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Nearly two decades into one of K-pop’s most distinctive careers, Sunmi is doing what she once viewed as too risky, too heavy and, perhaps most consequentially, too revealing: releasing her full debut album. “I’ve always dreamed of releasing a full-length album,” she says, reflecting on a milestone many would have assumed she had already reached. “But for female solo artists, it can feel like quite a risk — it’s different from being part of a big group with a huge fanbase behind you. So, I was hesitant at first. It takes so much time, energy, and so many people — not to mention, it’s a big financial commitment.” If anything, HEART MAID arrives not as her debut statement but as a culmination of her artistic life up to now — a personal audit that the 33-year-old calls the “perfect moment” to look back. “It’s been almost 19 years since I debuted with Wonder Girls, and around 12 years since I started my career as a solo artist. I wanted to take a moment to look back at my journey — to reflect on my music…to understand myself better as an artist, and reorganize.” HEART MAID is an album she built from the inside out. Sunmi entirely writes the 13-track record and is credited as a co-producer on every track, with its origin story a classic Sunmi tale: cinematic, conceptual, with a touch of surreal and silly. The ending credits of her 2023 “STRANGER” music video initially planted the conceptual seeds in her imagination, showing her in a maid outfit, picking up a nail and placing it in her ear “as if it were a Bluetooth earpiece.” Soon, the idea of HEART MAID — a maid not of domestic chores but of emotional caretaking — began to take shape. “Ever since…

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