From the story of Irene (Red Velvet)'s "Solo Debut Album"
アイリン（Red Velvet）の”「ソロデビューAL」の話から
Red Velvet Irene releases highlight medley from her solo debut album
Red Velvet's Irene has released a highlight medley of the songs included in her solo debut album.
Her first solo mini album "Like A Flower" contains a total of 8 songs, including the title song of the same name. It will be released on November 26th at 6pm.
Irene is also well known as the leader of the girl group Red Velvet.
She is a star idol that many K-POP fans know, even if they are not Red Velvet fans.
Recently, Min Heejin has been attracting a lot of attention and topics in Korea in the music and entertainment industry, both in good and bad ways.
When she was a member of the major agency SM Entertainment, the girl group she worked on was Red Velvet.
Min Hee-jin, who had left SM Entertainment and become a freelancer, signed a contract with HIVE, which oversees music agencies, and launched the new girl group NewJeans as the representative, producer, and art director of the music agency ador, which was established under HIVE.
NewJeans' debut was a huge success not only musically, but strategically as well.
In just one year, they had gained a reputation as a K-pop girl group not only in Korea, but globally.
For example, their debut song "Attention" was released without the group name or member composition being announced.
Groups that debut from unknown and small agencies put all their effort into promoting their team name and members by any means possible.
Or, more accurately, they have no choice but to do so.
NewJeans' debut song "Attention" did the opposite.
Both HIVE and Min Hee-jin are well-known to the public.
This fact alone seems to have had a major effect on the debut song "Attention," which was quietly released by "ador."
The music video for the debut song "Attention" also had a freshness and innocence never seen before, which fans couldn't resist.
It was perhaps inevitable that teenagers with their flexible feelings would jump at this song.
Going back to the topic, Red Velvet's debut song "Happiness" was also a colorful hit.
It was a hit song from 10 years ago, but looking back, Min Heejin, as an art director, seems to have a delicate and remarkable sensibility when it comes to color (reading the times through color).
When Red Velvet debuted, Min Heejin may have seen it as an era when strong primary colors were needed in music.
Min Heejin wanted Red Velvet to have the strength of primary colors (NewJeans was transparent), and although it took some time, it was worth it, as they built a world that other girls couldn't enter, and Red Velvet's presence still remains to this day.
In that sense, it could be said that meeting Min Heejin was a stroke of luck for the members of Red Velvet.
However, for some time now, Red Velvet has been haunted by the impression that they are isolated within SM.
This is because they have been unable to make a comeback.
This is especially true after Irene's "bullying scandal."
It even feels like they are being kept in a cage.
There have even been rumors leaking out that even when the members have song concepts and ideas and ask to make a comeback, they are not taken seriously (is it because of Min Heejin?).
I'm happy about Irene's solo debut, but I would love to see them make a comeback as a group.
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