“Way Back Home” by Shaun, Tuesday, February 9, 2021
In 2018, South Korean indie rock band The Koxx’s keyboardist, Shaun, debuted with a solo single that immediately went to number 1 on the K-pop charts. Obsessed with chart numbers, K-pop fans cried foul. But were the charts manipulated? How could a relatively unknown singer-songwriter blow up the charts? The world of K-pop is rather cutthroat when it comes to fans and from my research it seems that the matter hasn't been settled to anyone's liking. Still, how can an artist or record company manipulate the charts? The Korea Herald explains. Once the song had topped the charts, it was everywhere in Korea and even made waves in other countries. Shaun worked with English singer-songwriter Connor Maynard to produce an English version. This version has been misappropriated by Justin Bieber online.
I’LL FIND MY WAY BACK HOME. Poetry doesn't translate well, so of course some of the nuisance is lost in a song. The English lyric translation for this song aren't the same as the Conor Maynard version. Korean is a much more versatile language than English because of the Subject-Object-Verb sentence pattern. Verbs often end in "yo"s, "ah"s or "-nida"s so it's pretty easy to make rhymes in the language. The lyrics of this song deal with an unrelenting love that no matter how you try to quench it continues. It also talks about a journey that the singer takes, but the singer is sure that the path he takes will lead him home again. So that's the message of this love song as we count down the days to Valentine's Day: "I always wind up by your side."
Conor Maynard English version:
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