BTS Producer Hiss noise Joins Ryu Sujeong for 6-Track Mini Album With Full MV Rollout

Ryu Sujeong dropped her fourth mini album All the Colors I Am on September 11 at 6 p.m. KST, and the scale of the rollout matched the ambition of the music: all six tracks arrived with individual music videos, to be followed by a combined cut that strings them into a single continuous narrative.

It's her first release since joining the boutique label all my anecdotes, led by creative director and CCO Lee Haein and CEO Kim Jay, and it lands as the clearest signal yet of where Ryu Sujeong is taking her sound.

The production team behind the pivot

The most striking name on the credits is Hiss noise, a Big Hit Music producer whose fingerprints are on some of BTS's biggest records. He composed the entire album, giving All the Colors I Am a coherent sonic spine that pulls from alternative hip-hop while leaving room for the kind of melodic softness Ryu Sujeong has always brought to her vocals. Joining him are executive producer Lee Haein, alongside collaborators Arineh Karimi and Shorelle, whose contributions help shape the record's layered pop textures.

Ryu Sujeong co-wrote the lyrics on a significant portion of the album herself, working alongside a rotating cast of contributors that includes IKKI, Shorelle, jeanjinn jane, and producer Gureum on select tracks.

What the six tracks actually sound like

The title track Diamond is the anchor. Built on a minimal, looping melodic figure with a psychedelic edge, it lets Ryu Sujeong's soulful voice carry most of the emotional weight. The song's theme, finding light from within rather than seeking it from outside validation, unfolds slowly and without rush. It's the kind of production that rewards headphones.

The album's journey around it is genuinely varied. Opening track Crying to uses a hip-hop beat as the backdrop for a vocal performance that's closer to spoken word, mapping the moment of acknowledging collapse before choosing to stand back up. Lucky Charms introduces soft-rock textures, while shoulda woulda coulda borrows the elastic, percussive energy of Miami Bass to reframe romantic regret as something almost playful.

Birthday Cake is the most specific and personal-feeling track on the record: Ryu Sujeong uses it to process turning twenty-nine, filtering the self-awareness that comes with that milestone through the grammar of Jersey, Rage, and Jerk subgenres, with producer Gureum contributing to the lyric sheet. The album closes on Friendly Fire, a dream-pop piece centered on a lyrical guitar riff, sitting with the blurry edges of a relationship that's harder to define than it is to feel.

On Lovelyz, her labelmate's wedding, and what she's prioritizing right now

In a separate interview around the release, Ryu Sujeong spoke warmly about former Lovelyz member Yoo Jiae, who recently announced her engagement to actor Kwak Shiyoung. She heard the news directly from Jiae before it went public. "She told me, 'I'm getting married,'" Ryu Sujeong said, adding that she didn't know when the announcement would be made. She'll be performing the wedding congratulatory song at the ceremony, while another Lovelyz member is set to handle the speech duties.

On the question of whether the marriage changes anything for Lovelyz as a group, Ryu Sujeong was straightforward: she doesn't think so. She described Jiae as actually one of the members most actively talking about future Lovelyz activities and performances, which she found reassuring rather than complicated.

As for her own thoughts on marriage, triggered by watching a teammate's milestone coincide with her own comeback news cycle, she was disarmingly honest. "My sister's wedding article came out at the same time as my album article," she said with a laugh, explaining that it felt sudden. She's thinking about music and staying close to her fans for a long time to come, and for now, nothing competes with that.