It opens with summer jealousy and closes with a quiet night
Jicheon's full-length live session is up. Three songs in a row.
In three lines
- Jicheon's full-length live session is up.
- The three songs are 'Summer Jealousy', '그 아인' and '고요한 밤'.
- The order runs from a season to a time of night.
The order of three
| Order | Song |
|---|---|
| 1 | Summer Jealousy |
| 2 | 그 아인 (That Kid) |
| 3 | 고요한 밤 (Quiet Night) |
Moving from a season to an hour
The first title contains a season; the last contains a time of night.
Summer is a unit spanning months; night is a unit inside a single day. The arrangement narrows from wide time to narrow time.
The middle track, '그 아인', has no time in it at all. It has a person instead — someone wedged between two measures of time.
Attaching jealousy to a summer
The first song is 'Summer Jealousy', fastening a season to a feeling.
Jealousy isn't seasonal. Put summer in front of it and the feeling acquires a duration — jealousy that lasts a summer is jealousy that might end when the summer does.
Titles that place a season before an emotion usually aim at this effect. The title announces in advance that the thing will pass.
A title cut off at its particle
The second title, '그 아인', is a contraction of "that kid is" — subject present, predicate missing.
A title with only a subject is a sentence that started and stopped. What that kid is like has been left blank.
Sitting third-of-three in the middle also fits. Summer and night frame it on either side, and between those two settings stands a person not yet described.
Today, like this
Play the three in order. Whether the narrowing from summer to night comes through in sound is the first thing to check.
Then look for what follows '그 아인' in the second track. The song fills the space the title left empty.
The last song, '고요한 밤', takes a state of no sound as its title. What quiet sounds like when it's sung is the final thing to check.
A new song has arrived at the playground today.
지천JicheonSummerJealousy노놀라이브라이브세션
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