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With the same facial expression and the same gesture, but in a more refined, imposing wavelength, I send you my old letters.
I wish you take and hold them dearly.
Wishing these songs represent not some reckless bravado but the courage you gave me.
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I try to not doubt that true hearts will connect by true hearts, and love will be connected by love.
While I did not plan things out from the beginning like mono, like the explanation “10 Blues Included,” they become beautiful, diverse colors of indigo that were hidden in me.
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It would be nice to have everyone like it, but with a daring attitude of “well, if not, what about it” and with the confidence of believing that there must be one share of blue that pleases you out of the ten, I will see you tomorrow.
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I ask you to please listen to the songs in order.
I plan to unfold this album with various content of my own that I have had in my mind for a long time.
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I have always wanted to become someone like them to someone else.
I have already created and filmed a good amount of content and am just drinking solo at home feeling melancholy and somewhat empty... But like 10 years ago,
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Every single person who participated had their own wavelength that cannot be replaced by anyone else, and every single one of them was my first priority to bring!
More than anything, I owe all of them some minutes, some hours, or even some months or some years of my life.
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You might have found it a little strange to see many people being featured in my first solo album, but this album is like an exhibition that I curated myself. You will understand once you see how they and I harmonize.
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But none of the songs was intended to cause any hype or noise! (I mean it.)
Just like my ID Archive, I think it’d be enough for me if these songs can be recorded in and bloom inside many people’s hearts, with their everlasting scents even after time passes.
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To be honest, it’s not that I had in mind a certain song to be the title track.
All the songs are of equal importance to me, truly.
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First of all, thank you so much.
With the trust that so many have become aware of my trivial but sincere, true intentions, I was able to even more bravely and truthfully blend the music and languages that are close to the shape of my heart as of now.
I was so lucky.
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A lot of complicated thoughts occupy my mind,
but one thought I have constantly had is that all the pieces of my work including my previous releases were for me to put out this one album.
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December 1, 2022
Translation of Namjoon's post on Weverse
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Hello, my beloved ones.
I bid you hello at the tail end of 2022.
Tomorrow, around 15 years since I started music,
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from RM’s April 2017 fancafe post titled “들꽃놀이,” the Korean title of “Wild Flower,” which rhymes with 불꽃놀이 (firework):
"Perhaps in our lives we need wildflowers [들꽃; deulkkot]—rather than flames [불꽃; bulkkot] or cherry blossoms [벚꽃; beotkkot]—in bloom, tranquilly." twitter.com/eleanorbate/st…
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saw a fun community brass band on my afternoon walk!
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Like that milky way that shines upon dark roads, you were shining toward me
A single ray of light I found in the darkness — my path toward you
doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2022/10/28/jin…
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j-hope 'Jack In The Box' Lyric Translation
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u/diminie. check out my blog for lyric translations! @TeamWhitePaper🎃 she/her