first full-length album “Whitree”<\/a> came in November 2023, which also took him on an Asia tour through Macau, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Hong Kong.<\/p>\nHe will follow the new release with a 10th-anniversary concert, \u201cEVER GREEN,\u201d at KBS Arena in Seoul from Nov. 6 to 8.<\/p>\n
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INFINITE singer Nam Woo-hyun performs in front of a tree prop in a teaser for the music video of \u201cDEVIL,\u201d the title track of his second full-length album, \u201c2X8.\u201d Courtesy of BILLIONS<\/p>\n
Evergreen motif<\/p>\n
Trees have followed Nam throughout his solo career, beginning with his name. <\/p>\n
Spoken aloud, \u201cNam-woo\u201d sounds close to \u201cnamu,\u201d the Korean word for tree, and \u201cNamu\u201d became his nickname early on. The imagery has carried through his album titles since, from his first full-length work to \u201cTree Ring\u201d in 2025. <\/p>\n
The new title track, \u201cDEVIL,\u201d turns that symbol on its head. In the music video, an apple tree gradually burns down, completely consumed by evil in the end. <\/p>\n
He chose the song as the lead single because it had the album\u2019s most intense concept and performance, and said he drew on the biblical story of Adam and Eve and the serpent\u2019s temptation. Nam helped create the choreography himself. <\/p>\n
The pop rock track runs on a fast dance beat, but Nam said its message is gentler than its imagery.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone has good and evil inside them, and both are still you, so don\u2019t be shaken and live by your own convictions,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a message about loving yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
His own good side, he said, shows most when he is with fans and turns into \u201ca boy, like a child, laughing and crying.\u201d His darker side comes out when he sees his fans suffering or being sad. <\/p>\n
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Nam Woo-hyun of K-pop boy band INFINTE \/ Courtesy of BILLIONS <\/p>\n
Beyond ballads<\/p>\n
Ballads remain, by his own account, what Nam does best, and they are what fans have long loved most from him. Still, he has spent the decade refusing to be confined to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI debuted as part of INFINITE, not as a ballad singer,\u201d he said. \u201cMy solo debut was a ballad, but fans loved seeing me sing and dance, so I couldn\u2019t give that up.\u201d<\/p>\n
His goal, he said, is to be an artist who can handle rock, dance and ballads equally well rather than settling into a single genre. As a trainee, Nam had two left feet and could only copy what he was taught, but he has since grown to the point of pitching his own choreography ideas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you put in the effort, it eventually works out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He also directed his own vocal sessions and describes himself as rarely satisfied. He re-recorded songs three or four times, once because a cold left his voice sounding too nasal for his liking.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy with the finished product, and I\u2019m confident,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery song could be a title track.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Nam Woo-hyun of K-pop boy band INFINTE \/ Courtesy of BILLIONS <\/p>\n
Nam described the past decade as one he lived \u201cfiercely, even harshly,\u201d and he said the hardest stretch is written into the new songs.<\/p>\n
After undergoing a surgery for a gastrointestinal stromal tumor in 2023, he developed an intestinal obstruction a year later and spent months unable to eat. His weight dropped severely, and he said photos from that period are still hard for him to look at.<\/p>\n
\u201cI gritted my teeth, got through it and then made music out of it,\u201d he said. \u201cI think this album exists because I got through that time. Maybe that’s when the devil you see now was born.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked what he has achieved as a soloist, Nam pointed to becoming a singer who can headline his own concerts, now over three days at a sizable venue. He hopes to \u201cmove\u201d with his fans to a bigger one, and said filling KSPO Dome on his own remains a dream.<\/p>\n
He is also already looking ahead. Nam said his next project will likely be a remake album of songs by singers he has loved since childhood, and he is in talks with composers. He also hopes to release a ballad album eventually.<\/p>\n
INFINITE, meanwhile, also has something in the works. Nothing is confirmed, but Nam said the members may return sometime next year. He credited the group\u2019s longevity to senior acts celebrating their 20th and 30th anniversaries, who paved the way for younger acts to follow.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing solo is good, but it gets lonely,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I meet the members, I finally feel happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, his focus is on Wednesday\u2019s release.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf people come away thinking, \u2018So this is the music he makes and the message he wants to share,\u2019 I couldn\u2019t be more grateful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nam Woo-hyun of K-pop boy band INFINTE \/ Courtesy of BILLIONS Nam Woo-hyun, the vocalist of boy band…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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