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aesthetic — loveforclosure, minjung’s first full length album details

cd

photobook (pictured front and back)

lyrics page sample, and photo page sample shown

1 out of 2 posters

dark version (left)

light version (right)

photocards — 1 out of 4, random

(fUSion!! you all waited long ,didn’t you? for the time that you guys waited, i put my all into preparing for a cooler comeback to show you all. always thankful for you all, and i love you all)

(to the fusions i missed, let’s be happy!

(inside loveforclosure there are lots of good songs, so please have fun with this album. i love you!)

(whenever you need, close your eyes and let’s go far away together — lyrics from through the night)

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aesthetic & headcanon — loveforclosure pt 2, the songs

summary: each song doesn’t sound cohesive together, and the melodies aren’t something you’d expect to be mashed into one album. but that’s the beauty of it all. each song has a different color scheme, but together tells the story about heartbreak where all the images blend into one storyline together. loveforclosure is a book, and each song is a chapter about grieving a broken heart. warnings: none wc: 1476

last night story

this one was a partial self insert, only because i love sobangcha’s original version. but also, it does make sense

last night story is song lyrically where it talks about love in an irrational sense — childish even. the lines ‘last night, i hated you.’ it breaches a kind of childhood like jealousy, and that part comes with the irrationality of love? you fall in love, see the person you like holding hands with someone else, and suddenly it starts spilling in, the green eyed monster.

minjung loves this song too because i say so, and as a result she wanted to re-vamp it into a modern times jam. probably the most high paced song of the album but she wants it to start off with a bang

it’s a fuck it whatever type deal because she’ll allow herself to be petty about heartbreak if she can

jam jam

jam jam is more sultry? sounding, and i suppose it’s not the stage of grief, but the points that lead up to heartbreak. 

this one is more a ‘i know we’re bad for each other but fuck it, i want it anyways.’ and hence where the sultry ties come in. it’s an impending look of a bad ending, but in the moment — you don’t really think logically. instead, you want it anyways knowing it might be the one thing that turns you over to self-ruination in the end

aka you don’t want to be logical in this instance, you want to give in. play to it, and hold on for as long as you want

the visitor

coming right after jam jam, that’s where you can’t ignore logic. you have to fall into face with the consequences and aftermath of impending whatever it is that comes forth.

in her case, it’s the end of a relationship — this part would be the ‘sad’ part of grieving, and pining for someone no longer in your life. the point of the song is the questions where it goes ‘why do i still love you? why do i still sing about you?’ it’s a rhetorical question spoken because once it’s said, it’s almost cathartic to get out. 

when in reality, she knows the answer why. knows why she sings, and would be a liar to admit that this is one ending that she wouldn’t have seen coming. the moodiness of the miminalist guitar draws itself to the drags of her voice, and in reality, it’s her song of being pathetic.

troll

troll has a different approach where it takes a peek upward. it’s childlike in the whimiscal melodies, reminding you of the early carnival / carosels of fair. how it goes around and around in a circle, despite not wanting to get off knowing where you start is where you end

after the ‘breakup’ and ‘sad’ stage of a breakup, minjung falls back into it. falls back into being in love, and jumping onto the illogical train of thought of meeting him again because it’s out of her control, and she just doesn’t want it to end

it’s another sliver of pathetic nature, falling back into the same patterns because you’re just too stubborn to let go.

empty cup

empty cup highlights now her 권태기 (idk the translation for this in english), but basically where she feels like she’s on the empty ledge, hanging wanting it to end. as a result, she writes this in denial, telling a lover that she’s no longer interested. doesn’t care for another go, and just wants it to all end

‘sick and tired of your love’ and that’s when you know the wooziness of going around in circles comes to a halt because she jumps off mid-way, free-falling without a second thought. she’ll play the bad guy because to her, this a dead horse that keeps getting beated upon, and she doesn’t want anything more than to crawl back and wallow in the entire joyride of the relationship

the shower

self reflection at it’s finest. when she’s forced to look at the relationship for what is worth, and have bouts of nostalgia spill in at the seams

lots of imagery about light, airy, nature-based images because that’s how she sees the relationship. lovely, and she never expected it to end the way it did. perhaps, this would be the “numb / guilt” stage of heartbreak, where you have empty thoughts, just staring blankly to figure out, that was the one piece of your life that now you’ve closed in upon and the worst part is, you knew it would end like this

a beautiful nightmare? and nothing she can get back 

you clouds rain

this one is a depressing song for her to sing, especially because it outlines how she yearns to go back to the past — highlights instances of how, lingering outside hoping he’ll come back, etc. 

but it’s a mistake told, about how she left the relationship despite knowing her whole heart still clings onto that one person. the rain, and it drowns her in melancholy — hence, the song has a very melancholic vibe. 

it’s about pining to go back, hoping that instance in life would never end. raw and open, desperately craving what was once right in front of her

gone

gone is her anger stage, of course none of these songs are actually in the correct ‘stages of grief’ but they all are parts of it 

anyways, this one plays the simple tune on her electric guitar and holds onto a lot of anger and resentment in her voice. it’s half jealousy knowing he’s moved on, but also anger that he moved on so fast while she remained in her own house of sadness

nearly crying here when she songs, singing a song about how she’s the only one clinging on to a lost relationship being the one-sided love again, while the other person’s gone and how miserable she feels due to being hurt from the one source of that monstrous love in her life.

