10 Facts About Tiffany Young That Will Give You Every Reason to Stan
Girls' Generation has been disbanded for a couple of years now, but Tiffany Young's solo career is just getting started. She's already released two solo albums and just ended a tour in Asia. Now, Tiffany says she's back in the studio to work on more music. She's become the breakout star of the iconic K-Pop girl group and while she's grateful for that time in her life and loves her bandmates, she's making a big name for herself as a solo artist. Here are 10 facts about her hat will make you fall back in love with K-Pop.
Tiffany Young is her stage name.
Her real name is Stephanie Young Hwang.
Tiffany moved to South Korea to be in Girls Generation.
Tiffany was born in America and was raised in Southern California, but when she was discovered at by SM Entertainment at 15, she moved over 5,000 miles away to Seoul to join Girls' Generation. The whole process of SM Entertainment finding her to asking her to sign with them took about three weeks.
She's "obsessed" with Ariel.
Tiffany is a big Disney fan and told Interview Magazine she loves The Little Mermaid. She said the whole story of the movie "speaks to me" and that she can relate different themes in the movie like using your voice (poor Ariel struggled on a literal level 😔) and going after a love you believe in.
She's got at least 30 new songs recorded right now.
In that same interview, Tiffany said that she's been in the studio working on new music. Whether it will become a full-length album or something else, she's not sure. She's letting the creative process take shape on its own. But, at least at the time of the interview, she had 30 songs recorded and said she would jump right back into the studio once her Asia tour (which is now over) ended.
Tiffany wants her music to be a blend of K-Pop and Pop music.
She's said in more than one interview that she wants her solo career to be a mix of all her favorite things about K-Pop and all of her favorite things about the kind of pop music she grew up listening to.
She thinks in both Korean and English.
Tiffany can speak both languages, but she told Buzzfeed that while she was in South Korea she always thought in English. But she can think in both languages.
She loves Madonna.
She even said that Madonna is the world's greatest artist.
She is the only member of Girls' Generation who speaks English.
Tiffany told The Zach Sang Show that K-Pop groups are typically made up of Korean people from around the world so that each of them can speak Korean and at least one other language.
Tiffany is estranged from her father.
Back in 2018, Tiffany's father was accused of fraud by scamming someone out of money over a decade ago. She released an official statement that same year saying that she hadn't spoken to her father for multiple years by that point and had been pressured by him to pay off his "various debts."
Carrie Bradshaw is her fashion icon.
She also mentioned that she "loved Blake Lively in Gossip Girl when I was growing up," in an interview with Elle.
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