Begin to Breathe
Begin to Breathe is Eru's debut album, released in the fall of 2005 in South Korea. His first single off the album was a ballad titled "다시 태어나도" ("If I Was Reborn"). It also included the follow-up single "미안해" ("Sorry").
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| Released | September 5, 2005 | |||
| Genre | K-pop | |||
| Language | Korean | |||
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Production
The songs are accompanied with the string melodies that 100 people participated in.[1] The song 'Sorry' contains melodies of acoustic guitar strings, song "Finding Lost Memories" is about the loss of love, and song "If I Could Go Back" was self-written and composed by Eru.[1] Song "If I Was Reborn" tells a story of a man who recently experienced a breakup missing his ex, and was composed by jeon seung woo of boygroup XO.[2][1]
Music video
The music video for "If I Was Reborn" was directed by Jang jae-hyuk.[1] Lee hyori and Kim Hyun-joong was expected to appear on the music video but it was cancelled due to the change of scripts.[3] This led to the two individuals mentioned in the thanks to section of the physical album.[3]
Reception
As of 2005, october 5th, the album went no 1 in album sales on the hot tracks weekly best chart, passing the sales of Wheesung.[4]
Track listing
- 다시 태어나도 ("If I Was Reborn")
- 미안해 ("Sorry")
- 숨은 추억 찾기 ("Finding Lost Memories")
- 어떡해 ("What Do I Do?")
- 말해요 ("Speak")
- 내가 닮은 사람 ("The Similar Person")
- 돌아갈 수 만 있다면 ("If I Could Go Back")
- Life
- 모르잖아요 ("You Don't Know")
- 영원 그 다음까지... ("Until Forever After")
- 내내 ("My My")