Epik High's Tablo revealed the hidden story behind a song he wrote while looking at his wife, Kang Hye-jung. Watching his wife, who seldom shows her feelings even in hard times, for a long time, he noticed a small habit that became the starting point for the song.
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That day Tablo explained that his original song 'Anime' was a piece that expresses the lonely feeling of not wanting to go anywhere and wanting to watch animation all day when sad and having a hard time.
But at the start of those feelings was his wife, Kang Hye-jung. Tablo said it was "actually a song thinking of his wife" and said Kang Hye-jung is someone who, even when she has a hard time, seldom shows it to those around her. Because of that, Tablo became curious. Everyone must have hard moments, he had long wondered how his wife endured and got through those times.
Then one day he found an answer. On a day when Kang Hye-jung seemed different from usual to Tablo, she was in the living room watching an old animation.
Living together for a long time, he naturally came to know his wife's patterns. Tablo said that rather than confiding in someone that she was having a hard time, Kang Hye-jung seemed to endure difficult periods by watching again the animations she liked in her childhood alone. Tablo's way of comforting such a wife was also 'being by her side' rather than words. He confessed that when a loved one is having a hard time, his way of comforting is to stay silently beside them instead of repeatedly asking why.
In the end, 'Anime' was not simply a song born from a love of animation. For Tablo, the word 'Ani' symbolized the storm passing silently inside Kang Hye-jung's heart, and at the same time it was an expression that contained his own wish to quietly endure that time together with her.
Meanwhile, Tablo and Kang Hye-jung married in 2009 and have a daughter, Haru.
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