South Korean singer IU has revealed that shut collaborator Suga of Okay-pop septet BTS was not the member of the boyband she initially wished to work with.

IU lately made an look on Suga’s on-line speak present, Suchwita, the place she and the BTS member recalled the creation of their first-ever collaboration and the steps main as much as it.

“The primary music we labored on collectively was ‘Eight’ in 2020. Why don’t we discuss this in additional element. Our followers could wish to know extra,” Suga mentioned, including that he wasn’t IU’s “first option to do a collab with”.

“Oh, you need the small print?” IU mentioned jokingly, earlier than revealing that she had initially requested Suga is she “may have RM’s quantity” with a view to collaborate with him as a substitute.

“In the event you had performed a collab with RM, what sort of music would it not have been?” the BTS member requested, to which IU replied: “I believe it might’ve been one thing actually severe.”

“As a result of mentally, on the time, I wasn’t in the very best place. I wished to deliver out these feelings in a music,” she added. “So, I requested you if I may have his quantity, and received it. However I by no means known as him.”

IU added that asking Suga for RM’s quantity had taken her “a number of braveness”, however later backed out after realising that RM was “a complete stranger” on the time. “I couldn’t rise up the braveness to simply name somebody I didn’t know in any respect.”

“Ultimately, I by no means known as RM And after that, I simply type of misplaced curiosity in doing that music,” she added. “Then I all of a sudden considered ‘eight’. I got here up with the title first [because I was 28 at the time].”

The singer then famous how the remainder of ‘eight’ happened very “naturally” after she determined that was the path she wished to go along with. “I believed, it’d be higher to do it with somebody my very own age. That that means was necessary to me. And of all of the producers our age the very best is [you].”

Earlier this 12 months, IU and Suga reunited to collaborate on the music ‘Individuals Pt 2’, which was featured on the latter’s debut solo album ‘D-Day’. The duo additionally carried out it stay on IU’s YouTube speak present, IU’s Palette.

Elsewhere, BTS member V will star in because the male lead in an upcoming music video by IU. The singer is presently engaged on her new album “with the intention to be launched within the first half [of 2024]”.