IU has never promoted in America or Europe, but this year she filmed a video for the first time in Los Angeles, did a collaboration with Tweety and announced a World Tour... this can be seen as leaving her comfort zone and the first steps of being a dandelion spore without having boundaries for understanding the world and oneself. I really hope everything works out for her. I really love IU. Thanks for your reaction. 🌷
Maybe it is Lee Jieun (private self) who always on the ground, down to earth like an stalk of the flower (23 Chatshire album she described she want to be a flower) that spawn seeds away like her Avatar (publically self) or various dreamers (kids, adults) who float up became extention stemed from her stalk in the form of spores that has their own destination to fulfill that can ends up anywhere: freedom, dreamers, have fun, be courageous, nothing to hold you back irrespective of where you are from, be experimental, imagination has no limits, aim for the sky.
Wow you’re very observant. You pointed out a lot of things I didn’t notice even though I watched it around 20x. In her album photoshoot, she’s wearing a white dress made of receipts too. Prelude, I think, to her next single “Shopper” next week. IU really makes Uaenas scratch their head and do their homework 🕵️♂️
My 2 cents: IU's new chapter - helping budding young people to achieve in whatever environment they may be in, without having to identify as a flower first? (Hence her reference to being a tiny leader?) Very often waiting to become a flower before making decisions can result in disappointment & despair and choices...like giving up on your dreams. Suga and IU talked about this in Suchwita ep24, about not wanting present day young artists to have to go through what they went through. This can apply to any young person, not just artists. IU have been helping students financially through their schooling for quite awhile now so maybe she will now extend to budding artists? An academy or her own company to manage young artists? ❤
Excellent analysis and spoke I've not heard before. Makes sense. She's just entered her 30's, Spo looking forward about hopes while still being aware of reality is just her style. Such an amazing artist and doesn't confine herself to one genre of music.
Agree with other commenter about Tweety. My recollection was that Tweety stayed in the cage by choice, as a safe space from Sylvester the cat. She lived comfortably in grandma’s house, even with Sylvester - and had no reason to take flight. Leaving that cage and home would mean flying into uncertainty…
Nice analysis, as always 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I have a different interpretation of the IU-balloon: being a gigantic and tender avatar, I believe it represents IU as an artist (who everyone wants and can follow by spreading their wings). IU on earth (Lee Ji Eun) has decided to free herself from her excessive control, knowing that she will be able to fly even while remaining calmly with her feet on the ground, going around the world to collect in her shopping cart all the experiences of life, beautiful or ugly. The dandelion seeds are always ready to fly high and then settle on the ground . Someone pointed out that maybe the dancers are the garbage bags, but I don't have an interpretation of the garbage in this mv... I only noticed that the wind makes it roll on the ground, while the people fly in the sky. I can't even say whether "soft" people are like this because they are relaxed (as the music suggests) or for other reasons...🤔 (I don't know if this makes sense, but I couldn't say it in English, so I relied on Google Translate 😅)
Have been waiting to hear your take. Thank you. Here is mine. The video is shot in LA which I is a key to what the song is about. This is the 1st time IU has made a video in the US and Guess what she is having at least 6 concerts here. Don't tell me there isn't a connection. There have been a lot of people, in Korea particularly, who have say and have been saying, that IU doesn't need to prove herself by going to the US or Europe. But here she is about to launch her 1st world tour that includes Europe the US. It seems as if she is talking to directly to someone, and telling then here plans and to not worry about her she has this. She spreading herself like Dandylion spores on the wind. She isn't going to settle on smooth ground (i.e. taking the easy way). She says she is a single spore (a soloist). On a different road. Fly high to bloom. (To reach her full potential) If any asks how I'm doing Send them the news "She has become a spore" (she has taken to the wind, flying without wings where she lands nobody knows, meaning how will things turn out no body knows). Follow me, gonna go and win (she will succeed on this different road). Follow me, even without wings (on social media etc she will be visible ) I'll fly in the center for everyone to see (like her last 4 indoor concerts in the round, she wont shy away and hide) Where she will be it will be sunny and hot she will need her sun glasses (in the US in July you need sunglasses everywhere). The sky above is blinding. But I'm not afraid of heights at all. (She is not afraid of the risk she is taking. A risk many others are fearful of for her.) I'll fly so close to the scorching