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Back to being IU for a second 🤣
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“He is also reliable and a cute person who gave me encouragement. I’m sorry to surprise you but I am thankful to Uaena for congratulating me.” 🥹 [IU | Fan cafe]
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I could be too personal if I expressed my views about the MV, because I’ll be coming from a perspective of a Uaena who has been an IU fan for a long time. It’s a different understanding because I watched her talked about love, her fears, her courage, her hopes, her sadness and
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‘Good Day’ officially retires from IU’s concert setlist today with a fireworks at Jamsil. She said she’ll try to add new songs for her fans and this will be the last time she will perform this 🥹
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IU at Cannes Film Festival for her debut film “Broker”
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IU & V behind-the-scene stills for ‘Love wins all’ MV
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MY SEA
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‘Love wins all’ was the song she spoiled at her fan meeting last year!
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“Run away from the world, run on. Go to the end with me, my lover. Destroy me slowly, ruiner. I want to get sad with you, my lover.” [Love wins all]
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She said this will be the last time she will be performing ‘Good Day’ in her concerts 😭 Legendary 3 high notes will take a rest 🥹
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Thread of IU riding Hot Air Balloon during ‘strawberry moon’
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This might be officially the last time you’ll see her perform ‘Palette’
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IU has not broken her longest concert yet of 5 hours and 30 minutes at ‘Dlwlrma’ tour in 2018. #HER_WORLD_TOUR
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IU has finished her 2nd day #HER_WORLD_TOUR in Seoul which ran for around 4 hours & 30 mins
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On her documentary, IU was diagnosed with Patulous Eustachian Tube last year, in which the auditory tubes in the ear remains open. It causes for her to hear her own voice, breathing, ringing & other discomfort in the ear. She is currently going through treatment.
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A decade of close friendship turn into lovers 🤍 They’ve known each other since IU was just a teen. Congratulations Jieun and Jong Suk! Love and take care of each other well! ☺️
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She was a having a hard time because of her ear condition since day 1 but manage to beautifully and successfully end her concert. Let’s pray she fully recovers 🥺 Thank you for the hard work and congratulations, Jieun. Please rest 💜
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Q: What is rest for you? #IU : “When I think about it right now, I think it is when I sleep well, when I catch up with Yoo In Na, play prank and laugh with my friends or my lover who understands me.” [Harper’s Bazaar March 2023]
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IU’s fan cafe post at 2:37am KST (This is a rough (papago) translation. Will retweet once there’s an official one)
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IU - Lee Jieun close up at Cannes 🥰
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“What are the 20k people infront of me doing? Choose your seat and move on..” 😭 Finally Jidong got a ticket to IU’s concert 😆
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Ah that part where she said us, Uaenas, who pay attention, will surely notice how she is emotionally happy/comfortable nowadays because she has that special person with her 😭
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“They say spring will come earlier than last year. Although the cold and frozen winter is still here. I’m alright, spring will come to me too someday.” [‘Before Our Spring’ by Jonghyun of Shinee | Cover by IU] 🕊
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“People often say that time heal all wounds, but time is not always on your side, so I couldn’t really relate to that saying. That’s why I wrote, ‘however, time doesn’t heal all wounds’ at the beginning of the song (My Sea).” [IU | on writing ‘My Sea’ lyrics]
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“I think what IU said is right. Love is about wishing that they sleep well..” (Song: Through The Night)
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IU at Cannes Film Festival in black and white 🌹
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IU knows we all love this part in ‘Hold My Hand’ 😭
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“I always wanted to write about you (mom), but I didn’t want it to be too beautiful. I don’t want it just about praising & loving you. The relationship between mother & daughter is more complex than that. I love her, but love isn’t everything….” [IU explaining ‘Shh..’ that
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IU recreating her childhood photos for Uaena 5th gen kit 🥹
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Uaenas singing Love Poem 🥹
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IU said the theme of her next album will be “wandering/floating without a destination” 🥹 She said in her <Harper’s Bazaar> interview, how she is enjoying living with this kind of mindset compared to when she was in her 20s where she was always concerned about “direction.”
