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why-so-serious-lucifer · 4 months

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K-pop Discography Deep Dives: Jonghyun

Since this is a very special review, I wanted to start off not with my “credentials” or with a disclaimer but with a story. I’ve been a casual k-pop fan since early 2019 and a deeper fan since March of the year after, when I discovered Red Velvet. In late November of 2020, during lockdown, I lost one of the people I loved most in the world. I was still a teenager (barely younger than Jonghyun was when he debuted in SHINee), and I felt alone and isolated, and I became depressed. And just three weeks later, on December 18th, I was scrolling on social media when I came across posts memorializing Jonghyun. I had heard him mentioned, through Yeri of RV, but had never taken the time to listen, and I finally did.

I saw people mourning, people celebrating, and most of all, people remembering. The k-pop world had just lost two more idols to suicide, Sulli and Hara, and the messages surrounding mental health had never been stronger. It was this that got through to me, like a lightbulb going off, and I went, “Shit, I think I have depression.” And I started taking medication. Now, I’m not going to credit him with saving my life because I have no idea what would’ve happened, but I try to continue what he did for me. But all I can do is what all of us can do, which is remember who he was, respect the art he created, and continue the great advocacy he started. So, in this review, I’m trying to do all three, and I’d love it if you came along with me.

Crazy (Guilty Pleasure) is first on the list, and immediately had me feeling nostalgic. There’s something about his voice that’s so instantly recognizable, and a song like this that oscillates between his more subdued style and the strong emotions of the chorus fits it so well. Surprisingly, I enjoyed the rap, probably because of the vocalizing behind it, which helped it blend in seamlessly. On the whole, I liked this one! Its strings and immaculate sense of drama reminded me of Taylor Swift’s Don’t Blame Me.

Deja Boo begins with Jonghyun’s classic sound of smooth R & B and his crooning voice. I enjoyed the constant starting and stopping of the instrumental, as it made what could be a boring song far more interesting, and while I’m not usually a fan of rapping or choruses so heavy on vocalizing, I actually liked both here, since they felt like they were there because they fit the song and not because someone thought that they “should” be. The “Okay, next” at the end gave me a good chuckle

It’s a testament to how strong this first EP is that, before this deep dive, I had no idea which of these songs were actually the title track. Beautiful Tonight’s distinctive whistling hook, Hallelujah’s beautiful gospel choir back-up, and Love Belt’s gentle words (and references to a real car accident that Jonghyun was in) all do something unique with what could be such simple R & B melodies, ensuring that the piece feels cohesive but never same-y. My favorite was definitely Neon, though, whose funky catchiness snuck up on me, and I ended up replaying it twice.

End Of A Day has always been one of my favorite singles of Jonghyun’s, and I’m not alone. There are few songs as heartfelt, and led by only his quiet, comforting voice and a gentle piano, it feels like a warm hug from someone you love. Telling the listener to “lean on my shoulder” and “let me cheer you up”, it features Jonghyun at perhaps his most earnest. I paused what I was doing for a few minutes just to appreciate the peace that this one radiates, and take a deep breath in and out.

The Collection “Story Op.1” is so called because it was written by Jonghyun based on the stories the listeners of his radio show Blue Night confided in him; it’s a very special album for that reason, because it truly feels like a group effort between him and fans. I enjoyed U & I’s sprightly piano, interesting percussion, and cozy guitar, Diphylleia Grayi’s gorgeously sad lyrics and strings, the falling rain sound effects and comfortable energy of 02:34 (which I think was my favorite), and the interpolated phone conversation in Maybe Tomorrow. This is one of my favorite albums of his, and has some of his most excellent imagery.

She Is, despite being super popular, is not a song of his I’ve listened to much. It leans more into funk and is lighter than his other singles (Crazy, End Of Day, Lonely, and Shinin’), being about having a crush. It’s a nice break from the sadder and darker aspects of his discography, and it’s also really catchy. I even liked the sing-talk aspects, though my favorite part was definitely the vocalizing in the post-choruses.

