Celebrating The Life Of Jonghyun

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

“늘 당신을 사랑합니다” pic.twitter.com/XQcZtHcXpH

— SHINee (@SHINee) December 17, 2020

I thought we could use this post to share some of our favorite memories of Jonghyun. Do you have any favorite songs, gifs, videos or moments? All feelings are welcome, positive or negative.

💎💎💎💎💎


Source: SHINee

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[catharsiskat.livejournal.com]

Every time I see a tweet that says "you did well" on my feed (and there are a LOT of them) I tear up. Today and tomorrow are going to be difficult.

This is one of my favorites, because I'm a child:



I'm trying to find other videos but honestly I just really enjoy his chaotic energy in every video I see of them.

[au9042.livejournal.com]

This is also my favorite <3

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

always miss you https://t.co/arHW48PYT2 (https://t.co/arHW48PYT2)

— HOLLAND (@HOLLAND_vvv) December 17, 2020 (https://twitter.com/HOLLAND_vvv/status/1339620141428920320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

[greasetastic-x.livejournal.com]

I've watched a lot of super old SHINee variety shows again this year because what else is there to do during quarantine. Hello Baby is truly a gem of a show and if anyone here is a newer fan of SHINee please do yourself a favor and watch it.

I think I've maybe only cried or gotten myself into a rut thinking about Jonghyun like 2 or 3 times this year which is a feat. I still haven't listened to SHINee's The Story of Light albums after its original release save for the title tracks. His voice was just so integral to their sound for me that I can’t handle it. Even though I'm excited for them to be back, I don’t think that I can handle their sound without him. His voice was so special. He was so special to me.

I stopped not liking the song Yi Si Fuera Ella after YEARS of never listening to it after the first time. And the fact that a recently debuted idol could sing like that oh man. That man could SING.

Since his passing, I’ve struggled with the concept of an afterlife but I truly truly hope that it exists just so I can know that his soul living free away from torment. I don’t handle death very well so I think that this will always stick with me no matter how many years past.

tl;dr: i love Jonghyun so much. And I hope that the rest of you Shawols out there are doing okay on this day.

[catharsiskat.livejournal.com]

His voice really was unreal. The versatility, the tone, the STRENGTH. We really lost one of the greatest vocalists of all time. I do miss his presence so much when I listen to TSOL but it's also a beautiful album. It took me awhile to work up to listening to it though.

<3

[otraera.livejournal.com]

i cant believe it's been 3 years :/

[sciencebottle.livejournal.com]

I spent close to 10 years of my life being his fan.

I remember being 13 years old and being absolutely enamoured with Jonghyun for the longest, longest time. He was my absolute favourite- my most favourite idol. I watched every single show he was on, replayed every live that he’d do, learn all of his compositions on the piano. He really was my dream guy when I was young, and watching him grow into the person he became was...so cool, you know? How he cared about those around him, how he spoke about topics that no one seemed to want to talk about...I felt so proud to be his fan.

Kpop stopped being fun for me 3 years ago and I don’t know if it will ever be fun for me again, but I’m glad that I got to be his fan. These past three years have been an absolute shit show for me, but looking up at the moon and imagining that he’s up there has brought me a lot of comfort.

To Jonghyun: thank you for being such a vital part of my childhood and my life as a whole. I hope wherever he is now, that he’s singing his heart out and free from any of the pain he may have felt while he was here.

[catharsiskat.livejournal.com]

Sending so much love to you <3

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

<3<3<3

Three years already...I'll probably come back and post some thoughts later tonight/tomorrow but I'm just glad to have existed at the same time as Jonghyun and I hope his friends and family are doing ok.

I have some people I follow on twitter that just got into kpop this year and SHINee specifically. It's really nice to see that people are still falling in love with the group and with him specifically all this time after. His memory carrying on in new fans not just old ones who lived through his passing gives me some kind of hope.

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

I can listen to shinee songs again which wasn't possible until recently
But strangely, lee hi's breathe still fucks me up

[degloss.livejournal.com]

wooooooo the day before yesterday, a video of her singing that live came up on autoplay and I couldn't stop crying, so I really feel you on that one...

[byeolbyeol.livejournal.com]

three years and, really, it hasn't gotten any easier. i remember in the few months following his passing, i would cry about it multiple times a week. eventually, that turned into once a week and then maybe once a month. now? it's only really when i really take the time to think about everything or when something randomly strikes a nerve for me. (for example: i see an old sweet moment with him and taemin and it does me in.) i remember there was a brief point after i stopped crying about it on rotation that i thought things were getting easier but ..., yeah. no. now when i do cry about it, it's usually a big breakdown and that's always more emotionally taxing than if i single tear or cry for a minute or two.

