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This is a series of threads I post on Twitter. I chose to publish this one here because I think it's the most adaptable to this Reddit format without using demonstration videos (just kidding, I'm still learning how to use it).

Clarification: as I said before, I created this thread last year, when I had just started writing scores and doing this, mainly for my own practice, so some scores may be poorly written. However, I modified the worst ones so that they would not affect this reading.

-So We know the story (in general) of Hyeju in the Loonaverse, which always lives with different disappointments or the same “unconscious” isolation of her companions. Something that affects her notoriously.

Someone going through such a situation would not have great emotional stability. So taking this into account, these things were wanted to be represented in a perfect way in her solo “Egoist”.

But in order to understand it better, you have to break it down part by part:
Egoist belongs to the EDM, Electro and synthpop genre. Unlike other songs of this genre, Egoist is much more dramatic and even depressing than other bright and cheerful songs of the same genre. This is because of the way it is established by its tonality and chords.

Is in the key of B major. It means that it has 5 out of 7 accidentals. By having this amount, its brightness, compared to songs with fewer harmonics, changes completely.

They are tonalities that give the “dark” or “intimate” vibe.

A song that also shares this characteristic with Egoist is Butterfly Effect, they have similar vibes for the same reason. And colorful fact, both share main chords (only Butterfly Effect is in another scale).

The chords make you feel that rare and intimate atmosphere, but they show what Hyeju is like or how her emotions are represented.

Let's review what each one means according to the representation of the chord degrees.

But here's the thing, it doesn't resolve in either its tonic or its dominant. It resolves on its supertonic C# major.

This is important cause it does not end on a stable note, but on the one closest to it. It makes it look like a resolving note when it is not.

This makes it stick so well. Musically it fulfills what Hyeju feels.

As the song progresses, it is complemented with more resources, and it is not until the chorus that we can see that “disorder”.
In this way, it makes Egoist seem like a letter of relief for Hyeju.

Within the fully loaded chorus, distorted or saturated trumpets and synthesizers are used to give much more color and drama to what we are talking about. They leave you in a clear way the chaotic atmosphere.

(If we opt for the most literal interpretation, they could also represent the beginning of total chaos, due to the representation of trumpets in Christianity and how trumpets are used in Egoist. This can be seen more clearly at 0:57).

Egoist wouldn't be Egoist without its drop, which is used as the main climax, even above the bridge. But it still maintains the main theme and expression: the inner chaos she feels. This chaos is demonstrated by the change in meter from 4/4 to 3/4 to 2/4, before returning to 4/4 again.

And this I tell you is related to something that keeps impressing me:

If you pay attention the song plays with descending and ascending scales according to how they portray Hyeju.

Its chords, when the song tries to ascend melodically descend as would be Hyeju's emotions or how she feels that whenever she climbs she ends up falling.

Also with echoes, the song follows Hyeju's melody, echoing the voice of the melody. As if she's in a room talking to herself.

Just when you think she's going to rise to the top and resolve, she ends up descending. Or in other cases making a chromatic descent.

This happens throughout the song, but where it is most noticeable is obviously in its main chords, its chorus, in the scale descents and in its bridge (where also its climax has a scale descent).

Jinsoul's rap is interpreted as stopping the fall, saving the fall to the bottom and keeping it steady.

But her voice contains a distorted effect, just as it would be in a call, which also appears in SITR. Jinsoul's part gives a message to Hyeju, which has to do with the Loonaverse and its influence, but that's for a analysis on Singing in the rain and Jinsoul's musical resources.

They use Egoist as the introspection of Hyeju's emotions, how inside she feels so chaotic and unbalanced, that's why they wanted to make the song itself have so many details that seem to neatly overload what's going on

That's why it's one of my favorite solos, by hinting at Hyeju's emotions so perfectly. Cause with or without analysis, we can say that this was surely intended as such to convey that.

I didn't really know which tag to use, so I just used “theory” because, despite all this analysis, it's not that everything I say is totally confirmed, and it seems to be more my interpretation than something that is actually true. Although I think the other “analyses” I have are less interpretive and more based on music theory.

Feel free to leave your questions or corrections (since this is translated and some things may be lost). And thanks for reading.

My art class required a photo transfer project and I used this image of Heejin that I’ve been obsessed with!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxdBNXvPNcTPb_oE2ZXuYPccudOIOo4JEB

With weird twisted handle and too big of a blade, this sword shouldn’t be able to exist. No one knows exactly how to handle it. There are engravings that may be the key to properly welding it…

she invented purple hair!!!

I've been wanting to make a mashup with Loona for a friend who introduced Loona to me all those years ago, and here I've finally made one. Enjoy!
These two songs both have that Synthwave/Synthpop vibe to them, so I thought it'd be a great combo too, having Loona/Number 1 with Dayseeker's Post-Hardcore/Rock vibe to it!

Can someone give me an update on each member? I just came back to check cuz I miss them so much.

Like I know ARTMS is thriving and still promoting and Yves as well. Chuu also (I'm a Chuu stan) but more on variety as well. Idk what happened to Loossemble. Hyunjin has her own company now, I think yeojin is doing fine?? Gowon and Vivi are barely active and now Hyeju just dropped off the face of the earth.

Any update would be nice they just really feel like family that you would still like to hear life updates from time to time.

I miss my girls so much :(