Kim Ye-rim - Voice

Last night, though it was past 10 o'clock, I turned on the TV for a moment. While mindlessly flipping through the channels to soothe my weary heart,

Kim Ye-rim's song came on. A very slow tempo,

but listening to her dreamy voice along with lyrics I liked felt really good.

This song, which set one corner of my heart at ease and let no thoughts come to me, reminded me of the songs of Roller Coaster that I'd heard before.

For the first time in a while I heard a song worthy of settling into a corner of my heart. I thought my mental fortitude was strong, but maybe it wasn't,

the things that blew up this week truly seemed to hand me a hellish week,

and I keep humming this dreamy song I heard last night.

I don't much like Yoon Jong-shin. Even when he tried to collect royalties on a song he made as a project with Infinite Challenge,

I didn't much like him. I want to give high marks to his talent, ability, effort, and passion, but

the things he sometimes says, like 'I want to nurture them,' that evaluate people in terms of money—those sides of him I really dislike.

I think everyone has, little by little, something that can't be evaluated in money, and for Kim Ye-rim I think that's her 'voice.'

Maybe that's why I hope Yoon Jong-shin please won't judge this voice called 'Kim Ye-rim' by money alone.

It's all the more so because it's a husky voice with a different color from others, the kind that's emerged for the first time in a very long while.

It's different from the vocals of 'Cho Won-sun' of Roller Coaster that I heard before, but the feeling seems similar.

The feeling here, should I call it a 'tendency'..um.....I can't find quite the right expression.

'Charm' would probably be the right word....

I think I'll have to become a fan of Kim Ye-rim, who walks a slightly different path amid power vocalists like Ailee and IU.

I think I'll have to buy her album.

-Lyrics-In a single instant, my complicated heart that I'd long agonized over
the voice that was able to convey it to you, that held so much

The hushed, cozy few words you whispered in my ear
a voice I can't forget even now, that held so much

More than the touch of a first kiss, more than the perfume we chose for each other
it began by calling me and ended calling you, the beginning and end of our love, the voices

Sometimes alone I call out for you, the name that went through all my moods
that trembling, familiar voice, those two syllables, that name

(Rap) The voice I searched for the moment I opened my eyes
I get absorbed as if listening to sad music
when tears well up at news of you
I shut my ears and eyes and reassemble my mind
I'm not even a baby, but you were always like this, baby
hearing a similar voice, wondering if it's you, maybe
I look back, no one's there, oh my gosh
I blame, as if dumbfounded, only my poor eardrums

When you said goodbye, those lips trembled so delicately
that voice I loved for so long, that day was different

More than the touch of a first kiss, more than the perfume we chose for each other
it began by calling me and ended calling you, the beginning and end of our love, the voices

Sometimes I think I hear it, as if you're calling right behind me
when I turn around only my trembling voice lingers, your longed-for reply, that warm voice

Sometimes alone I call out for you, the name that went through all my moods
that trembling, familiar voice, those two syllables, that name