From the She Is album, I liked the “you, you, you” and finger-snapping in White T-Shirt, the ethereal quality of Moon, the layers of falsetto vocalizing in Aurora, the intentional vocal fry and minimalistic background of Cocktail, the sped-up quality of Red, and the vulnerability in Suit Up.

I admit that when listening to the She Is album, a part of me had forgotten the reason I was doing this review in the first place, but Lonely had me remember immediately. Lonely is, in hindsight, both gut wrenching and haunting, with its lyrics about feeling isolated and alone. It’s a beautiful song, don’t get me wrong—the piano is so lovely and Taeyeon and Jonghyun’s voices work beautifully together, each making the other sound richer—but it’s one of those tracks that you just can’t listen to more than once in a while.

The Collection “Story Op.2” follows where the first collection left off, with more stories inspired by the callers on his radio show. I enjoyed the calm guitar of 1000 and the gentle groove of Just Chill, but Let Me Out has been one of my favorite songs since the first time I heard it. It’s one of the most genuine, gripping, painfully open k-pop ballads I’ve seen, and it never fails to make me want to reach through the screen and say “No.”. Overall, though, this album is definitely a more subdued and peaceful album, although I might be imagining more melancholy with the benefit of hindsight.

Less than eight months after the release of his second collection was, again, December 18th, 2017. It’s a day that’s become so infamous that in the k-pop community just saying “December 18th” will likely get your message across. It gives me no joy to say that he had a plan; his last album, Poet | Artist was released just a month after he left the world; a final gift to the fans who had watched him grow up for both so long and not nearly long enough.

Shinin’ is the single from the album, and uses a glowing, minimalistic electronic synth background that expands with some percussion in its choruses. Jonghyun’s voice is at some of its smoothest here. It’s one of those songs that’s happy and sad at the same time, and its happiness feels…muted? It’s hard not to be emotional when the song ends with “always be with you, you, you.” Without the story behind it, it’s a simple love song. With it, it’s a promise that he’s managed to keep for the last six years. I do admit that I got a good laugh out of the super 80’s animation, though.

Before Our Spring wasn’t intended to be a single, but after his passing, SM Entertainment decided to make it a tribute video for him. It follows in the footsteps of End Of Day, as it’s a peaceful, piano-led ballad, but undeniably heartbreaking: “Before spring comes, before the sun rises, I’ll meet you when everyone is asleep. I’m okay, don’t worry, spring will come to me too.” I hope it does. Depending on the day, sometimes I listen to it and feel comforted, and sometimes I listen to it and just feel heartbroken. Thankfully, watching it with the video made it just a little easier. It’s good to hear him laugh.

Poet | Artist is Jonghyun’s last, posthumous album, and is one of his strongest. I loved the disco-y synths of Only One You Need, the tongue-in-cheek humor of #Hashtag, the chorus’ explosion in Grease, the ethereal encouragement in Take The Dive, the brighter and funkier delivery of Sightseeing, and the quietly anthemic quality of Just For A Day.

My top 5 songs from Jonghyun are End Of Day, Only One You Need, Take The Dive, Hallelujah, and U & I, with Neon and Let Me Out as honorable mentions. Jonghyun’s work gets a 9.25 out of 10 from me, which is probably about as surprising as TWICE announcing a comeback. In all seriousness though, I know that I’m super biased, but hey, we started with a sob story and that’s how we’re going to end.

I can’t really put into words the feelings I have about this review. Writing it has reminded me how grateful I am, not only that I found Jonghyun and his story, not only that I became a Shawol, but that I became a k-pop fan in general. As Jonghyun wrote in his book (which I haven’t been able to find a full English translation of yet, but I’m still trying), “Even though we can’t communicate using the same language, we use music instead.”

