TIL IU hasn't composed most of her hit songs

she worked on working on it

there's a reason her music style had a very abrupt shift between 2015 and 2017. she's mentioned before that the songs she released during her rookie years were typical idol music enforced on her by her label, while she actually wanted to do sth different. but as an idol she obviously couldn't just do whatever she wanted right out the gate, and it was only when she was an established name with her own creative control did she finally branch out and really go the route she liked with songs she composed, hence her musical switchup after a decade

personally i actually prefer her old stuff to her music style now lol but she's happy with what she's doing now so good for her

selfmade is rare in pop

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She still isn't all that self composed tho. As I said, she gets full credits on some songs, for example Palette, BbiBbi, but then Celebrity and Lilac both have long list of composers.

i mean taylor swift’s songs also have other composers credited alongside her name but no one is gonna claim taylor swift doesn’t write her own stuff just bc she’s not the sole composer

It’s true that iu does market up her self-composing image in recent years (after her pre-2017 hiatus) but it’s not like it’s completely fabricated. she does write many of her songs now with input from other producers too. That’s already a lot more than the majority of korean pop singers can say lol

Huh how is this in anyway secret that she started her career with idol music(=music with little to no creative influence on from the artist)?

Whats always made her stick out from other idols is that she started taking control of her own music in 2014, with Friday and then continued from there and and became even more popular, something few idols if any ever succed in doing. And shes always been mostly known for her lyrics, with almost every hit since friday having her as the sole credit or co-credit for lyrics. Composing have never been her main thing.

Shes still the main producer of every album she has released since chatshire back in 2015. She decides what composers and musicians to work with, what to use and what not to use and changes that should be made, and she writes most if not all of lyrcis by herself. Nothing ever gets made or released without her say so.