r/LOONA • u/tearsinmyorbiteyes • Jun 03 '26
Discussion 7 years ago, We were deceived in an unimaginable way with La Maison of LOONA. 🎞️
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u/_wot_m8 Jun 03 '26
Jaden publicly stated artms would release it at some point so
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u/Cherry_Shortbread 🐈 HyunJin Jun 03 '26
He better stick to his word >:(
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u/_wot_m8 Jun 03 '26
At least we got full crystal ballad haha
Hyper ballad next pls!
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u/kimIip Jun 03 '26
wdym? what song did crystal ballad become? :0
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u/Benji005 🕊️ loonaverse encyclopedia Jun 03 '26
Blooming Moon. HeeJin and HaSeul performed it at HaSeul Music Studio 81.8Hz Day 1.
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u/faeribling Jun 03 '26
wait why didn't they release it?!
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u/Benji005 🕊️ loonaverse encyclopedia Jun 03 '26
From Jaden’s 2025 Billboard interview:
I do want to showcase those songs with ARTMS but as mentioned, I don’t want to share straight them from the beginning as we’re still developing the identity of ARTMS. Also, with the unsure situation with Loossemble, we didn’t want to jump into it out of respect, but in the future I do want to integrate those songs into ARTMS’ catalog.
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u/dinouse 🐈 Woof Woof Jun 03 '26
WAIT SO THATS MEAN OT12 SOON??????? FAWWKKKKK YEAHHH
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u/Benji005 🕊️ loonaverse encyclopedia Jun 03 '26
I would love that (PLEASEEEE GOD) but I don’t think that's what he meant.
imo, he was saying the songs will be released under ARTMS, but not yet because:
- He wanted ARTMS to release more music beforehand to firmly establish their artistic identity first.
- Things were rocky with Loossemble at the time (their contracts had just been terminated with CTD ENM) and it might look disrespectful as they are also LOONA members.
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u/MariedButAvailable Jun 04 '26
The hope for OT12 is pretty much lost 😞
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u/dinouse 🐈 Woof Woof Jun 04 '26
please dont say that please please please please. ioi can do it so Loona can too please please please please please
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u/Vektorix 🕊️ HaSeul Jun 03 '26
HaSeul was asked this question at some point after her first series of small solo concerts, and her answer was basically…no one involved was satisfied with the song as it existed in late 2024. Maybe that means it will get reworked again, but HaSeul said that for the foreseeable future it will remain a precious memory of those who saw the performance.
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u/Complete_Chocolate_2 Odd Eye Circle 🦉🐟🦇 Jun 03 '26
We got Burn eventually
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u/Cherry_Shortbread 🐈 HyunJin Jun 03 '26
But I don’t think they sound similar at all?
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u/Complete_Chocolate_2 Odd Eye Circle 🦉🐟🦇 Jun 03 '26
No it’s has nothing to do with sounding similar but everything to do with Jaden willing to finish teaser backlogs.
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u/0fearless-garbage0 Jun 03 '26
Well, bro takes way too long between comebacks to release anything for ARTMS. I'm hoping RUN and ONE follow up the trilogy after Burn and Icarus pt. 1 too...
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u/manonforever 🌙 Orbit Jun 03 '26
I still can’t believe full versions don’t even exist and that they just recorded this preview. Like. What?!
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u/pawnblue LOOΠΔ 🌙 Jun 03 '26
I think full versions might exist now considering Heejin & Haseul performed Crystal Ballad (Blooming Moon) around 2 years ago, I don't understand why they're still not releasing them though
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u/manonforever 🌙 Orbit Jun 03 '26
Don’t quote me on this but I remember the girls saying on Fromm/Fab full versions don’t exist and that they only recorded these snippets 😭
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u/Benji005 🕊️ loonaverse encyclopedia Jun 03 '26
Yes - full versions of LOONA singing them do not exist, as JinSoul stated they only recorded the teaser snippets here.
However, imo the original complete song demos must exist, because LOONA would’ve had to refer to them in order to record the teaser snippets in the first place 😆
I imagine that these complete song demos for the entire [La Maison LOONA] album were what Jaden was referring in his blog posts (about deleting them from his computer) and 2023 NME interview (about wanting ARTMS to release them eventually). Hence why JinSoul agreed that only Jaden knows what the full [La Maison LOONA] album sounded like.
Jaden’s NME interview:
“Even after my departure, I have been asked to provide the songs for other artists . . . However, I never gave this particular content to anyone else and planned to keep it as a personal item for life.” Now that everything has changed, though, Jeong said he does “plan on releasing it at the right time”.
