“goodbye now to my beloved young days / our beautiful spring, summer, autumn and winter 🌸☀️🍁❄️”

— BIGBANG 'Still Life'

STILL LIFE - Where do I even begin? On April 5, 2022, legendary K-pop boy group BIGBANG released what is possibly their last single together (w/o a certain 5th member but that's another story). To get hyped for the release, my friend and I re-watched some of our old BIGBANG faves from our middle/high school days, many of which are included in this playlist":

13 songs for 13 years of being a VIP (a BIGBANG fan) + their 2 'farewell' songs. They were my first K-pop group and one that my friends and I all loved: we went from watching their 'Big Show 2009' concert on DVD to actually seeing them perform for their 'MADE' world tour in 2015!

Now you know a bit about my history with BIGBANG, back to Still Life... I don't know what we were expecting, but we didn't expect to get so emotional. It hit the heartstrings HARD 😭 the lyrics, the imagery & symbolism from the music video, seeing their faces & hearing their voices again... and that ending: "Wait... THAT'S IT?!?"

I'm still kind of at a loss for words and unable to express what this song & this group mean to me, so I'll just leave it at this: