Billlie the second mini album [the collective soul and unconscious: chapter one]
As Mystic Story's first girl group, Billlie—equipped with a distinct story and proven skills—made a successful debut last year with the mini album [the Billage of perception : chapter one], a series capturing daily life viewed through Billlie's own unique perspective in reality. In the subsequent single album [the collective soul and unconscious: snowy night], they established Billlie's own multi-verse as a prequel to the series, capturing phenomena felt in the world of dreams and the unconscious, thereby foreshadowing the beginning of the story. "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
The second mini album [the collective soul and unconscious: chapter one] also contains the solid worldview story that Billlie has presented thus far. Various worries and stories we experience in reality are expressed narratively through the medium of dreams; all content and messages—including music, lyrics, visuals, art, and style—are meticulously and cohesively connected into a single story, creating a unique narrative where reality coexists with mystery and fantasy. This album, which has increased in completeness so that listeners who enjoy various genres of music as well as K-POP can find more pleasure in listening, reveals Billlie's musical confidence. The title track ‘GingaMingaYo (the strange world),’ an intense electro-pop genre produced by Producer Shin Hyuk, contains the questions and emotions one asks oneself during the process of becoming an adult. The B-side tracks, completed with the participation of top domestic and international K-POP producers such as minGtion, Mayu Wakisaka, Lee Woo-min “collapsedone,” and Justin Reinstein, maintain a strong extension from the previous work and strengthen Billlie's unique genre color that could not be felt in existing K-pop. Furthermore, the performance art, directed by choreographer Lia Kim of 1MILLION Dance Studio, completes Billlie's unrivaled musical expression.
“The life I live is a continuation of the past that has passed and yesterday, like the sun. Tomorrow and the future are a continuation of anxiety and questions I haven't encountered, like the moon. Right now, it doesn't flow but draws a large circle and spins around. Like the Earth…”
Through this album, Billlie announces the beginning of a journey to complete two divided narratives, [the Billage of perception] and [the collective soul and unconscious], in parallel. Through this series, they express the reality surrounding us—which coexists and intersects with the previous work—and episodes from dreams and the unconscious through Billlie's unique mise-en-scène. Billlie sings of thoughts on authority by expressing the adult and the child, and poses philosophical questions about the reality we live in by expressing time and space. “To me, your existence is like an untouchable being existing in a different time and space. Won't you come to my time and be with me? Or, if there is a shortcut to your time, please let me know... because it feels like your speed makes my time slower...”
01.
GingaMingaYo (the strange world)
Composed by Hyuk Shin(153CreatorsClub), MRey(153CreatorsClub), Ashley Alisha(153/Joombas), Le'mon(153/Joombas)
Lyrics by Le'mon
Arranged by MRey(153CreatorsClub)
Questions one asks themselves during the process of growing from a boy/girl into an adult…
There is no need to reach a conclusion for every fundamental question about what is right for oneself. In a situation where it is unclear whether what I am experiencing and feeling right now is reality or a dream, the contemplation of truth deepens. I am still concerned about the missing Billy. A track fusing Bass House with Jungle Beat.
02. a sign ~ anonymous
Composed by 밍지션 (minGtion), Mayu Wakisaka
Lyrics by Le'mon
Arranged by 밍지션 (minGtion)
Among the things I always experience, there is a sequence of scenes that feel as if I've seen them before… People call it déjà vu, but could this all be a kind of sign meaning something? Could it be that I am now seeing scenes in a different space that another version of me once saw? By the way, Billy wasn't in the attic either…
A new jazz track in the style of Broken-beat.
03. overlap (1/1)
Composed by 밍지션 (minGtion), Theresia Svensson, Matilda Frommegard
Lyrics by Le'mon
Arranged by 밍지션 (minGtion)
Regarding “what we talk about when we talk about time”…
Time and space are relative based on our speed…
You are always moving busily, and I am always here slowly. Our times flow differently; are you spending more time than I am? My clock always seems to run slow. If we fold the space between your space and my space in half so they touch, would our times become the same? An Alternative R&B track.