sun (she will push the risk factor in order to succeed. ) But she will sit on a cloud (and enjoy the show) And she might cause a little ruckus while she's at it just for fun. (meaning watch out, expect the unexpected) The road ahead won't be easy. (She knows that will be hard) But I won't fuss about it (she won't complain or make excuses) This was my choice, it always has been (no one pressured her or said to truely make it you have to make it in the US. It's her choice and always has been. Whatever happens it's on her no one else). The odds of it being easy are zero (acknowledging she is fully aware of what she is embarking on) Wish you all good luck. I'll even say goodbye (this sounds too much like her lyric in Eight where she is angry that her friends just come and go as they please without even saying good bye. But she is saying goodbye, possibly saying she isn't committing career suicide? ) May God be with ya See, (she said goodbye) see ya Tweety pie reference is definitely important and significant. I'll admit I am still a little confused by it, but here it goes anyway. Tweety is caged and only leaves the cage and takes flight to escape Sylvester always returning to the safety of the cage. Could it be IU's way of saying that she is leaving the cage and it's risky to do so but sometimes in order to survive (escape Sylvester the cage can become a trap and leaving it is required to survive but never leaving it permanently) you leave. But the safety of the cage is always there and Tweety always returns to it. By filming this in the US with American dancers she is establishing a connection to her western audience. It is also interesting that the child looking out at the other kids dancing with IU, and appears to be interested but also a little nervous appears to be of Asian descent. (Meaning could be the child in IU that is still a little nervous or when she was younger the thought of doing what she is now doing was scary or that she is acknowledging those in Korea who worry about her) the worrying about her however extents to all her fans around the world. At the end she allows the cartoonish IU go as the real IU, who is no longer wearing the Dandylion outfit of the ballon/kite gets ready to head out on her different road.
I think at the end when she let go of the string, she's going to you know start flying too eventually, there's this girl that still hides at the house so maybe it's representative of her as well. I don't really know ahhahahaa What I love about being a fan of Jieun is actually diving deeper to things and before that I usually am just interested with melody and sound of music not really into lyrics but with her, she makes me look forward to what she wants to say even though I usually get lost with the metaphors but I love reading/watching different interpretations of people. What's interesting about being her fan is she evolves and that shows in her music and her career but at the same time fans evolve with her too, she gives us a different perspective, something that me personally haven't thought but because she's showing this different perspective, it's opening a wider spectrum of the world to me as well. It's hard to explain lol
Please bring back torsie podcast about IU when her album drops because I for sure know you have a lot to say and there's gonna be a lot to talk about. Pretty please 😍
There is nothing sad about it. It's a song about daring to let go, follow your dreams and let the dreams take you where the wind blows you. She, her self do that. She illustrate it by the scene change from the garbage bags that turns to real people to the kids. Be a spore, fly where the wind blows you and become the flower you are meant to be when you find your ground. It's a nice message and a great song. IU is someone special :)
iu at 23: “I think being 23 years old is like a flower” (chatshire) iu at 30: “me, 30 years old, who realized that there is no reason or need for everyone to be flowers, I want to live like a spore fluttering splendidly in the sky” (the winner/holssi) Like IU, who believed 23 was a flower, these children may have believed it was cats, grass, couches, and cars. However, I hope everyone realizes that it is not necessary to do so and follow the reason of living as a single person and flying without destination. You, young people who hide somewhere and watch, can also fly away from the weight that limits you. The garbage bags are transformed into dancers and after releasing the labels of society that make them feel inferior, they are free to fly. How iconic that iu changes the popular rhetoric that you must first flourish to succeed to one that supports that being a mere spore also means the opportunity to fly and grow, regardless of the risk or fear. IU IS SUCH A COMPLEX 🎨 ARTIST. SHE IS THE STORYTELLER WHO CAN EXPERIMENT WITH ANY GENRE TO GET THE MESSAGE OF A GOOD STORY TO YOU. Alice: Where should I go from here? Cheshire Cat: That largely depends on where you're going. A: I don't really care where. CC: So it doesn't matter much which path you take. A: As long as I get somewhere. CC: Oh, I'm sure you will, if you walk enough.
Have you ever seen The Hanging Balloons comic? That’s what I was thinking when watching this video… creepy stuff 😂 But at the same time she looks and sounds amazing.