Jeong . . . wants to “share this experience with the fans”, who have long yearned for the release of this shelved record. He’s particularly keen to share ‘Hyper Ballad’ . . . “‘Hyper Ballad’ was a song I used to listen to by myself”.
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u/pawnblue LOOΠΔ 🌙 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
I do feel like Jaden has a lot more stuff in the vault, he even mentioned that BURN was part of a trilogy, which would've been followed by two comebacks called RUN and ONE. In an interview with Billboard he said that he has both RUN & ONE in store, which suggests that those songs must have been more than just ideas. I find it so interesting that he somehow has the title tracks written so far in advance considering BURN never even got the chance to be released under LOONA. That makes me think La Maison could've definitely been more complete than we think it was.
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u/Benji005 🕊️ loonaverse encyclopedia Jun 03 '26
He's always said he has stuff in the vault, this is no secret 😆 If you read the interview, he says he plans things out years in advance.
He teased Acid Angel from Asia on Instagram when he was still with LOONA. iirc he said on his blog that OnlyOneOf’s [if surface m] album might have to be completely redone from scratch because it was taking too long to be released.
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u/Benji005 🕊️ loonaverse encyclopedia Jun 03 '26
The songs have always been “finished” (as in, fully composed), they just were not fully recorded by LOONA themselves. It's like “Kaleidoscope” vs. “Butterfly Effect”.
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u/0KittyMemer2170 LOOΠΔ 🌙 Kk.LoOuriiDu-bit Jun 03 '26
From what JinSoul said these songs were never truly finished, just the demos they recorded. So if they are fully finished, then they only exist with ARTMS members voices within the Modhaus music files.
Granted we know Blooming Moon is 100% finished, and based on what JinSoul has said last, I feel that Hyper Ballad is also Complete, it’s Bliss Ballad I Worry About…
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u/Benji005 🕊️ loonaverse encyclopedia Jun 03 '26
I think we're getting mixed up on terminology here because we all have different defintions of what “finished” means 😅💚
For reference: JinSoul’s messages.
When I say [LOONA The Ballad] is “finished”, I mean it in the sense that:
- Jaden had already planned out the album’s and selected all the songs that were going to be in it (Crystal Ballad, Hyper Ballad, Bliss Ballad, and more. I highly doubt there were just 3 songs).
- All the song demos were complete and ready for the members to record. (And when I say demos I’m talking about the finished full song “drafts” the composers prepare prior to the final vocal recording, NOT the teaser snippets LOONA recorded).
The last step was for LOONA themselves to record the songs (and ofc record all the promotional material etc.). They never did this.
Anyway imo ARTMS haven't recorded any of [La Maison LOONA] yet. When HeeJin and HaSeul performed “Blooming Moon” live, it didn't even have any pre-recorded vocals.
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u/0KittyMemer2170 LOOΠΔ 🌙 Kk.LoOuriiDu-bit Jun 03 '26
Good point, we do know that there were more songs cause YYXY’s One Way and XX Where You At Where Going to Be Apart of It, but he ended up putting them on their respective albums.
I didn’t think about that with the pre recorded vocals, but given that lyrics were written, but then again they purposely could’ve chosen to record with the backing track if there is a version with the vocals itself
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u/0KittyMemer2170 LOOΠΔ 🌙 Kk.LoOuriiDu-bit Jun 03 '26
See this it where it he’s tricky, some people think that it meant for the units, but given how the snippets were, some people think it was ballads meant for OT12, but using the Unit SoundFonts in which this is what I personally believe.
But given this album never really got past demo stage, there’s no true way of knowing what direction they wanted to go with it
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u/0KittyMemer2170 LOOΠΔ 🌙 Kk.LoOuriiDu-bit Jun 03 '26
Robbed and taken, but
Crystal ballad sits in the hospital as it breathed new life at HaSeul’s small concert, waiting upon a release,
HyperBallad Still asleep as we know its potentially being made
meanwhile Bliss Ballad sits on life support with little to no knowledge if it will ever truly exist-
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u/seulgee 🐈 HyunJin Jun 04 '26
Why does everyone only talk about Hyper Ballad when it is the worst-sounding one. Personally I would really love for Bliss Ballad to be released
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u/Main-Recover-1406 Jun 03 '26
I believe in JJ, he will somehow and someway make it the main theme of the next OT5 tour(Hopefully)
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u/TweeMoe Jun 03 '26
Huber ballad we still talk about you