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Dearest, darling, my universe 💌
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IU today 😳
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Facing that “end” no matter how scary it has been for her, is something she is ready to face. Because LOVE took away her fears, LOVE brought her this far and LOVE is how she will face everything. When that day comes, she won’t be afraid, because LOVE WINS ALL.
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Drone show + fireworks
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IU fan photos | H.E.R. Seoul
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“Not everyone becomes a flower’. In the end, it wasn’t right for me to spend all that time thinking ‘I will bloom as a flower’. At this point, I decided to live as a seed. What will this dandelion seed’s ‘The Winning’ dream of? - To a person who is restraining their desires or
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IU has finished her 2nd day #HER_WORLD_TOUR in Seoul which ran for around 4 hours & 30 mins
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IU’s albums which lyrics are ALL written by her: Chat-Shire (2015) - 8 tracks Love Poem (2019) - 6 tracks LILAC (2021) - 10 tracks Pieces (2021) - 5 tracks The Winning (2024) - 5 tracks • Palette (2017) album has 10 tracks in which IU wrote 9 of them.
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But with all these fears and hiding, she wasn’t alone. She has someone with her holding her hands, protecting her. Even if that someone is broken too, even if that person is having a hard time too. And with that love (being represented by the cam recorder) she shines, they both
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“It’s impossible to live without sadness, but I sincerely hope you have the least of it..”
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IU (dlwlrma) changed her instagram profile photo after 6 years 🐥
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IU behind photos for The Big Issue magazine 🔥
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Preview of IU as a Mother for film “Broker” ❤️
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Short hair IU is back 🔥😍
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En-encore is part of IU’s concerts where she changes to a more comfy clothes and accept fans’ request including singing songs not part of her setlist & just having fun on stage 🪽 #HER_WORLD_TOUR
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IU at the Milan Fashion Show / Gucci Twins Burg IU Gucci
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It’s December! Here’s IU singing ‘Santa Tell Me’ 😄
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This is a ruined, frightening world, let’s be a person someone could hold. Someone that loves in the midst of a cruel world. Enjoy the song and its message ❤️ For those who read this thread, thank you. #Love_wins_all #IU #아이유
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Drone shot 🙀
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And in this part of the MV, here comes the cube that represents “the end of it..” A time to let go and face that “fears” she once had because she knew that time will come. In her lyrics it says: “I want to be sad with you, my lover..” and in her track intro she said: “let’s fade
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“Among the songs (in Love Poem), I think this is the saddest. The person comes to sing lullaby for the last time and leaves. It’s not the person who is dreaming, but the person who visits the dream. When you wake up, you’ll forget it.” [IU explaining ‘Lullaby] #IU #아이유
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IU has retired ‘Palette’ on her concert setlist, so if you would like her to sing it, you have to request it during her en-encore 😄
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IU talked about having fears when she was young when she suddenly rose to fame and her imagining that all of that will one day end. But as time goes by, little by little, those fears aren’t that much anymore. - If you’d look at this, the cube represent something they fear. Would
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So are you happy now? 🥹
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“I believe in you. You’re stunning, so stunning. Ballad, disco, hiphop, it doesn’t matter. Just follow your heart and do whatever you want..” [IU | ‘I stan U’]
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IU ‘strawberry moon’ concert preview 🔥
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That person/people took away her fears and made her go with the flow of happiness, beating the hate around her. (She mentioned in her track intro that she is no longer afraid of her fears, it is because of the people who have reassured her along the way..)
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She can do longer concerts, her longest was more than 5 hours but Jamsil Stadium has restrictions to finish the concert by 10pm since there are residences and people nearby. So her concert has to end at 10pm 😊
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Producer IU always the leader and on top of her every comeback 🥹❤️
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“A stalk of spring, a cup of summer, a page of autumn, a breath of winter… When I first started writing, the song was about death. And it still was when I finished.” #IU explaining ‘Winter Sleep’ which she first shared on her fan meeting back in September 2019. (Thread)
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This powerful duo blessing Cannes Film Festival
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“Thank you for voting. Uaena, I love you, thank you” 🥹
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It was an awesome moment to see our IU - Lee Jieun for her debut film at Cannes Film Festival. To see her in this film & to be one of the strong contenders for tonight’s Best Actress awards speaks how great she is as an actress! Congratulations ❤️
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“I have a big dream, I want to make history in the concert field’ - I said something like this in an interview before. If I just do well, there’s already history writing in progress so I just need to do well. I’m going to do well..”
