When resident Renaissance man Qian Kun isn’t flying planes or doing magic tricks, he’s in the studio writing songs. He’s attended a ton of SM Song Camps, he’s friends and collabs with producers like LDN Noise, Adrian McKinnon and Jeffrey the Kiddd, and he even has a “Work With Me” video that you can throw on while he works on his music.
One of his goals has always been to get a song on a WayV album. He’s done remixes of WayV songs like Phantom, he has his own Soundcloud, he did an NCT LAB called Rain Day (not linked since it sadly features persona non grata but it’s a lovely song), and he’s been invited to the composition room when WayV’s songs were written (like New Ride), but he’s never had a song selected for an SM album.
Today, though, we finally got a Qian Kun original that made it past SM’s song selection process called 初白 First Time (blessedly clocking in at almost 4 minutes). It was super meaningful to fans and to him – after the album dropped, Kun posted a touching IG and went on a live to say “my mind was completely blank [when the album dropped]. I hope I can always remember this feeling, maintain this creative passion, and write more great songs.”
It’s already become one of my all-time favourite WayV songs! It has some really incredible vocal moments, interesting and lush production elements and melodic choices, and captures WayV’s classic moody vibe. (Side note: WayV’s new Winter Special album has vocals popping off all over the place… personal fave 月光蚀刻 Moment in Time).
Fans often remark about how motivated and hard-working Kun is, and how inspiring he is… I just wanted to give him a special shout-out for this one. It’s so wonderful seeing him achieve this goal and I hope we get to see more. Thanks for reading and I hope you’ll consider checking out the song/album!
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