Lucy, back as a full group, leads us into a world of childlike innocence.
At 6 p.m. on the 29th, Lucy's second full-length album Childish was released on various music platforms. Childish is Lucy's first full-group album in about 1 year and 8 months. A total of 15 tracks are included, featuring five new songs including the title track "All ages welcome" and a "Childish ver." track that newly reinterprets previously released songs. It is made more special by the fact that songs from mini albums 6 and 7 can be heard in full-group versions with Shin Gwang-il's voice added.
Childish is a continuation of the first full-length album Childhood series and, true to its title, depicts a journey to find childlike innocence in a bleak reality. At the center of that journey is the title track "All ages welcome," which captures the feeling of not wanting to grow up.
All ages welcome is a song on which member Jo Won-sang participated in writing, composing and arranging, and it is characterized by Lucy's distinctive energetic band sound and hopeful lyrics. The rushing violin melody suggests the overwhelming burdens of a world still hard to bear, but riding on a sprightly shuffle, the song expresses the wish that my life, your life, our lives will always unfold like a comic strip as an "all ages welcome" experience.
The lyrics such as "it's not even a comedy / you harass only me as if it's arranged / if we're all grown up, isn't it supposed to be like that" and "you're not telling me to die / you scold me so I can't breathe / if you're an adult, act like one" convey the full weight of life as an 'adult' that is hard to endure.
But Lucy immediately fires back at that pressure with "that just looks more childish and cheap," affirming our inherently childish and pure "childlike innocence" with lines like "let it all disappear / let it all pass / unlike when we were kids / somehow we end up looking funny / it's okay if it's silly." The band's sound, highlighted by a lively violin melody, opens a breather in an inner world full of worries and concerns.
Especially the chorus's chant in the highlight — "crying, laughing, liking, disliking / we grow horns / we don't want to start the end of this curtain / take us a little later / soothe us more" — delivers a swelling excitement that gently comforts the heart. The expression comparing the things one loses one by one upon facing an adult world different from the world seen in childhood to "horns" also resonates.
In the music video for All ages welcome, released together, the message the album aims to convey stands out even more. At the start of the music video, the members board a train holding tickets to "Lucy Island." They stare into the void with expressionless, listless faces as if to portray a bleak reality, but after landing on Lucy Island and reuniting, the members' faces are full of relieved smiles.
Animation is also inserted throughout the music video to enhance immersion. By depicting passengers who face their childlike innocence and turn into children, and drawing the members of Lucy performing on a stage against an open field in animation, the video draws viewers further into a world of childlike innocence.
Meanwhile, Lucy, who has returned with the second full-length album Childish, will hold a solo concert, LUCY 9th CONCERT "ISLAND," at KSPO DOME in Olympic Park, Songpa-gu, Seoul, on May 16-17. Through this performance, which marks Lucy's first entry into KSPO DOME since debut, the group will present a more complete band performance with a stage that consolidates strengthened teamwork and a deepened musical spectrum.
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