Poet Finn Wu’s Romantic Things captures the fine line between love and resentment with fierce intensity. This episode follows Golden Melody Award nominee SherryZ as she navigates years of career failure, abandonment, and her ultimate return to the stage. Confronted with this raw poem, she collaborates with South Korean band cotoba, translating years of suppressed lostness and pain into a massive wall of explosive sound. More than just a musical rebirth, this journey serves as a soulful redemption—reconciling with past lows, shedding sleep-depriving anxieties, and rediscovering the boundless freedom of authentic artistic creation.
Can a single poem change the world? "Like a Rolling Poem 2" continues the spirit of poetry-based musical documentary, filming and producing six poems transformed into songs — confronting the existential questions of our time head-on: "I Want to Live with You" explores loneliness and longing for self; "Lullaby of the North-Link Railway" gazes at the turning of eras and the fear of farewell; "A Romantic Thing" dissects trauma and the pathological attachment born from love and hatred sharing the same root; "The Cat That Walks Through Walls" reflects on the illusion and imperfection amid historical displacement; "Watching for a Longer While" overturns the equivalence between love and hatred, choosing tenderness instead; and finally, "Doomsday Blues" faces geopolitical crisis head-on, finding resilience in the everyday. This is not only an encounter between modern poetry and contemporary music, but also a philosophical inquiry into humanity. Even if the world is but an illusion, a fleeting dream, we still hold the freedom to choose kindness and love — and with that, we keep beating, keep rolling on.