anyway. lol

i feel like i've said almost everything that i can about my love for both shinee and jonghyun on here over the years, but it doesn't hurt to paraphrase it again. i became a shawol in the summer of 2011. jonghyun was the first member that caught my eye, but within a few weeks, he was my bias in the group and, within a year, he was my top bias across the ... wide array of groups that i followed. this didn't change as the years went by and, after i opened fyjjong and he debuted as a soloist, i became even more invested in him as a fan. it goes without saying that he was an incredibly talented musician, artist, etc. it's also a given that he was a very special person; one of a kind not only for an idol, but just for ... a person in general. he was the first celebrity that i really ever allowed myself to become a hardcore fan of and i'm pretty sure that he'll be the only one that i ever get to that point with, as silly as it probably sounds to say.

when he passed, i was ... well, i don't really know how to describe how i was. even though i accepted that he was gone pretty quickly, i didn't accept what it meant for him to be gone for awhile, and i feel like this is a common sentiment that shawols share. 2018 was a very strange year for me because of my grief in relation to his passing. there are a lot of things about the year that are blurry to me due to the cycle of pain that i was going through as a fan, and once again: this is apparently something many shawols relate to. as some others above me have said: nothing is the same anymore, and i figure that's a given. my love for shinee hasn't lessened, but it's a lot harder for me to interact with their group activities. i barely listen to tsol. i can't really interact with anything that they did post-2017. it's weird because i used to listen to their music daily, but now i rarely listen to two or three songs by them a month. it's also funny because, despite all of that, they still remain my favorite group. it's a process, really, and if it's as hard as it is for fans as it has been, i can't even begin to imagine how hard it is for onmintaekey.

shawols are a mess in general, and i have some issues with how people regard jonghyun now, but i'm overall grateful that he's still as loved and appreciated as he is. i hope that this is something that never changes and i figure that, for as long as shinee is "around", it'll stay that way. but yeah. i love him and today is very hard, as per usual. i hope everyone is taking care of themselves.

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

thinking of you op <3 thank you for sharing your feelings.

[joaniemaloney.livejournal.com]

I've only started listening to SHINee this summer so I will never ever understand the loss all of you have gone through with Jonghyun, so I'm just offering a tiny comment from my end - today's been about me quietly processing the feelings of the fans who have known him. I hope his soul and music continues to live on. I'll regret that I didn't listen to him or SHINee earlier even though they've always been around, but I'm here to stay now. I'm continuously amazed by his spirit and his voice, truly one of a kind. Forever brilliant. & he seemed like the most generous and outspoken person, which is rare for the industry he was in. I'm constantly struck by his kindness.

He surprises me all the time the more I learn about him, so I can't even begin to listen all the moments that stands out. I've been inspired to learn Korean so I can hear his Blue Night broadcasts for myself - I remember someone linking a bunch of episodes to me but of course they were untranslated, but I hope to be able to understand his words for myself someday. & read Skeleton Flower too. Of course, all the lyrics he composed too. I was really moved when I listened to his Story Op. 1 & 2 knowing they were inspired by his listeners and their stories. His music comforts me all the time at the end of my days.

[giriboy.livejournal.com]

if you don't mind reading fan translations, skeleton flower has been translated! (https://archiveofourown.org/works/14618484/chapters/33784149) i wish there'd be an official one, one day tho :(

[belintuchiha.livejournal.com]

I miss him dearly.

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

jonghyun <3 i am still missing him. i've been able to listen to shinee a little bit the past few months, but it will never be the same. i will mostly remember him for his openness, understanding and empathy, and his amazing voice of course.

[genesisgrey.livejournal.com]

It still breaks my heart. I've been able to watch my old Shinee concerts a bit recently, but they always feel a bit sad. And I still haven't listened or watched anything they've done without him, other than solo stuff.

I remember when it happened. It was on the BBC's website and so a bunch of my friends that aren't into kpop but know I love Shinee were e-mailing me condolences and to find out if I'd heard. Then I had to duck out of work to call my friend, because she loved Jonghyun's voice and outspokenness and she's a sensitive soul, and I didn't want her to get blindsided by a random news story or post like I had been.

Miss him...

My sister isn't into kpop, but she liked Shinee, and she always called Jonghyun the 'cute one.'

[annoyedannushka.livejournal.com]

I wasn't even a fan then, but I knew who he was and who Shinee was and it was still gutting to hear the news. The funeral was so sad to watch. Amazing voice.
I only started watching Shinee videos this year. I don't know why I didn't checkout the group when I was listening to Move. He was so likeable. Such a tragedy. :(

[uledy.livejournal.com]

i'll never stop loving you, jjong

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

💖💖💖

[ursulavosyem.livejournal.com]

Grief is weird. I can listen to SHINee songs just fine, and I can even listen to most of Jonghyun's solo tracks too, but there's a certain section of my spotify 'liked' songs that I have to skip over every time bc that's what I was listening to in that period I was dealing with the news. Not even 'sad' songs, but they just remind me of the sadness I associate with his passing. SHINee songs in general perk me up and remind me how much I love him, and the others too. I'll never stop being a fan, and I still miss him.

And my fave Jjong moments are def from Hello Baby, what a golden show

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

My heart hurts, so I want to tell a small funny story. In that "taxi" show, where they drive around interviewing people, one of the hosts keeps getting Jonghyun's name wrong -- specifically the second syllable. He shouts, "Hyun hyun hyun hyun hyun!!!" It made me laugh, but I also listened to it over and over, because I was trying to learn Korean and I couldn't figure out how to pronounce that vowel (어)!

