People, we couldn't have done anything to prevent what happened. Jonghyun was taken from us and from his family by depression. It's a serious disorder that can't be whooshed away with a hug or a kind word, it's an illness which we should fight against as much as we fight cancer. Unfortunately, in Asia and many other regions mental health isn't being taken seriously by authorities. So this tragedy is definitely none of our fault. Rest in peace, our angel, you did great...
i will never get over how his music perfectly expresses the range of emotions that I have experienced in my lifetime...he is one hell of a song writer!
I’ve never seen this performance before. So beautiful and heart wrenching. As someone who has mental struggles, I can relate, I know I shouldn’t apologize but I’m sorry.
The lyrics “I can’t forgive myself.” And “I keep making myself cry” actually made me drench myself in tears, JONGHYUN IM SO SORRY WE DIDNT REALISE SOONER 😭😭😭😭
dont group you or anyone together. we knew he was depressed. he very much openly talked about it. but as a fan theres not much we can do. just support the person. so dont say we didn’t realize. we very much did. there was just so little to do at the time. but comments like these are so unnecessary.
When I heard this song the first time I thought it's so wonderful and then I read the lyrics and my heart broke all over again. I didn't know him when he was with us and now I can't stand he was suffering. I just can't.
@@rose7930 I used the word "pretty" with a different meaning. I didn't make any mistake in that comment. "Pretty" can be used when making something more like the adjective used to describe it. I hope I made myself understood now ^^
I love hearing him sing this in his lower register/chest voice, something he used all too infrequently. Of course his upper head voice and falsetto is magnificent but I have felt that this lower, fuller, deeper part of his voice is something we haven't heard enough of in his work. And of course, now there won't be any...
trueeeee !!!!! i totally agree i love his low tunes so much .... audience always just spoke mostly abt his very high tunes but his low register was so beautiful such a unique color ...
U know what its my wish ? Someone from abroad ot korea should open a music-pub with his name there in Seoul with only his Pictures inside and his music on loop for remeber him and his music and for feel near with him. Maybe with a place outside in a garden or park with a big Statue, Monument, Memorial Stone from white marble or glass where fans from everywhere can put flowers and candels for him everytime when the miss him and feel like to do so. Like a place for remember his fame art and personality and his spirit. Because his grave in Seoul is complete private and no one can bring him flowers, thats so sad sad sad .... bcs many international fans are still remembering him and many koreans too !!! But keep the grave of such an oustanding artist just private is maybe like typically korean bcs maybe he commited this suicide its still a shame there and want be forgotten ?
@@Imix1973The idea of a memorial pub/park/monument is wonderful! It would take the efforts of local Korean fans pooling their resources, or one very wealthy fan, however. What you mentioned about Koreans and their cultural sense of shame surrounding suicide, mental illness, and a whole hell of a lot of other, similar issues being a huge problem is spot-on. That shame is part of what put Jonghyun in an early grave. The depressed person is struggling with the disease already, and then they have to deal with the added layer of shame attached to it; and that is all magnified by a factor of 100 for a celeb as well known as jonghyun. It's horrible. I have always assumed that Jonghyun's burial place is secret for the simple reason that if it was publicly known, it would be a tourist attraction/circus, overrun with fans and constantly in need of maintenance and cleanup. However, it is true that the grave sites of many famous people, even entertainers, are publicly known in the U.S. and it is not a problem. Many of those graves are in public cemeteries. Even so, had I been Jonghyun's parent, and I'm old enough to be, I might have made the same choice regarding the privacy of the grave site, simply because his fan base is so huge and Korea so small that it's entirely possible it would be overrun with fans in an undignified way. That makes sense to me. I also have wondered if he was cremated or buried, or as is common in Korea, a combination of both, in which the cremated remains are placed in an urn in a small vault below ground-level. His mother is Christian, and full-body burials are more common among Christians than Buddhists, but in Korea as a whole, the rate of cremation is above 90%. So who knows? It makes me sad again to write this. Again, thank you for your reply.
