K-pop soloist HyunA’s new album is titled Nabillera, a Korean phrase meaning to fly like a butterfly, in keeping with the artiste’s clarification.
Speaking in regards to the album by means of a web based press convention performed just lately forward of the discharge, HyunA stated, “the title conveys my will to fly softly like a butterfly on the hearts of the listeners. I wish to go away my hint wherever I’m going, and I hope that many individuals might consider me whereas listening to the track”.
HyunA conducts a media showcase for her eighth EP, Nabillera, in Seoul on Wednesday. – Photo: P NationWhile HyunA likened the album to a butterfly’s fluttering wings, the album’s lead single of the identical identify and music video comes off as extra akin to a powerful beating of wings.
Nabillera, HyunA’s eighth EP after a one and a half-year break, is a Latin-infused dance tune of a minimal beat and tropical rhythm that’s refreshing to the ears of listeners this time of the 12 months.
In the music video, HyunA radiates a commanding power as she strikes in a good unison with the pack of dancers to the Macarena-inspired choreography.
Just as with her earlier title track, I’m Not Cool that dropped in January 2021, HyunA wrote the lyrics of Nabillera with Psy, the Gangnam Style hit-maker and chief of her label P Nation, and with her boyfriend Dawn, who can be her label-mate and a K-pop singer himself.
“I wish to put it like this: Psy and Dawn gifted me the track,” she stated. “When I used to be in Paris, Psy despatched me the road that goes, ‘Just because I’m your babe, that doesn’t make me yours.’ At first I didn’t actually get it, however I found myself singing the road. It was so addictive and I believed ‘this was it’.”
About Dawn, her accomplice of over six years, HyunA stated, Dawn wrote good traces as a result of he is aware of me so nicely.
The couple just lately introduced their engagement by means of separate pictures posted on social media by which Dawn wrote, Marry Me and HyunA wrote, “Of course, sure”.
The five-track album can be packed with different songs that carry the distinctive sounds of the musician. HyunA contributed as lyricist and composer of the B-side observe Picasso & Fernande Olivier and Watch Me, the latter of which she initially made as a present to her stylist, hairdresser and make-up artiste – her colleagues and shut mates – to share her gratitude.
Dawn additionally added color to the album with Bad Dog, because the co-lyricist and co-composer. The final observe, Whatever, was a gift to HyunA by the favored singer-songwriter Sungwoo JungA, in keeping with HyunA.
She stated she didn’t realise that a lot time had handed since her final solo stage as she had been so immersed within the preparations. Having devoted her every thing into it, HyunA stated she was so overwhelmed with feelings listening to the complete album for the primary time.
“I listened to the album within the automotive alone, and I cried. I used to be so shocked at myself that I listened to it once more, and I realised that I cried as a result of I cherished it a lot. I used to have one or two favourite tracks from my earlier albums, however this one, I actually adore every one equally,”she stated.
HyunA stated she was overwhelmed with feelings listening to the complete album for the primary time. – Photo: P Nation
HyunA appeared to have put behind her some tough occasions, revealing that she is now able to share a real smile onstage.
“I couldn’t smile on the stage through the I’m Not Cool promotions. But this time I hope to smile naturally and likewise present that the place the place HyunA shines the brightest is on the stage,” she stated.
HyunA, into her fifteenth 12 months in her music profession, first debuted as a member of the group Wonder Girls in 2007. Spending solely a 12 months in Wonder Girls, she joined one other woman group, 4minute, in 2009 earlier than changing into a solo musician in 2010.
Speaking about her 15 years as a K-pop musician, HyunA’s eyes glistened like the primary day she debuted.
“I discover each day new. I’ve lived each day to its fullest, savoring each second. Fifteen years have passed by in a snap and though I’ve gone by means of a lot, I can nonetheless keep in mind every thing clearly as if it was yesterday,” she stated.
In recounting her journey as a musician, the 30-year-old artiste stated she aimed for nothing however dreamt of the infinite.
“A dream is one thing that you just wish to proceed doing sooner or later, and what I can by no means lose in my life and that makes me the happiest is the stage, so I wish to keep wholesome all through my life for this dream,” she stated
“A aim is one thing that you just wish to obtain, however I’ve achieved every thing I needed to. I don’t have any objectives and I’m in a really content material state proper now.”– By Choi Ji-won/The Korea Herald/Asia News Network
