Jinu of K-pop boy band WINNER dropped his first solo song today (Aug. 14), in the form of the groovy lovelorn “Call Anytime.”
Featuring fellow WINNER member and rapper Mino, the 27-year-old Jinu (Kim Jin-woo) spends the entirety of “Call Anytime” relaying a hopeless approach to romance, expressing how he’s waiting for the call from a lover who appears to have put him in the back of their mind. With sleek rhythm guitar and the repetitive refrain — the title in Korean is “Again, Again, Again” and is coupled with the rhyming “knock, knock, knock” — driving much of the melody, the track is both a mellow yet dynamic show of Jinu’s smooth tone.
The song is featured on a single album titled Jinu’s Heyday, and was released through a music video that takes a comical approach to the song’s poignant situation, showing the inner workings of Jinu’s mind as if it’s a machine, with the singer looking at data while waiting for his lover to “Call Anytime.” Mino appears as a devil on his shoulder, teaching him how to act more forthright in his pursuit of romance, though at the end of the song Jinu is still waiting.
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Watch the music video for Jinu’s “Call Anytime” featuring Mino below.