Feeling Special

[MV] Feeling Special - TWICE

New song from TWICE. In about a week, it has 68M views on YouTube. For most K-pop songs, I don't even bother finding English translation for lyrics since most are inane anyway. For Feeling Special however, I heard it was somewhat relevant to what's happening to TWICE. Girl groups, for some reason, gets a lot of hate, probably from insecure Korean girls but whatever. Anyway, Mina (one of the Japanese members) has been out due to anxiety and they weren't sure if she was going to participate in this song. Here are the lyrics for her part:

자꾸 숨고만 싶어서
마주 하기가 싫어서
모든 게 의미를 잃은 듯이
내가 의미를 잃은 듯이
가만히 주저앉아 있을 때

I just wanted to hide
Didn't wanna face the world
As if everything has lost meaning
As if I have lost meaning
I just sat there still

If you read it with what is happening to her in mind, it's kinda sad. I can't read any Korean yet I know the idols in girl groups are under a ton of stress. I understand liking some groups and not others, but there is never any justification for hate messages against certain groups.

Zimzalabim

[MV] Zimzalabim - Red Velvet

I guess the genre for Red Velvet is not having one. Unlike some K-pop groups whose songs all sound similar (Lovelyz, GFriends, TWICE), RV songs are all over the map. This one is weird. I'm not really into the song but like the bass during the Zimzalabim sections.

(Ha, until I wrote this post, I thought the song name was Zimbalazim.)