Their newest release

Shinee recently made a comeback with their single titled Poet | Artist on May 25th of this year, which fun fact, he actually wrote and recorded the demo for. The titletrack shares the same name with Jonghun’s full album Poet | Artist. That album is the last piece that was released under his name, which was 2018.

BTS of recording

As a longtime fan watching the behind the scenes recording for the song, it felt really bittersweet hearing Jonghyun’s voice so clearly like that, Especially in new content too. I know all Shawols felt the same way watching this, but seeing the members recording the song, staying so strong and even joking around truly shows how much they’ve heeled, which is really comforting to see. There are many instances of the members joking about how difficult the song is to sing, especially Key when he says “ He wrote this song suiting it just to him.” They also all mention the fact that it is extremely high pitched for them which I found hilarious!! In all honesty though the best part of the video is watching the members fully immerse themselves while recording the song and emulating certain enunciations that Jonghyun would do which I thought was so cute and amazing, it is truly keeping his spirit alive. Taemin even made fun of it and it really felt like the younger brother still teasing his hyung after so long!

The physical album

As one does, I obviously purchased the album right when it came out and I only have good things to say about it! It was a little pricey but living in Canada and all I should expect that honestly especially with shipping price included. I bought the photo book version of the album but there are five plushies available for each member that you can buy and they are just the cutest things ever! At the moment I don’t have any of them but hopefully I’ll get all of them when I have more money haha !! The photoshoot is meant to resemble his poet artist one and she is, and it does show a lot actually.