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241020 #woozi 🌟
🍑 thank you again during this promotion
the promotion period was really short so it was a shame wasn’t it
maybe because i’m human but the fact that an album i once again worked so long and hard on went by this quickly does make me a bit down inside
but ultimately, since i made this album hoping this would be memorable for you all for a long time, i’m going to turn this feeling around with that goal in mind and consider the short promotions as not that important
for this album’s spill the feels
you probably know since you’ve seen since promotions but,
the starting point was the line ‘i feel helpless’
i feel like we live in a generation where we feel such an unnecessary variety of helplessness
as you all know, it’s probably our lifelong learning to “escape from these chains of “comparison’”, which is easier said than done. we feel the most helplessness from being compared, and i believe the way to break free from that is honesty
so from that point of view, the words that came about were ‘love, money, fame’.
i think that these three ideas bring about the most/biggest comparison
so i decided to unravel my heart/feelings honestly
to some people, it sounds like a ‘high class problem’
and i know this
it’s the perfect topic to receive mockery about at this point [of our career]
standards differ between people, but from most people’s point of view, these three things are something that svt has plenty of.
which is why as i was thinking about this topic, i felt much helplessness once again
this is my truth right now
this weird uneasiness and worry that i was out of sync with carats and the public came rushing in
was this a bad choice?
do i really need to stop now?
is there no need for my abilities now?
all these crazy thoughts
isn’t it so silly, that someone who made an album with the desire to relieve even a little bit of carats’ feelings of helplessness became engulfed in that feeling himself
anyways, it was complicated in many ways.
but what is for certain is that i had no desire to fabricate anything, so i focused on getting back to sincerity
i definitely knew there would be taunting remarks about why these guys who have everything would talk about money and fame, and it did happen to some extent
whether or not this is a perspective of reality or actual reality, we are living more fiercely and desperate for achievement than ever
with that in mind, if you look at the other side, people might wonder what in the world would these guys be struggling with? and listen in out of curiosity
so i held onto the hope that they would see that love is the thing that is driving us.
it’s not a song to criticize those who live for money or fame.
that is also fine.
we have been like that too, and there is nothing wrong with saying those are the main parts in life.
so it even more so was not like we were cosplaying successful people, telling people the carefree bluff that “love is the answer” and to “protect love”.
it was to tell people that the order of importance of things in that list is up to you
and that for us right now, as the song says, we don’t need anything without carats, and that we were just singing our truth that this is what liberates us from our feelings of helplessness. there’s not much reason why i’m writing so much
it’s just something i’m lightly throwing out there since promotions have ended
i usually don’t like to ramble on about serious things. everyone is already going through so much, what’s the point of writing all these long things that some people probably don’t care about?
this is something i realized late as i’ve gotten older, but i’m someone who shouldn’t be greedy from the start, so more importantly, i’m now living only for the people who need me, and right now, those are the members and carats.
some might say that this is wrong because it doesn’t come from my own accord, but what can i do? this is me.
so i wanted to live up to your expectations.