YANG, “TAEYANG’s sole title track of 2nd full album ‘EYES, NOSE, LIPS’: Excited”
R&B slow song of TEDDY’s joint production + another song collaborated with GD
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With BIGBANG’s TAEYANG’s new album scheduled to be released on June 2, the Executive Producer of his agency YG Entertainment, YANG HYUN SUK, personally delivered the news with much details.
On May 29, YANG uploaded a passage on YG’s official blog YG LIFE with the title, “ABOUT TAEYANG’S SOLO ALBUM.”
When asked if it is a full album, he answered yes, and added, “This is TAEYANG’s second full album called with a total of 9 songs, the first full album in 4 years since his 1st one on July 1, 2010.”
About the title track, he described, “TAEYANG partook in composing and writing of several tracks in his 2nd album but the sole title track is “EYES, NOSE, LIPS,“ a joint production of YG’s main producers TEDDY and DEE.P.”
He added, “For the past few years most YG artists chose and promoted two or three title tracks… and the reason behind the decision to pick a single title track for TAEYANG’s latest album was… As most songs in TAEYANG’s 2nd album were regarded as title tracks at different phases, selecting joint title tracks was the hardest task. This is why we chose “EYES, NOSE, LIPS” as a single title track and decided to focus on it for early promotion.”
“We offered TAEYANG to be in charge of his solo-album production 4 years ago and late last year, when the album was nearing completion, we were about to make tracks #8 “LET GO,” #3 “1AM” and #5”BODY” the three title tracks. However, TAEYANG was keen to work further on the album and at the end of last year, YG actively got involved.”
“As a result we added tracks #7 “THIS AIN’T IT,” #4 “STAY WITH ME” featuring G-DRAGON, and lastly “EYES, NOSE, LIPS”—which eventually became the single title song of the album.”
He explained, “As mentioned, every time a new song was added, it was excellent enough to be the title track, but “EYES, NOSE, LIPS” became the single title because when TAEYANG sang the first line, it was so powerful that our plans of the past few years simply evaporated.”
He recalls, “The excitement was passed on to me as I watched him record the song, I even suggested, ‘Young Bae, what about filming an MV like this for this song?’—this was the first time for me to propose an idea for a music video for a YG artist since Big Mama’s “BREAK AWAY” music video 11 years ago. That is how much affection I have for “EYES, NOSE, LIPS.” The prominent feature of “EYES, NOSE, LIPS “ would be: From “DON’T CHEAT ON ME” to the recent “RINGA LINGA,” most title tracks accompanied dance—but “EYES, NOSE, LIPS “ is an R&B slow song that steers away from dance moves and maximizes the strengths of TAEYANG’s sentimental voice.”
He also announced that there is only one title track, but there will be a total of 3 music videos including “EYES, NOSE, LIPS,” “1AM” and “BODY.”
The music video of the title track “EYES, NOSE, LIPS“ will be unveiled simultaneously with the online album on June 2nd at 0 hour, And the music video of “1AM” with the offline album on June 10th at 1 a.m. An additional video with “BODY”, the fastest-tempo song in the 2nd album, which is considered the follow-up track, will be unveiled around mid-June.
YANG wrapped up the passage saying, “Despite having 20 complete songs that TAEYANG recorded for the 2nd album, we carefully selected 9 songs in respect of his wish to focus more on quality than quantity but all songs are truly exceptional that they could all be title tracks. Although there are more I want to say about the latest album I believe it is right for TAEYANG to do it himself when it is released,” and added, “TAEYANG’s 2nd album, fruit borne after 4 years of hard work… Stay tuned, everyone!”
He also added a postscript, “This morning PSY’s new song was broadcasted by the American media. I will be back soon with more details on PSY and YG’s new boy group ‘WINNER’.”
2014. 5. 29.
