"Moon" (stylized in all caps) is a song by South Korean girl group (G)I-dle from their fourth Korean-language extended play, I Burn (2021). The song was written by Soyeon, and its producers Minnie, FCM Houdini and FCM 667. The song was released on January 11, 2021, as the third track on the album. Background In an interview with Hypebae, (G)I-dle explained "Moon" touches on the desire to hide one's feelings. Minnie, who is in charge of composing "Moon" described that the song contains honest feelings that cannot be shown to others. "I personally cherish it so much." The song was composed by Minnie with the thought of the Moon, as she described "so bright that I can see my reflection, and hide my feelings and fears because I was so sad." When she was asked if it was difficult to write lyrics, Minnie responded, "With "Moon", Because it's Soyeon who you can trust when it comes to songs, I entrusted the lyrics to her. It was really good, I really liked it. I thought about the moon when I wrote this song, and I told Soyeon that. I'm really thankful that she wrote the lyrics beautifully." Music and lyrics "Moon" has been described as a pop genre song that builds up a dancerable disco rhythm, bass, and synthesizer with an addictive hook melody. It is a song that depicts a situation in which the darkness was taken away from the night when the moon was bright, and it tells that there is an honest feeling that cannot be shown to others. In terms of musical notation, the song is composed in the key of A minor, with a tempo of 96 beats per minute, and runs for three minutes and 20 seconds. Critical reception Upon release, Verónica A. Bastardo of The Quietus wrote, "It is easy to get lost between the many K-pop girl groups that go with the classic hip-hop/pop/EDM/I’m-a-badass-and-I’ll-show-you sound and the bubblegum-pop/dancehall/high-pitched-voices-from-the-girl-next-door one. So it’s refreshing to hear a tracklist that is musically daring, by experimenting with genre mixes and exploring universal emotions through vulnerability and figurative narratives." and further added, "Like 'Moon', that combines the characteristic East Asian instrumentation and electro-rock to beg the nocturnal satellite to pleeeaase stop shining so I can hide my sadness in the dark." Melon Magazine called the song "unique dreaminess".

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Notable quotes

“We've been to six places on the moon, the Soviets went to three and they shared their samples with us. That's not a lot of area. Samples given out now for research are very tiny. So if an engineer needs a larger amount to conduct the kinds of experiments engineers do having access to a wide range of materials would be good.”
— Judy Allton, in Hari Sreenivasan, Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo, "NASA opens a new collection of moon rocks to researchers", PBS NewsHour (July 20, 2019)
“Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II, Section III. Mem. 7
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853).
“The moon can't help it. It's only an object. The moon doesn't mean to set things sloshing—in every ocean's basin, in every female's uterus, in every poet's jar of ink, in every madman's drool.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
“Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”
— Apollo 11 Lunar plaque; as qtd. in Jones, Eric M., ed., "One Small Step", Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal, NASA (1995)
“It seems the United States can put a man on the moon but it can't solve the ski wax problem.”
— Susie Chaffee, Suzy Chaffe Says '68 Olympians Unlucke, The Milwaukee Sentinel, January 14, 1970.

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"Moon" (stylized in all caps) is a song by South Korean girl group (G)I-dle from their fourth Korean-language extended play, I Burn (2021). The song was written by Soyeon, and its producers Minnie, FCM Houdini and FCM 667. The song was released on January 11, 2021, as the third track on the album.

Overview

"Moon" (stylized in all caps) is a song by South Korean girl group (G)I-dle from their fourth Korean-language extended play, I Burn (2021). The song was written by Soyeon, and its producers Minnie, FCM Houdini and FCM 667. The song was released on January 11, 2021, as the third track on the album. Background In an interview with Hypebae, (G)I-dle explained "Moon" touches on the desire to hide one's feelings. Minnie, who is in charge of composing "Moon" described that the song contains honest feelings that cannot be shown to others. "I personally cherish it so much." The song was composed by Minnie with the thought of the Moon, as she described "so bright that I can see my reflection, and hide my feelings and fears because I was so sad." When she was asked if it was difficult to write lyrics, Minnie responded, "With "Moon", Because it's Soyeon who you can trust when it comes to songs, I entrusted the lyrics to her. It was really good, I really liked it. I thought about the moon when I wrote this song, and I told Soyeon that. I'm really thankful that she wrote the lyrics beautifully." Music and lyrics "Moon" has been described as a pop genre song that builds up a dancerable disco rhythm, bass, and synthesizer with an addictive hook melody. It is a song that depicts a situation in which the darkness was taken away from the night when the moon was bright, and it tells that there is an honest feeling that cannot be shown to others. In terms of musical notation, the song is composed in the key of A minor, with a tempo of 96 beats per minute, and runs for three minutes and 20 seconds. Critical reception Upon release, Verónica A. Bastardo of The Quietus wrote, "It is easy to get lost between the many K-pop girl groups that go with the classic hip-hop/pop/EDM/I’m-a-badass-and-I’ll-show-you sound and the bubblegum-pop/dancehall/high-pitched-voices-from-the-girl-next-door one. So it’s refreshing to hear a tracklist that is musically daring, by experimenting with genre mixes and exploring universal emotions through vulnerability and figurative narratives." and further added, "Like 'Moon', that combines the characteristic East Asian instrumentation and electro-rock to beg the nocturnal satellite to pleeeaase stop shining so I can hide my sadness in the dark." Melon Magazine called the song "unique dreaminess".

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“We've been to six places on the moon, the Soviets went to three and they shared their samples with us. That's not a lot of area. Samples given out now for research are very tiny. So if an engineer needs a larger amount to conduct the kinds of experiments engineers do having access to a wide range of materials would be good.”
— Judy Allton, in Hari Sreenivasan, Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo, "NASA opens a new collection of moon rocks to researchers", PBS NewsHour (July 20, 2019)
“Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II, Section III. Mem. 7
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853).
“The moon can't help it. It's only an object. The moon doesn't mean to set things sloshing—in every ocean's basin, in every female's uterus, in every poet's jar of ink, in every madman's drool.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
“Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”
— Apollo 11 Lunar plaque; as qtd. in Jones, Eric M., ed., "One Small Step", Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal, NASA (1995)
“It seems the United States can put a man on the moon but it can't solve the ski wax problem.”
— Susie Chaffee, Suzy Chaffe Says '68 Olympians Unlucke, The Milwaukee Sentinel, January 14, 1970.