Editing and directing seemed to be his calling and you supported every waking moment of it. It was all awful.īut he’d found a new love and passion. The hectic work schedule, the traveling, the late night practices. You hated to say it, but you were happy when Christian stopped being an idol.
Got a request from silexia and I thought it was super cute so here you go~ My first Christian Yu scenario~ I want to shock people.Originally posted by jaerins Time For Bed He’s also looking forward to his fans finally receiving ‘MIITO’ and its two-part short film. After all those years of being stuck at home and a lot of mishaps, we want to reward them again with this experience.”ĭPR IAN will be jumping straight into tour preparations after he drops the album – a hectic schedule, he acknowledges, but it’s worth it, especially when considering most of his fans have yet to see him perform as a soloist. “I think that’s why we’re so sensitive on giving them the best show. “We didn’t know what to expect, but I guess, especially after COVID and everything – I think people need this, you know? People need to feel alive again,” he says. Looking to the nearer future, the singer voices his excitement for the DPR collective’s massive Regime World Tour later this year, which has sold out most of its 33 shows at the time of NME’s conversation with him. “But the thing about me is that if I’m not genuinely ready, I have a hard time letting things go. I want to make amends with this character, I think, and that will be the finale,” he ponders. “Mito has been this character that I’ve always held on to and sealed a lot of my personal experiences into. But I’ve always been one to feed from chaos, which is what makes my art so dark, but beautiful.”ĭPR IAN’s next release will, he reveals, complete the Mito trilogy. I love chaos – to myself – I don’t like to ensure it on anybody else. “I don’t want to break up with that character,” DPR IAN confesses, describing Mito as his “feeling tank” before adding: “Because I honestly chase chaos. The singer recounts a recent conversation with a friend where they came to the conclusion that he was in a relationship of sorts with Mito. What are DPR IAN’s plans for Mito once his debut album is out? “At one point, I know I have to dead this character,” he says reluctantly. “I dance, I act, and I perform because I want to tell my story better” “Had I not done that I probably wouldn’t be able to do what I’m doing now.” But it was humbling, because I made that time worthwhile, learning videography,” DPR IAN reflects. I wanted to do music, I wanted to be my own artist. “It’s funny because at that time, I resented that so much. I had a seven-year contract, of which, during my promotions, I only filled up about four.”
“They wouldn’t let me go on media or anything for the remaining years of my contract. Unable to appear in front of the camera until his contract with his previous agency had expired, he used the time to nurture his love for videography. It has been quite a journey.”Īfter his former group C-CLOWN disbanded in 2015, he teamed up with DPR LIVE to start their independent Dream Perfect Regime collective. “I still have to do a bit of ballet, but you know. Since his high school days, he has been in a hardcore metal band, been a b-boy dancer, K-pop idol and now, a soloist. I want to be good at it, so it further enhances the story I tell.”ĭPR IAN’s all-encompassing approach to storytelling is a culmination of myriad experiences accumulated throughout his life. Not because I want to be an actor, not because I want to be a good dancer. “I dance, I act, and I perform because I want to tell my story better. And therefore, we came up with the idea that it should be treated as such: We needed to have this into a short film, you know, almost like a musical.” DPR IAN stepped into the role of storyteller, he says, and became a multi-hyphenate along the way. It’s not just like, one song is the outstanding one, the title track. “From the making of the music, producing it, and then obviously, directing it and being on camera, painting the whole character out – it’s definitely very exciting. Be very afraid,” DPR IAN says, a playful grin spreading across his face as he warns NME of what’s in store.
In his captivating new film, the musician fights, sings, and dances through Mito’s journey, detailing every moment after his biblical fall from grace, pushing an already intense sonic experience to its limits. “But it was out of pure love, and betrayal from that love.” You see the origins of how Mito actually used to be an archangel, and then he turns into, I guess, the demon that he is,” DPR IAN explains.
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