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Hi Hunters!
This is the discussion post for Rumi's EP, Who I am (Thank you), releasing today! We'll be consolidating any posts created after this one here to keep the forum organized.
I've created threads for each song where the top voted comments are displayed first. (You can change the settings if you wish!)
EP info
✨Rumi's first solo! ✨
Tracklist:
- Intro
- When we meet again, ft. Ryu Miyeong
- Shelter, ft. Celine
- Home, ft. Mira and Zoey
- Who I am (Thank you)
- Outro
Related Threads
- HUNTR/X is NOT disbanding (Official post)
- Tutorial: How to LEGALLY buy Rumi's EP
- Rumi solo EP interview megathread
Thread: Intro
[176 votes] [zzzzzzzoey0035] is it just me or is the beginning a recording of Miyeong working on a song?? bc like, don't the chords at 0:05 and the little melody at 0:08 sound like the bones of Sunlight Sisters' "Sunshine Smile"??? and then?? the baby laugh at 0:16??? that has to be Rumi. has to be. who else would it be?? why else would it then meld into the HUNTR/X girls laughing and messing around? which, btw, brilliant choice, incredible way to connect past and present and family and music and love - hold on, I need to find some tissues.
[142 votes] [haytherre47] who wants to bet it was Mira trying to beatbox at 0:58? also Zoey needs an award for her imitation of a sea lion at 1:42 lololol
[139 votes] [drv123] has anyone talked about yet how everything fades out at the end to just have Rumi's laughter. and how it melts into that little hum. how it lingers - from content to longing - I just. throwing up from how incredible she is for packing so so much into just one note. how is this woman real. ugh. (positive) (wrecked) (lol positively wrecked even)
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Thread: When we meet again, ft. Ryu Miyeong
[208 votes] [hellohello8882] [reply to hntrxfrvr2021] Hey hntrxfrvr2021, I feel you. Like you, I wasn't sure if I could listen to this song.
As you all know, Sunlight Sisters was and forever will be my ult group, and Miyeong was my bias. When Miyeong died and the group disbanded, I just couldn't listen to kpop anymore. It was just easier that way.
But then Rumi debuted with HUNTR/X and I told myself, I'll listen - for Miyeong. And then after awhile, I started to listen for Rumi herself.
So when I heard that Rumi was going to have a track where she was going to sing a duet with Miyeong, I was torn. I was finally able to enjoy the thing that broke my heart - how dare she dig up what's been gone?
But then I saw that radio interview she did:
It wasn't planned. When we first found the recordings, it was really hard. Not just hearing her voice but - there was so much. So many songs that were half-written, so many melodies and different ideas. There was just so much that she left behind. So much that she'd wanted to do.
Mira was the one who found "When we meet again." We were listening to it in our living room and I apparently started humming along. I didn't even realize what I was doing but Zoey had taken a video. They didn't show it to me until a couple days later because they didn't want to push me into anything. And even then, it took me a while to even consider the idea of recording something.
It was the lyrics that convinced me. Well, the notes that we found with the lyrics. My mom had written that "When we meet again" was meant for their fans. That she wanted the fans to feel as cherished as they made her feel. That she wanted to give back the love that had fueled her for so long.
And so I had to listen to it. This time, for me.
As for the song itself, I really can't say much because I can't even think about it without crying - I'm literally typing by touch right now, I can't even see the screen lol - it's a simple song, yknow? And that's what makes it even more meaningful. It's perfect.
What I kept thinking of as I was listening, especially when it hit the chorus and Miyeong and Rumi are singing together, is just how strange and beautiful and difficult it must have been for Rumi to be alone in that recording booth, her mother's voice in her ears, singing, "we'll be together again." God. I don't know how she was able to record this song at all.
I'm rambling now. I just want to say to hntrxfrvr2021, and anyone else who feels like this might be too much: take your time. It's okay if you don't listen to it. It'll be here when you're ready. And if you never are, that's okay too.
[198 votes] [gimmemoreeggrolls] i know the antis are probably having a field day, saying their usual bs about rumi riding on her mother's coat tails, or how she'll never escape her mother's shadow. but idt it's necessarily that she wants to step out of her mother's shadow - with "when we meet again", it feels like she's holding on to miyeong's shadow because it's all she has yknow? and yet, she still shared this with us.
imo if this was a money grab, rumi could've picked any other song, could've done a full album even, made it completely about her - but she didn't. she chose a song miyeong had written for us, the fans, a song to help us find peace and comfort and closure.
and the way Rumi sounds in this song - weaving her voice around Miyeong's like the sun rising on water; like a daughter - i think it helped her too.
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Thread: Shelter, ft. Celine
[152 votes] [miramiraonthewall] I went into "When We Meet Again" knowing I was gonna get kicked in the chest, but this song made me call my therapist.
[150 votes] [meloncollie] [reply to miramiraonthewall] but seriously though???it's one thing to have rumi on the piano singing about a love "that came and went / so long ago that the shirt you left has lost your scent / it doesn't fit me now / but it fits beneath my pillow" but having CELINE singing those lyrics as well??? just shove a knife into my chest jfc
also i'm pretty sure this is the first time celine has recorded anything since the sunlight sisters disbanded?? it totally doesn't sound like it though because damn, she sounds good, maybe even better than she did back then. (looks even hotter too who wrote that.)
[147 votes] [user-jf83z9sla] the Celine/Miyeong ship reviving after two decades was certainly not on my bingo card lol
[138 votes] [xx19huntrix98xx] I think what I love most about this song is how it ends. It would've been easy to end a song like this on a bittersweet note. But it doesn't - Rumi doesn't let them. Which feels like such a testament to her heart.
