Got7 member Mark Tuan says there are no break-up songs on his solo album

SINGAPORE – When American singer and K-pop boy band Got7’s rapper Mark Tuan released his first solo album The Other Side in 2022, fans wondered if the 30-year-old had gone through a devastating break-up because of songs such as Let U Go, Broken and Selfish, which speak of regret and a broken relationship.

But the California-born Taiwanese’s answer is no.

“There’s no break-up track on the album,” he said in an interview at The Fullerton Bay Hotel last Saturday afternoon.

Tuan, who has songwriting credits on all the 20 tracks in the album, explained: “The whole album is me telling my story, but it’s written more metaphorically than literally. It’s open for fans to interpret in their own way and also written in a way for people to be able to relate to it when they’re listening.” 

The Los Angeles-based star was in town for the reopening of the YSL Beauty…