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maylkm (November 28, 2021). "Diving deep into DPR Ian's past and present". MoinNet . Retrieved February 9, 2023. Partridge, Ken (July 27, 2022). "DPR IAN Adds To His Mystique With New Single "Ballroom Extravaganza" ". Genius . Retrieved August 4, 2022. I’m just too stubborn, I think I have too much of an ego. [ Laughs.] Honestly, I didn’t want to rely on anyone other than myself. Is that vanity? I was so starved [of creative ownership]. On July 30, 2023, DPR IAN teased the lead single of the EP titled “Peanut Butter & Tears,” released on August 4. In the music video, we see a young IAN traveling to The Other Side realm. That’s where he starts to slowly lose his sanity and turn into his alter ego, Mr. Insanity. a b "DPR IAN Reveals EP 'Dear Insanity' & Shares 'Peanut Butter & Tears' Single". Broadway World. August 4, 2023 . Retrieved August 6, 2023.

Each represents a different time in my life. Change is a big thing for me, and all my life I’ve always been moving places. In Grade 8, my mum sent me to Vanuatu for a missionary [trip], and from then, whenever there’s been a transition, I’ve given myself a persona, a new name. Maybe it’s a coping mechanism. At this time, it’s Ian who I identify with most, but who knows how this will change?Perhaps there’s only so many chunks you can pull off yourself and throw into the world before there’s nothing left to throw. Yu is behind the visual arts for the DPR crew and directs all DPR music videos such as Live's "Jasmine", "Legacy", and "Yellow Cab" along with his own songs, like "So Beautiful", "No Blueberries", and "Ballroom Extravaganza". He has also directed and edited music videos for artists outside of DPR including Bobby's "HOLUP", Mino's "Body", and Taeyang's "Wake Me Up". [15] I based the concept on self-identity and trying to understand where self-love comes from but also on my relationships and what love does to others, especially when I’m in my manic state. Through my relationships and breakups, I’ve learned a lot about myself, and, yeah, it really does inspire a lot of the darkness. Does that give you more creative freedom because he’s not so intrinsically tied to every experience and emotion? Your musical inspirations sound like they’re colliding like atoms on this album. Why are you compelled to explore and meld so many sounds into one project?

Is another way of looking at it that you were able to build your career in a steadier space, thus able to protect yourself while figuring out who you want to be as an artist? Spotify Wrapped: Most-Streamed Kpop Artists and Songs - KPOPPOST". December 2, 2022 . Retrieved February 9, 2023. You have many names — Rome, Ba-Rom [his Korean name], Christian Yu, and DPR IAN. Which do you identify with most?The reason why I have MITO and Mr. Insanity and all that: MITO is meant to represent all my downs. Every time I go manically down, he’s there. I turn into it and the creation aspect of Mr. Insanity trying to create all these creations are essentially me, real time, trying to create a lot of moments where my downs wouldn’t ruin those moments because, for me, a lot of the hardest things about me is every time I’m enjoying a certain moment in my life, I’ll just magically pivot sometimes manically and I feel like that always taints my moment and my experience, so it’s always trying to find a way to create a journey, a story in this case, where it’s not going to be tainted by MITO, my manic downs, so that is the visual representation and this is just the reality aspect of it, that’s where I draw my inspiration. Technically that is why this whole thing started, that is the very important connection that I want to draw, for the reason why I’m creating this into such a multiverse. Insanity obviously represents me. I go insane all the time, so what better fitting…? It just so happened to be Insanity had ‘Ian’ in it which is kind of crazy it is crazy. It’s meant to be. MITO went from being yours alone to being part of the public imagination. Do you feel more or less connected to him as an entity within? a b c "Diving deep into DPR Ian's past and present". MoinNet. November 28, 2021 . Retrieved August 4, 2022. I dabbled here and there but always had a keen interest in making music. I just hadn’t taken on that role seriously until about 2018 to 2019. That’s interesting, and I think you’re absolutely right. I’m such a perfectionist, and at that time I wanted to be an artist but I wanted to be something different within the system. I had to hone myself. I didn’t want to be a famous director, but it was the tools I needed to build a bigger picture.