After reading IU introduction to this song "Holssi" now I'm thinking this song probably related to her upcoming song "Shopper" 🤔 What do you think Torsie? 😆
Absolutely! I’ve been laughing at myself for hours for missing that lol - my poor overwhelmed brain was so focused on this I forgot about everything else 😄
Pursuing your dreams being happy doing what you want to do versus doing what's expected of you. No one mentions the Asian child who doesn't come out. I think it's a statement on asian culture where you're expected to do what your family or society dictates and not what you want to do.
was Tweety stuck in the cage, I remember Tweedy being able to leave when desired... a home, a safe place from Slyvester lol Now do I have to check Tweety shows lol I once had a gf that loved Tweety and acted like Tweety lol
I remember Tweety on a swing in its cage and Sylvester always trying to get at it… but you’re right, maybe Tweety came and went as they pleased?? It’s been so long since I watched a cartoon I can’t quite remember 🙃
The subtext of the visuals. Power lines and telephone poles everywhere reminds me of the ugly urban drawings by the underground illustrator R. Crumb. Trash bags and graffiti, a shopping cart on a grimy street reminds me of homeless people. And in the end the released IU balloon is stuck on power lines. BUT the IU character remains unperturbed, even when acknowledging future hardships. She's doing what she wants and is letting fate blow her dandelion seed where it will. And she's content.
I think the balloon is implying the persona "IU" is much bigger and has flown even higher than the person "Lee Ji-eun", and I don't think her staying on the ground is necessarily a bad thing, may be about at the end of the day, no matter how high you've flown, it's important not to forget where you came from
IU has never promoted in America or Europe, but this year she filmed a video for the first time in Los Angeles, did a collaboration with Tweety and announced a World Tour... this can be seen as leaving her comfort zone and the first steps of being a dandelion spore without having boundaries for understanding the world and oneself. I really hope everything works out for her. I really love IU. Thanks for your reaction. 🌷
This is so great - you nailed it 💖
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Maybe it is Lee Jieun (private self) who always on the ground, down to earth like an stalk of the flower (23 Chatshire album she described she want to be a flower) that spawn seeds away like her Avatar (publically self) or various dreamers (kids, adults) who float up became extention stemed from her stalk in the form of spores that has their own destination to fulfill that can ends up anywhere: freedom, dreamers, have fun, be courageous, nothing to hold you back irrespective of where you are from, be experimental, imagination has no limits, aim for the sky.
Wow you’re very observant. You pointed out a lot of things I didn’t notice even though I watched it around 20x. In her album photoshoot, she’s wearing a white dress made of receipts too. Prelude, I think, to her next single “Shopper” next week. IU really makes Uaenas scratch their head and do their homework 🕵️♂️
My favorite IU reaction🥹Tors1e🤍
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You’re my fave reactor ❤❤❤ Uaena loves you, Tors1e ♥️♥️♥️
Oh that’s so kind of you, thank you so much! 💖💖💖
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Thanks about your reaction.. You may fly every listen this song.. IU is genIUs❤❤❤
Maybe IU is telling us that although now she lets her artistic self fly she is still grounded as a person, the same person we all love.❤
Very unique rap and R&B songs! IU's vocals are always top-notch. I can't wait for the next title track, Shopper!!
I love her music so much. She is one of my favorite solo artists. She is such a beauty ! I really adore her. She is THE BEST.
My 2 cents: IU's new chapter - helping budding young people to achieve in whatever environment they may be in, without having to identify as a flower first? (Hence her reference to being a tiny leader?) Very often waiting to become a flower before making decisions can result in disappointment & despair and choices...like giving up on your dreams.
Suga and IU talked about this in Suchwita ep24, about not wanting present day young artists to have to go through what they went through. This can apply to any young person, not just artists. IU have been helping students financially through their schooling for quite awhile now so maybe she will now extend to budding artists? An academy or her own company to manage young artists? ❤
And thanks for the reaction I was waiting for it from the moment the song dropped 😅
Thank you for waiting for me! 💖
Excellent analysis and spoke I've not heard before. Makes sense. She's just entered her 30's, Spo looking forward about hopes while still being aware of reality is just her style. Such an amazing artist and doesn't confine herself to one genre of music.
Hey Torsie hope you are well!
Very intersting analysis of yours. Thanks.
Agree with other commenter about Tweety. My recollection was that Tweety stayed in the cage by choice, as a safe space from Sylvester the cat. She lived comfortably in grandma’s house, even with Sylvester - and had no reason to take flight. Leaving that cage and home would mean flying into uncertainty…
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Thank you so much! 💖
This was a GREAT analysis.
