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Release Date
25 March 2021
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10 tracks
LILAC is the fifth Korean-language studio album by South Korean singer-songwriter IU. It was released on March 25, 2021, through Edam Entertainment. The album was preceded by its lead single, "Celebrity", released on January 27, 2021, and the music video for the title track "Lilac" was released simultaneously with the album.
The album was certified platinum by the Korean Music Content Association.
On September 8, 2020, IU uploaded a video of her as Lee Ji-dong, her alter-ego working for Edam Entertainment, through her official YouTube channel, revealing that she would be releasing a studio album by the end of the year. On January 11, 2021, her label Edam Entertainment announced that she would return with a pre-release single, a cheerful and energetic pop song titled "Celebrity", on January 27. On March 3, IU announced her fifth Korean-language studio album, entitled Lilac, will be released on March 25. It will mark her first studio album since Palette in April 2017. While working on the album, IU revealed in an interview with W Korea that she didn't feel the need to include a self-composed song and didn't hesitate to cut songs off the track list in order for the album to "feel" IU. The singer described "Lilac" as a bittersweet song reminiscent of a spring typhoon. In "Flu", she compares the feeling of being in love to a flu; "Ah Puh" is a hip hop track that conveys confidence, loneliness, and exhaustion, while "My Sea" is an orchestral piece which combines "Dear Name", "Love Poem", and "Secret".
Sofiana Ramli of NME , awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars, describing the album as "a love letter to her 20s, the record is a farewell to the singer's defining decade." The reviewer commended the upbeat musical direction on this record as IU "swaps her subdued brand of sun-kissed pop for dancefloor hits. "Writing for Beats Per Minute, Chase McMullen gave the album a score of 81/100, stating that "IU delves into a sound on Lilac that is at once varied and cohesive" but "never strays too far from what she knowingly calls 'the IU sound'". McMullen concluded that Lilac is "an album of rumination, prideful bliss tempered by melancholy, and, above all, acceptance."
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