#imagine you're watching immortal songs 2 in 2011 and the contestants are hitting you with ballad after ballad

[damnable-bell]

Sharing one of my favorite Jonghyun clips, since it's been a long time since I've seen it subtitled and in good quality. This is from when he was a contestant on Immortal Songs 2 in 2011. For his last performance on the show, he decided to cover "Left-Handed" by Panic in his own unique style. The results are—well, you'll see. Nothing about it is boring.

I feel like I talk about this clip a lot, both because it was one of the first performances I saw from Jonghyun, and because it represents so many of the things that he was (and still is) to me: dorky, brave, and stubbornly committed to being himself—a genuine iconoclast in an industry that does everything it can to hammer out non-conformity.

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