Jang Won-young of girl group Ive shared her thoughts on participating in writing the lyrics for the title track of their new album.

Ive will make a comeback on the 3rd at 6 PM with their third mini-album, ‘Ive Empathy’. Ahead of the album release, they held a press conference to commemorate the release of their new album at the Conrad Seoul Hotel in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul that afternoon and introduced the new songs themselves.

Member Jang Won-young participated in writing the lyrics for ‘Attitude’, one of the double title tracks. She said, “It‘s a song that contains the message that in a situation where nothing can be changed, the only thing that can be changed is ‘my attitude’,” and “It samples Suzanne Vega’s ‘Tom‘s Dinner’, so the familiar melody will be impressive.”

He continued, “I wrote the lyrics with the mindset of cheerfully accepting situations that I cannot change,” and explained, “I’m famous for my unique positive mindset of ‘Lucky Vicky,’ right? I wrote this song with that ‘Lucky Vicky’ mindset.”

Liz, who first challenged herself with lyrics for the track ‘Thank You,’ said, “Today is my birthday, so I‘m happy to be releasing an album,” and emphasized, “At the end of ’Thank You,‘ there’s the phrase, ‘May you forever keep the six.’ I put my sincerity toward the members in that part.”

Meanwhile, ‘I’ve Empathy‘ is a new album released nine months after ’I‘ve Switch,’ which was released in April of last year. It consists of a total of 6 songs, including the double title tracks ‘REBEL HEART’ and ‘ATTITUDE’, ‘FLU’, ‘You Wanna Cry’, ‘Thank U’, and ‘TKO’.

Through ‘Ive Empathy’, Ive is determined to maintain the team color of ‘self-confidence’, while expanding the vision from ‘I’ to ‘we’, as the album title suggests, and aim for empathy.


Reporter Yoo Ji-hye yjh0304@donga.com

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