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Never Again (2001)

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The album that began Lee Soo-young's own musical style drew only a lukewarm response, and its sales fell short of her peak-era records.

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Never Again is a 2001 album by Lee Soo-young, released on February 2, 2001.
It is the record where the musical style known as Lee Soo-young's own began to take full shape.
The producer MGR, the production team of the time, and Lee Soo-young herself did not hesitate to name it among the best albums of her career.
Great care was put into the completeness of the album as a whole.

The title track sits far from the mainstream popular sound.
The follow-up single "Seuchideut Annyeong", with lyrics by Yoon Jong-shin, stayed quietly popular.
That single helped Lee Soo-young avoid the sophomore slump that often hits artists with a second record.

The recorded track of the title song runs over 130 tracks.
The album was mastered in New York using the most advanced technology of the time.
The mastering gave the album a rich sound that was unusual for a Korean pop record.

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.

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

The title track Never Again drew a response that was not as hot as expected.
The song kept its distance from the popular mainstream sound.
Even though great care went into the album's completeness, its sales were somewhat low for an album from Lee Soo-young's peak period.
Compared with her peak-era records, the sales figure was modest.

The producer MGR, the production team, and Lee Soo-young herself did not hesitate to name it among her best works.
The album is remembered as the point where her own musical style began to take firm shape.
The follow-up single kept its popularity quietly and helped the singer avoid the sophomore slump.
The New York mastering gave the album a full, rich sound that was unusual for a Korean pop record.

The title song's recorded track runs over 130 tracks, making it a large-scale song.
The album was mastered in New York with the most advanced technology of the time.
The follow-up single "Seuchideut Annyeong" had lyrics by Yoon Jong-shin.
Despite the album's care in production, its sales were lower than expected for an album from her peak period.