While everyone is gushing over Korean pop music, a few are stirred to a different track and find themselves immersed in the diverse world ...
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While everyone is gushing over Korean pop music, a few are stirred to a different track and find themselves immersed in the diverse world of indie music—the supposed counterpart of K-pop that focuses mainly on their music and refrain from being too tied up in commercialization.
Unlike other genres it is not limited to just solely acoustic, rock, jazz, or any other kind of music, it covers all other kinds of genres. It is an umbrella term for all genres of music that are produced without a record label.
The number of listeners of indie music may not be as big as the other genres, but it also has devoted followers who might be listening to k-indie music for quite some time now. However, some K-indie acts remain unrecognized or gain very little popularity even in their own country.
One K-indie artist that deserves more recognition and appreciation is Lee Ji-Won better known as Jimmy Brown, a man who narrates different tales of love through his mesmerizing voice. He is a singer-songwriter whose music mainly revolves around love as he hopes to offer solace through his music and the love that he has.
Jimmy did not plan to go into music but found himself immersed in it when he was 19 after listening to Chris Brown and Kanye, and soon after, he debuted with his first single ‘She Lovin’ It’ in 2017.
Most of his lyrics are written in English which made him gain more listeners from other countries than from his own. Jimmy has 1.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify which was double of what he had last year and thousands of subscribers on YouTube.
If you wish to find solace just like what Jimmy hopes to offer, here are some of his tracks that you should listen to:
1. Let Me Know
“If you ever feel down and out, let me know”
2. Dance
“It's just you and me, we gon' dance like this”
3. Never Knew
“I don't know if I could ever go without it. You're a distraction, nothing I can do about it”4. Irene
“You're my flower, you're my everything”
5. Lullaby
“This a, this a lullaby for your heart, lullaby for your love. Lullaby for your good night, lullaby for you and me”
6. I got you
“Always been the one to play the fool, no wonder I got stuck on you”
7. Your love
“Girl, you'd be my antidote. Get closer, what you're waiting for?”
8. Heaven
“I'ma show you what heaven sounds at night”
9. 2 Things
“I fell in love in Spring, have loved you like Summer.”
10. Look at me now
“I'm afraid of what's coming next, but we got no time for nonsense”
11. Cry on my shoulder
“I'll hug you, cry as much as you want in my arms”12. Reminiscing
“I think of you today”
13. Yours
“If you love me like you say you do, make it for real”
He sounds heavenly, right? Listen to Jimmy’s first studio album ‘LOVE’ which includes eight brand new tracks, and make sure to subscribe on YouTube channel to be updated on his contents like his latest video ‘Show Me Love LIVE’.
Written by: Johannes Daño
Johannes is a soon-to-be world traveler who used to see the world in black and white but is now finding ways to paint it yellow. She expresses her innermost thoughts through metaphors and fictional stories, but it takes her a while to do so as she is not a great first-drafter but a great rewriter.
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