“The second Seo Taiji? Over praise and burden… I want to remain as Lee Seung-yoon”

“Wow, wow, I love you or I’m so pretty, I love you, or put your hands up everybody check it out/ It’s not just a song that we say (…) You won’t be able to stop our voices” (‘You won’t be there’)

The song sung by a university student who participated in MBC’s’College Music Festival’ in November 2011 became a reality in 10 years. This is thanks to Lee Seung-yoon (32) pioneering a new genre by winning the championship in the JTBC audition’Singer Gain’ for’The Unknown Singer’. From Park Jin-young’s’Honey’ to Lee Hyo-ri’s’City Chitti Bang Bang’, and Sanwoolim’s’Put a caster in my heart’, he digested various songs in his own way, with the modifier’Genre No. 30′ and ‘ Reborn as a famous singer. Hee-yeol Yoo, who was in charge of the judging, praised him, saying, “A star born on the border creates a new ecosystem and leads the gods.”

Lee Seung-yoon himself was confused by an unexpected reaction. He met him in Sangam-dong, Seoul on the 16th, and said, “In fact, I was planning to stop playing music until December 31st, 2020.” “In the meantime, while living as a creator, I thought I was causing too much trouble around me. Even if you can’t play the basic role required in society, there are things that you look after. I enjoyed it when I was young, but as I got older, I felt selfish. I love music so much that I can’t do it as a hobby, but then I just wanted to stop playing music.” ‘Singer Gain’ was the truth of multiple, saying, “Let’s do all we can in 2020 even when we give up.”

He, who has called himself a’room corner musician’, said, “I hesitated to come out the door while making excuses.” “If you are a person who creates for 100% self-satisfaction, you can just hang your work in the room. But there is also a desire that I want this song I made to reach someone. Even my friends didn’t listen to my music, but who would listen to me, and I thought I wasn’t popular enough and set my own limits.” He said, “There are a lot of people who know that it was my first time on an audition program, but there are two more times besides the’College Song Festival’. “I am embarrassed to reveal because they all failed the preliminary round.”

So, even when selecting songs, I put the message at the center. He thought, “If you’re lucky, it’s up to three rounds,” he said. “Every stage needed purpose. I chose a song that could well contain what I want to say.” That’s why he selected’Put the caster in my heart’ in the top 10 match. It contains the meaning of waiting on the stage for numerous ’72 singers’ who will be watching the stage outside the TV. Also, in the naming ceremony that reveals the name, not the number, I chose’Gain Attention’ of the band Alari Kanchon, not a solo song. “If my song reached someone through’Singer Gain’, I was convinced that so many singers’ songs could do that. It was also the first issue I would like to introduce.”

He started out as a’ta-ban’ with Yoon Hyun-jun and Jeong Seung-heon, who met at the 2012 College Song Festival, and formed Alari Kanchon in 2019 with Jo Hee-won, Langse, and Ji Yong-hee. In Spanish, it means’a song in the shape of a wing’. He explained that he is a singer-songwriter who plays the music he wants to do, but a team gathered to do music that is not easy to do alone. He did not participate in’Singer Gain’ as a team because “It is not easy to show all four people’s music in a short time, and even with the same team, I couldn’t force my members to try to challenge until 2020.” Said.

As the most memorable stage, I picked the’Microcosm’ of BTS sang in the semi-final. “In the first place, I had no intention of making the stage unconventional. It seems that he took my color unconventionally, but it seems that it is becoming my genre, so I wanted to wake up. I want to do thin and long music, but if I keep the label ‘Unexpected’, I have no choice but to disappoint in the future. So I wanted to apply the brakes once. Instead of deliberately changing the grammar or format, I focused on capturing the musical colors beautifully, but I wonder if it was a really important stage in my long life of music.”

I also enjoy using metaphors about the universe, like my own song’The Unknown Earthman’ (2018). Songs such as “Hey, I’m an unknown Earthman/My name is,” “I have a name, but say no/I don’t have a name if I don’t have a reputation,” and so on, leads to the thought of an unknown singer revealed in’Singer Gain. “Everyone has a name. Some people are called more so they shine, and most people are only called less. I think I thought a lot that I had to live with my name, too, and I just don’t have a reputation yet.” He added, “I usually take notes as I think of it,” he added. “I thought I was a good lyricist, but I’m glad to discover that I have talent in arranging through’Singer Gain’.” “I haven’t learned vocals or composition separately, and I’m holding on to being self-taught in “Lee Jeong-seon’s Guitar Class” in middle school. haha.”

Regarding Yoo Hee-yeol’s praise for “the feeling of Seo Taiji, children, and Gukkasten when they first appeared,” he said, “Overcompliment and burden. He doesn’t have the confidence to become’the second person’, and he just wants to remain as Lee Seung-yoon. He introduced himself as’a singer with a stomachache’, “I have a stomachache these days. When I see Lee Moo-jin or Jung Hong-il, my stomach hurts because I am so good at it. He said, “It’s because you packaged it well in the air.” “I tend to listen to a variety of songs from Britpop to hip-hop, but I have heard a lot of transfer songs. If you say you are a male singer-songwriter at an event, you will unconditionally sing a transfer song. Because it feels like the’final king’ of this genealogy. I really love his music world, but I didn’t call it on purpose. Because of my pride. On this final stage, I was so happy that I could sing the’water’ of Lee Jeok by choosing myself under my name.”

His family history became a hot topic as his name was revealed during the contest. Former pastor Lee Jae-cheol of the Centennial Memorial Church is his father, and his second brother is a creator who is active on the YouTube channel’Genius Lee Seung-guk’. Pastor Lee’s educational view that “children should be raised in a circle, not a straight line,” also attracted attention. Lee Seung-yoon said, “The family talk is burdensome.” “Is life a circle/ or a phrase/ if I ask and want it/ I belong to salvation? Yes/ But I am a diamond/ I even stand in a peephole” (‘Universe like island to drink’), “Transparent words trapped in clear letters/ Always visible It’s hard to give / It’s a’outsider’-like answer from the lyrics such as “We’re Unverified Translators” (‘Treators’).

The future schedule is also packed, such as’Singer Gain’ top 10 concerts held in 14 cities for 5 months starting with Seoul on the 19th and 21st of next month. In addition to the preparations for the 2nd regular album, which was delayed to be released in October last year, the 1st regular album’What to steal’ (2016), which was “hidden in a heart that was so cherished,” is also planning. “I asked for the first album to be released on the music site just before the first round of’Singer Gain’. These are the songs I love very much, but I thought they were too unfinished, so I wanted to make them properly and play them. The idea that there is no music that everyone needs is the same as it was 10 years ago and now, but now my music reaches a little bit wider. I hope that I will write a classic song before I die and become a singer whose song comes before my name.”

Reporter Min Kyung-won [email protected]