What Was Written in a Diary Became Lyrics

In three lines

• Jeon Yu-jin's 'To My Stars' arrived at noon on September 1.
• It is the lead single from her first full-length album, due in October.
• Jeon Yu-jin took part in writing the lyrics. The music is by Song Kwang-ho and Kim Han-gyu.

What arrived yesterday

Item	Detail
Artist	Jeon Yu-jin
Song	'To My Stars'
Release	September 1, noon
Position	Lead single from the first full-length
Lyrics	Jeon Yu-jin participated
Music	Song Kwang-ho · Kim Han-gyu

Lyrics that came from a diary

Jeon Yu-jin is said to have built the words from thoughts and feelings she had kept in a diary over a long stretch of time. She wrote on social media, "A poem I wrote became a song."

A diary and a lyric are different kinds of writing. A diary is written without settling who will read it; a lyric is written to be sung.

Moving between the two changes something. A sentence written to be seen alone has to be reorganised into a form that can repeat. What survived that process and what fell away is one way to listen to this song.

A title that makes the stars plural

The title is 'To My Stars'. Not one star but several.

Address one star and the object becomes a particular someone. Make it plural and that shifts — either several people who cannot be pinned down, or several objects that do not resolve into one.

The 'to' matters as much. This is not a song about stars but a song said to them. The receiving end is fixed by the grammar.

Where a lead single sits

This song is the lead single from a first full-length album due in October. The specific date has not been announced.

A lead single is part of an album and has to stand alone at once. It will be heard again inside the album later, but for now it is judged by itself.

Which song goes out first also signals the album's direction in advance. That is truer still for a first full-length, since it is the place to show something different from everything released so far.

Discovery notes

Follow the lyrics on a first listen. Guess which lines came out of the diary.

Then think about the plural in the title. Whether the stars get narrowed down inside the song is the thing to check.

Last, keep October in mind. This song is the first piece of that album.

Just give it a listen, trust me.