you’re more amazing and mature than me.”

“I want to live such a life of a 23 year old. Buying pretty things, doing things I want to do. But actually leading a life like this, I ask myself, ‘I can’t even take care of my grandmother properly, how can I call myself an adult, how can I say I’m all grown up now? What’s the point of working like this and earning so much money? I’m sorry towards my family.’ I feel that I’m just like a kid.”

IU held her comeback CHAT-SHOW  on 23rd October 2015 at Understage.

One of the fans asked her if she’s having a hard time. She replied, “We’re all having a hard time. Is there anyone here not having a hard time? Although there are difficult times, recently, it’s better.” Someone then mentioned Jang Giha, flustering IU. She replied, “Although it hasn’t been long since we started dating openly, I mentioned that we’ve been seeing each other since 2 yrs ago. It’s not a key factor affecting my happiness level recently.”

“But anyway, I’ve been feeling really alive recently. Especially while preparing for this album. My blood is flowing really quickly and  my heart is beating quickly too. The devil in me is out and my fighting spirit is on the rise. Moments like this make me excited.“

“Compared to when I was having a hard time, recently things are better for me. To me, the most difficult thing in the world is boredom. When I’m sad or lonely, that’s awesome. That’s when I’m certain of my emotions and feel like I’m being grounded somewhere.”

Releasing her CHAT-SHIRE mini-album in a year and five months, IU invited a hundred 23-year-old same age peers for an honest conversation and revealed live performances of her new songs for the first time (IU sang Zeze, Red Queen and Knee).

Source: http://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201510231845320410