Super Junior's newest CD is available to purchase on-line RIGHT NOW!!! Physical sales start on July4/5. I bought my digital copy from iTunes but there are a bunch of Asian distributors that have it and those places are probably cheaper than iTunes. I'm not good at explaining how to do that so I'm not gonna.
Anyway, this post is not about telling you where to buy the CD, it's about my impressions of the songs on the album. Click on the title of each song to hear a snippet of the song.
Sexy, Free, and Single - Finally, a main track that is not SJ Funky! The video has not been released yet. I hope there is more to the video than the guys dancing on a couple of different sets interspersed with close up shots. My dream version of this song includes them speed dating and striking out. Even Siwon would strike out. Gotta leave hope for the bajillion fan girls out there. Super Junior has quite the reputation for being a bunch of hilarious dorks and a music video capitalizing on this charming trait would be awesome.
너로부터 (From U) - I like this song but I don't love it. I should love it since it's directly aimed at the fans (ELF - EverLasting Friends). I'm sure that by the end of the week I will find something about it to love.
Now - This song reminds me of the songs I loved as a teenager/young adult. Anything that takes me back to those carefree days is a winner in my book.
Rockstar - This song cracks me up. I like to imagine that
Ryan Higa and
G Dragon collaborated on the music and lyrics for the song. I would love a video of this song with the guys being cheesy rockstars like Tom Cruise, Russell Brand, and Alec Baldwin in Rock of Ages -
Leeteuk, Sungmin,and Shindong or Kangin would be great in those parts. Throw in a goofy DJ (Eunhyuk) and everyone else as hip-hop stars and I think it would be video gold. Oh well, it is exteremly unlikely that this song would ever be made into a video. But now you know what's going through my head whenever this song is playing (and I'm playing it a lot).
걸리버 (Gulliver) - Eunhyuk wrote this song and it has a really different sound from all of the rest of the songs. It reminds me a little of Superman during the chanting. Since I love Eunhyuk I love this song (like I love anything my kids make) but it has taken some time to grow on me. If you don't listen to much Korean stuff then you might have a hard time understanding that they are, in fact, saying Gulliver repeatedly. Moli asked what a cullivah (kullivah?) is. Yeah, that's the Korean way to say Gulliver. In Korean, the sound the letter "g" makes and the sound the letter "k" makes is similar and is often blended together. And then, depending on the letter's position in the word the sound changes. To further complicate matters, when the word that begins with the k/g letter is in the middle of a sentence then the word that precedes it affects the initial sound of the word that begins with the k/g letter. Confused much? (I'll bet you didn't think you would be getting a mini lesson in Korean linguistics today.) That's my long explanation about why it doesn't bother me when they say Gulliver in a weird way.
언젠가는 (Someday) and
달콤씁쓸 (Bittersweet) - are both ballads. I like Super Junior ballads but my kids typically don't.
빠삐용 (Butterfly) - This song is upbeat and fun. It also talks about letting something bounce -"Let it bounce, let it bounce, let it bounce..." Bounce seems like a popular word in KPOP lyrics this summer. Check out JJ Project's "Bounce"
here.
머문다 (Daydream) - Another ballad and it's really pretty. More importantly, it doesn't make me sad. I like pretty ballads better than sad ballads.
헤어지는 날 (A 'Good'bye) - The lyrics of this song confuse me. I wonder if the song means that they are planning to stop activities as a group for a while. Eight members of the group still have to fulfill their mandatory military service. Leeteuk (the leader of the group) will surely be headed off to serve soon since he is pretty much at the upper age limit and can no longer postpone the inevitable. This slowish song seems upbeat but it makes me a little sad. But it also gives me hope that if this is really the last group CD for a while they are still committed to coming back together. Super Junior - not the end but and....
My recommendation? Duh! Buy this CD, you will be glad you did.
