It is said that people who lose an arm or leg in an accident sometimes feel itching or pain in the missing limb. I think the reason why breakups hurt is similar. This is because we have come to a situation where we have to regard the person with whom we have built an emotional bond close to a sense of unity as someone who never existed.
You can feel traces of that person everywhere, from the streets you walked with that person, the food you ate together, and even the new speaking habits you developed, but you can no longer be with that person. So, breaking up is an act of cutting out the entire time spent with one person from one’s memories.
We feel the fragility and futility of relationships as we see the empty space of time cut off. Like Comet’s If Our Love Meant Nothing.
If Our Love Meant Nothing is like an echo hitting the empty space of time. From the heavily repetitive guitar riff to slchld’s vocals singing about empty emotions, the sounds placed in the song resonate and create a sad reverberation.
The question of whether the accumulated time was worthless, conveyed through the refrain, reinforces the empty mood. What did your breakup look like? Listen to Hyesung’s If Our Love Meant Nothing and think about your breakup!