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Bird is a debut solo single album by South Korean singer Namjoo. The single was released on September 7, 2020, by Play M. It is composed by Soyeon and Yummy Tone, and choreographed by Lia Kim of the 1Million Dance Studio, located in Seoul. The song is a trap genre song with an appropriate addition of oriental elements with autobiographical message that she will not hesitate to fly over everything she loves and dream. After 9 years of debut, Namjoo is the third member of Apink to debut solo, after Eunji and Hayoung. Background and release On August 18, Play M agency announced that Apink's Namjoo would be making her solo debut with single "Bird" on September 7. With this, Namjoo made her solo debut in 9 years as the third runner among Apink members following Eunji and Hayoung. Namjoo revealed the concept of the album is based on the message phrase that says 'birds break out of their eggs' from the book Damien by Hermann Hesse. It contains the message that she wants to be born as a strong woman. Soyeon who suggested the title 'Bird' after hearing her concept. As multiple Korean media outlets said that Namjoo's showed a depicting appearance of overcoming adversity and being reborn as a peacock. With this album, Namjoo showed a shift from Apink style of music and styling such as dark smokey make-up, intense red dress, short and sharp-cut hair, and black and white nail art, saying, "The difference between A Pink Kim Nam-joo and solo singer Kim Nam-joo is the color. If pure white is Apink Kim Nam-joo, black will be able to see the strong and confident solo singer Kim Nam-joo." On September 5, Namjoo went on V Live and talked about how her collaboration with Soyeon came. She revealed that she watched Queendom, and was amazed with Soyeon's producing skills and thought "I want to try working with her."

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“The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.”
— Charles William Beebe, The Bird: Its Form and Function (1906).
“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
— John Heywood, Proverbs (1546), pt. 1, ch. 11
“I was always a lover of soft-winged things.”
— Victor Hugo, I Was Always a Lover.
“The francolin's voice is the glory of the fields.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection II at , .
““What is that?” I gasped, nearly blinded by the unexpected vermillion patches on the blackbird’s epaulets. I watched as the bird threw back its head, opened wide its beak and let out a sound so primal it left me marvelling: this was as close as I’d ever stand to dinosaurs. If this bird had been here all along, I thought, what else had I been missing?”
— Julia Zarankin, Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder (2020), , p. 23
“From nesting, brooding and sex, to metabolism, development and even the diseases that afflicted them, many of the traits found in birds today were inherited from the dinosaurs. The boundary between dinosaurs and birds has become utterly blurred.”
— John Pickrell (2014), Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds, Columbia University Press, p. xvii

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“The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.”
— Charles William Beebe, The Bird: Its Form and Function (1906).
“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
— John Heywood, Proverbs (1546), pt. 1, ch. 11
“I was always a lover of soft-winged things.”
— Victor Hugo, I Was Always a Lover.
“The francolin's voice is the glory of the fields.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection II at , .
““What is that?” I gasped, nearly blinded by the unexpected vermillion patches on the blackbird’s epaulets. I watched as the bird threw back its head, opened wide its beak and let out a sound so primal it left me marvelling: this was as close as I’d ever stand to dinosaurs. If this bird had been here all along, I thought, what else had I been missing?”
— Julia Zarankin, Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder (2020), , p. 23
“From nesting, brooding and sex, to metabolism, development and even the diseases that afflicted them, many of the traits found in birds today were inherited from the dinosaurs. The boundary between dinosaurs and birds has become utterly blurred.”
— John Pickrell (2014), Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds, Columbia University Press, p. xvii

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