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It is filled with my stories, but more importantly, the tracks touch on familiar life stories and subject matters.
It embraces the troubles that my mother, friends as well as my friends’ family and friends’ have experienced.
You know, the worries that lead you to a drinking session. There are so many stories to be told about the universal problems about family, work, and confidence that we bump into a lot.
Thus, I’ve gathered those experiences to substitute my experiences.
I’m currently living in the moment, and I’ve realized that every life has overlapping experiences. I would like to show what it feels like to be human rather than myself.
I used what fits best for each track while composing. When an album is composed of jazz, ballad, dance among other genres, it is typically harshly criticized by reviewers.
They say things like, “Exceptional international albums have uniformity, but this album lacks uniformity.”
Regardless, that is not my point of view and I created this music from the bottom of my heart, thus I believe it has consistency.
My thoughts are all connected, and I believe you will understand me when you feel the uniformity in my heart despite the various genres.
Furthermore, this is the first solo album I have ever composed, so you could say it is full of reckless courage. For that reason, I focused on the songs’ underlying meanings and corresponding compositions rather than matching instrumentals.
Regardless, I felt the most comfortable with these tracks. Of course, my voice was a part of SG Wannabe’s tone.
When I first debuted, I was a innocent high school student and I simply expressed my happiness when I was cheerful and my sadness when I was gloomy.
But now, can I rejoice when I’m happy? Or grieve when I’m sad? I’ve been thinking about those subject matters these days.
Some experiences have changed who I am, and you can feel the comprehensive nature in my voice. My voice changes as I age.
The tracks make you reflect on your individual character. Hence, you can hear one’s reflection about character with my voice.
“Family Photo” is based on my personal experience of sticking my father’s identification photo on top of a photo of my mother and I because we never took a proper family photo.
I wanted to write a song about my family all of a sudden, but I ended up reflecting upon my mother’s mind as I was writing about attaching my father’s photo.
Despite the fact that the photo of my aged father wasn’t the same photo as the one of my flower-like mother and youthful me, I comprehended my father’s mind.
I wrote the lyrics for that song in just five minutes. The track is not organized well or calming.
“Gypsophila” is a track about my senior Chae *** Ha, but I did not want to talk about stories involving Chae *** Ha. It is about the dreadful event he suffered (suicide), and it is filled with many messages for our fans.
I sounded the views like, “We are such big people yet we disappear so quickly,” and was requested to “include Chae *** Ha’s tracks and/or voice to reminisce.”
Thus, this album is filled with heavy material. When you look at a gypsophila from far away, it seems blurry, but the fruit is very clear when you give it a closer look.
We gathered our efforts to capture the spirit. Gypsophilia and condolence flowers can radiate with abundant glow like roses and tulips.
Our generation is familiar with suicides related to not being able to adapt to life’s pessimisms.
Some are content in a hazy manner, but each and every person matters and that is the subject matter we addressed while writing these tracks.
I traveled with my mother. I went sightseeing in Northern Europe for the first time ever.
My mother is quite old, so we decided to take a package tour instead of traveling on our own.
My mother was worried that people might recognize me, but I paid no attention.
I thought it would be fun to go to a place far away from here, meet people that don’t know me, and share stories with then.
This grandpa recognized me in this bathroom, and ran up to me with a camcorder and asked “How are the bathrooms in Norway, SG Wannabe?” I’ve had confusing experiences like that before.
I remember saying something like, “The air smells fantastic.” He praised my new album right after.
I flirted with dangerous thoughts like, “These days, exhilarating music happens by chance.”
People make music like it’s medicine. Some component of music is like a drug to many people.
Some start with money, and the music starts with the calculations. The people that ingest medicine don’t even know they’re taking.
In such a period, I think we rather yearn for music similar to our seniors such as Yoo Jae Ha and Kim Jwang Seok than collide with the peak.
Maybe we don’t necessarily miss the past’s music, but the good components of the past music does not fit the present trends.
We feel the need to start our tracks with sincerity on behalf of those people.
Music is made for people, so don’t take it too lightly. I created this album with that mindset.
The members probably all have their own ideas. There’s been a lot going on.
Seok Hun joined an already existing group, so I think it must have been harder for him though he’s never brought it up.
We’re back from our mandatory military service, and we’re looking forward to revealing the grown-up SG Wannabe.
We are doing a show at Olympic Park’s Financial Art Hall on Mar. 16 and Mar. 17.
In addition, we will be doing a show at Orchard Hall in Japan on Apr. 21. You might get bored, but it’s been awhile so please come out if and when you get the time.