04. M◐◑N palace
Composed by 밍지션 (minGtion), Farida Benounis, Rasmus Thallaug
Lyrics by 조경서(153/Joombas)
Arranged by 밍지션 (minGtion)
The life I live is a continuation of the past that has passed and yesterday, like the sun. Tomorrow and the future are a continuation of anxiety and questions I haven't encountered yet, like the moon. The time called "now" doesn't seem to flow, but only spins around in a great vortex. Like the Earth. This is perhaps my own Lagrange point that I see. It feels like I am searching for an answer inside Mr. Fog, but in reality, is it not that I am not searching for an answer, but walking toward the answer inside Mr. Fog? Or perhaps I am not living in the present, but repeating the act of going back and forth between the sun and the moon? A Post Trip-hop track.
05. believe
Composed & Arranged by 이우민 “collapsedone”, Justin Reinstein
Lyrics by 장지은, 임광균, 16, 시윤, 츠키, 션, 수현, 하람, 문수아, 하루나
Though we were in different spaces and different times, we were a support for one another, and I am proud of us for believing in and waiting for the time we would meet in one space…
Us, encountering one another in a space connected by flowers.
Our time starts now… BELIVE
Synth Pop track
CREDIT
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION
MYSTIC STORY
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
YOON Jongshin, CHO Youngchul
PRODUCER
HAN Peacedelic Jungsu
RECORDING ENGINEER
Kim Jihyun @ STUDIO89
MIXING ENGINEERS
Mr.Panda @ 153/Joombas Studio
JO Junsung @ WSOUND STUDIO
KIM Ilho @ STUDIO89
SHIN Bongwon @ GLAB Studios
MASTERING ENGINEER
Joe LaPorta @ Sterling Sound
ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS
153/Joombas Publishing
EKKO Music Rights (powered by CTGA), EKKO Music Rights Europe (powered by CTGA)
JYP Publishing (KOMCA), NuVibe Music
CHIEF DIRECTOR
HAN Jungsu
ARTIST MANAGEMENT DIRECTORS
KIM Taehun, SHIN Hoonchul
ARTIST MANAGEMENT
LEE Hyungki, HEO Maro, SONG Seungyoon, KIM Hyoungbin, AN Jiwon, PARK Juyeon
A&R & PRODUCTION PLANNING
YOO Yena, KIM Jimin
STUDIO
KIM Ilho, KIM Jihyun
MEDIA PLANNING
JEON Doeun, SEO Junghwa
MARKETING COMMUNICATION
MOON Jiyoung, BANG Daeun, LEE Jinju
VISUAL CREATIVE
MOON Jiyoung, HONG Yeji, YANG Sungha, JEONG Hyunryul, PARK Hyeshin
BUSINESS & PRODUCTION SUPPORT
CHO Youngjae, JUNG Heera
PUBLIC RELATIONS
HNS HQ
ARTIST MANAGEMENT UNITS
HA Youngjin, KIM Jaeho, KIM Taeyoung, SON Jisu, KIM Yongho, CHOI Jaehyung, PARK Hunki, HAN Junhee, KIM Juntae
BUSINESS UNITS
CHO Minhwi, LEE Samlee, PARK Hyunhee, LEE Shinwon
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
KANG Yeunhwa, KIM Yeonhee
ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT
CHO Youngshim, KIM Jaesung, KIM Sora, JUNG Haewoong, KWON Hyerim, PARK Subin, JEONG Hohyeon
EXECUTIVE SUPERVISORS
AN Chongoh, YEO Woonhyuk, LEE Hakhee
M/V DIRECTORS
HONG Wonki, SHIM Jihyoung @ zanybros
SCREEN WRITING
CHO Yoonyoung @ Storylab Joy
CONCEPT FILM MUSIC ARRANGEMENT
JEONG Donghwan(Melomance)
CHOREOGRAPHY DIRECTION
Dohee, JJ(prod. Lia Kim) @ 1MILLION
Yeji Kim, Amy Park (prod. Lia Kim) @ 1MILLION
RENAN(prod. Lia Kim) @ 1MILLION
PHOTOGRAPHY
SHIN sunhye @ CO-OP.
PARK Jinho, SONG Jongsuk @ studio BoB
COVER ARTWORK
WOOK @ Studio VV
PACKAGE ARTWORK & DESIGN
KO Yoon @ deep.wide
STYLISTS
CHOI Heesun, LEE Jinyoung, YOO Chaewon @ JIN
MAKE-UP ARTISTS
SEO Ok, YE Mijin, CHO Ara @ OuiOui
HAIR ARTISTS
SHIN Dajeong, BAE Areum, KIM Wonhee @ OuiOui