First full-length album released in 10 years… Includes 11 songs
Rooftop Moonlight
(Seoul = Larose.VIP) Reporter Choi Jae-seo = ‘My physical strength has weakened and my digestion has become slow / Even when I look at pretty things, I am less moved / I can’t lose weight and can’t stay up all night anymore… ‘(Song ‘Self-Introduction’)
My mind and body are heavy. Age is not a sin, but for some, 40 is a difficult and scary age. It is also an age when one becomes hesitant to reveal it openly.
However, Rooftop Moonlight, who turned 40 this year, was unstoppable. They expressed the deep emotions that can only be felt at that age through music. Warm and witty as always.
“I wanted to eliminate the fear of ‘40’. Spending 40 years with an album called ‘40’ is also meaningful. It’s very refreshing.” (Kim Yun-ju)
Rooftop Moonbit, who released their third full-length album ’40’ on the 15th, gave their thoughts plainly in a recent interview held at their agency’s office in Mapo-gu, Seoul.
This full-length album, released by Rooftop Moonlight after 10 years, is a leisurely compilation of songs written during a sabbatical last year. Like their first full-length album ’28’ released in 2011, this time, scenes from their daily lives were compiled with the theme of age.
Kim Yun-ju explained the background to focusing on age, saying, “Because we are a team that tells the story we want to say at the time, the point that comes through when we talk about it all the time is age.”
Sejin Park
Park Se-jin, who was initially opposed to putting our age on the forefront, said, “I wondered if there was a need to make it widely known since people probably don’t know that we are 40, but I was persuaded when they said we could do it because it’s Rooftop Moonlight.”
In this way, ’40’ contains a total of 11 songs that tell stories that only Rooftop Moonlight can tell. “In my 20s, I focused on my own story, but in my 30s, my eyes turned to the dark side of society, and in my 40s, I began to think about how I was living. My gaze, which had been outward, turned inward again.” (Kim Yun-ju)
Among them, the title songs ‘Diving’ and ‘The One Who Can Start’ are songs that honestly reveal the inner thoughts of each person.
Park Se-jin said, “Both songs were songs that made me cry while writing them,” and “I think something was resolved while making the songs.”
Among them, he introduced ‘People Who Can Start’ as “a song for people who have difficulty starting because they are afraid of failure,” and said, “You can start if you can move, think, or have the will to leave. If you have any of the three.”
Kim Yun-ju, who wrote ‘Diving’, said, “It seems like there are a lot of people who are feeling the weight of their hearts alone these days,” and “I wanted to convey a message to people who feel similar feelings that I want them to be beautiful and happy every day.”
Yunju Kim
Rooftop Dalbit, who met through college friends of the same age and debuted in 2010 with the mini-album ‘Rooftop Radium’, received much love with the national consolation song ‘Good Job, Today Again’. This year, she expressed her gratitude to her fans by releasing her single ‘Happy Ending’.
When asked if she felt burdened by the fact that keywords such as ‘healing’ and ‘comfort’ were always associated with Rooftop Moonlight, Kim Yun-ju confessed, “I tried writing a song with a different (feel) to try to get away from that.”
‘Cheer up, everything will be fine / I’m tired of saying that… A representative example is the title song ‘It’s Okay’ from the 2nd full-length album ‘Where’, which begins with ‘. However, ironically, it is said that only the ‘Cheer up, you’ll be fine’ part of this song, excluding the latter part, was used as Bacchus advertising music.
Park Se-jin laughed, saying, “We tried to escape, but we couldn’t escape, and we realized that people didn’t want us to sing that kind of song.”
Yunju Kim added, “We are actually people who write songs with the hope that we will feel better than before we listened to the music,” adding, “We have come to acknowledge that point.”
Those who have been providing words of consolation for 14 years now say that they are “amazed and grateful” that they have been able to continue their activities so far.
“It’s fun. It’s fun to meet fans, and I’m so happy that there are people who don’t forget and wait for me.” (Kim Yun-ju)
Rooftop Moonlight
Rooftop Dalbit, who is experiencing first-hand the weight of age when it comes to making music, is even more excited about the future.
“We’re not a team that tells fresh love stories. I think it’s fortunate that we can talk freely about getting older.” (Park Se-jin)
‘But we learned that small joys and happiness are everything in life / We live like that every day / Let’s have fun growing older together’ (song ‘Self-Introduction’)
Rooftop Moonlight will hold a solo concert at the Nodeulseom Live House in Yongsan-gu, Seoul on the 6th and 7th of next month, and will also tour nationwide in the summer. A ‘sports day’, which is like a fan meeting, is also being prepared.
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