@morningsminion3242 . know. Few weeks Agora I read about buddhistic teachings and they say, that ppl who commited suicide can't go to a next New life. They stay and remain between the old life and the New as long their life was destinated to continue. Those ppl see and hear everything from their people with whom they were connected before. And I smt felt that maybe can be true. I smt got like feeling of words of him. I think he is still there. That's why I personally burn candles for him and smt buy flowers for him and put them in front of his photography here in my home. And that was the intention behind the idea of requesting a place for remembrance in Seoul where all fans could bring flowers
Every time I listen to this song, I feel like I'm the cause of his pain. I realized so late that he was trying to give us a message with his songs... it feels like I'm the cause of everything in my heart and it makes me drown in tears. Sorry to understand you so late, beautiful man...
you didn’t need to decode messages in his songs. he spoke about his mental health very openly and honestly. especially on his radio, where he encouraged others to take care of themselves too. his fans also sent him letters too
@ R.B - Please stop with the “being a cause of his pain “ bit . Did you know him,personally ?? It makes you “responsible” for someone you didn’t even know. !! I am a new fan of SHINee.
I recently began listening to SHINee and jonghyun's music and he is a magnificent person and performer but it seems that people are only focusing on the fact that his depression was what caused him to commit suicide but noone seems to be LISTENING to the LYRICS in his songs! In this song it's obvious that someone left his life and he is having difficulty in dealing with it. No matter how close someone is to a person with depression it is no ones fault if they missed the signs of how deep that depression is or what that person would/will do because of their state of mind. There was a major reason for his depression and whether because it was a personality, sexual preference, drug problem or whatever the situation, it was not too much fans could have done to stop him from doing what he felt he needed to do to stop his pain. There are many perceptions of what people think may have been what causes his depression but most people in his state of mind do not reveal their specific reason for their depression and jonghyun took his to his grave with him. I am truly sad that he felt that this was the only way to end his pain. I pray that his soul is at rest and for his family to be at peace.
All the people around him looked the other way for years because $$$ and because mental illness in all its forms carries such a negative stigma in Korea. Also, I have to disagree that people don't listen to his lyrics. Ever since Jonghyun passed all the lyrics of every song have been picked apart to the extreme in the search for signs of what was going on in his head. Perhaps Jonghyun's suicide was no one else's "fault," but that doesn't mean it was inevitable and that he didn't reach out pretty blatantly, mostly through his music.
we weren't enough, if that helps, at all. his brilliance and love was only partially controlled by our admiration and understating, and that hurts me as much as it hurts you. we miss you, jongyhun
@@morningsminion3242 Thank you for this, morningsminion. I came to know about K-Pop after reading a news article about Jonghyun's death in 2017, and he's been on my mind ever since. This performance is hard to watch, but the performance he gave at the Inspired concert is worse. It makes no sense how he was allowed to perform something like this. Instead of giving him time off, assistance, and love, the problems he was facing were turned into a spectacle for him to perform on a stage. It boggles the mind what everyone at SM, and his bandmates who watched him in the audience during at least two live performances of the song, were thinking. As a matter of fact, his bandmates even ditched him at the end of a concert they did together around the same time, even though he was out of it during the concert: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F8rYFZThn8k.html. They skip around happily, ignoring him and taking pictures without him: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HFMd_FbUum8.html I'm really sorry to say this, but I can't help but wonder if Jonghyun would have lived had he been a part of a more brotherly formation (like BTS, who seem to have each other's backs a lot?). His leaving is haunting because he seems to have gotten everything right. He was a hard-working young man who honed his talents to near perfection. He was a positive, smiling, and growth-oriented person, as evident from his variety appearances. He was good and kind to others and invested in plenty of good karma. He checked the box of approaching a therapist for help to find a solution to his situation, who unfortunately blamed him for his problems, like a lot of people who attribute his passing to the unfixable mystery illness of depression seem to be doing. When that didn't work either, he reached out through his music. He was talking for at least a year about not being able to breathe, not thinking he could go on, drowning in a bathtub in the music video of a lead single, and in this song, about that "one step" after which it would be "all over", and apparently his support system slept through everything. His death can be read as a failure of society. That's why it's hard to forget and it deserves more attention. [Out of respect, I am taking out a few sentences I wrote here speculating about what happened which pushed him over the edge in 2017. He didn't hide it and it seems clear if you do enough research]. He was a pure-hearted, funny, brave, talented, hard-working, prolific, supportive, and loving human being who could light up a football stadium with the force of his charisma. Some of the K-Pop performers of the current generation are impressive, but in my view, no one comes close to being the complete package that he was as a performer, artist, and individual. He was a rare combination of all good things and I am glad someone like him existed. I wish he had been appreciated the way he deserved to be appreciated while he was alive. May golden-hearted Jonghyunnie rest in joy.
