IU makes her comeback after two years of hiatus with “Love wins all,” a pre-release single ahead of her sixth mini album, The Winning.

“Love wins all” is a ballad song with a definite momentum, talking about love as a powerful force that can overcome any obstacle. The song begins with a simple piano intro and ends with a more intense, maximalist outro, characterized by the instrumentation reminiscent of a symphony and the swirling vocals as if in a battle.

On a recording day, she cried in the studio while recording this song since she couldn’t reach her expectations because of her sickness at that time, but she tried again and again to convey the most suitable feelings to this song.

The feelings were continued in the music video, expressing the song’s message about couples who’ve been hiding from mysterious cubes all over the world. IU was possibly played as a deaf person, while her lover, taken in the role by V of BTS, was possibly to be played as a right-eye blind person.

Um Tae-Hwa, director of the music video, revealed the meaning of significant symbols: the cube means discrimination against the main characters, and it can be interpreted as various kinds of discrimination and oppression in our daily lives; the camcorder shows the world before it was ruined; and the camera lens is supposed to be the emotion of love.