South Korean singer IU has revealed that shut collaborator Suga of Ok-pop septet BTS was not the member of the boyband she initially wished to work with.
IU not too long ago made an look on Suga’s on-line speak present, Suchwita, the place she and the BTS member recalled the creation of their first-ever collaboration and the steps main as much as it.
“The primary track we labored on collectively was ‘Eight’ in 2020. Why don’t we speak about this in additional element. Our followers could need to know extra,” Suga stated, including that he wasn’t IU’s “first option to do a collab with”.
“Oh, you need the small print?” IU stated jokingly, earlier than revealing that she had initially requested Suga is she “might have RM’s quantity” to be able to collaborate with him as a substitute.
“In case you had finished a collab with RM, what sort of track wouldn’t it have been?” the BTS member requested, to which IU replied: “I feel it will’ve been one thing actually severe.”
“As a result of mentally, on the time, I wasn’t in the very best place. I wished to convey out these feelings in a track,” she added. “So, I requested you if I might have his quantity, and obtained it. However I by no means referred to as him.”
IU added that asking Suga for RM’s quantity had taken her “lots of braveness”, however later backed out after realising that RM was “a complete stranger” on the time. “I couldn’t rise up the braveness to simply name somebody I didn’t know in any respect.”
“In the long run, I by no means referred to as RM And after that, I simply form of misplaced curiosity in doing that track,” she added. “Then I all of the sudden considered ‘eight’. I got here up with the title first [because I was 28 at the time].”
The singer then famous how the remainder of ‘eight’ took place very “naturally” after she determined that was the path she wished to go along with. “I believed, it’d be higher to do it with somebody my very own age. That that means was essential to me. And of all of the producers our age the very best is [you].”
Earlier this yr, IU and Suga reunited to collaborate on the track ‘Individuals Pt 2’, which was featured on the latter’s debut solo album ‘D-Day’. The duo additionally carried out it reside on IU’s YouTube speak present, IU’s Palette.
Elsewhere, BTS member V will star in because the male lead in an upcoming music video by IU. The singer is at the moment engaged on her new album “with the purpose to be launched within the first half [of 2024]”.
