안녕

삐삐밴드's "안녕" enters with a particular kind of energy — slightly jangly, slightly wry, the guitar carrying a mid-90s Korean indie looseness that never quite commits to polish. The band understood that irony and sincerity could occupy the same chord, and this song is a case study in that balance. "안녕" doing double duty as both greeting and farewell gives the song a structural ambiguity that the arrangement mirrors: it is at once breezy and melancholic, the melody bouncy but the undertone something harder to name. The vocals carry a slightly theatrical edge, not quite deadpan but restrained in a way that keeps the emotional stakes from becoming explicit — the feeling arrives sideways. 삐삐밴드 emerged from the underground club scene that formed around 홍대 in Seoul in the early-to-mid 1990s, a moment when Korean independent music was discovering what it could do outside mainstream industry frameworks, and their music has that energy of a scene figuring itself out. "안녕" belongs to that moment of transition — musically, culturally, personally. It sounds like a song written at the end of something. You would play this on the day after a relationship ends, or the week after you leave a city, when you are not sure whether what you feel is sadness or relief or both.