You can’t deny Eric Nam’s spirited charisma. On his recent There and Back Again World Tour, the 33-year-old bantered wittily with his audience despite the occasional farfetched offers of adoption requests that were witnessed on his TikTok account. This is not an abrupt and surprising act. The Korean-American’s newest sophomore English album, also titled There and Back Again, resonates with many as it unpacks the crests and falls of life. Which explains why listeners naturally gravitate towards Nam’s work.
Like the rest of us, Nam has to confront his emotions, only he does it through music, specifically on his seven-track record. “The music in this album has a spectrum of emotions such as feeling both good and bad due to romance, work, friends and even other factors. I wanted to capture this essence when writing and putting this project together,” he says.
“I feel like there’s got to be one song that a listener should be able to relate. If you’re in love there’s ‘Any Other Way’, ‘Wildfire’ if you are absolutely devastated and falling apart, or if you’re completely over somebody there’s ‘I Don’t Know You Anymore’. It’s taking different aspects of the emotions that we’ve all experienced and synthesising that into a cohesive piece of music.”
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