Onew "Goodbye to SM?" I got a sense of challenge. I want to achieve small things first."
Sep 03, 2024
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Onew recently met with Sports Chosun at a cafe in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, saying, "Happiness is an important value for me. I want to be an artist who can convey the happiness I felt."
Onew will meet with fans through its third mini album 'Flow', which will be released at 6 p.m. on the 3rd. In particular, 'Flow' is expected to be the first album to be released after Onew left SM Entertainment, where he has been for 17 years, as a solo artist.
He wondered who I was when he came to face the new challenge. If you're in a situation where there's nothing right now, you have a sense of challenge about what you can do. I wanted to start from small things and achieve them one by one"I thought it would be helpful for me to take on various challenges rather than settling for a given situation."."
Earlier in April, Onew signed an exclusive contract with new agency Griffin Entertainment and announced a new start. In response, he said, "I signed a contract as an artist, not as a one-man agency." Happiness is a very important value to me. I stayed in the U.S. for about a month during the break and went to see Coldplay, and I was so excited and nervous. I felt good feelings when I was young again this time. On the contrary, I also came to think that I wanted to convey that feeling to someone."
In addition, fans are paying attention to the production of the 3rd mini album 'Flow'. Kim Na-na, who has had a long relationship with Onew since SHINee's promotions, is in the album 'HOLA!' Jo Yoon-kyung, who participated in writing the lyrics and wrote SHINee's representative song 'Sherlock', wrote the lyrics of the track 'Focus'.
In response, Onyu "I have had a long relationship with Kim Na-na, the lyricist, and I contact her once in a while. Can I ask for a title song or a good song if it comes out?When I offered ', he readily accepted it. This time, I worked remotely, and I gave you the draft first and said, `I want to write it in this direction.' With the lyricist 'Hola!I wrote the lyrics of the song ', and they melted my situation into the lyrics a lot. 'How about you?There is a lyric that says hello, and he/she caught and wrote my daily elements so that the public could easily accept them. He also expressed his trust by saying, "'Cho Yoon-kyung, the lyricist, was originally contacted through the company, but by chance, he was recommended by people around him.'
Onew responded to the pressure he felt while preparing for this new report by "There can't be no pressure (laughs). The theme is also 'Flow'. These days, I've been thinking a lot about what to do to enjoy happily. I want to do what I can do well according to the flow of my life, and if there is anything bad, I want to fix it. I have to be who I am now, so when I do it with the members later, a better synergy comes out. I feel a lot of empty space because I have to work alone without the members, but I'm trying to fill the space that's a little empty by myself."
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