Journal
Behind the music, and other quiet updates.
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No. 20 · behind-the-music
Two Lists, One Day
The lyric sheet of "You Were Enough Today." holds two lists: what was left unfinished, and who smiled because of you. We count each and ask whose eyes wrote it.
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No. 19 · behind-the-music
Tell Me, and You Needn't Answer
The second song of dear(you); vol.1 asks one question, then says in the chorus you needn't answer. We count where questions and permissions sit in the lyrics.
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No. 18 · behind-the-music
Ten Titles, Read as Sentences
The ten titles of dear(you); vol.1 are full sentences. Read by tense, speaker and tone, they show where the album speaks of the past, now and tomorrow.
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No. 17 · behind-the-music
One Day, Four Albums: Laying Out Season 1
ipe() splits a developer's day into four Season 1 albums. Only the first, dear(you); vol.1, is out. What the plan says, and what is open.
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No. 16 · behind-the-music
82 Draft Lines, 15 Cues: What a Clip Keeps
Track 3's lyric draft runs 82 lines per version; its English clip subtitle file holds 15 cues in 58 seconds. We count what the clip files keep and change.
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No. 15 · behind-the-music
still compiling — One Night, Two Languages
We lay the lyric draft of "still compiling", the first song of late_night.lofi, beside the entered lyrics of its two versions and follow its three // comments.
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No. 14 · behind-the-music
From Korean Draft C to the First Single — Matching the Draft and the Sung Lyrics of "good morning, world" Line by Line
ipe()'s first single, "good morning, world", is a Korean draft (code name C) rewritten as English-led with Korean accents. Using the creation log, we lay the draft against the sung lyrics line by line to see what stayed and what changed.
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No. 13 · behind-the-music
A Developer's Song Without the Word "Developer" — Song 03's Fear and Song 04's Reply, Side by Side
Song 03, "I Was Scared, Too.", and song 04, "You're Still Shining.", are the two songs whose first verse already names AI. We read them as a pair and check, in the lyric drafts, how the same worry is given different words and a different tense in each.
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No. 12 · behind-the-music
The Ten Steps of Feeling — Reading dear(you); vol.1 One Line per Song
The ten songs of dear(you); vol.1 are laid out as ten steps from empathy to peace. Following the album plan and the song design documents, this post reads what each song does at its place in the order, one line at a time, and checks how each one connects to the song before it.
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No. 11 · behind-the-music
Closing the Album with Its Slowest Song — Reading the 64 BPM Last Letter in Specs and Lyrics
The tenth song of dear(you); vol.1 is written down at 64 BPM, the slowest of the ten. This post sets its tempo, instruments, line shapes, place for thanks against the nine songs before it, to see how the closing song differs in the documents and lyric sheets.