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DPR Ian was born in Sydney, Australia on September 6, 1990, and was raised by his mother after his parents separated when he was young. Yu attended Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts and played in a heavy metal band, where he was influenced by the musicals and circuses he attended as a child. [9] [10] In 2008, when he was 18, he started uploading videos to his YouTube channel, going by the name of B Boy B.yu. After graduating from high school, Yu studied science and art at the University of Sydney for one year before dropping out. He then moved to South Korea to pursue dancing, initially having no intention of becoming a K-pop idol. However, this changed when he was street cast by an entertainment agency; when he auditioned, he couldn’t sing but he was able to impress with his dancing abilities. [3] Career edit The Mythology of DPR IAN: Korean-Australian Idol to Pop World Creator". Rolling Stone Australia. July 29, 2022 . Retrieved February 9, 2023. You’ve created ongoing thematic cues in all your videos — a lot of physicality, empty landscapes, dark-light contrasts, glitchy effects — where do these originate? Does that give you more creative freedom because he’s not so intrinsically tied to every experience and emotion?

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. a b Mulenga, Natasha (April 23, 2021). "DPR Ian and the DPR Crew Are Building a Music Industry Blueprint". Teen Vogue . 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. Glasby, Taylor (July 28, 2022). "How DPR Ian Went From Korean Idol to Genre-Defying Pop Star". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 4, 2022. 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]Christian Yu, known under the stage names DPR IAN and Rome, is a Korean-Australian singer, songwriter, rapper, director, and composer in Dream Perfect Regime (DPR).

You have many names — Rome, Ba-Rom [his Korean name], Christian Yu, and DPR IAN. Which do you identify with most? Spotify Wrapped: Most-Streamed Kpop Artists and Songs - KPOPPOST". December 2, 2022 . Retrieved February 9, 2023. 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? 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. 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?

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maylkm (November 28, 2021). "Diving deep into DPR Ian's past and present". MoinNet . Retrieved February 9, 2023. 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.

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. You’ve mentioned that you’d hyperfocus on one thing, which meant other parts of your life became very secondary. Has that changed, have you begun to strike a balance? In the follow-up single, “So I Danced,” released on September 15, Mr. Insanity runs a heist in The Other Side’s bank in the music video. After succeeding, he’s interrupted by MITO, an alter ego IAN created for his manic lows. Mr. Insanity manages to escape him, but MITO transforms The Other Side into his image. For a lot of people when they wake up, their first thought wouldn’t be “How do I distract myself from how I feel?” but that’s my whole life. I understand it’s a coping mechanism, but as time goes on, the bigger the concept needs to be for me to be distracted. It’s part of the reason why I don’t know what I want [in life]. I’ve realized I’m so obsessed with creating that I lose sense of everything else. It’s draining, and I need to find balance. If I don’t, even forcefully, it’ll be very self-destructive. I don’t think I can do it right now as it’d come from a sense of changing my purpose, and that factors in fear — my creation is my whole identity, and once I stop I’m going to get this identity crisis, and that’s what I’m scared of. a b "DPR IAN Reveals EP 'Dear Insanity' & Shares 'Peanut Butter & Tears' Single". Broadway World. August 4, 2023 . Retrieved August 6, 2023.Singh, Lavanya (October 3, 2018). "DPR: 'We Did this Ourselves From the Ground Up' ". Rolling Stone India . Retrieved August 4, 2022. Music Videos You Might Not Have Known Were Directed By DPR IAN". Koreaboo. September 21, 2022 . Retrieved February 9, 2023. Because he wasn’t so out there, it felt more personal. Once the EP came out, I saw the reaction from fans and, yeah, it’s a raw personal thing still. But he does feel like he belongs more to the world now. Yeo, Gladys (July 26, 2022). "DPR IAN drops brand-new song 'Ballroom Extravaganza' ". NME . Retrieved August 4, 2022. a b c "Diving deep into DPR Ian's past and present". MoinNet. November 28, 2021 . Retrieved August 4, 2022.