![]() “I’m glad that I’ve had those moments and I understand why I did, but once you find self-acceptance you start to celebrate your imperfections, and that is true beauty,” Young says.Īnd “Runaway” honors her decision to return to Southern California to pursue a solo career, while also adding a genuine fantasy ending in that it’s a collaboration with pop and R&B singer and producer Babyface, one of her early idols. “Not Barbie” is a track that celebrates self-acceptance and breaking free from the need, often self-imposed, to mold and bend and break oneself to fit outside standards. The song is intended to uplift and inspire listeners as music helped her through her sorrow and pain. “I have this vivid memory of buying supermarket flowers to take to my mom’s grave, that moment where I left that last flower the last time I saw her,” she says. “The Flower” is a song inspired by the loss of her mother. The title track, “Lips On Lips,” is “the fairy-tale kiss moment of looking for love, just finding love,” she says. The other tracks also are drawn from personal experience. That’s how the EP starts off with realizing that once you hold on you find that strength to feel born again.” “I really was ready to open up so I can open up others into a conversation, whether that’s personal struggles, whether that’s loss or whether that’s love. “It was amazing timing that I was in this place where I’ve been in self-acceptance mode,” Young says. “And where I come from, being Korean in general, but also being K-pop, it’s kind of unheard of to really, really be honest about what went on and how I am and what I feel. “I recently had to talk and open up about family issues that I had with my dad growing up,” she says, referring to a statement she put out in December in which, among other things, she revealed she has not been in contact with her father for 7 years. “Born Again,” the opening track on the new EP, was born of that experience, Young says. Young’s mother died when she was 12, and her relationship with her father has been difficult. But dig a little deeper, listen to Young tell her story in words and music, and darker shades cloud the sugary pastels of the K-pop palette. ![]()
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