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* AnimalMotif: "Tail" is full of cat motifs - {{justified}}, as the song was [[https://assets.billboard.com/articles/columns/k-town/9531175/sunmi-tail-music-video inspired by]] {{ComicBook/Catwoman}} (specifically the Film/BatmanReturns version). The choreography features parts where the backup dancers form Sunmi's tails with their hands and legs. The routine finishes with Sunmi on her hands and knees, with one leg crooked like it's a tail.

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* AnimalMotif: "Tail" is full of cat motifs - {{justified}}, -- {{justified|Trope}}, as the song was [[https://assets.billboard.com/articles/columns/k-town/9531175/sunmi-tail-music-video inspired by]] {{ComicBook/Catwoman}} (specifically the Film/BatmanReturns version). The choreography features parts where the backup dancers form Sunmi's tails with their hands and legs. The routine finishes with Sunmi on her hands and knees, with one leg crooked like it's a tail.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sunmi can be spelled as "Seonmi".
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* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Only promoted with the Music/WonderGirls in America for a few months, but the English skills she picked up are amazing.

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* DelicateAndSickly: The music video for "Full Moon" has a wan, handsome young man who is bedridden with an illness that subjects him to coughing fits. Throughout most the video, he can only blearily watch the goings-on, lacking the strength to even sit up straight; when he tries getting up, he falls to the floor. A flashback shows him in a wheelchair, looking out the window.
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* IllBoy: The music video for "Full Moon" has a young man who is bedridden with illness.

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* ''Gotta Go'' (2020)



* ''You Can't Sit With Us'' (2021)
* ''Go or Stop?'' (2021)



* ActionGirl: The MV for "You Can't Sit With Us" features a sequence where Sunmi and her two female friends are trapped in the video rental store due to a hoarde of zombies. The three of them work together to kill all the zombies.

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* ActionGirl: The MV for "You Can't Sit With Us" features a sequence where Sunmi and her two female friends are trapped in the video rental store due to a hoarde horde of zombies. The three of them work together to kill all the zombies.



* AnimalMotif: "Tail" is full of cat motifs. The choreography features parts where the backup dancers form Sunmi's tails with their hands and legs. The routine finishes with Sunmi on her hands and knees, with one leg crooked like it's a tail.

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* AnimalMotif: "Tail" is full of cat motifs.motifs - {{justified}}, as the song was [[https://assets.billboard.com/articles/columns/k-town/9531175/sunmi-tail-music-video inspired by]] {{ComicBook/Catwoman}} (specifically the Film/BatmanReturns version). The choreography features parts where the backup dancers form Sunmi's tails with their hands and legs. The routine finishes with Sunmi on her hands and knees, with one leg crooked like it's a tail.



* ShoutOut: The plot to the "Tail" MV references ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}''.

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* ShoutOut: The plot to the music video for "Tail" MV references ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}''.is one to Catwoman's story in Film/BatmanReturns.

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* ''1/6'' (2021)



* ''Tail'' (2021)



* AffectionateNickname: "Mimi" and "Miya", with the latter incorporated into her fanclub name, "Miyane" (which means "Miya's home").

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* ActionGirl: The MV for "You Can't Sit With Us" features a sequence where Sunmi and her two female friends are trapped in the video rental store due to a hoarde of zombies. The three of them work together to kill all the zombies.
* AffectionateNickname: "Mimi" and "Miya", with the latter incorporated into her fanclub name, "Miyane" (which means "Miya's home"). home").
* AnimalMotif: "Tail" is full of cat motifs. The choreography features parts where the backup dancers form Sunmi's tails with their hands and legs. The routine finishes with Sunmi on her hands and knees, with one leg crooked like it's a tail.



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* SingerSongwriterShoutOut: The plot to the "Tail" MV references ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}''.
* SingerSongwriter: Sunmi is heavily involved in the writing and production process of her songs.

