If we hadn't met that day: four love songs younglong sang with a band in front of a yellow slide

younglong is a singer-songwriter who sings about love. As the 40th musician on NONOL LIVE, younglong stood at Jangan Children's Park in Bundang on an autumn morning in 2023, in front of a green play structure wrapped in a yellow slide tunnel, the second musician to sing at this playground. Kim Si-hyeon on piano, Seon Da-bin on bass, Shin Dong-jun on guitar and Joo Seong-ho on drums backed the songs. The description introduces younglong as a musician who asks questions about people and hearts and shows another shape of love. Times follow the full version of the video on the NONOL channel.

0:00 마음이 춤을 춰요 (My heart is dancing)

younglong's first single. It holds the feelings of a crush: happy when thinking of the person you like, then the ache that floods in when the feelings aren't mutual. The drums only come in at 1:22. The chorus, '우리 같이 춤을 추면 좋을 텐데' ("it'd be nice if we danced together"), repeats to the end of the song.

4:37 사랑하고 있어 (I'm in love with you)

A song about loving someone who carries depression and embracing all of it, because it's love. The description poses a question: can a person love a person and a heart love a heart at the same time? At 5:25, '사람이 사람을 사랑하고 있어' ("a person is loving a person") turns that question into song.

8:28 만나지 않았더라면 (If we hadn't met)

younglong sang it while introducing it as a song to be released with NONOL. It's about the moment of first falling for someone, written with the thought that if we hadn't met that day, there would have been no falling in love and none of the hard times either. The first line of the lyrics is '그날 너와 내가 만나지 않았다면' ("if you and I hadn't met that day"). In this song, the drums only come in at 9:52, 1 minute 24 seconds after it starts. The lyrics and music are by younglong, and the arrangement by Jo Ji-eun and younglong (Bugs). It came out 195 days later, on April 23, 2024, as 'NONOL VOL 36', and it's listed on Apple Music under the English title 'If we hadn't met'. The same single also includes the playground recording from that day. Apple Music

12:59 뭐라고 말을 할까 (What should i say)

Before the last song, younglong introduced the four session players one by one. It's a song about wanting to express love in words other than 'love'. At 13:49, '너는 내게 시들지 않는 꽃 같아' ("to me, you're like a flower that never wilts") is followed right away by '아니 이것도 부족해' ("no, even that's not enough").

The next stage at the same playground was HolyBear on October 13, and Jeong young ji on October 10 also sang here.