BIGBANG has finally made their comeback with new music after four years, with their single ‘Still Life’. The potentially last comeback of BIGBANG, Still Life is a single, and they currently have no plans of promoting it on music shows. While VIPs are glad that BIGBANG is back, the implications made through the lyrics and music video are shattering their hearts.
The VIPs and K-pop fans who grew up from their teens with BIGBANG and saw their phenomenal growth on both the domestic and global platforms are feeling bittersweet about the end of an era with the potential goodbye song of BIGBANG. ‘Still Life’ offers all the ingredients of a K-pop farewell song, and VIPs have accepted the sad fact.
BIGBANG ‘Still Life’ Video – A Ballad Containing Reflective Lyrics
Watching the video for BIGBANG’s ‘Still Life,’ fans cannot decide between enjoying the superior visuals of the members, or the breathtaking symbolic cinematography, or lament at the fact that the members don’t even appear together in the video, not even for one frame! Indeed, VIPs can understand the gravity of the implications of this, which is that the BIGBANG members are really going on their own way. But, as the lyrics suggest, if they break away from each other this spring, maybe they will meet again by the next spring season.
This time, BIGBANG has put its signature hype banger hip-hop style on the back burner and has instead opted for a more somber and calm musical persona which reflects their sincerity regarding their lives. The Korean title of the song is “Spring Summer Autumn Winter,” which implies the passing of the seasons. Through the lyrics of the song, the members say goodbye to their glory days of youth when they laughed and cried and lamented not being mature enough even though they are growing older.
BIGBANG T.O.P. Releases An Instagram Statement
BIGBANG member T.O.P. took to Instagram to convey some of his thoughts to his fans after the release of ‘Still Life”. In the post, he thanks all the staff members of YG (fans have noted that he doesn’t thank the YG himself, Yang Hyun Suk) for all their service for the past sixteen years he spent at the agency. He informs his fans that he is going through an “important turning point” in his life right now and that he looks forward to the day he comes back as a person good enough to inspire other people. Lastly, he conveys his genuine gratefulness for his fans.
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BIGBANG Dominates The Charts In Korea And More
The 2022 comeback of BIGBANG ‘Still Life’ was released on 5th April during midnight in KST, and it is common knowledge within the K-pop fandoms that Korean music charts are frozen during midnight owing to the prevention of chart manipulation. And the strategy of releasing songs during midnight is used by artists like IU, who have one of the strongest fanbases in South Korea. Still, BIGBANG managed to top many real-time charts in South Korea (Melon, Genie, Bugs, Flo, and Vibe), China, and Japan (QQ Music, and Line Music, respectively), which signifies how much the Korean general public was also listening to ‘Still Life’. Additionally, the song also topped the iTunes Top Songs charts in 33 regions.
Support From Their Labelmates
Meanwhile, Korean celebrities are putting words for support for the legendary BIGBANG’s latest comeback. One example is labelmate Tablo from EPIK HIGH (from YG subsidiary HIGHGRND), who took to Twitter to compliment the song and BIGBANG Taeyang’s vocals in ‘Still Life’.
Criticism Against The “Criminal Group” Coming Back
But the controversial group BIGBANG is not bereft of criticism. A journalist of the Korean newspaper Chosun pointed out the tag of being a “criminal group” that BIGBANG carries, and talked about the several controversies the members of BIGBANG have gone through, and goes on to say that it is prevalent in South Korea that even celebrities who have committed more serious crimes have gone on to make successful comebacks, and cites the examples of MC The Max’s vocalist Lee Soo (who solicited an underage prostitute), who also dominated the charts after having a comeback, and MC Mong, who was embroiled in military service evasion related controversies.
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