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2026 · From the album J-POP REMAKE Vol.1 - Single

Bansanka

by TAEYEON

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The reading

A cover of Aimyon's love song about a lover who keeps hurting the person they need most, and asks anyway for a lifetime of "I love you"s served like a lavish meal

02 · Interpretation

TAEYEON's Bansanka: Hunger, Guilt, and the Full-Course Meal of Love

E Editorial Desk

The song opens with a refusal that sounds like an apology. The speaker keeps saying that because they make the other person cry, they should not be together, that they want to be forgotten quickly. It is the language of someone trying to do the noble thing, cutting the tie for the other person's sake. Then, almost immediately, the same voice admits that being alone is flavorless, that they cannot stand to see anyone else. The whole song lives in that contradiction.

"Bansanka" translates roughly to "dinner song," and the central metaphor is food. Being human means occasionally wanting to eat something different, the speaker reasons, half-joking about appetite as an excuse for restlessness. But the joke curdles quickly: nothing else has any taste. What the speaker actually wants is the saikou no furu koosu, the finest full-course meal, made of the other person's declarations of love. Love here is not a feeling to be felt but a banquet to be served, and the speaker is hungry in a way that ordinary meals cannot fix.

The escalating count of nights

The song's structural trick is a number that keeps growing. First the speaker asks for the kind of "I love you"s that could not be obtained across dozens of nights. Then hundreds. By the closing verses it is thousands, then tens of thousands, and the verb has shifted: earlier they were asking to receive the meal; by the end they are the ones lining up those declarations, promising a course of love that could not be forgotten across ten thousand nights. The song moves from taking to giving, from doubting to vowing, without ever resolving the guilt underneath.

Between the choruses, the speaker keeps confessing weakness. They have no confidence. They do not want to change. The proof of love's existence has always been vague, they say, and yet the beloved is right there, which is proof enough. That small pivot, from theorizing about love to noticing that the other person simply stayed, is the emotional hinge of the song. The bridge makes it explicit: in the end, the only one who did not leave, who stayed close, was you.

The darker admission comes with the image of tears as seasoning. The "spice of tears" will probably remain in the beloved's chest, the speaker acknowledges. This is not a promise to stop hurting them. It is closer to an accounting: the meal being served will always taste partly of the pain the speaker has caused. They are still ordering it anyway.

TAEYEON's reading

Bansanka is originally a 2019 song by Japanese singer-songwriter Aimyon, and TAEYEON's version appears on a project explicitly framed as a J-pop remake, released in June 2026. TAEYEON, best known as the lead vocalist of Girls' Generation and one of K-pop's most enduring solo balladeers, has a long history of Japanese-language releases, and her voice tends to favor restraint over theatrics. That approach fits this song: Bansanka works because the speaker sounds reasonable while saying unreasonable things, coolly explaining why they cannot leave and cannot behave.

Where Aimyon's original leans into a slightly wry, conversational delivery, a TAEYEON reading is likely to foreground the ache under the joke, the moment when the food metaphor stops being cute and starts sounding like real hunger. That is the interpretive risk of covering a song this well-known in Japan, and also the appeal of the exercise.

Why it lands

Bansanka endures, in any version, because it refuses the easy shape of a love song. It is not about devotion and it is not about breakup. It is about the person who knows they are bad at this, who catalogs their own selfishness with startling accuracy, and who still cannot let go. The escalating count of nights, from tens to tens of thousands, is not a romantic promise. It is closer to an admission that the appetite will never be satisfied, and that the beloved is being asked to keep cooking anyway.

Themes catalogued

dependent love guilt selfishness longing devotion

03 · Lyrics

"Bansanka"

君を泣かすから だから一緒には居れないな

君を泣かすから 早く忘れて欲しいんだ

人間だからね たまには違うものも食べたいね

君を泣かすから そう君を泣かすから

でも味気ないんだよね

会いたくなんだよね

君以外会いたくないんだよね

なんて勝手だね

大体曖昧なんだよね

愛の存在証明なんて

君が教えてくれないか

何十回の夜を過ごしたって得られぬような

愛してるを並べてみて

何十回の夜を過ごしたって得られぬような

最高のフルコースを頂戴

君を泣かすから きっと一生は無理だよね

君を泣かすから 胸がとても痛くなんだ

人間だからね たまには分かり合えなくなって

君を泣かすから また君を泣かすから

でも自信がないんだよね

変わりたくないんだよね

君以外会いたくないんだよね

なんて勝手だね

大体曖昧だったよね

愛の存在証明なんて

君がそこに居るのにね

何百回の夜を過ごしたって得られぬような

愛してるを並べてみて

何百回の夜を過ごしたって得られぬような

最高のフルコースを頂戴

離れないで 傍に居てくれたのは

結局君一人だったよね

涙のスパイスは君の胸に

残ってしまうだろうけど

何千回の夜を過ごしたって得られぬような

愛してるを並べるから

何千回の夜を過ごしたって得られぬような

最高のフルコースを

何万回の夜を過ごしたって忘れぬような

愛してるを並べるから

何万回の夜を過ごしたって忘れぬような

最高のフルコースを頂戴

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04 · FAQ

Frequently asked

What does the title Bansanka mean?
Bansanka (晩餐歌) translates roughly to "dinner song" or "song of the feast." The title sets up the song's central metaphor, in which the beloved's declarations of love are imagined as a lavish full-course meal (*saikou no furu koosu*) that the speaker keeps ordering, night after night, and can never get enough of.
Is TAEYEON's Bansanka a cover, and whose song was it originally?
Yes. Bansanka was originally released in 2019 by Japanese singer-songwriter Aimyon and became one of her signature ballads. TAEYEON's version appears on "J-POP REMAKE Vol.1," released June 29, 2026, a project whose title makes the covers concept explicit.
What do the lines about counting thousands of nights mean in Bansanka?
The escalating count, from dozens of nights to hundreds, thousands, and finally tens of thousands, tracks the speaker's hunger for love that ordinary time cannot supply. It also shifts across the song from asking to receive those "I love you"s to promising to give them, which is the closest the song comes to a vow.
Why does the speaker in Bansanka say they will make their partner cry?
The refrain "kimi wo nakasu kara" (because I'll make you cry) is the speaker's honest self-assessment. They keep arguing that this is a reason to separate or be forgotten, but every verse contradicts the logic: they cannot stand to be with anyone else. The song lives in that gap between self-awareness and inability to change.
What is the "spice of tears" line in Bansanka about?
Near the end the speaker acknowledges that the "spice of tears" will probably remain in the beloved's chest. It extends the food metaphor into something bleaker: the meal of love the speaker keeps ordering will always be seasoned with the pain they have caused, and they are asking for it anyway.
How does TAEYEON's version of Bansanka fit into her Japanese releases?
TAEYEON has released Japanese-language material throughout her career alongside her Korean solo work and Girls' Generation output. "J-POP REMAKE Vol.1" positions her as an interpreter of contemporary Japanese songwriters rather than a J-pop original artist, and Bansanka, a modern standard by Aimyon, is a natural anchor for that project.
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