[The Epoch Times, Sultain 23, 2024](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Zeng Weixin) Popular Korean singer IU (Lee Ji-eun) will hold her first world tour concert “2024” at the Seoul World Cup Arena on the 21st and 22nd. IU, who held her 100th concert, not only sang her new song “Bye Summer” to say goodbye to her beloved summer, but also gave encouragement and meaningful gifts to her fans. continue
At the first concert held on the 21st, IU released the new song “Bye Summer” for the first time. She explained that except for Seoul and Yokohama, the cities she visited during this world tour were very hot, so she felt that this summer was particularly long, and even though she didn’t like the summer, she still spent most of her time on this tour. year. IU also said that this song was created especially for this concert, but she has no plans to release the song officially.
Since the Autumnal Equinox falls on the 22nd, she sang “Bye Summer” on the last day of this summer, which means she bids farewell to the long cherished summer. big The lyrics of the song were written by her and the music was composed by Xu Donghuan (translated), the one who composed the song “Love wins all”.
The 21st coincided with the approach of Typhoon “Puosang” to South Korea, so many fans were worried before the concert whether there would be rain at the concert. However, the weather was relatively stable at the IU concert on the 21st. It only rained when IU sang “Bye Summer”. This prompted IU, who picked up the guitar to play and sing the song, “It’s raining”, but she still sang “Bye Summer” with her heart in the rain with a happy smile in memory of the long summer was she so loved. ., and say goodbye to Xia Tian.
In the last concert on the 22nd, before going into the last song of the fourth part, “Love wins all”, because it was the last song before the encore, IU said that she knew that the next day is Monday, some viewers who had come from afar will leave the venue and will be ready to go home after listening to this song for a year, I hope the This happiness is happiness for everyone a little before the next concert and will last the difficult days.
IU also mentioned the support song “I stan U” that she created for her fans and the scene where she specially raised her special support hand lamp to encourage everyone when they ‘ sing the song during this time. She said that because she has loved everyone for a long time, she hopes that when everyone works hard, they can think of the moment when her hand lamp to bring joy to everyone during the performance, and cheer to continue. working hard
She also spoke about what she had stressed several times when she performed in different countries: “I hope that even if there are times when hate will be around, love will win at the end the end You could achieve your victory every day until our next visit. We were all happy before we met.”
In the past, because IU’s concerts lasted a long time, IU’s mother was worried about the discomfort of fans and prepared cushions as gifts for each member of the audience It has become a habit, this year is no exception. For this concert, IU not only prepared cushions for everyone, but also prepared binoculars with the concert name “THE WINNING” printed on them, which were was given to all fans who entered the venue.
When fans entered the venue on the first day of the concert, many fans got the telescope and shared pictures on major social platforms. After this event was revealed, it was widely believed that IU prepared telescopes for her fans because the venue for this concert was large and she was worried that the audience would not be able to clearly seen because they were too far away from the stage. IU also revealed in her first concert on the 21st that her brother’s inspiration was to prepare the telescope, hoping that the audience sitting far away could also see the show clearly.
However, IU also explained the deeper meaning behind her giving the telescope to her fans. IU said at the concert on the 22nd: “There’s a scene in the MV for ‘Shopper’ where I use a telescope. That vision means that I found my goal and that I started to start. situations.
IU continued, “Although I don’t know everyone’s goals. Some people’s goals may not be good in the eyes of others, and some people have high dreams, but because you love me, I you are also my favorite, so I will fully support your dreams and goals the concert seemed to be a very happy night (for me).
Not only that, IU prepared content for this concert that is different from previous tours. To include images of senior women and youth who had boosted her acting career in the VCR video before singing “Shh…”, she contacted senior women and youth who encouraged her in her ‘ entertainment industry one by one to get permission to use the photos, paying tribute to these female artists through the VCR concert of “Shh…”.
And since the concert on the 22nd happened to be IU’s 100th concert, the staff also prepared a big cake to celebrate. The staff and fans congratulated IU on her 100th solo concert with the melody of the song happy birthday and praise.
IU said that it feels unreal to welcome her 100th concert, and to welcome her 100th concert with such grandeur at Sangam (Seoul World Cup Arena), but it seems that this is the 100th show today. She said that when she performs as a singer, she always performs with the same intention no matter how many times she performs, but especially her fans are counting the 100th performance she found this.
IU also said that although she does not know how many “hundred performances” she will have in her singing career, she will do her best to keep singing and hopes that everyone will continue to count when the memorable number is reached , she also sings to the audience again.
However, IU believed that there was not much time left to hold the concert. She said “no time” and asked the staff to quickly remove the cake to prepare for the next stage open fans.
IU also prepared a drone light show for this concert. In addition to the drones arranging patterns representing many of IU’s classic songs such as “Spore”, IU also used drones to perform, changing the “Last Fantasy” she sang in the concert to “New Fantasy” .
During the two-day encore show, in addition to the set repertoire of this tour, IU also performed amazing “Secret” and “LILAC”, and also sang in the final session “Encore (Second Encore)” “Morning autumn”, “Hey (있잖아)”, “Strawberry Moon”, “Unlucky” and “Last Night Story”. The last song of the last concert, she sang “Dreams in summer night (여름밤의꿈)”.
BTS member V (Kim Taehyung), who plays the male lead in the “Love Wins All” MV, took time off to participate in the concert on the 22nd even though he was still serving in the military.
The character V played in the MV was nicknamed “Taejun” by fans. On the day of the concert, V posted a photo of “Taejun” during the MV shoot on his limited official IG feed, as well as photos and videos of him watching the concert that day that. V also released a photo of himself and IU taken backstage at noon on the 23rd, and wrote on the photo “Zhihui”, the name given to the van by fans -hero IU played in “Love Wins All”, to commemorate this day.
IU is the first solo female singer to hold a solo concert at the Seoul World Cup Arena. IU, who performed for about three hours in the two encore concerts, sang more than 20 songs on each day. After the concert, “Special Thanks” and the “Uaena Logo” representing fans appeared on stage, symbolizing IU’s thanks to the 100,000 fans in the past two days for her to be her “audience” and join her for the successful completion of her first world tour.
Editor-in-Chief: Xin Youan
