시작 (Start) (이태원 클라쓰 OST)

가호의 "시작" arrived at exactly the right cultural moment — attached to 이태원 클라쓰 at the height of its cultural grip, it became something larger than a soundtrack cue, a personal anthem for anyone who'd ever felt dismissed and decided to begin anyway. The song opens with restrained guitar and Gaho's voice at a level of controlled emotion that immediately signals something is building. And build it does: the chorus releases with an anthemic expansion, the instrumentation filling out, the melody rising, and his voice ascending to meet it with a quality that splits the difference between rock earnestness and ballad beauty. There's grit in his delivery, a roughness at the upper register that keeps it from sounding effortless — the effort is the point, the sense that this is being sung by someone who has cost something to keep going. Lyrically it is fundamentally about starting over, or starting at all, about choosing motion over paralysis. The cultural resonance is specific to a Korean generation that felt the pressure of failure acutely and found in this drama's narrative — the underdog refusing to stay down — something genuinely nourishing. Play this when you need momentum, when you're beginning something that scares you, when you need to be reminded that starting is the whole thing.