GFriend’s Yuju launches her solo career with album Rec., and the Korean singer is ready to be the star of her own show

Choi Yu-na, a former member of K-pop girl group GFriend who goes by her stage name Yuju, has debuted as a solo artist with the release of her album, Rec. and its lead single Play.

Inspired by the red light of a recording studio and the record button on cameras, Rec., stylised as [Rec.], is a five-song EP that shows off a new side to the singer and captures a moment in Yuju’s musical evolution.

“All of the tracks are [inspired by] that red light [of a camera being on], as if I’m performing something for the first time with a sense of honesty and freshness to it,” Yuju tells the Post from Seoul ahead of the album’s release.

Yuju saw making the album as a way of reintroducing herself to the world – she wants to be seen, through the music she records and through the lens of a camera on stage, to be giving it her all. The theme of recordings also adds a permanence to the album, which she is very aware of.

“Since it’s been recorded and it’s going to be on the timeline forever, obviously I feel anxious but at the same time really excited,” she says.