GFRIEND | Tenth Anniversary | RaeRae Reacts
Season of Memories
GFRIEND boarded the old timeline, collected every clock, and found all six seats still waiting.
Quick facts
- Group: GFRIEND
- Korean title: 우리의 다정한 계절 속에
- Song pre-release: January 6, 2025
- Special album and video: January 13, 2025
- Purpose: Tenth-anniversary reunion project
- Agency: Source Music
- Producers: No Joo-hwan, Lee Won-jong and Shintaro Yasuda
- Video director: Guzza
- Performance director: Park Soyeon
Watch the official video
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The old GFRIEND engine still works
Source Music’s Korean album notes call the title track a concentrated version of GFRIEND’s sound: surging melody, fast-moving development and lyrical emotion. No Joo-hwan and Lee Won-jong return after working on “Time for the Moon Night,” “Sunrise” and “Crossroads,” with Shintaro Yasuda joining them.
The strings and drums keep pushing forward while the vocal line carries gratitude instead of simple sadness. Yuju gives the climactic phrases their force, Eunha keeps the melody bright, and Sowon, Yerin, SinB and Umji make the reunion sound like a group record rather than a soloist plus five anniversary guests.
The song is intentionally familiar. That is both the comfort and the limitation. It delivers the expected swell so faithfully that listeners wanting a radically changed 2025 GFRIEND will not find one. I did not need reinvention from a tenth-anniversary return. I needed the six voices to meet inside a song that remembered them.
The train carries ten years of evidence
The members move through train cars filled with objects tied to earlier eras, including clock imagery from “Rough” and the teddy bear associated with “Navillera.” Animated sequences turn the passing years into scenery rather than a static highlight reel.
Each member travels toward the others. When the last car runs out of track, separate crossings join and all six perform beneath falling confetti and audience lights. The official album description confirms those connections, so the callbacks are receipts rather than fan guesses.
KUDO produced the video with Guzza directing, WX ART handling production design and Studio WHaM credited for VFX. The crew built a memory route, not a museum. GFRIEND keeps moving through it.
RaeRae verdict
Replay: Yes, especially when the final chorus needs to hurt correctly.
Best decision: Making the members travel toward one another instead of simply posing beside old props.
Complaint: The song is so committed to the classic formula that it leaves little room for surprise.
Final call: A reunion built from recognizable musical DNA, six present voices and a train full of actual history.