IU → Boy Next Door with her age as a song, a story of steadily loved 'Age'

Aug 19, 2024

 IU → Boy Next Door with her age as a song, a story of steadily loved 'Age'
photo courtesy of KOZ Entertainment



Boynext Door will release its third mini album '19.99' on September 9. It is an album with the theme of their 'age', which is a material that is constantly loved over time.

Shinbo expressed the hottest age of his life, just before the age of 20, with an incomplete number of '19.99'. Boynextdoor expressed the keyword '20 years old' in a recent trailer film mixed with fear and hope. The theme of the new album comes more authentic, given that all members, including Unhak, who is 19 this year, are 20 years old.

In the album, Boynextdoor will tell you about the autobiographical experiences and thoughts it has experienced around the age of twenty. They've already released their debut single 'WHO!', their first mini album 'WHY..', Through three albums of his second mini-album 'HOW?', he played music with natural conversational lyrics. In the new report, it is expected to create empathy among 20-year-olds by utilizing their unique daily expressions.



Like Boy Nextdoor's new album, music that reflects one's age has been steadily loved regardless of time. This is because it not only forms a consensus with the same generation, but also helps establish an artist's identity through autobiographical stories. IU's "Twenty-three" is a good example. The song contains the uncertain and confusing feelings IU felt in her early 20s and going to the mid-20s.

 IU → Boy Next Door with her age as a song, a story of steadily loved 'Age'
Photo provided=EDAM Entertainment
In particular, IU produced the song for the first time in the album 'CHAT-SHIRE', and thanks to this, the message, sound, and concept starting from the age of '2 3' are united and expressed as IU intended. IU, who has been a lovely 'national sister', became an independent artist.



Bolbbalgan4 sang about the excitement and anxiety of being 25 years old in their mini-album 'Two Five'. By unraveling an honest and realistic story on the subject of age, he was praised for doing more in-depth music away from the existing cute and popular melody.

 IU → Boy Next Door with her age as a song, a story of steadily loved 'Age'
Photo provided=Shopar Music
Music based on one's real age forms a strong consensus with the public experiencing the same age. In addition, it is also a symbolic album in a singer's discography in that it proactively expresses the thoughts of that age and shows the musical growth and change accordingly.



An official from the music industry said, `The inner change according to age is a universal human emotion. From the public's point of view, it was analyzed that stars who felt distant (age-themed music) would actually have the effect of forming a sense of homogeneity that they had the same concerns as themselves.



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