In the mid-1980s, a songwriter, Lee Young-hoon, and singer, Lee Moon-sae was called as a pioneer of pop ballads. Even though ir is very difficult for a singer to always perform in a new way, Lee Moon- sae gave new performance all the time. This may ha...
In the mid-1980s, a songwriter, Lee Young-hoon, and singer, Lee Moon-sae was called as a pioneer of pop ballads. Even though ir is very difficult for a singer to always perform in a new way, Lee Moon- sae gave new performance all the time. This may have been possible due to Lee Young-hoon who beautifully wrote songs for Lee Moon-sae, and therefore, this article aimed to study the aesthetic sense of Lee Young-hoon.
The article analyzed the life of Lee Young-hoon and his 4 representative songs, and apply an aesthetic category of flow among Twenty-four Poems made by Sagongdo in the Chinese Tang Dynasty.
A pop music critic, Park Joon-heum referred Lee Young-hoon and Lee Moon-sae as “a duo to produce the best songs, a god of mainstream music in the 1980s.” To answer a question why he called them a ‘god’, Lee Young-hoon’s songs were closely analyzed. As a result, it can be inferred that the songs symbolize continuity of the narrator's mind, by expressing intrinsic images of love and style of the vigorous movement of life. Above all, unlike Korean trot prior to the 1980s, Lee Moon-sae sung Lee Young-hoon’s lyrics in ‘a ballad style’ that combined intelligence and rationality with sensitivity, giving him a title, ‘a pioneer of ballad’. This may have named them as a ‘god’.