''Love Story (4 Season Project 季)'' is the fourth
extended play by South Korean singer and
Super Junior
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member,
Kyuhyun. The EP was released on January 25, 2022, by
Label SJ,
SM Entertainment and distributed by
Dreamus Company
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, in Korea. It contains six tracks in total, which were released as a four-season project from 2020 to 2022. The release of the EP marked the finale of ''Project: 季''.
Background
Kyuhyun announced the release of ''Love Story (4 Season Project 季)'' at midnight on January 10, 2022, on
Super Junior
Super Junior (; stylized in all caps), also known as SJ or SuJu, is a South Korean boy band formed by Lee Soo-man, the founder of SM Entertainment in 2005. They are also dubbed by the media as the "King of Hallyu Wave" due to their prominent ...
's
Twitter account. He stated in the video uploaded via Twitter Media Studio that the track "Love Story" would conclude the series and aims to stimulate the emotions within a relationship during winter.
For this project, Kyuhyun wanted the listener to experience the different moods of love and genres representing each season.
Each of the music videos for "Love Story", "Coffee", "Together" and "Moving On" gives the audience a snippet of the love story between two schoolmates who stuck together until they became adults. The music videos starred actor
Gong Myung and actress
Chae Soo-bin.
Separately, the music video for "Daystar" starred ''
Hospital Playlist'' actor
Yoo Yeon-seok. Kyuhyun has known the actor through variety shows, working together in the musical ''
Werther'', and also sang the
OST "Confession is Not Flashy" for the drama ''Hospital Playlist''.
Special performances
A remastered version of the song "Love Story" featuring artist
Soyou, was released and performed on ''Hidden Singer Season 7,'' where Kyuhyun had appeared as a guest star, on August 17, 2022.
The track is also now available on streaming platforms.
Composition
The EP opens with "Love Story". It is a ballad song about yearning for a lover though the relationship is already part of the past. The lyrics speak about reminiscing the memories of a past relationship, as if flipping through a novel.
Each track has an epilogue, in which all six tracks string together a storyline, in line with the title of the EP ''Love Story''.
Packaging
The ''Love Story (4 Season Project 季)'' physical album consists of two versions: "Letter" and "Story". The albums are structured like a novel with chapters, including pictures of Kyuhyun from photoshoots of the different music video locations, and each version comes with a bookmark.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
Release history
References
External links
Kyuhyun's official website , SMTOWN Official Musician biography'Love Story' MV Teaser #1'Love Story' MV Teaser #2'Love Story' album promotional comeback live
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Cho Kyuhyun EPs
2022 EPs
Korean-language EPs
2020s Korean-language albums
SM Entertainment EPs
K-pop EPs
Label SJ EPs
Albums produced by Lee Soo-man