Always (Goblin OST)

Yoon Mirae's "Always" from the Goblin OST occupies a completely different emotional register than the other tracks in that same drama's soundtrack — darker, more searching, rooted in a kind of pain that doesn't resolve cleanly. Yoon Mirae is one of Korean music's most formidable vocal presences: a rapper and singer with American heritage whose voice carries an extraordinary range of textures, from gritty and raw to heartbreakingly tender. "Always" leans toward the tender end of her register, but the tenderness is complicated by something that sounds like earned resignation rather than simple sorrow. The production creates space around her voice — reverb-heavy keys, a beat that feels like a heartbeat slowing down, strings that arrive like grief rather than comfort. Lyrically, "Always" describes love persisting through and beyond ordinary endings, a kind of fidelity that outlasts the relationship itself. Within the drama's narrative context, it carries additional weight — but divorced from that context it stands as a meditation on what remains when love outlives its circumstances. It's a song for lonely 3am moments, for grief that has become familiar, for the strange peace that sometimes follows prolonged sadness.