Hyolyn performs "My Love" (featuring Basick) on "Unpretty Rapstar 2"

How could I post about EXY, and not acknowledge HYOLYN for UNPRETTY RAPSTAR 2 (having seen their interaction in Episode 1 of Queendom 2)?

Found this spectacular and powerful performance for "My Love" (featuring Basick 베이식) where she beautifully showcased her singing vocals and her rap. Even without knowing the language, I am left shook throughout the performance... The tone and emotion was as intense, and performed "live"? OMFG I could feel the sadness, the desperateness, the longing for hope and ever regret ... truly spectacuar performance indeed.



I'd attempted to find out the meaning of the song, but instead found the English lyric translation (reposted below). Did she write the lyrics? I cannot seem to find any info for that, beyond the addition AUDIO ONLY vid (posted below).

This performance happened on "November 6, 2015" (so sayeth Wiki) for "UNPRETTY RAPSTAR2" Semi Final. Hyolyn finished the show in third place.




My love
Good bye

Are you doing well there?
Are you still going around looking for me?
Since the moment you let me
Feel your heart my heart beat
Likei had everything in the world

My long day, coming home
To see the sunrise
You would greet my tired body

We would have a long conversation
With just our eyes
Let's live loving each other like this

The day we said goodbye
In your sickness
You waited for me to wake
Our eyes met, but you cried
And you stopped moving
I cried, too

I'm sorry i didn't love you more
My tears will never dry
I still miss you, and sing to you

My family, my angel, my love
Good night

(Hyolyn)

Don’t go
Don’t leave me
I’m still crying for you

Don’t go. Don’t go
The more i think of you
The smaller you get

My tears trickle
Down, down, down
My tears trickle
Down, down, down

Come back to me
Come back to me
I call out knowing
That you can’t come back

(basick)

Yeh oh
You left me
I had to pinch myself to believe it


I don’t know if i’m crying because
It hurts or because i miss you
It was so hard holding back my tears

Never imagined myself without you
My everyday life became a challenge

I wasn’t prepared at all
It took everything in me
To not give up

I can’t hold back
Every night, i can’t close my eyes
Not being able to see you

I’m going to just die
I’m going to die without you
I put these words to my lips

After a few days go by
I’m more scared that
Time will make me forget

It would be better for time to stop
And for me to be in pain forever

(my love, my love)

(my love, my love)

Even if i’m with somebody
Even if i smile from time to time
I keep thinking of you

(my love, my love)

(my love, my love)

Promise never to leave you alone
Would I be able to spend
Eternity with you?

(Hyolyn)

Tears fall even when i’m smiling
I’m really okay
But i keep getting sad

You stir up my emotions again
My memories with you keep coming back
I promised my self i wouldn’t cry
I thought i had gotten over you

I guess i was wrong
I guess it’s gotta be you

Please come back, i’ll be here
Stay with me

(hyorin&basick)

(ooooh)
Yeah, it’s all memories now
It’s a sad memory of you and me
(my love)

I just want to go back to then
(don’t go)

If i can turn back the time..
If i can go back to the time
When you and i were one..
I just want to go back to then
(ooooh)

(hyolyn)

Don’t go
Don’t leave me
I keep remaining in that spot

Come back to me
Come back to me
I call out knowing
That you can’t come back



I remembered watching episodes of UNPRETTY RAPSTAR2 on cable somewhen ago (no doubt a rerun), but did not manage to sit thru all the episodes, as it was not a genre in my listening wheelhouse, beyond the commercial presented soundscapes from the usual predominantly Western suspects. I do re ever vividly the (below featured) One-Take-Mission "Don’t Stop" MV (for Audition EP.01 / 12 Sept 2015), and recognising only Hyolyn out of the crew, from her days with SISTAR and SISTAR19, and wondering WHY IS SHE HERE? WHY DOES SHE HAVE TO BE HERE? And recognising not long after; I AM GLAD SHE IS HERE, for the performers / artistes to be able to experience different genres beyond their regularly recognised ones ... sometimes you show only one note, but sometimes it would be fab for folks and fans to see different sides and colors to your/their craft and art ... at least that was on my mind then, and now, actually :)

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