“I at all times had a curiosity of what it might be wish to work as a solo artist and create my very own music and do my very own stage efficiency, and that curiosity form of developed right into a sure stage of ardour for it,” Tzuyu explains via a translator on Zoom with The Hollywood Reporter.

The 25-year-old Okay-pop star is the youngest member of world sensation Twice. Having debuted in 2015, Tzuyu and the remainder of the nine-member group have spent the final almost 9 years rising in entrance of the general public eye.

All through their profession, Twice, as soon as dubbed the nation’s woman group, has topped Korean music charts and the Billboard 200, bought out stadiums around the globe and, lately, 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 like her fellow group members with their solo efforts, Tzuyu is hoping that her debut EP, abouTZU, will provide 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 potential for releasing solo work they usually agreed. “Since this was my first album, I felt loads of challenges,” she says.

“I obtained loads of help from the members and that helped me out so much,” she continued, shouting out the opposite members of Twice. She admits that doing solo “By working with my label, we tried to point out 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 monitor is addictive and presents Tzuyu an opportunity to showcase the extra mature aspect of her efficiency abilities. The 25-year-old seems to be elegant within the haunting music video.

“As a Twice member and as a solo artist, I wish 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 type of assist and vitality to our followers all around the globe.”

Amongst Tzuyu’s favourite tracks on the six-song album, “Fly” and “Lazy Child” sit on the prime of the record. “Fly,” a ravishing 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 very 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 strive / You’re the purpose why, ’trigger I-I-I / I do know I’m alive.”

Throughout Twice’s latest fifth world tour, the members had been capable of showcase their particular person abilities via solo levels. Tzuyu, having beforehand carried out a dance-oriented efficiency, opted to sing a ballad at their latest encore reveals in Japan. “Followers reacted very positively as a result of they obtained to see me in a special mild and their response actually gave me loads of braveness and vitality to strive extra new issues sooner or later,” she explains.

“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 staff can relate to: “What you gonna do? Nothing / If 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. By way of private musical favorites in the intervening time, the singer says she listens to Celine Dion “so much” and “actually loves” Korean singer Yerin Baek. Her favourite film, a minimum of at that second, is the 2013 Rachel McAdams movie About Time. “It’s so romantic, and on the identical time, it provides me an opportunity to think about what I’d 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 provide a world of recommendation to anybody hoping to have their very own Okay-pop profession. “Getting ready my solo album, I had loads of worries and fears, however this has been my dream for a extremely very long time, so I made a agency determination to develop into extra brave and to do the perfect as I can,” she begins.

“My recommendation for youthful individuals who aspire to be idols, or my youthful self, is to haven’t any worry if in case you have desires to pursue,” she continues. “All the pieces is an expertise, good or unhealthy.”

The singer assures hopefuls that they’ll be taught lots alongside the way in which. “Simply go forward and haven’t any worry,” Tzuyu says. “That’s my recommendation.”