Within the span of 15 years, Sunmi has lived dozens of lifetimes. All of them merge collectively the second the Ok-pop star takes the stage on the most recent cease on her Good Lady Gone Mad tour. Tonight, Sunmi is in New York Metropolis at Terminal 5, a venue that packs 3,000 folks into three ranges. An hour earlier than the present begins, we meet up backstage — within the male dancers’ dressing room, to be particular — for a fast interview.
Sunmi sits throughout from me in a tan sequined spaghetti-strapped mini costume. For the evening, she’s popped in sky-blue coloured contacts, which distinction her gilded brown smokey eyes adorned with tiny gold pearls. (Listed here are some related ones if you wish to recreate her make-up.) Her lips are topped with a matte dusty rose hue that does not budge as she sips scorching tea. I am guessing it is both Peripera’s Ink the Velvet in Properly-Made Nude or MAC’s Powder Kiss Velvet Blur Slim Stick in Brickthrough. And Sunmi now not has ultra-long, mermaid-like vivid tangerine hair. For tour, she’s dyed it darkish chocolate. Tonight it blends into refined ways in which stream down her arms. “I’ve all the time thought New York was fairly an elegant metropolis,” Sunmi tells me of her inspiration for tonight’s look. “So I attempted to specific that in my hair and make-up.”
At first, I consider this ensemble as an outfit that Sunmi would put on within the pilot for a 2022 Ok-drama reboot of Intercourse and the Metropolis. She’d star as Carrie in fact. Nonetheless, as quickly as Sunmi begins performing, I get extra of a Chicago on Broadway vibe. Somebody must get her a gig as Velma Kelly asap, if you happen to ask me. In any case, Sunmi simply flows between Korean and English all through our interview.
However Sunmi’s New York Metropolis-inspired look is just for now. After she performs a few songs, Sunmi will change right into a frilly denim costume earlier than switching that out for a black romper with a diamond chandelier-like design hanging from her chest and knee-high mesh stockings.