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* IllBoy: The music video for "Full Moon" has a young man who is bedridden with illness.
* JumpScare: At the beginning of the music video for "Full Moon". A bedridden guy cracks open his eyes to see a vampire standing in his room. The camera takes his perspective, showing her just standing there for a time. Then at the 0:21 mark, she suddenly rushes at the camera, accompanied by a ScareChord.

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* BreakthroughHit: She was already well-known for her stint in the Music/WonderGirls and as a solo artist, but ''Gashina'' shot her straight-up into stardom with its famous dance, cynical mood, and enthralling music video.



* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Only promoted with the Music/WonderGirls in America for a few months, but the English skills she picked up are amazing.

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* ''Pporappippam'' (2020)



* BreakthroughHit: She was already well-known for her stint in the Music/WonderGirls and as a solo artist, but ''Gashina'' shot her straight-up into stardom with its famous dance, cynical mood, and enthralling music video.



* Lead Bassist: Of the Music/WonderGirls.
* OnlyOneName: Unlike the other members who have two-character names (which most Koreans have), Sunmi's original name was Sun Mi (with Sun as her last name and Mi as her first name). She later changed her name to "Lee Sunmi" (Lee being her stepfather's surname), using "Sunmi" as her first name.

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* Lead Bassist: LeadBassist: Of the Music/WonderGirls.
* OnlyOneName: Unlike the other members who have two-character names (which most Koreans have), Sunmi's original name was Sun Mi (with Sun as her last name and Mi as her first name). She later changed her name to "Lee Sunmi" (Lee being her stepfather's surname), using "Sunmi" as her first name.
* {{Retraux}}: Some of her music takes cues from the 80s, with the biggest offender being ''Pporappippam'' with its city-pop influenced soundscape.

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[[folder:Mini Albums]]!!!Mini Albums



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Lee Sunmi (이선미, born Sun Mi on May 2, 1992), known mononymously as '''Sunmi''', is a [[KoreanPopMusic South Korean]] singer, debuting in 2007 as a member of the Music/WonderGirls. Shortly after the group's expansion in the United States, she left the group in January 2010 to pursue an academic career.

In 2013, she returned to the music scene with a HotterAndSexier image as a soloist under her group's label, JYP Entertainment, with the single ''24 Hours'', that later became one of the representative sexy songs for Korean idols. Despite initial claims by the company that she would not rejoin the Wonder Girls, when the group revamped its concept in 2015, she took up the role of the group's bassist, co-writing and co-producing three tracks for the group's comeback album.

After the Wonder Girls's disbandment in 2017, Sunmi signed with Makeus Entertainment. In August of the same year, she released her single titled ''Gashina'', produced by Teddy Park of The Black Label, which turned out to be a bigger hit than ''24 Hours''.

!Discography
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* ''Full Moon'' (2014)
* ''Warning'' (2018)
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[[folder:Singles]]
* ''24 Hours'' (2013)
* ''Gashina'' (2017)
* ''Heroine'' (2018)
* ''Noir'' (2019)
* ''Lalalay'' (2019)
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!Tropes that apply to Sunmi and her music:
* AffectionateNickname: "Mimi" and "Miya", with the latter incorporated into her fanclub name, "Miyane" (which means "Miya's home").
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Was known as this during her time with the Music/WonderGirls, which confuses audiences who got to know her because of her [[HotterAndSexier solo releases]].
* HotterAndSexier: Compare her before leaving the Music/WonderGirls and after debuting as a solo artist.
* Lead Bassist: Of the Music/WonderGirls.
* OnlyOneName: Unlike the other members who have two-character names (which most Koreans have), Sunmi's original name was Sun Mi (with Sun as her last name and Mi as her first name). She later changed her name to "Lee Sunmi" (Lee being her stepfather's surname), using "Sunmi" as her first name.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: The concept behind her 2013 comeback as a solo artist, as she had a childlike and innocent image as part of the Music/WonderGirls.
* SingerSongwriter
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sunmi can be spelled as "Seonmi".
* StageName: She's known as "Mimi" in the US.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Only promoted with the Music/WonderGirls in America for a few months, but the English skills she picked up are amazing.

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