The way she transforms the last chorus is so simple and smart - she changes just two things: the lyric "I'll wait for you in the rain" becomes "I'll wait with you in the rain," and it's marked in the music by this simple V chord before returning to the original chord progression.
It's so small but it works - a complete key change would've been too drastic, would've felt untrue. But with those two small changes, it acknowledges the chord pattern that they've been using the whole song, but breaks it just slightly, like a reminder that it doesn't have to be so heavy, while also reminding each other through the words that they're not alone, that they have each other, still.
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Thread: Home, ft. Mira and Zoey
[188 votes] [miimiimii] so is it just me or is "home" giving marriage proposal??? i mean: mira's lower register at 0:45?? zoey's gentlest rap at 1:01?? rumi's voice at 1:58????? brb gonna throw myself off a cliff
[178 votes] [panda185] that 3-part harmony at 1:33 is what i think heaven sounds like
[175 votes] [love_urself_1508] [reply to miimiimii] nah just you (jk)
[169 votes] [BagelBurger] I know the girls have said that they're not disbanding but I was still really worried. When I first listened to this I was scared because it didn't sound like HUNTR/X at all. Then I realized that was the point: this is them, Rumi and Mira and Zoey. Three women who've lived through so much, sharing something that they love with us. And I think I finally understand now what they mean when they say even if HUNTR/X is gone, they'll always be together.
[161 votes] [7893baconeggcheese] this is the softest rapping since their cover of s#arp's my kiss like warm coffee. never thought they'd outgay that performance but i forgot this was huntrix lol
[159 votes] [wjh4432] sunlight ent needs to release the wedding photos already bc seriously: "you're the missing pieces to my soul / lighting the way home" and "my heartbeat measured in sets of three"???????
[158 votes] [rolypoly-polytrix] only Rumi would decide to do a solo EP and still find a way to feature her girls #HUNTRIXSETOFTHREE #DONOTSEPARATE
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Thread: Who I am (Thank you)
[167 votes] [dumbdumberdumbestbell] nobody better complain about this song because it has EVERYTHING !! want rumi to belt? here's another A5 for everyone to freak out about. want her to bare her soul? here's a bridge that makes you stare out at the ocean and contemplate the meaning of life. awnt her to be vulnerable and gentle and powerful and playful, and most of all, joyous? here's a reprise that feels like the sunrise, like the universe being created anew. oh and a key change. nbd.
[166 votes] [songlessb1rd] I can't wait to see the MV for this because this feels like both a breath of fresh air and breath from Rumi herself, like she's finally breathing freely. "Golden" is still one of my favorite songs ever but "Who I am" made me fall in love with Rumi's voice all over again. We see you Rumi!
[164 votes] [zipzapzoom] I was really surprised that I ended up liking "Who I Am" so much. It doesn't have the bite and power that HUNTR/X is known for, but that doesn't mean that there's anything lacking. Yeah, there's elements that we've heard before, but it's packaged in this completely different context. This is Rumi showing a side of her that is as new to her as it is to us - "shedding the patterns that keep us chained / holding on to the memories that remain / that bring us closer / that bring us joy" - and it's like she's challenging us just like she's challenging herself, to think in new ways, to choose hope, to choose light, even if - especially if - we don't know what that kind of life looks like yet.
[160 votes] [tacotako8939] is no one gonna talk about how ballsy it is to have the title track at the end?
[157 votes] [peppershak3r] [reply to tacotako8939] I was just about to say that! I feel like to get the full experience, it really needs the context of everything that's come before - which is like, the whole theme of the EP which is such galaxy brain. she deserves all the awards for this song
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Thread: Outro
[214 votes] [sweet-dreams-867] huntrix classical trio album when???
[210 votes] [kitttyyyeee2346] [reply to sweet-dreams-867] We need to petition the Idol Awards to let them actually play instruments this year omg. I will do anything to see Mira play the cello. I've already watched that one fancam of Zoey on the violin with Rumi playing the piano literally a million times.
[179 votes] [ed-mom-ay] no but the fact that Rumi helped arrange this is insane. i'm in my second year of conservatory and this made my mentor cry. bc first off, making legit classical versions of popular songs is hard af. you can't just play the melody on a violin and call it a day. plus! both the sunlight sisters and huntrix's songs can be sneakily complex.
but then! THEN. they transition so seamlessly? one to the other?? WHILE ALSO dropping motifs of other songs?? both my mentor and i literally had our head in our hands. and that's not even talking about how the instruments blended into their voices at 8:12. AND the fade into Rumi's humming at 9:23? perfection. also i usually think having that writing sound effect is kinda dumb bc it doesn't usually add anything but it WORKS here. especially with that sigh at the end. this album, especially this outro, is driving me insane but in the best way
[163 votes] [c-turtle1007] [reply to ed-mom-ay] omg ed-mom-ay please do a video breakdown of all the classical elements!
[158 votes] [pl74265] I love that the EP ends the way it opens, that it pulls back to someone humming and idk if others felt this way, but there was a moment where I wasn't sure if it was Rumi or Miyeong. And maybe that was the point: that even though she's singing by herself, Rumi's far from alone. That everyone who has helped shape her into who she is now is still there, in her voice, in her music, and she's inviting us to join in and listen along. And let me tell you: I, for one, am still here for the ride. (No but really I am, I just renewed my fanclub membership I am doing all the promotional activities this cycle!!)
[154 votes] [purpleredblue] ALBUM OF THE YEAR! #QueenRumi #HUNTRIXFOREVER
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