21st Century Romance
- Apr 6
- 2 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
⋆ Genre: TBC
⋆ Producing Credits: Elof Loelv, Slow Rabbit, Maiz
⋆ Writing/Composing Credits: Elof Loelv, Maiz, SPOON (153/Joombas), Slow Rabbit, Woo Seung Yeon (153/Joombas), Hueningkai, Na Yun Jeong (lalala studio), Gu Samyoung (153/Joombas), Kim In Hyung, Bay (153/Joombas), Zaya (153/Joombas), Kim Chae Ah (153/Joombas), Shaillo (XYXX), chaeryn (153/Joombas), January 8th, Jeon Jieun, Moon Ji Young (lalala studio)
ABOUT/MEANING: '21st Century Romance' moves through a space that feels increasingly numb and overstimulated, where daily life blends into habit and connection feels harder to hold onto. There’s a sense of drifting through noise - digital, emotional, and environmental - until even presence starts to feel muted. For TXT, that atmosphere carries an added layer of familiarity: a life lived within constant visibility, where attention and distance coexist, and meaning can easily get lost in excess. The song doesn’t reject that world, but it does feel slightly detached from it, as if searching for something quieter underneath. Rather than looking outward for connection, it turns inward, following faint signals of emotion and self-recognition that still manage to break through the noise. What emerges isn’t a clear resolution, but a question of what remains real when everything else feels diluted. In that sense, “romance” here isn’t about certainty or closeness - it’s about the fragile possibility of still hearing yourself at all.
LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION (translations by @translatingtxt)
A noisy, gray city
Only growing numb
Swiping out of habit
In this emptiness
Surrendering myself to
The world of zeros and ones
Within all this excess
In the end, I can’t find nothing at all
It’s a 21st century romance
A fleeting soulmate
Like a foam bubble
TRANSLATION NOTE: ‘물거품 같다/like a foam bubble’ is a Korean expression meaning something that vanishes without a trace, like a foam bubble on water.
21st century romance
We who embrace even the emptiness
Amidst the abundant noise the world makes
I think I heard something in the distance
It’s a 21st century romance, maybe
Eyes closed
Tuning into the frequency
My voice I had slowly been forgetting
Beyond this excess
Following the faint signal coming through
It’s a 21st century romance
We could be soulmates seeking warmth
21st century romance
Listening closely
To the sound within me
Amidst the abundant noise the world makes
If I can hear my own sound
It’s a 21st century romance, baby
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