'Our story' becomes 'my story', and the last line reveals a one-sided love: Vidarae at a Segok-dong playground

The name Vidarae (비다래) is the Korean phrase '빛 아래', "under the light", written the way it sounds. The singer-songwriter chose it hoping to always sing happily under stage lights. The fifteenth NONOL Live was filmed on a chilly afternoon, as the sun slipped behind the buildings, at Dodam Children's Park in Segok-dong. Vidarae was the second musician NONOL met in this park. Vidarae stands alone with a guitar, a small amp on the ground nearby. Times follow the full version on the NONOL channel.

0:00 결말 (Ending)

The first song was introduced as a breakup song made from personal experience plus imagination. The story that begins at 0:23 with '조각조각나버린 우리 얘기가 벌써' ("our story, already broken into pieces") changes when the same spot comes back at 3:17: '조각조각나버린 나의 얘기가 이젠' ("my story, broken into pieces, now"). 'Our' becomes 'my', and only at 3:23, with '막이 내려요 짝사랑인거죠' ("the curtain falls, it was one-sided love"), does it become clear that the love went one way. The chorus shifts too: '이건 내가 바라던 사랑은 아닌 것 같아요' ("this isn't the love I wanted") at 1:17 becomes, at 2:29, '아니었던 것 같아요' ("wasn't"), already in the past. From 0:35, drum and bass sounds lie under the guitar. On May 25, 2023, 120 days after the video went up, the song became 'NONOL VOL 13'. On Apple Music it's listed under the English title 'Ending', and the single also includes the playground live version. Vidarae wrote both the lyrics and the music (Bugs). Apple Music

4:38 가족이 미웠어 (I Hated My Family)

An original song brought out as one that suits this playground. Vidarae said puberty hit back in kindergarten and wrote the song from those memories. The video description says it was chosen imagining the child who once sat on a playground looking needlessly serious, wanting to act grown-up, overlapping with the person now singing on one. The title is sung at 5:15: '나는 별 이유 없이 가족이 미웠어' ("for no real reason, I hated my family"). There's no bass in this song; it's nearly all guitar and voice.

7:24 Creep

Vidarae picked the Radiohead song as a partner to 'Ending', since both are songs about one-sided love. This one, too, is sung with just one guitar and a voice, with no bass.

12:03 Hump day

Hump day compares Wednesday, the middle of the week, to a camel's hump: the hardest hill to get over. The day that begins at 12:19 with '한 시간을 기다려 버스에 타' ("I wait an hour and get on the bus") passes '일주일은 반이나 남았는걸' ("there's still half the week left") at 12:28 and ends at 15:18 with '수요일은 보내' ("send Wednesday away"). Of the four songs, only this one has drum and bass sounds from the very first beat. NONOL posts its videos every Wednesday at 5 p.m., and January 25, 2023, the day this video went up, was a Wednesday too. Five months later, on June 30, the song came out as the second track on the EP '제법 그럴 듯한 날' ("A Rather Plausible Day"). Apple Music

The video description announced the next musician at the same park: '노래하는 베짱이' ("the singing grasshopper"). Vidarae's Instagram is @duru_h_jjung.