The Third Song Was Written as the Credits of Jeon Do-eul's Own Film Rolled
Jeon Do-eul's full live session is up. Four songs run back to back.
In three lines
- Jeon Do-eul's full live session is up. Four songs run back to back.
- The order is 'Just Ordinary', 'Little star', 'Curtain Call' and 'At Least My Heart'.
- The third song, 'Curtain Call', was written as the credits of Jeon Do-eul's own film rolled.
The order of the four
| No. | Song |
|---|---|
| 1 | Just Ordinary |
| 2 | Little star |
| 3 | Curtain Call |
| 4 | At Least My Heart |
It starts on a powerless day
The opener, 'Just Ordinary', holds the feeling of days when Jeon Do-eul felt like the most worthless thing in the world — when no matter how hard the struggle, all it confirmed was that nothing could be done.
Jeon Do-eul added this: others have probably felt it too, and if you set your own feeling of that time beside the singer's, the song will land closer.
Opening a session at its lowest point is a choice. Usually a bright song opens the door; this session goes the other way.
The place where Jeon Do-eul's own film ends
The note on the third song, 'Curtain Call', reads: "My first film came to an end. As the credits rolled and the curtain call sounded, I came to write this song."
A curtain call is when the performers come back out to bow after a show is over. It is the time that exists once more, after the end.
So this is not a song about an ending but about what comes after one. Jeon Do-eul also wrote of hoping that listeners, when their own film reaches its last scene, take from this song the strength to begin the next.
A cold voice carrying a warm heart
Jeon Do-eul began putting a voice into the world with the 2021 single 'Sea', and says the goal is to be a singer who carries a warm heart in a cold voice.
The last song, 'At Least My Heart', came from the feeling of always running toward somewhere far whose location you do not even know — and the thought that you may have left that time, or that person, at a place you passed.
It starts on a powerless day, passes the place where the credits roll, and ends recalling what was left behind.
Where this was filmed
Gyeongin Children's Park in Sinwol-dong, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul — a playground that borders a middle school.
At the small library beside the park, passing residents gathered in twos and threes to listen, the crew wrote.
Today, like this
Play the four in order. The choice to start at the lowest point is the first thing to check.
Then play 'Curtain Call' again on its own. It is a song about what comes after the end, not the end.
Last, play the first song once more. After all four, 'Just Ordinary' sounds different.
A new song has arrived at the playground today.
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