[ARTICLE TRANS] Why Did ‘God of Song’ Yim Jaebum Choose Taeyeon as Partner?

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Yim Jaebum-Taeyeon’s duet is rising like a storm in this autumn’s music scene.

As soon as ‘Scars Deeper Than Love’ sung by Yim Jaebum and Taeyeon was unveiled through various music sites at noon on the 10th, it entered the top 10 of real-time charts and have been receiving praise as the best duet in history. Currently, at 2 pm on the 10th, it’s sweeping the top spots with 1st on OlleMusic and Soribada, 2nd on MNet, 4th on Genie and 6th on Bugs. On Melon chart, it entered at 45th and within one hour, it jumped up 14 spots to 31st and showing strong force for continued movement.

‘Scars Deeper Than Love’ sung by these two people is a famous song sung in 1997 by Yim Jaebum and Park Hyunjung, taking a spot as the nation’s duet song. Yim Jaebum remade this song after 19 years, as a project that commemorates the 30th year of his debut.

As SNSD’s main vocal, Taeyeon is already considered to be the top vocalist of the idol world, but it had to have been a big burden for her to do a duet with Yim Jaebum, who is considered a legend in the music world. It’s a situation where she cannot avoid direct comparison with original duet partner Park Hyunjung, who is called "The ‘I Am a Singer’ Fairy” and acknowledged as a number one female vocalist.

In this difficult-to-decide situation, how did Yim Jaebum and Taeyeon reawaken ‘Scars Deeper Than Love’ after 19 years?

Truthfully, this meeting was made possible through a love call by Yim Jaebum. According to a source close to Yim Jaebum, “Even though ’Scars Deeper Than Love’ continues to receive a lot of love, we thought that might not be the case with the younger generation. In order to appeal to the new generation, we formed the opinion that it would be good to sing it again with a good hoobae singer” and revealed, “In that process, we asked Yim Jaebum which singer would be good and he pointed out Miss Taeyeon, who he had regularly been keeping his eyes on”.

They added, “Taeyeon has both charming tone and exceptional singing ability, and possesses the best emotion of contemporary singers so she was determined to be well-qualified as Yim Jaebum’s duet partner and that is how the project got started”.

Last year in October, Seotaiji announced ’Sogyeokdong’ with IU for this 9th album, which made his image one level younger; like this, through the collaboration with Taeyeon, you could say Yim Jaebum has the intention to be a current singer, not a legend.

After receiving a surprise proposal from Yim Jaebum, it is known that the burden that Taeyeon received was not small. According to a source close to Taeyeon, “It was situation where it couldn’t not be a burden for many reasons but she found her courage at the news that Yim Jaebum personally asked her” and “It was a very meaningful opportunity so she tried her best during the recording”. Through songs overflowing with emotion like ‘If’, ‘Can You Hear Me?’ and ‘Like a Star’, a duet with The One, Taeyeon has jumped over the idol fandom and has been receiving love across the nation.

We can’t help but be curious about the recording process with Yim Jaebum, who is called the ‘Tiger of the Music World’, and Taeyeon, who possesses an innocent sensibility, as if she’ll be blown away by wind. However, after confirming, the two people recorded the song about a month ago separately, so they did not actually get to meet in person. Meeting between the two people will likely occur at Yim Jaebum’s 30th anniversary of debut concert.

‘Scars Deeper Than Love’ sung by Yim Jaebum and Taeyeon definitely has a different feeling from the original song. Yim Jaebum, who connects the two songs, has the 19 years of time and the depth of ‘life’ in his voice, and as his voice mingles with Taeyeon’s sweet voice, it creates a new feeling. The emotional synergy of the two people are properly represented.

Source: http://m.entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=076&aid=0002803526

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