Affection
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
“Today
I want to bury my face in your chest and just cry. Even after all of those
years, our love is finally shaken by tears. How much longer it will take for me
to forget you? I can’t even get close to you because I can’t say any word.”
–Kim Soo Hee, Affection [translated
lyrics]
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| 7th album cover by Kim Soo Hee - source: www.maniadb.com |
Penyanyi
senior yang telah melanglang buana di belantika musik Korea Selatan selama 28
tahun lamanya, Kim Jong Seo, turut hadir sebagai penampil dalam program acara
musik “Immortal Songs 2: Singing the Legend” episode 153. Sejak kemunculan
pertamanya dalam program ini, Kim mengejutkan banyak orang. It was a hot issue! Kabarnya, ia
diundang sebagai legenda, namun menolaknya dengan alasan bahwa ia belum merasa
layak menyandang gelar tersebut. Sebagai gantinya, Kim justru bersedia tampil
sebagai pengisi acara. Luar biasa. Penampilan pertamanya pada program tersebut
membukukan skor 442, yang pada waktu itu memecahkan rekor skor tertinggi
sebelumnya milik Jung Dong Ha (439 poin). Meskipun pada episode yang sama rekor
Kim langsung ditembus oleh Gummy (445 poin), sejak saat itu Kim selalu berhasil
menghadirkan penampilan yang legendaris di panggung “Immortal Songs 2”.
Sebagai
the icon of challenge, Kim Jong Seo
turut tampil dalam episode 153 yang merupakan edisi spesial “3rd Anniversary” program “Immortal Songs
2”. Episode ini ditayangkan pada tanggal 21 Juni 2014 di stasiun televisi KBS,
serta mengudara di channel KBS World
pada tanggal 12 Juli 2014. Kim membawakan lagu bertajuk “Affection”, yang
merupakan hits milik Kim Soo Hee. This song wasn’t very popular when it was
first released, but it became a hit after a while. Dirilis pertama kali
pada tahun 1990 sebagai bagian dari album ketujuh Kim Soo Hee, lagu ballad ini
membawanya memenangkan Daesang
(Grand Prize Award) pada helatan 1993 KBS Music Awards. Selain itu,
“Affection” juga meraih Grand Prize
dalam ajang Korean Lyrics Awards dan MBC Top 10 Singer Festival. It became a big hit among the younger generations
at the time and laid the foundations of Korean pop music.
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| Kim Jong Seo ketika membawakan lagu "Affection" pada program "Immortal Songs 2" episode 153 |
“Affection” is a song
about a woman who undergoes a breakup with her long-term boyfriend;
about the lingering affection that’s hard
to resist. As she has lost for words,
all she wants to do is just running into
his arms and crying it all out. How
could that be? After all of those
years they spent together, does it
end just like this? Is it really the
ending? As those questions keep
spinning in her head, she has lost
for words. “Today I want to bury my face in your chest and just cry. Even
after all of those years, our love is finally shaken by tears.” There are so many things that she wants to
say to him; that she want to ask him.
But those words are just in the tip of
her tongue. And in the end, there is no word comes out; everything is just left unsaid. “How
much longer it will take for me to forget you? I can’t even get close to you
because I can’t say any word.” The
reality feels like a dream, no, a nightmare. And she feels like living in that nightmare for real. ‘How much longer will it take for me to
forget you?’ That one question keeps haunting her. Because she feels like she will never forget him for the rest of her
life, in some way. Because it feels so hard, to lose someone you used to have for a long
time. “Everytime I stand in front of you, why do I become so small?
Everytime I stand behind you, my eyes filled with tears.” Indeed, everybody is weak in
front of love. Even the strongest
person could be so weak when it comes to love. In the end, she holds onto
the memories of them. Perhaps until someday
when the time finally washes away the lingering affection that still remain now.
“I just keep in silence because of love, I am your woman. And as long as our
memories remain, you are my man.”
Sedikit
berbeda dengan penampilan Kim Jong Seo yang sebelum-sebelumnya dalam program
“Immortal Songs 2”, ia membawakan “Affection” dengan aransemen yang tidak jauh
berbeda dengan versi original lagu tersebut. Hanya saja, Kim menambahkan
potongan lagu “Winter Rain” dalam aransemennya sebagai insert di bagian bridge,
serta mengganti perspektif lirik yang tadinya dinyanyikan oleh wanita menjadi
perspektif pria (menukar penggunaan kata “man” dan “woman” dalam lirik). With no fancy arrangements, he reinterpreted the song with his voice
alone. The charismatic rocker rocks
the stage with just the power of his voice, like a confident monologue. Moreover,
the song itself has the kind of touching
power. So, without arranged it much, Kim’s
rendition of “Affection” touched the audiences.
“Everytime
I stand in front of you, why do I become so small? Everytime I stand behind
you, my eyes filled with tears. I just keep in silence because of love, I am
your woman. And as long as our memories remain, you are my man.” –Kim
Soo Hee, Affection [translated lyrics]
“Geudae gaseume
eolgureul mutgo oneureun ulgo sipeora
(Today
I want to bury my face in your chest and just cry)
Seworui gang neomeo
urisarangeun nunmul soke heundeullineunde
(Even
after all of those years, our love is finally shaken by tears)
Eolmankeum na deo saraya
geudaereul idjeul su itna
(How
much longer it will take for me to forget you?)
Hanmadi malri mojaraseo
dagaseol su eobneun sarama
(I
can’t even get close to you because I can’t say any word)
Geudae apeman seomyeon
naneun wae jakajineunga
(Everytime
I stand in front of you, why do I become so small?)
Geudae deungdwie seomyeon
nae nuneun jeodeodeuneunga
(Everytime
I stand behind you, my eyes filled with tears)
Sarang ttaemune
chimmukhaeya hal naneun dangsinui yeoja
(I
just keep in silence because of love, I am your woman)
Geurigo chueoki itneun
han dangsineun naui namjayo
(And
as long as our memories remain, you are my man)”
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