Grand Return of the King of Global Korean Wave, ‘Super Junior!’
Releasing the 6th Full-Length Album, ‘Sexy, Free & Single’ on July 4!
The king of global Korean Wave, Super Junior, is making a grand comeback with the 6th full-length album.
This new Super Junior album which is released on July 4 is the album in 11 months after the 5th full-length album, and it is expected to gain enormous responses from the music fans of the world for it heralds new activities of Super Junior who are currently appearing all around the world after completing the world tour in a great success.
This album contains total 10 songs in different genres including R&B, dance, and balad such as the title song ‘Sexy, Free & Single’ that fans will be able to experience the unique characteristics and the trendy musical colors of Super Junior at the same time. In particular, famous composers inside and outside Korea including Young Jin Yoo, Kenzie, hitchhiker, Chang Hyun Park participated in this album to produce the album of greater diversity and perfection.
Cool Success Story of Sexy, Free, and Single Men! The Title Song, ‘Sexy, Free & Single’
The title song, ‘Sexy, Free & Single’, is a ‘soulful house’ which combines house music and soul R&B. The colorful voice synth and wobble bass sound as well as the trendy arrangement are quite impressive, and the easy and addictive chorus doubles the fun of listening.
The lyric attracts ears with the success story of sexy and liberal single men who feels achievement and triumph earned through great efforts and hardships, and the sense of freedom given to the ones who endured and overcame difficulties.
Particularly, Super Junior prepared a powerful and impressive performance characterized by their unique organized group dance along with the stimulating music in order to capture the ears and eyes of the music fans around the world with splendid images and performances.
‘From U’- the Song Dedicated to the Life-Long Mate, Super Junior Fan Club, E.L.F! Presented as a Couple Song with the Title Song
‘From U’ is the song dedicated to Super Junior’s fan club, ‘E.L.F’, and they will present this song as a couple song with the title song. ‘From U’ is a medium tempo R&B, and it depicts the relationship between the star and the fan as the lovers match made in heaven who fight sometimes but always love and stand by each other that it will definitely give a flutter to the fans’ hearts.
‘Gulliver’ combines the characterful rap by Leeteuk, Shindong, Eunhyuk, and Donghae and the charming vocal of Ryeowook, and the lyric that Eunhyuk wrote by himself added luminosity to the song through the witty words that compared the magnitude of Super Junior’s charms which cannot be shown at once to Gulliver in Lilliput. Remake song ‘Someday’, which is originally sung by Sang Eun Lee, is reinterpreted with more mature vocal of Super Junior and the classical arrangement gives a different mood to the song.
‘NOW’ is a poprock with a cool mixture of cheerful rhythm and guitar riff, and the refreshing sound, melody and the lyric that suggests to getting away from the routine to the cool summer sea increases the charms of the song, and ‘Rockstar‘, a club sound combining electronic and hiphop styles translated Super Junior’s unique and cheerful character into the arrogance and charisma of the rocker enjoying the performance on the stage.
The album also includes ‘Bittersweet’, a modern rock ballad that combines the sweet vocal of Yesung, Sungmin, Ryeowook, and Kyuhyun, the sugary melody, and lonesomely sounding lyric, ‘Papillion (Butterfly)’, the electronic dance with the message of encouragement for a friend who is exhausted of life, ‘Daydream’, a sensuous ballad with impressive and beautiful harmony of Super Junior, and ‘A ‘Good’bye’, bold composition and experimental format that fans will be able to experience a variety of musical colors of Super Junior through all 10 songs in the new album.
Super Junior will be appearing in various stages with the 6th full-length album starting with MNet’s ‘M Countdown’ on July 5.