Tablo 'Fever's End' Commentary Film

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The biggest way for me as a musician to express that I love and care about those people close to me, is through my music.

In the beginning, I started writing songs in an attempt to sort through my complicated thoughts and emotions. It was a way for me to protect and take care of myself. I had no idea the songs would become an entire album.


Home

This was the hardest yet easiest song to write. When i was writing the lyrics, there was no need to write them on paper because these were the thoughts that were constantly running through my head.


Bad

The people closest to me gave me the biggest scars. I don’t know if it was because they simply did and said things to hurt me the most, or if I just had certain expectations of them, that they wouldn’t hurt me... therefore the disappointment was painful, but ‘You were my reason for breathing... and now you’re suffocating’. This single thought expanded into an entire song.


Airbag

I don’t drive so I often take cabs late into the evening, and I have a lot of thoughts about various things during my cab rides. I listened to the things people talked about on the radio, and I looked out the window to take a good look at the world and people walking by. And I felt like I could see the entire world from that small backseat of the cab. I could see just how lonely every day normal people were. This is the story of my loneliness and the loneliness of other people.


The Tide

This song actually started out with such a random thought... I was eating at a restaurant, and I noticed that the table next to me left behind a large amount of grilled fish, and I thought ‘Wow, that’s something I would have done’. After that I thought, The world is a huge fish tank’. I thought maybe those people who are students or adolescents going into adulthood could relate to my thoughts.


Try (From the Bottom)

This was not only a hard song to write, but also so difficult to record. This song is one in which the lyrics are from the deepest part of my heart. The first stanza is written for my wife, and the second part is for my daughter. The baby’s voice you hear in the song does belong to my daughter. I didn’t record her voice for the song, but I had previously recorded a lot of videos of her since she was born. The part in the song you hear is the first time she actually called me ‘Dad’.


Tomorrow

I asked YG to collaborate on a song together long before I ever imagined I would ever be working under their label. Taeyang, worked really hard on the track as if it was his own. The lyrics talk about how I would often tell myself that as a musician, ‘this was enough’, but looking back on myself and doing a lot of self-reflecting, developing and growing as an artist.


Trace

I don’t know how people will react to this song, but I wrote it thinking about how there are so many people out there who work diligently so that I can have everything I eat, drink, and touch. There is a process to how everything reaches my very finger tips, and I just wanted to thank these very people.


DEAR TV

I thought, if the television were an actual person, how complicated would that person be? I would never be able to figure that person out or know what that person was about. This song is me writing a letter to the TV.


Thank You For Breathing

I created a list of reasons why I still wanted to be alive. Reasons why it would still be worth it to wake up the next morning. I realized that I wanted to live for the smallest things and I thought that maybe it is the small things that keep me going, and maybe its the little things that can keep other people happy too. The two artists that featured on the track with me are people that have been close to me since I was a nobody. The three of us have always encouraged and supported each other, and this song is especially meaningful to me, just because of the fact that they were able to work with me on this song.


Expired

I guess its the same for those people who are in love, but there are times in life when you’re on top of the world where eventually you must come back down. I wanted to sing about being afraid of that fall, and being afraid of disappointment and pain.


I titled the album ‘Fever’s End’ because when you are physically sick, your symptoms get worse before you become better. But it’s when the pain becomes the most excruciating, you know that the misery is almost over. And my hope for the album is that after people have heard all ten songs, instead of being able to relate with my pain, my album will offer some hope and they will be able to realize the value of hope... and joy. I want people to become truly happy after they hear this album.

source: video @ ygtablo | translation @ akp

edit: I think I put the "correct" names of the songs (as seen on iTunes..).

Comments

[rexona-woman.livejournal.com]

The lyrics are so beautiful, I'm in love with the album.

[inati.livejournal.com]

the last bit made me tear up a bit. reading the way he describes everything is so beautiful, then that last paragraph was so touching. tablo is a true artist.

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

The part in the song you hear is the first time she actually called me ‘Dad’.

Awww.

[istalkalert.livejournal.com]

this man ... i can't describe how perfect this post is.

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

gotta love a man who would write a song about tv. ^_^

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

i just noticed that he makes an err sound after some words. i haven't really heard a lot of koreans use that sound when speaking.

and he looks like a mix of eunhyuk and henry.

[khimia.livejournal.com]

OMG I love this man !!!!!!!!!!!!

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

Woow. He is truely a great person.
I was especially moved by the sentences about "Fever's End". Maybe cause it was ending everything else. I love his album, he deserves so much.

[topsface.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else find it odd that MYK isn't featured on this album?

That being said this album is flawless.

[takumisai.livejournal.com]

The meanings behind his songs are so powerful... <3

[http://users.livejournal.com/___varying/]

The commentary just made the album even better, if that was even possible in the first place.

[5h0rtyy.livejournal.com]

wow! the meaning behind each songs, especially Try <3

[khelsenari.livejournal.com]

This album couldn't have come at a worse moment in my life. I'm currently dealing with a lot of shit; and I'm having a really hard time coping with my depression and all these new changes in my life. So when I first listened to "Home", I knew this album would help me get through it all. If I'm struggling, I just put on his album and for a few minutes, everything is as it should be.

[amandaplan.livejournal.com]

Trace was so intense but so were a lot of his songs like Home. I love, looove, LOVE his solo music.

[vanhangels.livejournal.com]

I truly love the whole album. I've been listening to it nonstop since it came out. Thanks Tablo!

[minzystarr.livejournal.com]

This is man is ah mazing
love his album so fucking much...his album is pure <3.

[sujuhigh.livejournal.com]

♥

[lushontop.livejournal.com]

Been playing this 24/7 even while I sleep. I love it all.
I especially love Thank You for Breathing/Thankful Breath (oh and the sweet guitar chords) and the lyrics just stabbed me to the core. The insight Tablo shared made it even more poignant which I thought wasn't possible and I wish it would become a mantra for SK's citizens on the verge of hopelessness.

[hotaru-snow.livejournal.com]

This man is a genius.

[mappingemotion.livejournal.com]

You got your wish Tablo.

God, he just inspires me so much I can't handle it.

[akaich0u.livejournal.com]

Love his music, hate his hair. He's not 23 anymore, YG coordis.

[nomdeplumejam.livejournal.com]

;______; there are no words...

[hileahrious.livejournal.com]

Crying. I love him.

[chaincombo.livejournal.com]

Flawless talented amazing man is all of the above.