We’ve often wondered why we should remain nostalgically stagnant in a past that prevents us from moving forward.
Why do we keep asking for songs from 10 years ago at concerts?
Why keep on singing them?
Afterwards, you tell yourself that 10 years from now, you’ll still be clamoring for Four Seasons or Rightabout too.
Everyone has their own nostalgia, a mixture of sensations, images, thoughts, smells and sounds linked to the evocation of their past, where happiness and unhappiness mingle.
Every time we hear the song “Thank you”, we see this young Kim Hyun Joong, already so professional but with such a fragile image, alone on a stage after leaving his SS501 bandmates.
It wasn’t “our era”; we got to know him much later.
His very first solo steps didn’t exude happiness and were so imbued with melancholy that this song never made the list of our “good memories”.
We grumble every time Kim Hyun Joong sings it to please his fans.
We say to ourselves that it’s not a good thing to be constantly brought back to the past, but after all, perhaps it’s also his simplest way of expressing his gratitude in song.
Today, in his new symphonic arrangement, we feel as if we’re discovering “Thank You” for the first time, and if there’s only one version to remember of this song that’s more than a decade old, it’s undoubtedly the one of “Into The Light” Symphony.
Always melancholy, always nostalgic, but delivered with such tenderness and assurance that it’s beautiful to see and hear, and makes you think that, after all, being taken back in time once in a while might not be such a bad thing; you just be careful to avoid be trapped in the past forever.