Chapter 19: To Youth

The intro is just a simple guitar melody, without deliberately showing off the technique, and it is not electronically synthesized, unlike those popular songs nowadays, where a single intro is gorgeous enough to stimulate people's ears, but it captures people's hearts, and the feeling is very clean, like a spring of water flowing directly into people's hearts.

After the prelude, immediately after Li Chengzhen, what they heard was the familiar and unfamiliar singing, saying that they were familiar because they were close friends with Li Junxi day and night, Li Junxi's voice characteristics, they were all too familiar, and they were strange because they had never heard Li Junxi sing like this.

The song is very bland, as if it is a narrative, there is no gorgeous transposition, and there is no deliberate display of a wide vocal range, Lee Jun-hee is telling a story, and Lee Sung-jin They are the most loyal listeners, as the song is attracted little by little, the lyrics of that sentence are like sharp knives pierced into their hearts, and blood is dripping.

This song is completely different from the previous songs of the NRG, there is not the slightest trace of electronic synthesis, there is no almost crazy, but coquettish and contrived roar, and some are just full of feelings, deeply rooted in people's hearts, so that their tears flow inadvertently, and they don't know it.

Every member of the NRG is listening quietly, this feeling of simply appreciating music, they haven't had it for a long time, when they were young and frivolous, they stepped on the stage for their dreams, and now they are busy with life, the heart full of blood and passion has become numb, and I don't know when it started, there is no song that makes them cry, no song makes them so shocked, no song makes the string in their hearts pluck, they suddenly find that It turns out that a good song doesn't need too flowery rhetoric, no too hypocritical events, no too much effort to carve, a good song, just sing the heart.

After listening to it again, I started to repeat it again, and then I listened to it over and over again, I sighed over and over again, and I cried over and over again, the five of them lived in different eras, different backgrounds, and different ages, but they all had dreams, and there were no differences in the times, not necessarily the same background, no need to have the same age, listening to this song together, they would invariably find the shadow of their own bodies and taste it alone.

"Life is like a ruthless carving knife, changing our appearance, will it wither before it blooms, I have dreams."

In the song, Lee Jun-hee's dream made everyone in NRG see what they looked like when they first debuted, in fact, because of their dreams, their hearts have never grown old, but they have experienced too much parting sorrow, too much pressure, and too much cold world, so that children in the eyes of adults have to temporarily let go of those dreams.

As a man, there have been one, or even more crazy or great dreams, because men will have a lot of responsibility in the future, every man, there will always be a moment of pride, imagine their future guidance, imagine their own shrouded in the halo of pride, although every man will eventually grow old, but I believe that those old boys in the dream, when they regurgitate their original dreams, everyone will smile, such boys, never old.

Because dreams never grow old.

"Dreams are always out of reach, should you give up?"

Oh, yes! Isn't that exactly what they are confused about now?

After going through so much, their only thought now is to keep the name NRG alive to comfort the soul that will only stay at 19 years old forever, but do they really want to give up?

Life will not be as smooth as you think, and sometimes you will deviate from your original dream, isn't that the current NRG? At first, they just wanted to make music that people loved, but now, in order to survive, they are gradually moving away from their original dream, and none of them know whether to stick to their original dream.

Confused! All that's left is confusion!

"Only I am numb, and I have no blood back then."

In order to survive in the increasingly competitive music industry, in order not to be eliminated by those newcomers, they can only bow to reality, and they have long lost the fighting spirit full of enthusiasm and the strength to fight back then.

"Life is like a merciless knife that changes the way we look."

Oh, yes! The years have changed their appearance, they have turned from immaturity at that time to maturity, and the years are really a ruthless carving knife, modifying their faces and their hearts.

While being moved by this song, they were deeply shocked, they never thought that a song could be so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and a song could bring them such a deep shock.

Completely different from the popular K-pop music in the Korean music industry, Lee Jun-hee's song sings the nostalgic sadness in people's hearts in a lyrical way, and at the same time, it is accompanied by warm feelings and embodiments, soothes the soul, purifies the soul, and makes people realize a new sense of life in the sadness, which is not only a generation's memory and reminiscence of youth, the recollection of dreams, but also a new understanding of dreams and a new encouragement for dreams.

