ITZY‘s Yezi looked back on the process of preparing her solo debut song ‘Air’.

Yezi made her solo debut on the 10th at 6PM with the release of her first mini-album ‘Air’. Ahead of the album’s release, she held a press conference for the album at the Sofitel Ambassador Seoul Hotel in Songpa-gu, Seoul in the afternoon and personally introduced the new album.

Regarding how she came to participate in writing the lyrics for her solo debut song ‘Air’, she explained, “Since this is my first solo album, the company also recommended that I do it. I‘ve participated in writing lyrics and composing songs before, but since this is my first full-fledged solo album, the company wanted me to put more meaning into the title track and write the lyrics.”

With “‘Air’, I wanted to show my first debut airflow, my own ‘aura’. There is a line in the lyrics that says ‘takes my breath away’, so I thought about when the moment would be when I would take my breath away. I wanted to express my first impression of the overwhelming emotion I felt when I first heard the song through the lyrics. I tried to express the attraction I feel when I am deeply in love with something well in the lyrics,” she added.

She also emphasized the charm she wanted to show with ‘Air’, saying, “I think this title song itself is a challenge for me. It was a song where I wanted to show this side of me as a person named Yezi, which is different from ITZY. I wanted to make the listeners think, ‘Yezi can have this kind of voice, too?’ ‘she can create this kind of atmosphere?’, while also showing the powerful energy that I have shown as ITZY.”

Meanwhile, Yezi’s first mini album, ‘Air’, which is the first among the members of ITZY to challenge a solo career, contains a title song of the same name in the synth-pop genre. Yezi participated in writing the lyrics herself, and JYP Entertainment‘s CEO producer Park Jin-young is listed in the credits.


Reporter Yoo Ji-hye yjh0304@donga.com

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