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Naeryeonoeum (Letting Go) (2007)

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The album was due in autumn 2006 but came out in September 2007, after a legal dispute with her former agency and health problems.

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Album story

Overview

• Naeryeonoeum (Letting Go): the eighth studio album by Lee Soo-young
• The first studio album released after she set up her own agency
• Originally scheduled for autumn 2006
• Delayed by a legal dispute with her former agency, Rikud Entertainment, and by health problems
• Released 12 September 2007
• 15 tracks; Lee wrote the lyrics for 11 of them and composed one

Background

• Like her sixth and seventh albums, it includes CCM songs
• One CCM track is titled 다 이루었노라
• The album carries a clear Protestant Christian colour
• The title comes from the book Naeryeonoeum by missionary Lee Yong-kyu
• The title is read as a note on letting go of the wish for songs and fame that she had held onto over nearly ten years of activity
• She prepared the album with a lighter mind, step by step
• After her second album she cut her hair into a bob again and played guitar herself, which marked a new change in her image

Production

• Hwang Seong-je produced the whole album
• Hwang had written Wheel-lily, which earned Lee a grand prize, and the main songs of an earlier Lee album that sold about 200,000 copies
• Hit songwriters Sung Si-kyung, Boa and Lee Seung-hwan are among those whose hits Hwang has written
• Lee Hyun-seung and Lee Han-cheol, both hit makers, also took part in the work

Sources: ko.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• Lee Soo-young (Korean: 이수영; born Lee Ji-yeon, 이지연 on April 12, 1979) is a South Korean ballad singer.
• She debuted in 1999 with the hit album I Believe and quickly gained popularity due to her strong singing skills.
• During the mid-2000s, she was one of South Korea's best-selling singers, selling more than 700,000 albums in 2004 alone despite a recession in the music industry at the time.
• In 2001, she sang the official Korean version of the Final Fantasy X song "Suteki Da Ne", titled "얼마나 좋을까" ("Eolmana Joheulkka").
• She released her seventh album, Grace, on January 21, 2006; it performed very well and shot straight to the top of the charts.
• The album's popularity led to a limited edition repackage of Grace, of which only 30,000 copies were produced.

Personal life

• She married her boyfriend of one year in October 2010 and has one son, born in July 2011.

Acting

• Appeared in the KBS2 TV series The Accidental Couple (2009) as Jo Seung-eun.
• Appeared in the film The Quiz Show Scandal (2010) as the radio singer.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• The album received lower ratings than her earlier records
• The songs were judged less finished than those on her previous albums
• Critics said the album had a CCM-album quality throughout
• Hwang Seong-je's ornate, heavy arrangements felt alien to longtime fans
• Many fans left because of this, and the album sold only just over 80,000 copies
• Her later albums rarely sold even 100,000 copies

Reappraisal

• Critics who were generally favourable to her praised her songwriting
• Critics also praised the message toward God that runs through the whole album

Records

• Sales of more than 80,000 copies

Sources: ko.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The first single, Danbal-meori (Short Bob Hair), mixes folk rock with Irish music, with an Irish whistle in the intro
• Lee wrote 11 of the 15 lyrics herself
• The first single was arranged and recorded with session players including Lee Sung-ryeol, Lee Na-il and Ha-rim
• The music video for the track Sarangi da geureochi uses footage from the film Becoming Jane
• The music video for the lead single features actors Park Geon-hyung and Kim Yu-mi

Sources: ko.wikipedia.org

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