Jonghyun broke boundaries in k-pop, with his openness, his self-producing, his prolific writing, and his advocacy. Both our community and the world as a whole was very lucky to have him for as long as we did, which still wasn’t nearly long enough. He changed the lives of so many people—he changed mine, without me even knowing who he was at the time he passed away—and overall, he made the world just a little easier for everybody else, no matter how hard it was for himself. All this is to say, he did very, very well.

I’ll be taking a break next week because it’s the holidays, so I’ll see you again in the new year for a girl group, folks. Thank you so much for reading, and please, take care. Tschüss, und Fröhliche Weihnachten (Happy Holidays)!

#k-pop #review #k-pop deep dive #k pop boy groups #Jonghyun #SHINee #Onew #Taemin #Minho #key #shining #Shinin #let me out #lonely #end of day #she is #depression #tw: suicide mention #Spotify

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a08leo · 3 months

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i just saw i posted the same song of jjong twice, so i’m sharing another beautiful song by him, just because his art deserves to be shared, this one is my favorite song from him

if you can, definitely listen to it, it’s the kind of song that makes you cry in such a beautiful way only art can make you do

#spotify #shinee #jonghyun #kim jonghyun

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gravyisgreat · 1 month

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My Blog

Hi, I'm Grayy! I created this blog to post my art from my journey, I'm a complete beginner so don't expect too much! All my art will be under '#Grayson's Art' along with the replay from procreate.

#Grayson's Art

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bluepoodle7 · 3 months

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#InfectedRealtorAu #ChruchesTurnedIntoHomes #MyIdea

I had another infected realtor idea that I had for the longest time.

A infected realtor where the house body is trying to mimic a church that traps beings to eat.

I can imagine this realtor using the realtor speech but trying to use it as a religion.

This realtor will often quote some unknown religion from the uncanny valley.

When the buyer rejects the realtors offer they will return to the buyer's place then knock on the door and do their realtor speech again.

I would make this realtor male looking and wears a suit.

The fungmammal is a veggietales like peace sign with one angel and one devil wing named Hope.

(Hope acts male but is mushroom gendered.)

This fungmammal is a commensalism and blank.

So he just helps and doesn't give or take from the infected realtor.

His business card number has 7283 which is Save in telephone numbers.

His name is Pule Kaplica (Hawaiian for Prayer and Polish for Chapel)

His business cards have a religious symbols on it that normal people won't know about that will change into peace signs.

He will try to convince you to come to his house to be "saved".

If he likes you he won't eat you but will try to make you part of his unknown religion to gather more people to good spread the word while also eating a couple of sinners or buyers.

He's 7'8 and is the most annoying infected realtor that even other infected realtors want to be away from him.

Some infected realtors even warn people not to join his cult and will gladly turn people away from him.

He is in love with Piernik Uta who is the seasonal infected realtor and he waits outside her house until December to pretend to be a buyer to be captured by her.

He is too scared to ask her out before she hibernates until next December.

He kind of looks like Jesus but in a fancy suit.

If he had a theme and music not mine but link is there.

He also tries to "save" other infected and non infected realtors from their sins by bringing up the unknown religion he herd from a buyer he later consumed.

He tries his best on only eating one human per year but he got addicted to eating buyers but wants to stop cold turkey but only eats the evil or bad ones that he calls sinners but will sometimes break his own rules.

One day this realtor was caught by beings that hated him the most and was later tortured and almost died by fire but was later helped by Hope.

Hope in his base fungmammal form grew huge and monster to scare off these beings.

After that Hope changed into the peace sign mascot that was on the book the this realtor kept after the buyer left behind after being consumed by this realtor.

Miitopia Great Sage theme (Slowed down) (youtube.com)

I can image his voice being Jared Leto and this character is a seed bearing house.

Pule Kaplica likes to buy glass blown animals figures from Gler Hiša and use them as gifts for bringing in new people into trusting him enough to later trick a sinner or buyer into him talking about the Peace Makers religion.