Although "that is the person I love deeply day and night" can no longer "accept me", "the person who accompanied me at that time" is now unknown, although "youth is like a rushing river, and it is too late to say goodbye if you don't come back", although "once you were a teenager in the Quartet", now you only "envy the swallow that flies south", although after many years, "life is like a ruthless carving knife that changes our appearance" ~~~~~~

However, the "I", who had to face the reality and was unwilling in my heart, still asked in my reminiscence, "Has the original wish come true?" Do you have to pay tribute now? "Will it wither before it blooms?" I've had dreams".

The whole lyrics are expounded in a way of reminiscence and questioning, and then in the questioning, the sense of entanglement between dreams and reality is expressed, whether the dream is completely buried because of reality, or in reality, under the sunset of "youth", and then strive to pursue a little dream that belongs to the little dream that belongs to one's heart.

And NRG, who is on the verge of the passing of "youth", is a generation that is disappointed and pessimistic in dreams and reality, from which to experience a new understanding, rather than let the remaining dreams finally pass in vain, it is better to strive for success or failure to pursue, even if it really fails, it can become a rare memory in the heart after many years.

The tone of Lee Jun-hee's song is based on a slightly sad lyrical style, expressing the memories and sighs of people who are about to leave their youth, such as dreams, youth, and reality, although the style is sad and sad, but the touching and warmth brought by the sadness is rare and valuable, because only by awakening to the past and feeling the lost can we inspire the cherishing and dreams in our hearts, and being insensitive is the biggest failure in life.

The so-called art, tragedy can soothe the soul and purify the soul, and sad songs not only arouse the general resonance in people's hearts, but also stimulate the dream power in their hearts from a certain angle.

At the same time, the dreams and hopes in people's hearts cannot be erased by anything, just as the song states that "dreams, like classics, will never fade because of time, but become more precious."

The music finally stopped, Lee Sung-jin wiped a handful of tears, looked at Lee Jun-hee and asked, "Jun-hee!" What is the name of this song? ”

I haven't been moved to tears by anything for a long time, and I have always enshrined that sentence, "Men don't flick when they have tears", but Lee Jun-hee lit the tears of Lee Sung-jin, the captain of the NRG, in his youth, he also had many uninhibited ideas and many wild dreams, but when the passion passed quietly, life changed his appearance like a ruthless carving knife.

Did you get your wish?

Do you have to pay tribute now?

Where are you, O people who accompanied me then?

The person I once loved, what does it look like now?

Youth is like a rushing river, and if you don't come back, you can't say goodbye, and only the numb me is left without the blood of the year.

The song touched Li Chengzhen's heart, yes, the growth of people is indeed like this.

Li Junxi really didn't think about it, he just wrote the song before, and he hadn't thought of the name or anything, but looking at Li Chengzhen and them, he suddenly had an idea: "Old boy! ”

Everyone laughed, with a little bitterness and a little warmth in their smiles, yes! They can all be treated like old boys now.

Unconsciously, a song, they have listened to it more than a dozen times, if they were still worried about changing the style before, then now they all agree with Lee Junxi's new work from the bottom of their hearts, maybe the span of style is too big, once it fails, it will be irretrievable, but such a more touching song is in front of them, and their only thought is left, to interpret this song to the point of perfection.

Maybe this song is not popular in South Korea nowadays, but the song that has just been named by Lee Jun-hee is not only very close to the common feelings of the public in terms of theme, expressing the theme of a generation of collective reminiscence of youth, expressing a universal emotion, but also asking questions with "sadness" to achieve a real awakening, so that people are really moved by the comfort of the song, and know how to do it next, to pursue, and then regain a new attitude and understanding of life.

And this song not only has a good melody, but also has a very poignant text conception in the lyrics organization and writing, wonderful and incisive words and sentences are everywhere, and it can also be read as an excellent literary work, with the beauty of literary words, artistic conception and other related aesthetics, bringing people a silent aesthetic impact in their hearts.

It can be said that this song is those of them who grew up in the 70s and 80s by watching videos and playing with pictures.

From boys to old boys, although time has passed and people are old, the dreams of boys are still in their hearts, and this song is the best carrier for these post-70s and post-80s generations to collectively recall their common dreams in an artistic way, and become the endorsement song of the post-70s and post-80s generation, and they all believe that it will become a classic song that cannot be bypassed in the history of Korean music.

"Looks like Jun-hee doesn't need to convince us anymore!" Cheon Myung-hoon had just come out of the mood created by the song, and like everyone else, his face was crawling with tears.

There is really no need, NRG, as one of the creators of the original style of K-pop, can listen to a lyrical narrative song quietly more than a dozen times in a row like today, doesn't it explain the problem?