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MITO was a response and manifestation of DPR Ian’s bipolar disorder, which he was diagnosed with in high school. It heralded DPR Ian’s shift to the music he loved while growing up in Australia as Christian Yu - from show tunes to the grandiosity of metal - and the birth of his alter ego, MITO. He made his return as an artist in 2020 with “ So Beautiful ,” whose whistled refrain, string-laden verses, and falsetto chorus were firmly at odds with the dark, psychological tension of its video. Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 SongsĮventually, he was released from his former label and turned his focus to directing DPR’s visual concepts - from sweeping landscapes to dark, claustrophobic rooms punctuated by eye-addling lighting. I was furious about that, but more excited just to be doing something different.” I was the only one who spoke out on Twitter trying to give an explanation to the fans, but a lot of people thought I was the cause of the breakup. “When we split up, I was still under contract and the label wouldn’t let me go,” he says. Ian had spent enough time in the industry to navigate such an undertaking, although K-pop’s grip on him wasn’t quite done. He made this a reality, creating a label called Dream Perfect Regime for himself and young, underground rappers Live, Cream, and REM, all of whom affix the label’s acronym - DPR - to their names. I just didn’t know what that would look like.” But he knew one thing for sure: “I wanted to craft my own thing.”

“It was something I wanted to use as a creative outlet to get by, but the idea of wanting to create a movement was always there. “Right about the time C-Clown split up, I was already invested in videography,” says Ian, who (under the name Rome) had been the leader and rapper of the moderately successful band since the summer of 2012. When DPR Ian said farewell to his career in the K-pop-idol group C-Clown in late 2015, his future was vague.

Never done time alone it even petrifies me now lyrics