[cosmicdaze.livejournal.com]

i can't believe it's been three years. i still remember the night he passed so clearly. i didn't sleep at all and i just cried so much. my mom had to call out of work for me because i just couldn't do it. i remember i had just gotten into bed but something told me to check twitter and that's when i saw the first tweet. seeing each of my friends get on twitter after it he was confirmed that he passed and realize what happened was horrifying. it hurt me so much, even now i still have trouble falling asleep because i'm terrified of waking up to find out that someone else passed away, whether it be someone i know personally or someone i greatly admired like jonghyun.

i became a shinee fan in spring of 2011 and because of jonghyun and the others i was able to do so much and meet so many amazing people. the trajectory of my life is directly related to me watching the lucifer music video one day when i was fifteen years old. i know that to be true. and even though it hurts so bad missing jonghyun like this, i'm still so glad i got six wonderful years with him and i got to see him live three times. i wouldn't trade jonghyun and what he gave me for anything.

[greasetastic-x.livejournal.com]

I don't remember a lot of days in my life clearly but the day he passed away I will literally never ever forget it. I woke up in the morning from a message from my best friend who introduced me to SHINee in 2011, with a link to an article that he died. It was that friend's birthday, we lived together in a dorm for college but she had gone home because she was done with finals but I had my korean final that very day. The reason I had taken up Korean in the first place was so that I could one day thank them for all of the impact they've had in my life. I remember just bawling my eyes out and wishing that my best friend had been there but I strapped up went and took my korean final and then embarked on a 6 hour drive home sad and disoriented. When I got home I think I cried for at least 3 days, my mom was concerned but she didn't understand why I was crying over some celebrity I didn't even know. My other best friend came over that weekend with chocolate and ice cream and held me while I cried. Even though she didn't like to Kpop she watched SHINee videos with me.


I'm happy that you got to see them live and can save those memories. i never got the chance to see them live even though they came around my area in 2016. I thought that there would be a next time. It is genuinely the only regret that I have in my life. Now I go see any of my faves whenever they come around if feasible.

I hope that you're okay on this day.

♥

[neongoldtooth.livejournal.com]

when juliette/ring ding dong came out, i was FULLY into the fandom. such fun times in kpop and on omona. i was also 18 and still in highschool so plenty of free time to stay up late watching them live and following all their reality appearances.

i love this version of Juliette so damn much.

Re: ♥

[ostsiberia.livejournal.com]

I ADORE this live performance! At the time I showed a non-kpopfan friend this video and she couldn't stop gushing about his talent, his dashing good looks, the stage, and it meant a lot to me then and still.

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

https://instagram.com/p/CI61wzSgfmt (https://instagram.com/p/CI61wzSgfmt)

[chikage-chan.livejournal.com]

There isn’t a day I don’t think about him. He is such a big part of my life and my memories, it’s impossible to look back from 2008 until now and not think of him and SHINee. I still can’t speak about him in the past tense either, because he still IS with me all the time. SHINee is still five, and he is one of the greatest artists and most beautiful people I’ve ever had the chance to share moments with, from up close and from far away.
Thank you for everything, Jjong! I’ll look at the sky and think of you today too!

[volume1995.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite jjong moments is definitely being shocked by something and instantly screaming in falsetto lmao or the one where taemin jumps up from something and jjong gets startled too

For some reason, ive become quite at peace with jjong not being physically around anymore, only cause he'll always be a part of me (getting a tattoo of his story op.1 cover also really helped with that) but god damn it, it doesn't make December any easier.

His presence in the group was always so big and so bright, he always picked the other members up and the members over him so much.. Going to his solo concerts, visiting his radio show etc. I'm sending prayers and love to shinee and all of jjongs friends.. I'm sure they miss him and love him so much.

Man, if he was still around right now, I'm sure I would've liked every single of his tweets about taemin's comebacks this year. He would've flipped when Idea came out, lmao.

I miss you jjong, I'll love you forever. My favorite pearl aqua moon ♥

[yejun.livejournal.com]

https://instagram.com/p/CI7qwbqDJBi (https://instagram.com/p/CI7qwbqDJBi)

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

I love this photo :(

[yejun.livejournal.com]

https://instagram.com/p/CI7-XG7DhDU (https://instagram.com/p/CI7-XG7DhDU)

Full song on youtube here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ych7kD2QM3c) (starts at 24:13)

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

Thank you 💖

[agjingi.livejournal.com]

i love them 💎

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

Never gets old 💖

[catharsiskat.livejournal.com]

Had to come back to this post to post this video that I just saw. This man was an agent of chaos <3

I don't know them.. pic.twitter.com/nljmd8rY9q (https://t.co/nljmd8rY9q)

— Frogy Princess (@Choi_Dawna) December 18, 2020 (https://twitter.com/Choi_Dawna/status/1340046192328241158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

We love a chaotic man 💖