We grant it to you, it’s an easy title for this page…

In any case, the new digital song is out – CAGE has finally been released.

As all fans already love it and bring in their two cents, we too will try to take ourselves for a music critic and analyze our first impression until his author wants to explain us exactly what this song and his VM represent to him.

CAGE of which we had already listened to excerpts with average acoustics, taken by nice fans during the last “The Last Dance” concerts, is far from the romantic ballads of unhappy love with which Kim Hyun Joong presented himself to us on a certain day of Covid confinement.

The lyrics are vindictive.
The always polite and gentle « angel » has a score to settle, and he’s determined to make some people shut their mouth.

Very far from the guy who was wondering Why? on the Alexander III Bridge, running desperately after his love that he had let escape.

And yet, and this is the good news of the day, the creative team behind CAGE is the same as that behind WHY!
JUNG GIL LIM has returned like the lion he is, and this delights us to an extent that astonishes ourselves.

 

🎶 Music

As for the music…
We can only give our feeling as listeners (previously entirely acquired to the cause of course), and what we can listen to seems to us a mixture of many different styles.

Finally, that’s what music is, right?
Why systematically want to label everything?

Organize things at all costs in one style rather than another, to the point of not knowing exactly where to put it and end up giving curious qualifiers as in the articles read in the Korean press: this new song will remind us of the “charm of Korean K-pop”.

What exactly does that mean?

Should we consider that a singer’s voice is predetermined only to sing a single style of music, and that when he composes something different, he is just “charming”?

Can’t he move from one style to another, vary the codes, draw on different types of music and simply be free?

In short, we too, in search of the musical current and the characteristic elements of this production, we have detected snippets of Rap, but we do not consider that it is only that.

We also heard tunes of pop, electro, slam and a little punk rock at times.

So, with CAGE, did one want to show the extent of talent and potential that allow Kim Hyun Joong to touch all styles to finally arrive at a different or even unprecedented result?

Disconcerting, isn’t it?

For our part, and in order to label CAGE in our own way, we detected Maghreb flights which made us decide that Kim Hyun Joong composed a Raï-style.
Yes, contemporary Raï.
Music confluent from various musical influences such as pop, funk, soul, reggae… and this qualifier also suits us perfectly.

We also tried to compare the video to the song and the privileged theme is still love (yes it is…)
Love of oneself or love for the other, just sung differently even if the relationship between the text, sounds and images is not always the one that could be expected.

 

📽️ The video

We have been warned.
A new « official » image of the singer was coming, and this video was almost more expected than the song itself.

To make a clip of such a song you need the look, the adequacy of the image to this new music.
A more modern and stereotypical look as for any commercial music video.

Technically, without being experts, we feel that the video is perfectly edited.
The dynamism of the slamming images and the visual punctuation combined with the rhythm of the music hooks us in a very short time.

 

To conclude, there is still something that has challenged us since we learned this new work existence.

In our memories and as far as we were able to document ourselves on Kim Hyun Joong, the symbolism of the oppressing cage and the links from which we must free ourselves has long been omnipresent.

We wish the fawn to free himself from his cage, we will see where he wants to take us.

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As Mr. Stravinsky said:
“The only real comment of a piece of music is another piece of music”

… and since we are not musicians, we just will gonna listen to it again, and let the critics criticize, while remaining very curious to know how this new single will be welcomed by professional « experts ».

 

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🎶🎶🎶🎶 CAGE LYRICS (auto translated 🤷‍♀️)

I’m still busy busy big business
Not finish ring ring
I’ve been enjoying your shenanigans and all the gossip
You want to break me but
But somehow I’m still going strong
Oh wait wait Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not looking at your rice bowl

Never run humbly get in G90
Never gone Definitely different from you, ma fancy
My leisurely gait
Unchanging my name value
I’m flying wildly, wind and cloth buzzing

I gonna never die still with my vibe
The end of a grueling fight, my flag goes up
I never give up fuck I go again go higher
Life is like funny rollercoaster

Welcome to my cage
I see the fear
Looking in your face
Just Blow blow blow blow

Welcome to my stage
I’ll never fail
I’m looking at my fans

I know a lot of people praying for my downfall
But a different ending, Jeongjin This is what I am
Your laughter like ant never reaches me I’m a giant bigger
than you all time
I’m the one who runs, I’m above you, I’m the one with the crazy form

I gonna never die still with my vibe
The end of a grueling fight, my flag is going up
I never give up fuck I’ll go higher again
Life is like funny rollercoaster

Welcome to my cage
I see the fear
Looking in your face
Just Blow blow blow blow

Welcome to my stage
I’ll never fail
I’m looking at my fans

WE GO JUST GO
Hot shout
Yesterday’s enemies, but now we’re friends

JUST ROCK AND ROLL Crazy LOUDER
we have to party and sing until the end

we go just go
Hot shout
Yesterday we were enemies, but now we’re friends
JUST ROCK AND ROLL Crazy LOUDER
we have to party and sing until the end