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I'm going to make this post one of a pair.
In one of the series of singles that came out under the LOONA name before the full group debuted, Heejin and Hyunjin sang this celebration of intimate friendship:
LOONA/HeeJin, HyunJin -- My Sunday
https://youtu.be/TtaDrUbsO30?si=GG8ereV6mOsfDwC5
Paired with it was....
...LOONA/HaSeul, YeoJin -- “My Melody”
https://youtu.be/wUBrO83fTbY?si=9UoJeJ0HCU3N3VpP
The two songs are almost, but not quite, identical; they differ in the chorus and the bridge as well as in the lyrics. The two MVS have quite a different mood visually, which is explained in large part by the bigger age difference between Haseul and Yeojin. Their relationship seems more like that obtaining between older and younger sibling or even mother and daughter than the friendship between peers we see in "My Sunday".
Orbits (fans of LOONA) used to post long threads about which "My..." they preferred and why.*
I find it difficult to choose between the two. Sometimes the slightly melancholy touches of "My Melody " appeal to me, at other times I feel moved by the moments of intense joy in "My Sunday".
*Perhaps they still do, but I am not as involved with the fandom as I used to be.
Jonathan Emmesedi