it’s a lot of hurt / pain in her voice, and the only song completely in english of this track listing. 

dlwlrma

now we’re at the upward turn. but a drastic one — kind of like how in the movies, you see the main character pine and cry in bed for weeks only to get up one morning and say ‘i’m done! i’m happy again!’ it’s half a lie, but she keeps to it anyways

instead, she gives herself the excuse that maybe she was born in another planet. no longer part of everyone. she’s ‘different’ and that leads her to experience things differently than he does, and tends to look at their relationship with more happier memories than the pain he caused her. thankful to love that way, knowing that in that moment they’d been mostly filled with love and her heart was close to bursting by that time.

bye bye my blue

continuing on the upward scale, this one is more woeful than the prior. aka more in tune with reality of happiness. slowly learning to be happy again

she talks about having some slight bitter resentment about how he takes things, aka a grass is better on the other side, but still jealous of how he’s able to handle things. and how she really was in love at that point despite all of it

she learns to grapple with love again, and tells herself that it was enough that she was able to hold him in such high regard — better to love than not love at all etc.

ending scene

as the title suggests, it’s an ending scene

now we’re more in the sadder part of acceptance and moving on, but this is probably where she’s the most honest? she tells herself that in any situation of a conversation with him, it’s sadder to cling on to things rather than let them go entirely

aka she learns how to “let go”

tells herself that it was enough, and that dragging it on any further would be the saddest thing to their story. 

through the night

finally, this is full-on acceptance. aka a place to move on and turn anew

it’s not a place where she will fully get over it, because i think minjung is aware she’ll never really get over it

but she really doesn’t want to resent him anymore, or hate him / neglect their memories for anything negative than what they truly were. they were pieces of her happiness she got, and hence why she keeps them so close

instead, she writes him a final note kind of like a dear john letter. highlighting the small memories of their past, and how lucky she was to meet him and how she’ll always miss him deep down because he’s going to be her love she won’t forget

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aesthetic & headcanon — loveforclosure part 1, the album

summary: released on july 9, 2021 — loveforclosure is minjung’s first full-length album. this is her latest comeback after her last release ‘twit’ which was released december of last year. this album serves as a follow-up to ‘lovebusiness’, her first mini-album and solo debut, focusing on the stages of heartbreak / healing. warnings: none wc: 664

loveforclosure is minjung’s first full-length album, and technically her ‘comeback’ with an album since her first solo debut in july where she released “lovebusiness”.

loveforclosure has twelve songs, and all tie into the concept of love — because in reality, who needs more poppy dance music when you can release a calamity of music that all talks about heartbreak and the stages of heartbreak

speaking of, the album does not make sense sonically at all. and that’s the charm / point of the album as stages of heartbreak don’t have a set mood — you feel a string of emotions, and that’s what she brings with this

you’ll have jazzy undertones in some songs, somber ballads in another, then you have a poppy edition of some song that’ll make you want to dance

it’s like a grieving process of heartbreak, and hence why the albums don’t merge together cohesively as a sound despite the lyrics telling a story song after song

aka it’s more pieced together by the lyrics of each song rather than the sounds

loveforclosure in the name comes off of lovebusiness, her first album. it’s like her business into love with the first album, and the will they / won’t they, tugging at the heartstrings build up only for it to all crash with loveforclosure

there’s a double meaning because for closure can be taken quite literally as the album is for her own closure in heartbreak, and severing off the broken heart she’s dragged through all this time. whereas it can also mean ‘foreclosure’ sans the e, meaning you’re stripping something away because you can’t pay for it anymore. aka, she can’t pay for the time of love anymore and thus, it gets stripped away and becomes a hurt process

throughout this, she played a heavy hand in the making of the album. in fact, some of the songs are created from the electric guitar she bought, and started taking lessons on! it’s a lot of easy listening? meaning that you don’t necessarily need a vast knowledge of music to replay the songs on piano / guitar. it’s simplicity in the melody, and people can get in tune to focus more on the lyrics than the songs — that’s what she wants listeners to get out of it.

of course, she’s had a few people work on the album with her because they vibe with her musically, and she’s learned that the collaboration process speaks volumes more than what she initially thought, but she’s thankful that gold star let her hand pick the people

speaking of gold star, they really give her free reigns on this one. mainly because minjung’s been on a steady incline in public image thanks to her brand deals, and people are starting to really like minjung again — though, she still has the haters.

gold star gave her a bunch of different genres in the past, and fans could visibly see the emptiness she held on stage, so gold star said “you can do the songs, as long as it’s pre-approved by us.” so, she crafted a bunch of demos, sent the songs one by one to gold star and turns out, they really enjoyed it considering they thought it suited their company image well. plus, it wasn’t ridiculous / far out conceptually compared to her debut that flaked. 

mainly, it’s being in gold star’s good graces that allowed this album to flourish, and gold star is paying intense attention to the charts / reception of the songs because technically, they gave her an ultimatum that if she doesn’t sell this time with an album, then from here on out they won’t give her any album opportunities but rather only give her digital solos to produce

however, none of that really matters to minjung at the moment because this album is really her heart and soul. of course, love business will always hold the closest to her heart but this first full-length album speaks differently as it really helps her in steps towards healing.