I Got A Boy by Girls' Generation is the album that changed my life OP. When I was 13, I suffered from severe insomnia and I couldn't sleep. So one -30 Celsius December night, I decide to bundle up and go outside. I plugged my earbuds in and walked off into a frozen winter night. No signs of life, nothing. Just pure desertion. That feeling of pure isolation was exhilarating by itself, but being a 13 year old I had no idea what was about to hit me.
There's a massive deserted field by my house, roughly a 4 minute walk away. It was land that developers had purchased before going bankrupt. Caked in maybe 5 feet of solid snow, I was midway through the title track before I began to lay in the field. The slow drones of Taeyeon's voice slowed the falling snow almost to a stop, as of I could see every individual snowflake falling. It was the first time I had ever experienced a perfect combination of audio and visual sensations, and most likely the last.
The darker songs came in, being Express 999 and Lost In Love, causing a compact intensity, an almost claustrophobic feel to the pure darkness of the sky and the pure white of my sorroundings. Though it did initially induce a sense of panic, it developed into a curiosity of where this album would lead me in my current predicament.
Look at Me comes in, and that's when I was sure this was simply beyond just am album. My mind frozen, the snow around me dancing, I honestly felt enlightened by a higher power, as nuts as that sounds.
And after Romantic St. ended, there was silence. I laid there for what felt like hours, attempting to make sense of what just happened. To this day I still can't find the right words to describe it.