Oh!
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Oh! is the second studio album by Girls' Generation . It was released on January 28, 2010 by SM Entertainment in South Korea . On March 22nd, the album was re-released with three more songs entitled Run Devil Run .
publication
After the girls' generation dominated the K-Pop scene in 2009 and were omnipresent on South Korean television, the new song “ Oh! “Digitally available for download and quickly became a huge hit in South Korea . The music video was released on January 27th. The full album was finally released on January 28th. In addition, a "dance version" of the music video was also released.
The album was released on iTunes in more than 80 countries, including Germany , France , Great Britain , Japan and the USA .
Music style and concept
The concept for the album Oh! shows the nine singers in cheerleading clothes and is intended to show the "sweet" side of the girls' generation. This cheerleading concept was in keeping with the 2010 Winter Olympics and the World Cup .
kenzie, who previously composed the debut single “ Into the New World ” by Girls' Generation, also wrote the electro pop song “Oh!”. Cheo Soo-hyun directed the accompanying music video. The girls have chosen the numbers themselves.
The song “Sweet Talking Baby” (“ 뻔 & Fun”) uses the “Minuet from the String Quintet in E major” by Luigi Boccherini as background music .
Track list
| No. | title | Songwriter | length |
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| 1 | Oh! | Kim Yeong-hu, Kim Jeong-bae, kenzie | 3:08 |
| 2 | Show! Show! Show! | Kim Bu-min, hitchhiker | 3:38 |
| 3 | 뻔 & Fun (Sweet Talking Baby) | Song Jae-won, Double J Show | 3:30 |
| 4th | 영원히 너와 꿈꾸고 싶다 (Forever) | Kim Jin-hwan | 4:29 |
| 5 | 웃자 (Be Happy) | E-TRIBE , J-STA, Gong Hyeon-sik | 3:30 |
| 6th | 화성인 바이러스 (Boys & Girls) –feat. key (SHINee) | Hwang Chan-hi, Jo Eun-hi, Park Jun-ho | 3:46 |
| 7th | 카라멜 커피 (Talk To Me) | Kim Hi-won, Machan Taylor, Jo Yong-hun | 3:26 |
| 8th | 별 별별 (☆ ★ ☆) | E-TRIBE, Go Myeong-jae | 4:30 |
| 9 | 무조건 해피 엔딩 (Stick Wit U) | Lee Jae-myeong | 2:46 |
| 10 | 좋은 일만 생각 하기 (Day by Day) | Yu Yeong-seok, MIHO | 3:50 |
| 11 | Gee | E-TRIBE | 3:22 |
| 12 | 소원 을 말해봐 (genius) | Yoo Young-jin, Anne Judith Wik, Robin Jenssen, Ronny Svendsen, Nermin Harambasic, Fridolin Nordsø Schjoldan, Yoo Han-jin | 3:49 |
Run Devil Run
On March 22, 2010 the album was re-released under the title Run Devil Run with three other pieces of music. With this, the group takes a more adult path away from the “sweet image”. The song " Run Devil Run " was released digitally on March 17th.
"Run Devil Run" was written by Busbee, Alex James and Kalle Engström. The American singer Kesha recorded a demo version of the song, but it was never officially released. SM Entertainment bought the rights to the song and Hong Ji-yu wrote Korean lyrics for Girls' Generation. The music video was released on March 18, 2010. The choreography is by Lisette Bustamante and Beat Burger (Sim Jae-won).
| No. | title | Songwriter | length |
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| 1 | Run Devil Run | Hong Ji-yu, Busbee, Alex James, Kalle Engström | 3:21 |
| 3 | echo | Taehoon, Thomas Troelsen, Mikkel Remee Sigvardt, Lucas Secon, Hwang Seong-je, Lee Ju-hyeong | 3:30 |
| 4th | 별 별별 (☆ ★ ☆) –Acoustic R&B ver. | E-TRIBE, Go Myeong-jae | 4:28 |
promotion
The track was first performed live on January 30, 2010 on MBC's Music Core program . However, there was a picture loss for a few seconds towards the end of the performance during the live broadcast. Then the station was showered with complaints. The incident was also parodied on YouTube with user CodeMonmon “mixing” clips from the drama series Iris and the appearance of Girls' Generation. On their comeback at Music Bank , the group won the “K-Chart” against CN Blue and 2PM and broke the record for the highest result with 23,077 points.
