How can it be

HANRORO's "How can it be" is Korean indie confessionalism at full emotional voltage. HANRORO (한로로), one of the most striking voices in the recent Korean indie wave, writes songs that read like diary pages set on fire — literary, raw, and unguarded — and this track moves in that register. The arrangement builds from intimate, sparse beginnings toward a cathartic alt-rock surge, dynamics tracking the rise of feeling rather than any pop formula. Her voice is the centerpiece: a trembling, expressive instrument that cracks and swells, capable of fragile near-whisper and sudden, throat-baring intensity, carrying every line as if it costs her something to release it. The emotional landscape is disbelief in the face of loss or change — the title's question repeated like someone trying to make sense of a wound that won't close. Lyrically she favors plain, piercing language over polish, the directness that has made her a touchstone for young Korean listeners craving honesty over gloss. Culturally she sits alongside a generation of Korean indie artists reclaiming vulnerability from idol-pop's precision. You play this alone with the volume up, in the throes of heartbreak or existential confusion, when you need a voice that feels the thing as hard as you do. Searing, sincere, and unforgettable.