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250523 SHINee World VII E.S.S.A.Y Day I — about Poet | Artist (full ment)

MH: It’s our first single release in Korea! The title- Poet | Artist. It’s a truly perfect song written & composed personally by our Jonghyun hyung; and as we’d been thinking over when exactly to do this song, we actually were worrying over what kind of album to release / how to get closer to you all this time, and then we decided it would be good to release a single, but then we thought what would be title track be? Ah, this is exactly the right timing to do Jong-man’s song

TM: While listening to Jonghyun hyung’s demo of the song, I was surprised. I was like I will try to sing with as close a tone as possible to the way he recorded the demo, but it seems like the members all also had that thought too.

KB/TM: Like NEAOWWW

TM: And based on your reactions earlier, some of you noticed this, but Jonghyun hyung’s voice came out in the middle of the song, right? With him singing, so looking at it, it’s been a long time since we’ve released a SHINee song with all 5 of us. And we knew you all would be glad to hear it, & thank you so much for feeling that way.

O: We actually went back and forth a lot over whether or not to put Jonghyun’s voice in the bridge, but overall, we all agreed that showing us all together like this would be good, and we’d be able to share it with you, so we kept his voice in the song. Please show a lot of love to Poet | Artist releasing soon, and continue to support us in the future as well.

"Because I love you."