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The reason why I have MITO and Mr. Insanity and all that: MITO is meant to represent all my downs. Every time I go manically down, he’s there. I turn into it and the creation aspect of Mr. Insanity trying to create all these creations are essentially me, real time, trying to create a lot of moments where my downs wouldn’t ruin those moments because, for me, a lot of the hardest things about me is every time I’m enjoying a certain moment in my life, I’ll just magically pivot sometimes manically and I feel like that always taints my moment and my experience, so it’s always trying to find a way to create a journey, a story in this case, where it’s not going to be tainted by MITO, my manic downs, so that is the visual representation and this is just the reality aspect of it, that’s where I draw my inspiration. Technically that is why this whole thing started, that is the very important connection that I want to draw, for the reason why I’m creating this into such a multiverse. Insanity obviously represents me. I go insane all the time, so what better fitting…? It just so happened to be Insanity had ‘Ian’ in it which is kind of crazy it is crazy. It’s meant to be. Singh, Lavanya (October 3, 2018). "DPR: 'We Did this Ourselves From the Ground Up' ". Rolling Stone India . Retrieved August 4, 2022. I based the concept on self-identity and trying to understand where self-love comes from but also on my relationships and what love does to others, especially when I’m in my manic state. Through my relationships and breakups, I’ve learned a lot about myself, and, yeah, it really does inspire a lot of the darkness. Your musical inspirations sound like they’re colliding like atoms on this album. Why are you compelled to explore and meld so many sounds into one project? DPR Ian was born in Sydney, Australia on September 6, 1990, and was raised by his mother after his parents separated when he was young. Yu attended Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts and played in a heavy metal band, where he was influenced by the musicals and circuses he attended as a child. [9] [10] In 2008, when he was 18, he started uploading videos to his YouTube channel, going by the name of B Boy B.yu. After graduating from high school, Yu studied science and art at the University of Sydney for one year before dropping out. He then moved to South Korea to pursue dancing, initially having no intention of becoming a K-pop idol. However, this changed when he was street cast by an entertainment agency; when he auditioned, he couldn’t sing but he was able to impress with his dancing abilities. [3] Career edit

Does that give you more creative freedom because he’s not so intrinsically tied to every experience and emotion?a b "DPR IAN Reveals EP 'Dear Insanity' & Shares 'Peanut Butter & Tears' Single". Broadway World. August 4, 2023 . Retrieved August 6, 2023. In the follow-up single, “So I Danced,” released on September 15, Mr. Insanity runs a heist in The Other Side’s bank in the music video. After succeeding, he’s interrupted by MITO, an alter ego IAN created for his manic lows. Mr. Insanity manages to escape him, but MITO transforms The Other Side into his image. You’ve mentioned that you’d hyperfocus on one thing, which meant other parts of your life became very secondary. Has that changed, have you begun to strike a balance?

Partridge, Ken (July 27, 2022). "DPR IAN Adds To His Mystique With New Single "Ballroom Extravaganza" ". Genius . Retrieved August 4, 2022. The Mythology of DPR IAN: Korean-Australian Idol to Pop World Creator". Rolling Stone Australia. July 29, 2022 . Retrieved February 9, 2023. I’m just too stubborn, I think I have too much of an ego. [ Laughs.] Honestly, I didn’t want to rely on anyone other than myself. Is that vanity? I was so starved [of creative ownership]. Christian Yu, known under the stage names DPR IAN and Rome, is a Korean-Australian singer, songwriter, rapper, director, and composer in Dream Perfect Regime (DPR).

MITO went from being yours alone to being part of the public imagination. Do you feel more or less connected to him as an entity within? On July 30, 2023, DPR IAN teased the lead single of the EP titled “Peanut Butter & Tears,” released on August 4. In the music video, we see a young IAN traveling to The Other Side realm. That’s where he starts to slowly lose his sanity and turn into his alter ego, Mr. Insanity. Perhaps there’s only so many chunks you can pull off yourself and throw into the world before there’s nothing left to throw.