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2025 · From the album Good Day 2025 (Telepathy + By the Moonlight Window) - Single
Good Day 2025 (Telepathy + By the Moonlight Window)
The reading
A star-packed 2025 charity-style medley that reworks two beloved Korean oldies into a communal pep talk about warmth, connection, and choosing to call every day a good one
02 · Interpretation
Good Day 2025: A Variety-Show Singalong Against a Cold World
A collective response to a chilly year
Good Day 2025 is less a song than a happening. It is a mash-up cover of two Korean standards, the 1980s pop tune commonly known as Telepathy and the older folk-pop ballad By the Moonlight Window, performed by a cross-generational cast that includes G-DRAGON, TAEYANG and DAESUNG of BIGBANG, CL, aespa, DAY6, BSS, actors like Hwang Jung-min, Jung Hae In, Yim Siwan and Kim Go-eun, and variety personalities such as Defconn, Jung Hyung-don, Hong Jinkyung, Kian84 and Cho Saeho. The framing device is spoken at the top: the world has gotten cold and short on affection, so a bunch of people got together to make a killer song about it. That opening ad-lib tells you how to hear everything that follows.
The track opens in banter mode. Kian84, Defconn and G-DRAGON trade lines about the world lacking warmth ("정이 없다"), then G-DRAGON slides into English hype: telepathy is the code, we're staying alive, it's Good Day. The looseness is the point. Rather than polishing the intro into a proper verse, the producers keep the studio chatter, so the listener feels dropped into a room where friends are goofing around before singing.
Telepathy, updated
The first full section is a cover of Telepathy, sung largely by the actor-and-variety contingent. The original's conceit survives intact: two people so attuned that a glance, a brush of sleeves, or a fingertip is enough to transmit feeling. The call-and-response asides ("여기요," "앗 뜨거!") turn what was once a straight love song into something more communal and comic, aimed less at a romantic partner than at everyone in earshot. When Hong Jinkyung, Anh Sung-jae and Yim Siwan land the hook ("아하 러브 텔레파시"), the joke and the sentiment sit on top of each other. The bit about a strong beam of light striking the heart, handed to BIGBANG and Lee Soo-hyuk, is played with a wink but still carries the original tune's earnest jolt.
By the Moonlight Window, handed off
G-DRAGON's "Turn it up" pivots the medley into By the Moonlight Window, first through BSS and CL, then aespa, DAY6 and Kim Go-eun. The imagery here is older and gentler: a single rose wrapped in paper, a lover waiting day after day at a window that will not open, moonlight used as a knock on the door. The Good Day crew's refrain ("오오오 내 사랑") stretches this into a group chant about opening the window to the breeze, riding a moonlit smile, and dreaming a sweet dream of happiness. In the second pass the lyric is nudged toward the project's title: since the window will not open, the singers will simply spell it out, G.O.O.D.D.A.Y, and make the day good themselves.
That small rewrite is the thesis. Where the original song waits passively for the beloved to answer, the 2025 version proposes agency. If nobody opens the window, you name the day good and sing it into being. The closing verse widens the target from a single love to family, friends and partners all at once, and the final murmurs ("모든 날이 굿데이였다," every day was a good day) suggest the whole exercise was really about learning to notice.
Why it works as a 2025 artifact
The track sits inside a Korean tradition of variety-show ensemble singles and holiday all-star cuts, where the roster is part of the meaning. Pairing G-DRAGON's return-era swagger with two songs your parents know, and letting comedians share mic time with idols and film actors, is a bet that intergenerational familiarity can do emotional work that a new original could not. The line spoken near the end, that music can turn an ordinary day into a special one, is the mission statement stated plainly.
Whether it endures beyond the year of its release is an open question. As a piece of pop craft it is deliberately messy, and much of its charm depends on knowing who is singing which line. But as a snapshot of a moment when a lot of famous Koreans agreed the culture felt cold and answered with two old melodies and a shouted spelling of GOOD DAY, it is a document worth keeping.
Themes catalogued
03 · Lyrics
"Good Day 2025 (Telepathy + By the Moonlight Window)"
KIAN84, DEFCONN, G-DRAGON
이 세상은 좀 정이 없긴 해 (정이 없어)
(세상이 정이 없고 차가워)
Yeah 2025 haha (정이 없다) 모여! 죽이는 노래 하나 만들어)
A-yo city kiddies
(기가 막힌 노래가 나와)
Telepathy is the code
(다 같이 불러!)
Can you feel the vibe
(Happy Happy)
We're stayin' alive
대한민국
It's Good-Day
88 NATION
(JUNG HAE IN, YIM SI WAN, HWANG KWANG HEE, LEE SOO HYUK), CHO SAEHO
눈빛만 봐도 알 수 있잖아
(눈빛만 봐도 모르고 있고)
옷깃만 스쳐도 우린 느낄 수가 있어
손끝만 닿아도 짜릿하잖아
너는 지금 무얼 생각하고 어디에 있니? (여기요)
말은 안 해도 (말은 안 해도) 알 수 있잖아
서로의 기분을 우린 읽을 수가 있어(있어 있어 있어)
불타는 사랑 만질 수 없어도
우리 가슴속은 뜨거웁게 타오르는 불꽃 (앗 뜨거!)
HONG JIN KYUNG, ANH SUNG JAE, YIM SI WAN
아하 러브 텔레파시 (Telepathy)
아하 소리 없는 느낌 (My love)
아하 러브 텔레파시 (아따 뜨거브라)
BIGBANG, LEE SOO HYUK
깊은 밤 꿈에도 만날 수 있잖아
보고 싶을 때면 (아니 이럴 수가 있나)
언제 어디서나 (아니 놀라워서 그래)
강한 광선처럼 내 가슴을 치고 가네
G-DRAGON
Turn it up! Turn it up!
BSS(SEVENTEEN), CL
한 송이 장미를 종이에 곱게 싸서
어제도 오늘도 하루같이 기다리네
그대의 창문은 열릴 줄 모르니
사랑의 달빛으로 노크를 해야지(Whoo!)
Good Day CREW
(DEFCONN, JEONG HYUNG DON
HONG JIN KYUNG, KIAN84
CHO SAEHO, CODE KUNST)
오오오 내 사랑
바람결에 창을 열고
달빛 미소 출렁이며
행복의 단꿈을 꾸어라
오오오 내 사람
그대 드릴 꽃 한 송이
별빛 미소 출렁이며
마음의 창문을 열어라
Aespa, G-DRAGON, ANH SUNG JAE
(GD, Kick it)
한 송이 장미를 종이에 곱게 싸서
어제도 오늘도 하루같이 기다리네
그대의 창문은 열릴 줄 모르니 (Open the door)
G.O.O.D-D.A.Y '굿데이' 해야지
(이거 굿데이거든요)
DAY6, KIM GOEUN
오오오 내 사랑
바람결에 창을 열고
달빛 미소 출렁이며
행복의 단꿈을 꾸어라
ALL, G-DRAGON
(저는 음악의 힘을 믿어요)
오오오 내 사랑 (오-오-굿데이)
오오오 내 사랑 (오-오-굿데이)
(평범한 일상을 특별한 날로 만들어 주는 거?!)
ALL
오오오 내 사랑
바람결에 창을 열고
달빛 미소 출렁이며
행복의 단꿈을 꾸어라
오오오 내 사랑
가족 친구 연인 모두
별빛 미소 출렁이며
노래해 좋은 날 굿데이
(Telepathy)
HWANG JUNG MIN, JEONG HYUNG DON, ANH SUNG JAE
마음의 창문을 열어라
(모든 날이 굿데이였다)
(Yeah, 이븐하게)
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