While also trying to feed on one buyer he really likes so he waits for the right one to show up then release the others.

His favorite sinners or buyers are the ones that ask too many questions about his faith and ones that kiss up to him.

Gler Hiša did find it fishy that this Realtor was buying too many of her artworks but wanted to know why.

Catch and Release were almost going to help Pule Kaplica but found Gler Hiša more worthy of saving.

Pule Kaplica is a Euphorbia milii or a Crown of Thorns flower.

Gler Hiša is a Diphylleia grayi or a Skeleton flower.

Gler Hiša is a pollinator house.

Euphorbia milii var. roseana (Crown of Thorns) - World of Succulents

How to Grow and Care for Skeleton Flowers (marthastewart.com)

Image not mine but link is there.

Old Michigan Church Converted Into A Beautiful Home - House Crazy Sarah

Image download: Witness 1 | Christart.com

This TikTok art is really good.

But this basically my church mimic house.

la iglesia de Maison y John👁️ #fyp #parati #johndoegame #househuntedg... | TikTok

#Infected Realtor Au #Chruches Turned Into Homes #My Idea

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afusiek · 4 months

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Part 3 of art summary 2023

Piece for Nyandroid species may prompt featuring my nyandroid Lucid

Since Lucid was inspired by clear electronic and his body is transparent plastic i thought that Diphylleia grayi might be the perfect flower for him!

#afuś doing art #Afuś art summary 2023 #Nyandroid #Nyandroids #oc #my oc stuff #original character #artwork

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bluerasbunny · 17 days

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I'd like to see Eclipse with 🌳 [a character napping under a tree]! (Sorry I'm late-)

sorry this took a while!! ^^''

[please reblog! reblogs help an artist's growth tremendously!! ^^]

#grayy art #dca fandom #fnaf #canon eclipse #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf eclipse

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verocai · 8 months

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30 dias de escrita, dia 19: celebridade que você apoia e segue

"Com o tempo, até as pétalas brancas murcharão

Sem lembrar que elas já foram transparentes"

Jonghyun, eu ainda era muito menina quando descobri que você existia. Não lembro se era 2015 ou 2016, mas ouvir sua voz ecoando do meu computador virou rotina antes que eu percebesse. Antes de te enxergar como humano, te enxerguei como artista. Como alguém cheio de talentos e carisma.

Quando ouvi seus ad-libs em Sherlock, lembro de ter ficado absurdamente impressionada com a sua potência e alcance vocal, pois era muito diferente de tudo que eu já havia ouvido. Pop coreano, produções loucas, meio farofa, e perceber seus agudos tomando destaque no meio daquela bagunça fez com que minhas dimensões musicais se expandissem e eu me tornasse ainda mais capaz de apreciar novas coisas, incluindo todos os seus trabalhos e me imergindo neles.

Não me lembro como, mas fui cativada pela sua sensibilidade de maneira tão natural, tão espontânea que era como simplesmente respirar. Ler suas composições e ouvir seus monólogos no Blue Night Radio viraram um conforto que eu não sabia que precisava. Tudo sobre você soava suave, confortável, talvez essa sensações tenham acontecido de propósito — afinal, é isso que é o mercado do kpop: relações parassociais e idealizações. Mas por algum motivo, eu sei que era você era genuíno. Você pode mascarar sensações, expressões faciais, distorcer as próprias falas, mas Jjong, a arte não mente, nunca mentiu. Seu coração estava ali; você está ali.

Me dar conta de que nunca vou poder vê-lo ao vivo me mata um pouco, confesso. Te admirei de longe por um bom tempo, e permaneço, pois não tenho outra escolha. Mas fico feliz de ao menos ter tido a oportunidade de admirar você, admirar sua arte, apreciar seu afeto pelos outros membros e todo o afeto que você transbordava. Me pego idealizando como seria te ver hoje em dia, ou como seria voltar ao passado pra te ver brilhar pessoalmente, e muito me encantam todas as possibilidades, pois todas parecem magníficas demais pra serem verdade. Falar que não sinto sua falta é enganar à mim mesma.