@@cosmicreindeer5570 Wow. I love your comment, in large part simply because you dared to post your honest thoughts on the matter and underscore that the reasons for Jonghyun's suicide may have been known to those around him, but as things got worse and worse, everyone chose to ignore and look away. The people in his immediate circle, especially his so-called "brothers" in SHINee, had to have known things were terribly bad for him, as did his mother, but no one took hard-core steps to prevent what he was obviously planning to do. He could have been committed against his will, by his mother, as the law provides for in Korea. All it takes is proof that the person in question is a danger to themselves, and a judge will grant the order. In the last days of his life, his mother, SM, his bandmates and others knew of his detailed suicide letter, which he had forwarded to his friend Nine9, but none of them did anything. Why was he left alone for even a moment, for god's sake? I don't understand it and I don't forgive it. I have grown children. If one of them displayed his symptoms and wrote such a letter, I would have been in court in seconds and would never have left his side until he was safe. The whole event and what led to it is deeply fucked up and we will likely never know the truth. Sadly the very sick Netizens and Korean society like it that way; any mention of mental illness, suicide, depression, etc. is immediately shrouded in silence and shame. People like you and me, who ask questions online, are usually basically told to "shut up." So nothing is said, nothing is learned, and it will happen over and over, as it already has since Jonghyun left us.
ive been listening to this one repeat since it came randomly on a playlist. This is the first time i had read the lyrics. My hearts hurts. i remember the day passed too vividly and i still think of him often. God i miss him so much
I love this song, and I've been listening it since some months, almost a year, I didn't know that he was dead, I didn't use to listen k-pop music... I hope he rest in peace now 🙏
You really did your best, despite everything you were facing, and I am so proud of you Jonghyun. You have been and will always always be more than an idol or singer to me; you are my safe space. I've always looked up to you bc of how you could express yourself and how you bared your soul with those powerful vocals; you've helped so many people face their own feelings through your own, including myself. Happy Belated Birthday dear x We all miss you.
the fact that he gave so many signals and no helped him makes me mad and sad :/ i feel as it’s my fault that i couldn’t help him but i was across the world there was nothing i can do :( i’ll always love you jjong💕and i hope that all your problems went away💓(also i’m not mad at you jjong💞)
Hermoso mi niño todo su talento plasmado con pasion en sus recuerdos como se te extraña mi querido Jonghyun ...tu voz melodiosa y con tu fragancia de amor llega a mi ❤❤❤❤ ...Lo hicites muy bien grande por siempre
Honey, rest in peace my beautiful angel. You are now a diamond in the sky and I wish that now you can be very happy where you are. I love you very much 💘
종현, 생일 축하... 니가 90년생인 거 오늘 처음 알았어. 나는 원래 사람들한테 나이 안물어. 별로 관심 없어서. 니 생일날, "무언가에 이끌리듯" 문득 니 생일날짜 찾아본 것도 우연의 일치는 아닌 것 같아서... 남긴다. 너는 세상 사람들로부터도 팬으로부터도 그녀로부터도 자유롭다는 걸 잊지마... 이젠 너의 슬픔으로 부터 스스로룰 놓어주었기를... 넌 자유였어...always... -99 년만의 개기일식 total eclipse 를 보며, 우주와 달, 오로라를 노래했던 너에게..
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