I thought the same thing about the song! Reminded me of blackout
Nice analysis, as always 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I have a different interpretation of the IU-balloon: being a gigantic and tender avatar, I believe it represents IU as an artist (who everyone wants and can follow by spreading their wings). IU on earth (Lee Ji Eun) has decided to free herself from her excessive control, knowing that she will be able to fly even while remaining calmly with her feet on the ground, going around the world to collect in her shopping cart all the experiences of life, beautiful or ugly. The dandelion seeds are always ready to fly high and then settle on the ground .
Someone pointed out that maybe the dancers are the garbage bags, but I don't have an interpretation of the garbage in this mv... I only noticed that the wind makes it roll on the ground, while the people fly in the sky. I can't even say whether "soft" people are like this because they are relaxed (as the music suggests) or for other reasons...🤔
(I don't know if this makes sense, but I couldn't say it in English, so I relied on Google Translate 😅)
Have been waiting to hear your take. Thank you. Here is mine.
The video is shot in LA which I is a key to what the song is about. This is the 1st time IU has made a video in the US and Guess what she is having at least 6 concerts here. Don't tell me there isn't a connection. There have been a lot of people, in Korea particularly, who have say and have been saying, that IU doesn't need to prove herself by going to the US or Europe. But here she is about to launch her 1st world tour that includes Europe the US.
It seems as if she is talking to directly to someone, and telling then here plans and to not worry about her she has this.
She spreading herself like Dandylion spores on the wind.
She isn't going to settle on smooth ground (i.e. taking the easy way).
She says she is a single spore (a soloist).
On a different road.
Fly high to bloom. (To reach her full potential)
If any asks how I'm doing
Send them the news
"She has become a spore" (she has taken to the wind, flying without wings where she lands nobody knows, meaning how will things turn out no body knows).
Follow me, gonna go and win (she will succeed on this different road).
Follow me, even without wings (on social media etc she will be visible )
I'll fly in the center for everyone to see (like her last 4 indoor concerts in the round, she wont shy away and hide)
Where she will be it will be sunny and hot she will need her sun glasses (in the US in July you need sunglasses everywhere).
The sky above is blinding.
But I'm not afraid of heights at all. (She is not afraid of the risk she is taking. A risk many others are fearful of for her.)
I'll fly so close to the scorching sun (she will push the risk factor in order to succeed. )
But she will sit on a cloud (and enjoy the show)
And she might cause a little ruckus while she's at it just for fun. (meaning watch out, expect the unexpected)
The road ahead won't be easy. (She knows that will be hard)
But I won't fuss about it (she won't complain or make excuses)
This was my choice, it always has been (no one pressured her or said to truely make it you have to make it in the US. It's her choice and always has been. Whatever happens it's on her no one else).
The odds of it being easy are zero (acknowledging she is fully aware of what she is embarking on)
Wish you all good luck.
I'll even say goodbye (this sounds too much like her lyric in Eight where she is angry that her friends just come and go as they please without even saying good bye. But she is saying goodbye, possibly saying she isn't committing career suicide? )
May God be with ya
See, (she said goodbye) see ya
Tweety pie reference is definitely important and significant. I'll admit I am still a little confused by it, but here it goes anyway. Tweety is caged and only leaves the cage and takes flight to escape Sylvester always returning to the safety of the cage. Could it be IU's way of saying that she is leaving the cage and it's risky to do so but sometimes in order to survive (escape Sylvester the cage can become a trap and leaving it is required to survive but never leaving it permanently) you leave. But the safety of the cage is always there and Tweety always returns to it.
By filming this in the US with American dancers she is establishing a connection to her western audience.
It is also interesting that the child looking out at the other kids dancing with IU, and appears to be interested but also a little nervous appears to be of Asian descent. (Meaning could be the child in IU that is still a little nervous or when she was younger the thought of doing what she is now doing was scary or that she is acknowledging those in Korea who worry about her) the worrying about her however extents to all her fans around the world.
At the end she allows the cartoonish IU go as the real IU, who is no longer wearing the Dandylion outfit of the ballon/kite gets ready to head out on her different road.
FRIUDAY 🤩
Maybe reciepts are a reference to her other song Shopper
Oh good point! Didn’t think of that - nice catch!
your commentary is always so enjoyable. you are so intelligent. i love your insights 💕
Thank you so much! 💖💖💖
I think at the end when she let go of the string, she's going to you know start flying too eventually, there's this girl that still hides at the house so maybe it's representative of her as well. I don't really know ahhahahaa What I love about being a fan of Jieun is actually diving deeper to things and before that I usually am just interested with melody and sound of music not really into lyrics but with her, she makes me look forward to what she wants to say even though I usually get lost with the metaphors but I love reading/watching different interpretations of people.
