YUQI Opens a
Personal Chapter With 27

YUQI is giving listeners a way into her next solo album through the person writing it. The i-dle member’s “I Like You” music video, unveiled on October 2, arrives ahead of her second mini-album, 二十七 (27), scheduled for October 8 at 1 p.m. KST. Its most revealing detail may be the small block of credits beneath the official upload: YUQI wrote the lyrics and shares the composition credit with Val Del Prete and Gionata Caracciolo, both credited through NUMBER K. Caracciolo handled the arrangement.

That division of work matters. Calling a song “self-composed” can obscure the collaboration that turns an idea into a record. Here, the published credits identify both a personal lyrical voice and a shared musical process. They give listeners a useful starting point for understanding YUQI’s role without pretending that authorship means making every sound alone.

Who is the “you”?

The official lyric sheet moves between Mandarin and English. Its English title offers an immediately legible point of entry, while the Mandarin passages carry much of the detail. The text makes room for hesitation, changing moods and the difficulty of keeping other people’s judgments from taking over. Read together, those elements suggest affection that does not depend on someone being flawless.

The result is an invitation to consider who the song’s “you” might be. It can read as reassurance addressed to another person, but its emphasis on finding worth within oneself also opens a self-directed reading. The language leaves space for listeners to enter that conversation. Its openness is part of the appeal: encouragement can move between the person singing and the person listening.

The six-track album places “I Like You” alongside “快乐,” “Chamomile Tea,” “Feels Right,” “银河之舞” and the title track, “Stay,” according to the tracklist reported by SBS Entertainment News. That distinction is worth keeping in view: the video offers an early entry into the project, while “Stay” is the song designated to lead the album. The advance release is one part of a larger sequence.

An album to return to

YUQI has provided a broader frame for that question. In a September 28 interview with Vogue Hong Kong, she described choosing her mother tongue for this project and drawing on the R&B familiar to her generation. She also said the album’s sequencing, connected lyrics and video concepts were intentional. Those are the artist’s stated aims, and they make the full running order worth returning to when the record is released.

Her explanation gives the number in the title a purpose beyond marking an age. She wants the music to preserve this period of her life and become something she and her listeners can revisit years later. The idea puts memory at the center of the project: familiar musical reference points can carry private experiences, even when the record eventually reaches people who grew up somewhere else.

The language choice is especially interesting alongside “I Like You.” A Mandarin-centered project can still use English as part of its expressive vocabulary. There is no need to flatten that into a story about choosing one audience over another. In this song, the languages share the same lyric, allowing a short, accessible refrain and more detailed passages to occupy a single piece of writing.

Listen now. Return in sequence.

It also offers a practical way to approach the next release. Start with the official video’s credited lyric, then return to the song inside the album. Does its reassurance feel different between neighboring tracks? Does the sequence make the addressee clearer, or preserve that openness? These are questions the complete record can answer more convincingly than a teaser campaign.

The distinction is important because the album is still ahead of us. An advance song can reveal a writer’s concerns without settling the sound, pacing or emotional effect of the whole project. The strongest reason to follow 27 now is the connection between what YUQI has said she wants to capture and the writing already available for listeners to examine.

“I Like You” makes that connection tangible. It places vulnerability and encouragement in the same conversation, with clear credits showing the collaborators behind it. On October 8, the larger test will be how that conversation develops across an album. For now, YUQI has supplied a personal and readable first point of contact.

Sources & credits

Reporting checked October 4, 2026. Based on the S.I.Q. editorial manuscript and the sources below. Lyric discussion is editorial interpretation, not an official translation. Interview context is attributed to Vogue Hong Kong; KPOP MAGAZINE did not conduct that interview. The album release remains scheduled.

• i-dle / CUBE: “I Like You” official MV, lyrics and credits
• i-dle: official album announcement
• Ke Wu, Vogue Hong Kong: Song Yuqi interview, September 28
• SBS Entertainment News: album tracklist, September 28
• Soompi: October 2 MV rollout and album schedule
• i-dle / CUBE: official “27” intro film

Videos: i-dle / CUBE Entertainment via official YouTube players; all video rights remain with their owners. No photographs or video frames have been copied. Explanatory cards and tracklist layout: KPOP MAGAZINE.

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