I'm going to preference this by saying I totally disagree with every single person who is bashing IU's song Zeze and saying that she's a sick, twisted pedophile. It makes me really angry. I've been following IU since 2010 and I have never found a reason to dislike her. Not because of the Eunhyuk "scandal" and certainly not because of Zeze.
It really pisses me off seeing people blame IU for being a pedophile. The irony makes my eyes hurt. Since her debut she was marketed as a sweet, soft, lovely princess. You can see it in her lyrics for 23, where she's expressing her doubt and confusion as to what she's supposed to be. IU is an artist.
POINT 1: IU doesn't have to listen to the netizens who tell her what to write about. It's her song, and it's her album.
POINT 2: IU herself has been simultaneously sexualized and infantilized by creepy perverts, but she writes a meta song about it and suddenly she's evil.
POINT 3: Once a character has been released to the public, it's free for interpretation. Zeze doesn't "belong" to the author anymore, he belongs to the world. And that means that just as people can write smut about EXO or reinterpret Maleficent, IU can redefine Zeze and use him to tell her story.
POINT 4: Having a sexy attitude is not the same as being sexy. Madonna/whore complex, anyone?
POINT 5: Zeze wasn't sexually abused.
Everyone's going crazy because they say she's praising sexual abuse but?? In the book he wasn't abused.
a study in the varied beauties and tragedies of an ordinary girl's life