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Special narration on ‘Shh..’ by IU (feat. HYEIN, Joe Won Sun) is done by Patti Kim. It features 4 generation of women in one song! Album now out! #IU_TheWinning_NowOpen
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IU has finished her day 1 H.E.R. Concert in Seoul which ran for 4 hours
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So beautiful 😭
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IU | H.E.R. World Tour Concert in Seoul Day 1 [Thread]
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‘Can’t Love You Anymore’ (2024) with HYUKOH
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Fireworks during the opening 🥹
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IU’s “The Golden Hour” 2 day concert in Jamsil stadium on Sept. 17 & 18 is officially sold out. Making her the first korean female artist to do so (both hold a concert and sold out a show) 🥹
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Her lover, like what she mentioned in her track intro, is for Uaenas and her loved ones. People who never made her feel alone in a world full of hate, imperfections, ruin and fears.
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IU went to her Media Art exhibition wearing a marshmallow costume and secretly told Uaenas to buy MDs using her credit card 🥹😁
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The cube/square that represents the “end of it all” showed while she might be in her happiest place, the stage, singing. (In her track intro she mentioned, she think she won’t feel that much regret or loneliness when that time comes when everything has to end..)
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#IU when she was: 23: “I want to be in love… No, I’d rather make money” 25: “I like it, I’m 25. I know myself better now” 28: “Everything leaves without saying goodbye. I don’t want to love anything at all” Approaching 30: “Spring is short, but it comes again”
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Credits on IU’s #Pieces album:
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#IU : I’m stanning, just stanning you 💌
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(End of thread) This personal thoughts of mine are all based on her track intro, but I have another one in my mind if I won’t base it there. ☺️ IU, has talked about love, fears, letting go, courage and goodbye in this song. It felt sad, but she put a lot of reassurance in here
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‘BBIBBI’ was released 4 years ago today! It was released in 10.10.18 to commemorate IU’s 10th debut anniversary. #4YearsWithBBIBBI
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<Love Poem> IU’s 5th EP has been released 3 years ago today! It is composed of 6 tracks with all lyrics written by IU with ‘Blueming’ and ‘Love Poem’ as its title tracks. It is the album with the highest digital points in South Korea’s Circle Chart history. #3YearsWithLovePoem
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Rode the air balloon and went around the stadium during ‘strawberry moon’ so she can get closer to Uaenas on the upper floors 🥹
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“Ji An is 21, the same age I was when I sang Red Shoes. She’s still a child but it was heartbreaking to think how tough it must have been for her to live in such a hardened and guarded manner. “ [IU | About ‘My Mister’] #IU #아이유
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She’s my comfort
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IU and V | “Love wins all”
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Oh wow ~
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This is IU, on her 14th debut anniversary in the industry.
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#IU : “I still believe love will win over hate. Even when I lose my balance, I repeat this, ‘in the end love will win’. I’ve experienced enough of this in my life about the theory that love will win. I will continue to believe that in the future.”
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IU retiring ‘Good Day’ tonight with fireworks and the legendary 3 high notes at Jamsil Stadium
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“Words ‘thank you’ is too weak, what words can describe this? ‘I love you’ and ‘sorry’ are too weak. The feeling I can’t expressed with words. You handled today’s concert from beginning to end. It was all of you. It was all you. Thank you so much.” #IU #TheGoldenHour
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“I think 30 is an age that really suits me. I’m going through some physical changes too. I laugh more, cry more and get angry more than before. I think that’s a big change for me and also a healthy change…” #IU #아이유
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예쁘다 🥹
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Retweet if this is your favorite IU clip
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I stan U
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