If you only knew the sweet BIBI, here's the other face of her first studio album

An intro of about 1 minute 7 seconds that opens the door to the twelve tracks. Rather than picking one long song on its own, you experience the album's beginning when you hear it straight into the next track, ‘Blade’. BIBI introduced this record as a work in which anger, desire and love overlap in the figure of one character. On the first track, instead of trying to interpret the strong titles to come in advance, feel what mood you're in as you enter the story. It's a short starting point for discovering the difference between hearing the signature song alone and playing from the start in order.

‘Blade’ is the second track of the first studio album, ‘Lowlife Princess: Noir’. Its English title differs from a literal rendering of the Korean one, which reads roughly as ‘scarier than philosophy is BIBI's bullet’. Following the short intro, it's the point where you meet the album's first full vocal performance. Listen while thinking about the world of a character who blends anger, desire and love. Notice what impression remains after about 3 minutes 10 seconds, then carry on to the next song, ‘BIBI Vengeance’.

The third song of the first studio album; the Korean release lists it as ‘나쁜X’ (‘Bad X’), and its English title is ‘BIBI Vengeance’. From the album released on November 18, 2022, we chose it as the central track for meeting BIBI's vivid character. If you remember her voice only from ‘Bam Yang Gang’ or drama OSTs, it's an experience of her expression heading in a different direction. Listen with an eye on the tone in which she delivers the vengeance in the title. The 2-minute-45-second track and the official video differ in running time, so you can focus on learning the flow of the song itself. It's the right song for anyone who wants to start with the rough, dramatic impression of her first album.

‘Animal Farm’ is the fourth track of the first studio album; its Korean title means ‘masquerade’. It was released first as a single on September 27, 2022, and then included on the studio album in November. Hear it in sequence with the preceding ‘Blade’ and ‘BIBI Vengeance’, and pay attention to the tension that remains as songs change within a single record. It's a vocal track of about 3 minutes 23 seconds. Apart from the music video with its intense scenes, it's worth picking when you want to focus only on the sound and get to know the world of the first album.

The fifth track of the first studio album goes by the English name ‘MotoSpeed 24’ (the Korean title adds ‘hours’, as in open 24 hours). At 2 minutes 13 seconds it's on the shorter side among the album cuts, which makes it a good pick when you're getting to know the album one song at a time rather than hearing its long story all at once. Placed next to the preceding ‘Animal Farm’, it shows how, even on the same record, title and song length change the rhythm of listening. If you only knew the first album's title tracks, this is a chance to meet the short songs around them too.

The sixth track is titled ‘Sweet Sorrow of Mother’ on international streaming; its Korean title means ‘affair’. The two titles aren't a direct translation of each other, so it helps to remember them together so you don't mistake them for different songs. At about 1 minute 6 seconds, it's a short bridge sitting between ‘MotoSpeed 24’ and the next song featuring Sam Kim. Unlike a listen that gathers only standalone hits, the fun of hearing a full album lies in meeting the space a short track opens between the songs before and after it.

The seventh track is ‘Loveholic’s hangover’, featuring Sam Kim. The Korean title carries the phrase ‘Starring 샘김’, while international streaming lists it as feat. Sam Kim. Over about 2 minutes 48 seconds, if you've been focusing on BIBI's voice in the earlier part, here it's worth hearing the impression another singer adds. Start your listening from the title, which evokes the state after being drunk on love. Within an album where one person's feelings split into many facets, you can compare what the two voices leave behind differently. It's also a good entry point for anyone getting to know the singer through collaborations.

‘Wet Nightmare’ is the eighth song of the first studio album, running about 2 minutes 58 seconds. Sitting after the song with Sam Kim and right before ‘Witch Hunt’, it carries the flow of the album's middle section. Take the strange, uncomfortable impression the title throws out as part of a single story. Listening with the duality of the character that BIBI described in her notes on the making of the album is another approach. Choose it when you want to discover an album cut that catches your eye for the first time among the familiar title tracks.

‘Witch Hunt’ is the album's ninth track, listed under that title internationally. At about 1 minute 44 seconds it's shorter than the other vocal songs, but if you hear it straight into the following ‘Lowlife Princess’, you can see where the album shifts into its latter half. Use the images the title brings to mind, such as the gaze of the crowd or being branded, as your own clue for listening. That said, there's no need to assume the song is about a specific incident or to link it directly to anyone outside the song. We recommend focusing on what afterimage one short song leaves within an album where anger and love are intertwined.

The tenth song is ‘Lowlife Princess’, whose name is also part of the album title. A standalone album cut of about 2 minutes 31 seconds, it's easier to find if you keep the name of the whole record and the title of this song distinct. In her notes on the making of the album, BIBI spoke of the silhouette of a character who is rough yet pitiful and precarious. The latter half that runs from ‘Witch Hunt’ through this song to ‘JOTTO’ and ‘City Love’ is the part most easily missed when you listen to only a few signature songs. It's worth picking when you want to meet the album's central image again in a single song.

‘JOTTO’ is the eleventh track of ‘Lowlife Princess: Noir’, listed under that romanized title in English. It's worth seeking out when, having heard the earlier songs, you wonder what sits toward the back of the album. A vocal track of 3 minutes 13 seconds, it comes right before the record's closer, ‘City Love’. Between the preceding ‘Lowlife Princess’ and the final ‘City Love’, it carries the emotion of the latter half. It's a choice that widens a first album you remembered for a single strong impression all the way to its later tracks.

‘City Love’ is the twelfth and final track of the first studio album. A song of about 3 minutes 13 seconds, it's the ending you naturally reach when you want to follow the flow that ran through ‘JOTTO’ to the very end. In her notes on the making of the album, BIBI recalled Seoul at night, the Han River and her own reflection overlapping in a window, which also serves as a clue for listening. Listen while thinking about what scene you'll associate with the city and love placed together in the title. If you played from the first track, compare how you felt when you set out with the emotion that remains now. It's a choice that widens an album you remembered for one strong title track all the way to the afterglow of its last song.