Jung Seung-hwan has fallen in love.
Jung Seung-hwan will release his full-length album "Called Love" at 6 p.m. on the 30th on various music streaming platforms.
Releasing a full-length album for the first time in about seven years, Jung Seung-hwan proves his musical growth with double title tracks "Front Bangs" and "Happiness Is Hard." First, the first title track "Front Bangs" is a song that contains the wish for the happiness of a departed relationship, and Jung Seung-hwan's vocals warmly envelop the song throughout like a lingering reverberation. As the song progresses toward the latter part, the grandeur of the orchestra and band sound that intensifies becomes a wave of emotion, delivering a long aftertaste and deep impression.
The second title track "Happiness Is Hard" is a medium-tempo song that deeply expresses, in Jung Seung-hwan's unique sensibility, the narrator's hollow heart who only realizes after parting that the small everyday moments together were happiness. The retro mood of city pop sensibility amplifies the song's alluring atmosphere and completes a more three-dimensional panorama of emotion.
In particular, the music video for "Front Bangs," released along with the song, is drawing attention with veteran actress Kim Young-ok starring as the lead. The music video depicts a fairy-tale–like love between two men and women that continues through boyhood, youth and old age. As the time periods intersect, it is expected to draw listeners into the song by beautifully portraying a timeless midday happiness.
In addition, "Called Love" includes the lyrical instrumental "Called Love," which opens the full-length album, "That Kind of Love," which reflects on a relationship wasted helplessly in naive days and confesses that because of that love one can move forward again, "Unfinished," which builds feelings of regret and sorrow about our story left unfinished with Jung Seung-hwan's delicate vocals, and "Planet," which sings only of love toward you without letting sadness seep into the weightless-sounding soundscape.
Also included are "To Us," a letterlike song dedicated to those who have walked the journey so far from the same place and will walk the journey ahead, "Embrace," a gentle song that recalls the embrace that once protected me and says that with time I will now hold that embrace, "I Wonder About You," which matches the season and moves a quietly stopped heart with an overwhelming yet wistful atmosphere, and "Up to Here," a track in which Jung Seung-hwan personally performed the piano and recorded in one take so listeners can feel a pure, unadulterated resonance, bringing the total to 10 tracks.
"Called Love" is an album that sings about "love," which exists in various forms in every moment of life. Including the self-composed songs "Embrace" and "Up to Here," Jung Seung-hwan fully embodies the memories called "love" that everyone keeps in a corner of their heart in each song, reviving listeners' memories of that day and moment like an old film. Jung Seung-hwan plans to present the "essence of love" throughout the album by unfolding moments of "love" that existed for us as feeling, warmth and seasons.
Meanwhile, after releasing his full-length album "Called Love" at 6 p.m. today (the 30th) on various music streaming platforms, Jung Seung-hwan will hold a year-end concert "2025 Jung Seung-hwan's Farewell, Winter" for three days from Dec. 5 to 7 at the Ticketlink Live Arena in Olympic Park, Songpa District, Seoul, where he will meet fans.
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