MUSIC
Naul, finale of ‘Ballad Pop City’ project
On the 20th, Naul released a short audio teaser along with the news of the release of the third title 'The Day I Stop Walking', which marks the finale of the 'Ballad Pop City' project 'Breakup' theme, at 18:00 on the 27th.
The audio teaser, which starts with an emotional piano melody, features 'Ballad Pop City', 'Produced by Naul', 'February 27th', 'Naul', and 'Step' against the background of a faded photo with its frame removed from the wall. The typography for ‘The Day That Stops’ is revealed sequentially, conveying a nostalgic feeling. In addition to the passionately resonating guitar sound, a lyrical yet sad string melody plays at the end of the video, heightening curiosity about the new album.
The third title of Naul's 'Ballad Pop City', 'The Day I Stop Walking', was sung by Naul, the producer of this project and Korea's leading singer-songwriter. Naul, the ultimate vocalist who received a lot of love from the public after releasing 'You in the Same Time', 'Empty Space of Memories', and 'For Each Other', is raising expectations about what kind of emotions he will convey through the ballad genre once again.
Naul's 'Ballad Pop City' is a project album in which Naul took charge of writing, composing, and producing lyrics, and it featured ballad songs with a 90's sensibility under the first theme of 'breakup'. Sung Si-kyung's 'Sick Me' was released first at the end of last year, and Taeyeon's 'Walking Alone' was released first on the 2nd, and is receiving a lot of love.
Meanwhile, Naul released the single 'Soul Pop City' containing R&B and soul genres in January. The title song 'I Still Love You' features an emotional EP sound and smooth hook, the intro song 'Soul Pop City' features a dreamy EP sound, and the 80s soul number '1985' faithfully reproduces the modern boogie sound. By including , he showed off his deeper world of music.
Reporter Junho Yoon, Ten Asia delo410@tenasia.co.kr
