To attempt to make my thoughts understood. "Unless you want to get trapped within yourself and die, you have to grow no matter how much it hurts-but if you stop because you're afraid, in the end it's inevitable that you'd remain in an immature state of mind. You might be able to go through the early-to-mid-part of your life with that kind of melancholy. But if you want to grow, you can only survive if you throw those feelings away. But I don't think I can keep living my life sustaining those depressive feelings forever. "Ever since I was little I showed a lot of depressive feelings, and it's the same in the present. "I'm fundamentally a pessimistic person," he said.
Jonghyun, who cited personal matters as the reason he was leaving the radio show, said it had become important to him to share his metaphorical scars with the world. It had become an escape hatch for me to greet new things without feeling awkward." I'm also afraid of trying new things. The radio now felt like my own personal space. And I don't really like having to meet a lot of people. "It may be that I came running to radio in order to escape," he reflected to the magazine, per an English translation. "I don't really like going outside. He admitted to Esquire Korea that he didn't like traveling and considered himself a homebody-and the close confines of a radio studio, just him alone with some music, had been a perfect fit. His last Blue Night broadcast was in March 2017 after three years behind the mic. More than 434,000 people signed it.īucking national mores and the pressure to be upbeat or put up an artificially glossy front all the time, Jonghyun, who also hosted the long-running music radio program Blue Night, had spoken out publicly about his battle with depression-much like young American stars such as Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Zayn Malik and Kesha have been widely applauded for doing these days. Don't let Jonghyun be another statistic."Ī fan started a petition demanding that entertainment companies set up mental health support systems for their artists. "Recognize that suicide is an epidemic in South Korea and takes strides to ending the negative stigmas around mental health and to combat this issue. "To the South Korean government: Let #Jonghyun be the light in death that he was in life," tweeted Xavier on Dec. In addition to the personal loss felt alike by loved ones and fans who felt they knew him, mental health is not an issue that has historically received much media attention in South Korea-or in Asia overall. "My DMs are always open for anyone who needs to talk."īut Jonghyun's death-authorities found charred coal briquettes in a frying pan on the stove, which produced carbon monoxide-obviously rattled the music world at large on multiple levels. "My sincere condolences to Sulli's family, friends and fans," the account tweeted Monday. The account Jonghyun On This Day is also doing its part to keep his memory alive. Music is the universal language, after all.īut for not the first time, the K-pop world is in mourning, this time in the wake of 25-year-old singer Sulli's death from an apparent suicide. In South Korea, the genre is known as K-Pop-a catchy moniker established in the 1990s that's catching fire around the globe-and all the hallmarks of the superstars of the Western world are present and accounted for: Charismatic boy bands, polished pop princesses, infectious chart-topping singles, carefully crafted images and tender-aged men and women who've inspired a level of fanaticism reserved for.well, almost no one besides pop stars these days. There's nothing quite like a tune that hurts so good. Even when it's Harry Styles or Adele or Sam Smith or BTS achingly belting their despair into that cold, lonely night.songs that make you feel all the feelings are still songs that are taking you to new heights. Nothing cheers you up, lifts you up, brings you life quite like pop music.
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