What's interesting about being her fan is she evolves and that shows in her music and her career but at the same time fans evolve with her too, she gives us a different perspective, something that me personally haven't thought but because she's showing this different perspective, it's opening a wider spectrum of the world to me as well. It's hard to explain lol
Please bring back torsie podcast about IU when her album drops because I for sure know you have a lot to say and there's gonna be a lot to talk about. Pretty please 😍
I will do my absolute best! I always have 6000 extra thoughts after I’ve done my first look at something, so I’m probably going to need it haha 💖
There is nothing sad about it. It's a song about daring to let go, follow your dreams and let the dreams take you where the wind blows you. She, her self do that. She illustrate it by the scene change from the garbage bags that turns to real people to the kids. Be a spore, fly where the wind blows you and become the flower you are meant to be when you find your ground. It's a nice message and a great song. IU is someone special :)
iu at 23: “I think being 23 years old is like a flower” (chatshire) iu at 30: “me, 30 years old, who realized that there is no reason or need for everyone to be flowers, I want to live like a spore fluttering splendidly in the sky” (the winner/holssi)
Like IU, who believed 23 was a flower, these children may have believed it was cats, grass, couches, and cars. However, I hope everyone realizes that it is not necessary to do so and follow the reason of living as a single person and flying without destination.
You, young people who hide somewhere and watch, can also fly away from the weight that limits you.
The garbage bags are transformed into dancers and after releasing the labels of society that make them feel inferior, they are free to fly.
How iconic that iu changes the popular rhetoric that you must first flourish to succeed to one that supports that being a mere spore also means the opportunity to fly and grow, regardless of the risk or fear.
IU IS SUCH A COMPLEX 🎨 ARTIST. SHE IS THE STORYTELLER WHO CAN EXPERIMENT WITH ANY GENRE TO GET THE MESSAGE OF A GOOD STORY TO YOU.
Alice: Where should I go from here? Cheshire Cat: That largely depends on where you're going. A: I don't really care where. CC: So it doesn't matter much which path you take. A: As long as I get somewhere. CC: Oh, I'm sure you will, if you walk enough.
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Enjoyed your reaction so much thank you torsie❤
Yes, that's correct. IU's music always feels fresh and evolving
Have you ever seen The Hanging Balloons comic? That’s what I was thinking when watching this video… creepy stuff 😂
But at the same time she looks and sounds amazing.
After reading IU introduction to this song "Holssi" now I'm thinking this song probably related to her upcoming song "Shopper" 🤔 What do you think Torsie? 😆
Absolutely! I’ve been laughing at myself for hours for missing that lol - my poor overwhelmed brain was so focused on this I forgot about everything else 😄
Pursuing your dreams being happy doing what you want to do versus doing what's expected of you. No one mentions the Asian child who doesn't come out. I think it's a statement on asian culture where you're expected to do what your family or society dictates and not what you want to do.
was Tweety stuck in the cage, I remember Tweedy being able to leave when desired... a home, a safe place from Slyvester lol Now do I have to check Tweety shows lol I once had a gf that loved Tweety and acted like Tweety lol
I remember Tweety on a swing in its cage and Sylvester always trying to get at it… but you’re right, maybe Tweety came and went as they pleased?? It’s been so long since I watched a cartoon I can’t quite remember 🙃
There's been a change to the MV. In the subtitles they swapped out 'spore' with 'dandelion seed'.
Ooo, interesting! And fitting
The subtext of the visuals. Power lines and telephone poles everywhere reminds me of the ugly urban drawings by the underground illustrator R. Crumb. Trash bags and graffiti, a shopping cart on a grimy street reminds me of homeless people. And in the end the released IU balloon is stuck on power lines. BUT the IU character remains unperturbed, even when acknowledging future hardships. She's doing what she wants and is letting fate blow her dandelion seed where it will. And she's content.
I think the balloon is implying the persona "IU" is much bigger and has flown even higher than the person "Lee Ji-eun", and I don't think her staying on the ground is necessarily a bad thing, may be about at the end of the day, no matter how high you've flown, it's important not to forget where you came from
lol swifties could never 😄😍
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how do you read those subtitles?? So tiny..