Gosto de te simbolizar nas pequenas coisas. Relacionar músicas, observar a lua; tudo se tornou Jonghyun. Noites não são apenas noites, porque durante elas eu abro suas transmissões do Blue Night, e mesmo que não entenda nada de coreano, eu me deixo ouvir sua voz e conhecer as músicas que você escolhia pra tocar enquanto respondia perguntas dos ouvintes. Pode parecer meio dramático, mas me sinto menos solitária e o que há de turbulento dentro de mim se ameniza, como se enxugasse as lágrimas que não deixei cair.

Que algum dia, nem que seja num sonho, eu possa ter a oportunidade de te falar o quanto tudo o que você fez significa pra mim. Uma vez você mencionou que queria que sua arte atingisse as pessoas, e garanto que seu desejo foi concedido; você honrou a si mesmo, por mais que sua partida tenha sido dolorosa, você honrou seu legado e se fez imortal.

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birdstudies · 2 years

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July 30, 2022 - Clay-colored Thrush (Turdus grayi)

Found from southern Texas in the United States through eastern Mexico and Central America to Colombia, these thrushes live in open and semi-open habitats including towns and parks. Foraging on the ground or in low vegetation alone or in pairs, they mostly eat invertebrates, as well as some fruits and sometimes small reptiles and amphibians. They build thick cup-shaped nests from grasses, moss, feathers, leaves, and mud low in trees or shrubs. Females incubate clutches of two to four eggs.

#clay-colored thrush #thrush #turdus grayi #bird #birds #illustration #art #woodland #birblr art

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yilleia · 1 year

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Delight harmony of blossoming petal in Lausanne, ever so gently bloom along with Diphylleia Grayi. Her nature of demure attitude has been part of her dazzling appeal ever since her soul became part of this world. Not living a fairy tale, the hardship already keened on her knees from her very first step. Lost her mother, Yasmine Lehrmann to tuberculosis when she was 15, whom was an eminent architect with the soul of a fighter. She would not be who she is today without her mother’s growing impact within her still. Growing up, she lived with her loving father, Christopher Heim, a professor and founder of Hearthstone College in Leichenstein.

She was a kaleidoscope of artistic fragments embedded from her family, something that has been passed down for generations: the passion for the arts. Her eyes were trained to see beauty in detail and in magnitude, in every little thing that could spark an inspiration. Through her lens she saw the world brighter than most people that drives the young lady to pursue her passion, to keep the ember burning as she battles with oblivion. Just like her mother chasing art within the walls, she happened to relinquish her soul through pottery. Feelings erupt through her delicate hands, shaping the wishes against the spinning potter’s lathe—it took years to master it, yet she doesn't mind. Every day bears new chances to learn, to let herself be amazed of what the universe has in store. A soul is not a one-sided persona, just like a prism she exudes myriad colours, inaugurating her own rainbow of happiness.

Happiness comes in many forms, aside from pottery, to the young lady it also came in the form of sweets and baked goods. Not to mention the rewarding euphoria when she took a bite and the flavors melted down within her mouth. Not many can find the path to combine thing they love, she is one of the lucky ones. Perhaps blessed by Fortuna, the Goddess of Fortune, she began her journey in opening her own bakery without forgetting her family’s roots. Scents of freshly baked patisserie wafted in the air while the visitors were mesmerized by her sublime pottery arts, be it a bowl, a vase, and other beauty in between.

Name: Diphylleia Grayi Heim

Nick Name: Diphylia, Diphyie, Dilia

Date of Birth: June 20, 2001

Place of Birth: Lausanne, Switzerland

Religion: Christian

Nationality: Swiss

Occupation: Pottery and Bakery Owner

Education: Ceramics & Glass, School of Art & Humanities, Royal College of Art

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