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Lisbeth - No Limits (2018).

The music video started with the clip of Lisbeth brushing her teeth that appeared in the teaser, there was a text in the bottom left of the video written: 8 hours before the disaster. Lisbeth is having fun in her city to try and avoid anything related to the universe, destroying newspapers and messing with citizens. The time goes by as the music video goes and, after the music ends and the album credits appear, another scene happens. Lisbeth is sitting in a table at a diner, drinking a cup of milkshake, the sun was going down, there was a text in the bottom left: 4 hours before the disaster. A shadow of a male figure passed by Lisbeth, making her give a curious look while sipping drink, you could hear the sound of the door opening and closing, she got up from her table, drank the rest of her milkshake and wiped off the excess from her mouth, going straight to the exit. The music video now ended.

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Lisbeth - Hurt (2018).

Tw: fire?

The music video starts with a black screen, Lisbeth breathed heavily while laying her head in the steering wheel, she raises her head and widens her eyes at the view of something burning. Suddenly, frames of several parts of the MV appeared, stopping in the outdoors of a club, Lisbeth parked her car in front of it, opening the door just after, a text appeared in the bottom left side of the video: 2 hours before the disaster. The song started, the MV alterned scenes of her dancing in an empty street at night with her walking in the club. At a certain point, she sits in front of the bar and stares at someone who's a few chairs away from her, sometimes mouthing his lyrics to him, his face was never shown in the whole music video. When the bridge arrives, the man leaves the club, making Lisbeth run to the exit, turn on her car and start to drive in hopes of reaching him, it . Just before the chorus could happen for the last time, scenes of the car moving and someone pouring gasoline in a car alterned, suddenly, the video goes black and the music stops, you could hear the sound of a car crashing. The scene of the start of the music video repeats itself and Lisbeth gets out of her car, the camera pans to what was burning this whole time as the music came back, the man's car, him being in front of it watching her expression, he has a lighter in hands, the scene switched to Lisbeth again while her expression grows more shocked, the angle switched to the unknown man again and he is seen burning himself, walking to her direction. The video ends with the camera panning to Lisbeth as she ran in the opposite direction until she can't be seen. After the screen faded to black and the album credits appeared, a last scene appeared. Lisbeth is seen walking in a deserted place, she kneels down and lets a loud scream out, she hits repeatedly hits the ground and starts crying, the music video ends there.

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SET ME FREE is the debut mini album of Korean soloist LISBETH, the album has two title tracks, being those NO LIMITS and HURT. The album was released both digitally and physically on July 11, 2018. Lisbeth described the lyrical theme of this album as being about "a growing dependence over something or someone".

[may be triggering for others as it talks about an obsession over something unspecified, skip the lyrics breakdown if this applies to you]

TRACKLIST.

1. No Limits [Insp. Tove Lo's Cool girl].

Lyrics: Lisbeth.

Production: Park Jinjoo.

The first title track kickstarts Lisbeth's story as she allows to introduce herself both to the listener and to what would turn out as the obsession described in the next songs. No Limits is a catchy electropop song that talks about nothing but Lisbeth's own personality before everything starts to fall down as the story goes.

2. Hurt [insp. Tove Lo's True disaster].

Lyrics: Lisbeth, Park Jinjoo.

Production: Park Jinjoo.

While No Limits introduces Lisbeth, Hurt introduces what fans started to call the Obsession, as of Lisbeth's point of view. The lyrics talk about willing to do anything to know more about what the Obsession shows, knowing that they're going to get hurt in the end. Sometimes, it can be confused as a love song, as it seems like Lisbeth is talking to a person. Hurt is a song that mixes synthpop and electropop, keeping a slightly slower pace compared to No Limits, but still as upbeat as the other.

3. Loveless City [insp. Tove Lo's This time around].

Lyrics: Lisbeth, Park Jinjoo.

Production: Park Jinjoo.

The fans reached to an agreement that this song describes a dialogue between Lisbeth and the mysterious man seen in the Hurt music video. Lisbeth asks: what am i doing in this loveless city? As her dependence grows and she starts to think nothing else matters besides the thing she wants the most.

4. getoutofmyhead [insp. Charlotte Lawrence's Why do you love me].

Lyrics: Lisbeth.

Production: Park Jinjoo.

In this song, Lisbeth has a minute of realization and tries to fight the Obsession before it's too late, having a lot of contradicting lines to support this point. The song grows darker and, even, slightly creepier until it reaches the end, suggesting that she couldn't run away from her own wishes and that her obsession finally won her, even if they meant her downfall.

5. plz answer me [insp. Dean's Bonnie & Clyde].

Lyrics: Lisbeth.

Production: Park Jinjoo.

The song starts with the sound of an unanswered phone call. The story progresses and, whatever is the so called Obsession, it seems like it's getting away from Lisbeth, but, since she's already in such a heavy stage, she's not happy with it and wants it back, the lyrics describe these feelings using methaphors with missing calls.

6. Better without u [insp. Suzy's Les Préférences].

Lyrics: Lisbeth.

