Bird is a debut solo single album by South Korean singer Namjoo. The single was released on September 7, 2020 by Play M. It is composed by Soyeon and Yummy Tone, and choreographed by Lia Kim of the 1Million Dance Studio, located in Seoul. The song is a trap genre song with an appropriate addition of oriental elements with autobiographical message that she will not hesitate to fly over everything she loves and dream. After 9 years of debut, Namjoo is the third member of Apink to debut solo, after Eunji and Hayoung. Background and release On August 18, Play M agency announced that Apink's Namjoo would be making her solo debut with single "Bird" on September 7. With this, Namjoo made her solo debut in 9 years as the third runner among Apink members following Eunji and Hayoung. Namjoo revealed the concept of the album is based on the message phrase that says 'birds break out of their eggs' from the book Damien by Hermann Hesse. It contains the message that she wants to be born as a strong woman. Soyeon who suggested the title 'Bird' after hearing her concept. As multiple Korean media outlets said that Namjoo's showed a depicting appearance of overcoming adversity and being reborn as a peacock. With this album, Namjoo showed a shift from Apink style of music and styling such as dark smokey make-up, intense red dress, short and sharp-cut hair, and black and white nail art, saying, "The difference between A Pink Kim Nam-joo and solo singer Kim Nam-joo is the color. If pure white is Apink Kim Nam-joo, black will be able to see the strong and confident solo singer Kim Nam-joo." On September 5, Namjoo went on V Live and talked about how her collaboration with Soyeon came. She revealed that she watched Queendom, and was amazed with Soyeon's producing skills and thought "I want to try working with her." Namjoo explained why she didn't include the tracks for her album because she wanted to focus only on one song. "The fans are sad, but I hope they don't feel sorry for me because I chose it." Packaging The album preview was revealed for pre-order from August 31, a week exactly from the official release. The package is hard case and consists of a photo book, a CD, eight photo cards, six postcards and three posters. Music and composition Bird