Is Celebrity that good or is IU at a point where she can release static noise and it would still Hit the charts?

each to their own...if you like the song you like the song

if not dont - there are obviously a lot ot koreans who do thus the PAKs and high charting

IU has made better songs than celebrity so i kinda agree

Song was meh, but it's IU so she'll chart high no matter what

Honestly I listened to it and it was basic. No shade but it was like a b-side. IU is just too popular that anything she releases will be big.

Anything she comes up with will top k-charts like this... and no one big enough to dispute her the #1 has released anything this year, it's all months old songs. It kinda shows how strong she is when even her most forgettable song in a while does this

celebrity is terrible and basic.

I liked it personally, but it's your opinion.

...and I'll leave it at that lmao

I don't know about you folks but I for one am waiting for IU's static noise and the follow up, white noise

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Honestly I listened to it and it was basic. No shade but it was like a b-side. IU is just too popular that anything she releases will be big.

It was indeed a B-side. It's not going to be the title track of her new album.

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It was indeed a B-side. It's not going to be the title track of her new album.

I really sat here and thought that was the title track

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I don't know about you folks but I for one am waiting for IU's static noise and the follow up, white noise

She should release an album with all the spectrum of noise. White, pink, brown, blue, violet and gray noises. And a black noise outro.

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She should release an album with all the spectrum of noise. White, pink, brown, blue, violet and gray noises. And a black noise outro.

Brown noise would be an interesting listening experience :D

IU does benefit from her reputation, but she benefits from it because she's the one who built it up and consistently backs it up with her releases and interactions with fans throughout the years lol. This song was good. And tbh, I know that the static noise is a hyperbole, but the fans don't even have to worry about her releases because she's in total control of her music—production, lyrics, song-writing, etc.

A lot might think it's basic or been done already sound, but what really resonate with the korean gp is the lyrics of the song. She wanted to release an light and uplifting song and she has done that with celebrity. She never intended this release to be anything but that.

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Honestly I listened to it and it was basic. No shade but it was like a b-side. IU is just too popular that anything she releases will be big.

Well it is a bside lol

She's IU. She could release anything

It is good.

Celebrity isn't my favorite IU release by a long shot but it's a well-craft pop song with meaningful lyrics. IU does have a "trust and listen" relationship with the south korean GP but it's a relationship that's been built on a literal decade of nonstop hits. No one else in the country can claim that. So the question isn't really "is celebrity that good [to deserve all these accolades]" - it's more like "the song is catchy and IU sings it well" which is enough for an IU song to top the charts.

Celebrity is the only good song from iu from the past few years so it deserved the pak

just so people know, celebrity is literally so famous in korea, plays on tv and many other places too, and yes the lyrics of celebrity, iu's lyrics are always known to be very intricate(?) and very well written which aka difficult to translate into english, through the night is a very good example, this one too, and celebrity is such a good song, edm is my fav style so celebrity was so good from the first time i listened, and also IU is so famous and established in korea already, which gave a lot of exposure to the song the moment it's released, and she deserves all of this, and im glad koreans love it, i cant wait for her album!!

It's a bop song for me. Many people liked the lyrics of that song

International kpop fans taste don’t equal Koreans taste. The song is charting because Koreans like it. Period

Celebrity is 100x better than all her stuff pre 2020. Her best songs have been her last three: Eight, Into the Iland and Celebrity.

I find a lot of her releases boring, but she is at the stage where she can release anything

This result is expected from an international poll. A lot of international fans dislike IU.

Objectively speaking, it's a mixture of both answers.

First, it's not IU's best song, but it's still good. Don't come with the basic and generic talk like K-pop was complex and unique. You may find her boring, it's okay. But Koreans love these 'boring' songs. It's supposed to be a bright and uplifting song and it fulfils its purpose. It's catchy and has well written lyrics that convey a meaningful message. There's a Korean word that I forgot that represents what Koreans feel when they listen to songs like IU's. And this song has a lot of replayability, so it keeps charting.

Second, yes, it helps a lot the fact that it was released by her. She didn't even need to promote the song for it to get popular. If it was released by someone else it wouldn't reach the same height. But, in the same way, a song by a top group released by a nugu group also wouldn't reach the same height. But it doesn't discredit her. If she released a bad song Koreans wouldn't listen to it. The Korean GP is not a cult-like fandom that listens to anything she releases and mass stream it just for the numbers. At least I like to think they have free-will.

Third, she's only charting this much because of the changes that occurred. It was much harder to chart for a long time before. Too many unstable charts that were easily manipulated by mass streaming. The only song that did an impressive job was Zico's Any Song that managed to achieve 330 PAKs with the Soribada chart.

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I loved Celebrity, and i rarely like Iu's songs

international fan wont understand what korean think of a good song

She can just release anything and it will blow up and do well regardless.

At this point even her fart noises could be gaon certified tbh

it's not a bad song but definitely one of her weakest singles ever. i remember reading so many korean viral tweets praising the lyrics or ppl doing the challenge, there's even a video of her smiling and it has like a 1m views on youtube lmao she's very loved and i dont think korea will let her flop in a long long time

I like Celebrity, but I agree she could release pretty much anything and it would get a PAK.

PAKs is about how popular the artist is and not how good the song is.

Don't get my point wrong. I really like Celebrity, but is clearly not a hit song in term of number.

Celebrity digital in Gaon is dropping quite fast 37 -> 46 -> 39. A hit song should has more consistency digital and should drop more slowly like example: Dynamic and Any Song.

I think IU is consistent enough to where it would hit the charts. If she put out a hot garbage-y "flash-in-the-pan" track, I think it wouldn't chart like a catalog-quality single.

I feel the same way about "Celebrity" as I do for Twice's "More & More". The verse is good, but after a point where the "vocal phasing" effect happens in or after the chorus, it slips and hits a low point.

I wish she would try something different. Something very different from what she has been releasing for years now. She can certainly afford to do so since the Korean GP seem to eat just about anything she puts out there.

I liked celebrity tho

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I wish she would try something different. Something very different from what she has been releasing for years now. She can certainly afford to do so since the Korean GP seem to eat just about anything she puts out there.

isn't "celebrity" very different from anything else she's released.... IU's discography is actually pretty niche/genre-influenced (less pop overall but recent songs are definitely more pop-influenced). what's your definition of different - what everyone else in kpop is releasing?