On March 6, 2010 , Girls' Generation appeared on the music program Music Core in honor of figure skating gold medalist Kim Yuna with “Oh!” On “Lotte World's Ice Skating Rink”. A week later, on March 13th, the band finished their promotion for "Oh!" On Music Cores Goodbye Stage .
The band had their first appearance with the song "Run Devil Run" on March 18 at the Music Bank show . As part of the promotions for Run Devil Run was on 26 March 2010 in cooperation with the music portal Bugs a smartphone - App published, including in the German iTunes store appeared.
Chart successes and awards
Immediately after the song “Oh!” Was released, it reached first place on some South Korean online portals. The song went straight to number 2 on the KBS World Charts. In the second week, the song took first place on the South Korean Gaon Charts .
With this album, Girls' Generation in Japan achieved a respectable success by Oh! entered the Japanese Oricon charts at number 54 in the second week of February without the band promoting the album there.
The album Oh! ranks second in the 2010 South Korean annual charts and Run Devil Run reached fourth place. In 2010, 197,934 units of the Oh! sold and 136,851 copies of Run Devil Run .
- 2010: 25th Golden Disk Awards - Disk Daesang Award and Disk Bonsang Award
- 2011: Korean Association of Seoul Artists & Culture (KASAC) - Best Pop Artist Award
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former, official Taiwanese website of Girls' Generation of the record company Avex (Chinese)
- ↑ Lynn Kim: Girls' Generation to unveil teaser video tonight. (No longer available online.) In: 10asia. January 22, 2010, archived from the original on March 1, 2016 ; accessed on December 3, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Park Kun-ouc: Girls' Generation new single tops real-time music chart. (No longer available online.) In: 10asia. January 25, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on December 3, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lynn Kim: Girls' Generation gears up for comeback with "Oh!" (No longer available online.) In: 10asia. January 29, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on December 3, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lucia Hong: Girls' Generations album available on iTunes. (No longer available online.) In: 10asia. February 9, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on December 3, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kim Hyeong-u: 소녀 시대 'Oh' 치어걸 패션 유행 하나 '다음 유니폼 은? 궁금증 폭발 '. In: Nate. Newsen, February 1, 2010, accessed December 3, 2010 (Korean).
- ↑ 하이 컷 엿 보기: 소녀 시대 가슴 에 새겨진 숫자 의 뜻? In: SportsChosun.com . February 23, 2010, Retrieved December 4, 2010 (Korean).
- ↑ Lucia Hong: Girls' Generation's "Run Devil Run" to go on sale next week. (No longer available online.) In: 10asia. March 19, 2010, archived from the original on February 25, 2016 ; accessed on December 3, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 소녀 시대, 블랙 소시 전원 공개 “퍼포먼스 기대 돼” 관심 폭발. In: Joins. March 15, 2010, Retrieved December 3, 2010 (Korean).
- ↑ a b Yang Ji-won: 소녀 시대 후속곡 '런 데블 런' 공개 직후 음원 차트 1 위. In: Joins. March 17, 2010, Retrieved December 4, 2010 (Korean).
- ↑ `블랙 소시` 베일 벗은 소녀 시대, 신곡 음원 공개. In: Hankyung. March 17, 2010, Retrieved December 4, 2010 (Korean).
- ↑ 소녀 시대 방송 사고 '아이리스' 버전 패러디, "대박". In: SportsChosun.com. February 1, 2010, accessed December 4, 2010 (Korean).
- ↑ Lucia Hong: Girls' Generation's album released as smart phone app. (No longer available online.) In: 10asia. March 26, 2010, archived from the original on July 22, 2011 ; accessed on January 18, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lucia Hong: Girls' Generation's new single tops daily singles charts. (No longer available online.) In: 10asia. January 26, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on December 3, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ KBS World: weekly charts from February 14, 2010
- ↑ Jonathan M. Hicap: Super Junior declared Korea's best selling artist in 2010. In: Manila Bulletin . February 10, 2011, accessed February 12, 2011 .
- ↑ Gaon Annual Charts 2010 (Korean)
- ↑ Heidi Kim: Girls' Generation, 2AM win 2010 Golden Disk Awards. (No longer available online.) In: 10asia. December 10, 2010, archived from the original on December 15, 2010 ; accessed on December 10, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kim Yoon-mi: Rain, SNSD among winners of 2011 Seoul Art & Culture Award. In: Korea Herald . March 1, 2011, accessed March 1, 2011 .
Web links
- Official website of Girls' Generation
- Oh! on iTunes