Song Review:: Park Hyungsik (ZE:A): BEGINNING- Koishikute Aitakute {Japanese}
- Release date: 2025 September 02
- Album tracklist: Sakura Kaze, Koishikute Aitakute, Shine on you, Hoshino you-ni, I Love You Girl
- Album runtime: 17 minutes
Okay, this is another one that's not showing up in places, so I'm going to do this one even though it's not on my list, because I don't want it to get lost in the shuffle. I have no idea who this is, so let's take a look, shall we? And in doing so, I went down a weird rabbit hole of looking up average humidities of various South Korean cities, coming to the conclusion that Gangneum might be okay, but Busan's humidity in the summer is too much. How do y'all breathe with that much water in the air? Although I suppose that Vegas with its "raining at 30% humidity" garbage would get the same response, just flipped. Anyway, he's a member of ZE:A, debuted in 2010, and is currently active as an actor, though the group isn't disbanded. And he's apparently from the same city that Eunkwang and Sungjae of BTOB and Changbin of Stray Kids are from. Which is not-Seoul, but also kind of Seoul? Also, it looks like this might be a Japanese release, which I wouldn't normally do, but I spent two hours looking up South Korean humidity because of this man, so I'm not going to let those two hours go to waste. And also, the likelihood that he'll ever see this is nearly non-existent, but considering this runtime is about three-and-a-half minutes, I really want to support and share that.
I'm going to love this song, aren't I? It's the guitar. Every time a guitar, especially an acoustic, takes center stage in the instrumental with an actual melody, it's happy times for those of us who are me. And the trade off between the acoustic focus and the electric focus depending on it the instrumental is sweet or not is so well done. We also get a lot of piano, which again means that I'm really happy about this. The only other way we could have fit more of my favorite instruments in would have been to add a violin or other similarly stringed instrument, or something odd, like a cowbell. But the instrumental is already full enough that those additions may just make it noisy, so I'm glad they're not there.
Because of how the instrumental is fragmented and divided, his voice is on full display and highlighted the entire time. And you know how I love older artists because I get the vibrato I crave? He's got a really nice, soothing tone, and the genre is a really good match for his voice. We don't really get any belts, which is a shame, but the genre isn't really one where big belts are necessarily warranted. Still a very pretty song.
Well, I was hoping for more of a storyline than we got. Still, it's a good looking music video. And also, I realized that this dude is the king from Hwarang, which I am currently watching. They just made it out of Baekje.
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