Here is the song[AsiaKyungjae Reporter Jo Bumja] SNSD released their title song for their repackaged 2nd album, "Run Devil Run," on the 17th. It is already receiving explosive amounts of responses from netizens.
A preview of the concept of "Run Devil Run" was shown during the last part of their "Oh!" music video. Just as shown in the preview, the lyrics of the song are sending a word of warning to bad boys honestly and without hesitation. They showed a preview of a transformed SNSD by giving off a "femme fatale" atmosphere, which is slightly different than what atmospheres they've been giving off before.
The fans who have heard this new song through Bugs, Melon, and other music sites, have welcomed the transformed SNSD by saying comments such as, "It's mysterious and fresh," and, "It's so catchy, it seems like this one's going to be big as well."
The title song, "Run Devil Run," has a very strong sound of synth pop, and it perfectly balances SNSD's very charismatic vocals.
Busbee(USA), Alex James(UK), Kalle Engstrom(Sweden), and other composers from all over the world have collaborated to create this song. The new American popstar, Ke$ha, recorded a "guide version"** of the song before her debut around August 2008, as she is close with one of the composers.
There has been cases where Ke$ha's guide version has been taken down from Youtube as it was illegally leaked and uploaded. Thus, SNSD is the first to be officially presenting this song.
In addition, SNSD is expected to show a very powerful and charismatic performance to match the atmosphere of this title song. The interest in their performance, outfits, and more, is expected to to be very high.
On another note, the music video for SNSD's new song, "Run Devil Run," will be revealed for the first time on Bugs and the smartphone SNSD application at 12:00am on this coming 18th. Their first performance will be on the coming 19th of March on KBS2's "Music Bank."
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**By "guide version", they mean like a "demo" version. This means that Ke$ha recorded the song before her debut just as a demo track, and it also implies that Ke$ha doesn't hold rights to this song. It was first offically released by SNSD, so SNSD did not "copy" Ke$ha. I know there was a lot of commotion around this. If this becomes an issue and SM needs to come out with an official statement on it, they will.
Source: Asia Kyungjae
Translation: taengbear@soshified.com
At the '19th HiOne Seoul Music Awards' held on the 3rd at Seoul's Fencing Stadium, SNSD won not just the Daesang but swepted up the Digital Music Award as well as the Semi-Finalist Award.
Last year SNSD played a leading role in the 'girlgroup storm' with their consecutive hits 'Gee' and 'Genie'. SNSD released their official 2nd album 'Oh!' on the 28th of January and have started up another trend in the music industry.
SNSD stated, "We want to thank God, our families and the never changing members of the group. We also want to thank all the fans."
On SNSD's very first performance of 'Oh!', a broadcasting accident has occurred which is bringing many fans complaints.
Back with their official second album, SNSD has revealed their very first stage through 30th's 'Show! Music Core'. Reaching the last moments of the stage, the screen was off for 1 to 2 seconds. Fans are posting up their complaints about the cast and crews' mistake through 'Music Core' site's message board.
On this day's 'Show! Music Core', SNSD have shown the performance of their title song 'Oh!', and "SHOW! SHOW! SHOW!'. First off on their 'SHOW! SHOW! SHOW!' performance, they brought attention of the viewers with their Magician hat, lavish perm hair, and hot pants which signified their sexiness.
Continued with their 'Oh!' stage, they brought attention of the viewers with a cheerleader uniform with hot pants, and blue and yellow ponytail hairstyle.
Especially when the music video of 'Oh!' was released, netizens gave names on its specific choreography, like "Cow Herding dance", "Twisted Bread Stick dance", and "Crane Leg dance". Also SNSD has received explosive responses for their teaser, music release, music video and album release even before their official comeback; and has dominated various music charts and has already started a 'Oh!' syndrome that is sweeping the music industry and garnering much attention.
SNSD have stated their feelings towards their comeback stage "We are very fluttered to greet you guys with a new song and a stage. Please support our 2nd album 'Oh!' and since we will be showing off our different selves through various activities, please continue to cheer us on."
Following with 30th 'Show! Music Core' , SNSD are planning to present their comeback stage on SBS "Inkigayo".