Production: Park Jinjoo.

Better without u is a slower, softer songs that talks about Lisbeth's questionings as she gets more and more aware of her current situation, asking herself if it's really worth it to keep going and that maybe she's better off without concentrating with that. Is the song that concludes the theme Lisbeth wanted to talk about in this album.

7. Hopes and dreams [insp. Lorde's Homemade Dynamite].

Lyrics: Lisbeth.

Production: Park Jinjoo.

A song that doesn't apply to the storyline described in the album, Hopes and Dreams has a self explanatory title and is, overall, a lighter song, describing Lisbeth's dreams and goals as of becoming an idol. The album, in general, even if it has a way deeper meaning, can be applied to a lot of trainees' feelings about their dream and the hardships and confusion they experience in their journey, Lisbeth wants to bring a message to multiple people and permit that they interpret her lyrics to their own situation, making it the most relatable as possible.

ERA HIGHLIGHTS.

Babygirl finally debuted, yay!

She was so happy with her debut, really. In her first stage with Hurt, she had to concentrate a lot because she wanted to smile, that contributed to her gaining a fame of duality between her fans as they thought about how could she be such a sweetheart and write those type of lyrics and perform the way she does.

No first win this time, sadly, but she gained a spot on the heart of a lot of people around their 16-24, if it had to create average, as her songs fitted the sound and lyrics a lot of younger people in South Korea like to listen, specially k-hiphop/rnb fans, as it got close to the sound they like.

Her personal youtube channel Days with Liz opened, and she got to contact a lot with fans through that and vlives.

When talking about achievements, she was average and had a solid debut, peaking at #8 in the Gaon Album Chart and she had more than 10.000 physical copies sold.

Let's not even talk about her first fansite, FleurDeLiz, that person is truly privileged and the love of her life, Lisbeth gives a lot of attention and poses a lot for them in events as they were her first, but tries to treat them all equally.

Fans also became curious about the model in Hurt's Music Video, he got known as 'the boy with a pretty smile' since his face never fully showed up, not even in the behind the scenes video where he and Lisbeth are seen playing around in the recording, because his face was blurred there. Fans started speculating that maybe he's a trainee for an upcoming debut.

ERA STYLING.

Lisbeth had light purple hair for the entire promotions of the album.

The styling for both songs was pretty casual, actually, but the concept itself didn't fit outfits with a lot of details and patterns.

No Limits' styling was fresh and free, she wore a lot jeans and skirts. There was also a performance where she whore the sleeveless jumpsuit and sports top outfit she wore in the MV, which had mixed opinions of netizens as some thought of it as too revealing, but she remained unbothered.

What is this miracle? Female idols stylists being smart and giving outfits they can actually move in? Yes.

Since Hurt's choreography was more complex and needed more movement, the styling was restricted to pants and shorts, no dresses or skirts where worn.

The color palette was different compared to No Limits' styling, as the latter focused on lighter colors, Hurt went for a theme that reminded night.

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Teaser Two - Night.

The teaser started with a black screen and the sound of a car crashing, a shot of Lisbeth laying her head in a car's steering wheel starts, she's breathing heavily. She slowly raises her head and looks at what is in front of her, which can't be seen by the viewer, her eyes suddenly get wide and you could see a glimpse of something glowing in the end, it looked like fire.

Lisbeth reaches out to open the door and gets out of the car, standing still while looking at the same direction, the video still focuses on her and doesn't show what's in the other end. The frame fastly changes between an unknown person's feet pouring gasoline in a car, to Hayan in the middle of a crowd in a club, then to two people staring at each other in a bar, one of them being Lisbeth as hinted by the purple hair.

The scene goes back to the one before, showing one more second of Lisbeth looking at what was burning. The camera moves a little, putting her in center, she starts running to the opposite direction of the fire, being less and less able to be seen as the shot stayed there. A text appeared.

Hurt - 11.07.18.

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Teaser one - Day.

The teaser showed a mirror on a bathroom, Lisbeth was seen brushing her teeth while you could hear the sound of a television on the background. The video suddenly glitches and a frame of Lisbeth banging her head in the mirror, followed by another one where she was destroying the whole bathroom were fastly shown, quickly going back to normal, showing the girl unbothered while she finished brushing her teeth.

After finishing, she walked out of the bathroom, showing that she was in what seemed like a old hotel room, sunlight appearing from the window. Lisbeth sat in the very end of the bed, in front of the television. The video focused on her hand as she grabbed a notebook, she looked at a page with a drawing of the solar system and a few stars. It suddenly goes black and a text shows to the viewer: what is the point of showing me something i can't do?

It goes back to the scene, Lisbeth sighed as the camera panned from the notebook to show what was passing in the TV. It showed a news report reading: Liars reportedly missing. She grabs the controler and turns the monitor off, while an instrumental starts playing, Lisbeth grabs a set of keys and walks to the exit, leaving the camera panned to a closed door while a text appeared.

No Limits - 11.07.2018.