IU songs: meaning, key lines and pronunciation

In IU's “Blueming,” a woman falls for someone and expresses it through late-night texts and emoticons on a shared phone screen.

IU's “Celebrity” is a reassuring message to someone who feels like an outsider, telling them their quiet uniqueness is worth celebrating.

IU’s “Dear my crazy soulmate” is a playful love letter to a partner whose quirks she treasures, and to a bond that holds even when everyone else gives up.

IU's “eight” is about a person left hollow after a love has ended, who retreats into a bright memory where goodbyes don't exist.

IU's “LILAC” is a gentle, smiling farewell set in spring, as the singer says goodbye to a love while the lilac blossoms fall.

In “Love wins all,” IU sings of two lovers who run from the world together, even though they sense the escape may end badly.

IU's “Palette” is a candid self-portrait of a woman turning thirty, looking at the person she was at twenty-five and the one she is becoming.

IU's “Through the Night” is a tender late-night love letter from someone who misses a distant loved one and sends their feelings across the distance.

IU's “Unknown Planet” is a farewell to a finished love, pictured as a trip somewhere unfamiliar and a star about to vanish.