Approximately 150,000 copies of SNSD's second full album titled 'Oh!' have been pre-ordered for its release on the 28th.
An estimated total of 149,890 albums were pre-ordered, in which online fan-websites made an order of over 59,500 copies and music stores with 90,390 copies of the album.
SM Entertainment stated, "SNSD's first full album 'Girls Generation', first mini album 'Gee' and second mini album 'Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)', all have consecutively been pre-ordered over 100,000 copies." and concluded, "SNSD's second album have also been pre-ordered over 100,000 copies, keeping this substantial record sale consistent."
On January 25th, the second album's title track 'Oh!' was released online and subsequently dominated as #1 on various music charts such as Melon, Dossirak, Mnet, Bugs and Cyworld Music. Furthermore, 'StarStarStar' and 'Show! Show! Show!' are rising as popular tracks from the album.
In the afternoon of the 27th (KST), the music video for idol group SNSD's second album title song had 100 000 views when it was released, and it went up to the number 1 spot on GomTV music video charts.
The song "Oh!" has already been released on the 25th, and rose to number 1 on major music sites and it is speculated that the album will also rise to the number 1 spot as well. However, it wasn't just the song, but the performance and visuals with the song and SNSD's known previous various fashion looks that fans were so much more expectant of this music video.
As to prove this expectancy, SNSD's "Oh!" music video, which was first released at noon on the 27th through their official website and GomTV, rose to the number 1 on the real-time GomTV music video popularity rankings as soon as it was released. It was recorded to have gained 100 000 hits in just 2 hours. This record was achieved more than twice as fast as the greatest hit of 2009, "Gee."
The head of the Contents Strategy team of GomTV said, "SNSD's "Oh!" teaser video released on the 25th rose to the number 1 spot in the popularity rankings, and for at least two days, there have been 220 000 hits." He also added, "The music video for the song "Gee" by SNSD, when it was released last year through GomTV, it accumulated ten million views and set a record. Observing the trends, "Oh!" looks like it will pass the "Gee" records easily."
SNSD's "Oh!" music video has gained a lot of popularity, and so has their most recent music video before this, "Chocoloate Love" which is top 20 in the GomTV rankings. The number of viewer hits for SNSD's major music video is quickly rising.
The music video of SNSD's second album title track 'Oh!' has been revealed.
SNSD's newest music video that was released on the 27th presented two different concepts, one of which includes the complete transformation into cute cheerleaders. In a blue locker room, SNSD members were dressed in pink, white and pastel-tone apparels which depicted a barbie-like image, while in a football stadium, the girls were dressed up in blue and white cheerleader uniforms.
However, SNSD members were faced with an unexpected surprise near the end of the music video. Facing the nine cheerleaders from across the room were another set of nine SNSD members with identical facial appearances but dressed up in black leather outfits, who were named as the "Bad" So Nyuh's (Girls). These nine SNSD members dressed in leather outfits were full of secrecy and charisma.
In regards to the music video, SM Entertainment representative commented, "the ending is intended to show a glimpse of the follow-up track and to raise curiosity amongst the fans about the complete transformation of SNSD."
The music video of 'Oh!' was filmed in Kyungkido, Ilsan and Paju and was directed by film director Cheo Soohyun, who helped display another charmful side of the girls by transforming them into cheerleaders.
In particular, the music video displaying the members as supportive cheerleaders in a football field added more freshness to the energetic, electro-pop track 'Oh!'.
SNSD's second full album will be released on the 28th through online and offline markets, and the group's comeback performance will be held on MBC 'Show! Music Core' in the 30th.
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The nine member group SNSD have once again brought up the music fever with the release of their new track as it quickly rose to #1 on real-time music chart.
According to the music site Monkey3, the release of the new title track 'Oh!' on the 25th at 11:00AM received explosive response online and reached #1 on real-time chart.
Monkey3's representative Lee Jung Gyoo commented, "Even though we already predicted that the new track would definitely reach #1, we were curious as to how fast it would rise to #1." He concluded, "the new track 'Oh!' have topped #1 within the first ten minutes of its release and have received quicker response than 'Tell Me Your Wish'."
SNSD's second album will be released on the 28th.
