When Taeyong damaged down sobbing on Sunday in the center of executing the autobiographical “Back to the Past” (2023)– the repetition track to his very first solo performance– it was as if he was passing on the verses to his more youthful self: to a shed teen young boy that thought about himself as a resource of dissatisfaction to his mommy and next-door neighbors, escaping from hardship and from home.
“What will you become?” he sang as he dealt with the sold-out sector. “When you grow up, what will you become?”
It was a tender, prone minute that contrasted the unwinded, boylike swagger the NCT 127 participant had …