Sunmi, 26, just took things to a whole new level. She dropped her new song, “Noir,” and released the music video for the new track on March 4. “Noir” is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

“All this time, I’ve been preparing and having this journey as Sunmi, and I felt like I had enough information [to move forward],” she explains. “It was a time where I looked back at myself, looked ...

The singer explained how her struggles have influenced many of the decisions she’s made regarding her career – an experience that, undoubtedly, has had an impact on the kind of music she produces.

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 ...