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[News] TVXQ's Album Official Review and Introduction -----------------------------------------------------------------
The following is written by TVXQ official homepage, you can check it out here. http://tvxq.smtown.com/
Introduce ---------------
Asia's Most Famous Group TVXQ!, Returned as Brilliant as the Fame! Came Back with the New Album in January! Ready to Conquer Asian Music Market in 2011!
Asia's most famous group, TVXQ! is making a splendid comeback with the new album, 'Keep Your Head Down'
TVXQ!'s new album 'Keep Your Head Down' has been released in 2 years and 3 months since the last album, 'MIROTIC', released in September 2008, and as TVXQ! is enjoying tremendous popularity in Korea, Japan, and all regions of Asia, they are expecting to conquer the music markets in Korea and Asia.
This album is made of songs making new musical challenges in various genres that can make the most of the vocal characteristics of the two members, U-KNOW and MAX, and the greatest composers such as Young-Jin Yoo, Han-Jin Yoo, Kenzie, Chang-Hyun Park, E-TRIBE, and Outsidaz which is a team of composers working in America joined to make a perfect album together.
Especially, the new album, 'Keep Your Head Down', will be released in two versions, the special version with a 100 pages pictorial prepared as a fan service on January 5, and the regular version with additional new song on January 12, which is expected to gain explosive responses.
Title Song 'Keep Your Head Down' Presenting Powerful Magnetism of TVXQ!
The title song of this album 'Keep Your Head Down' is an SMP style song which is characterized by splendid performance. The contrast between heavy kick drum, bass synth which continuously steps down, and a sharp 16-beat guitar riff stands out to create powerful and masculine attraction.
The lyric contains the sadness of a man who was betrayed by the lover whom he believed as a true love, 'I'll erase you completely from my heart and move on for the happiness of tomorrow. You'll know how truthful the heart you once broke' puts mans warning and promise for the lover. This doubles the magnetism of the powerful song.
The title, 'Keep Your Head Down', also attracts ears by conveying the gist of a lyric compressively as it connotes a plea with the betraying lover to be prudent and that she can also be betrayed by her lover someday.
A Gift from the Composer of the Debut Song 'HUG', Chang-Hyun Park, 'How Can I'
The ballad, 'How Can I', is a gift from the composer of TVXQ!'s debut song 'HUG', Chang-Hyun Park. It expresses the puzzled feeling coming after a sudden good-bye from the lover, and the song was presented through mature voice and emotion of U-KNOW and MAX.
U-KNOW's Solo, 'Honey Funny Bunny', Presented by the Hit Maker E-TRIBE ---------------------------------------------------
MAX Writes Lyric for His Solo, 'Confession' ---------------------------------------------------
The solo performances of U-KNOW and MAX are also drawing attention. U-KNOW's solo, 'Honey Funny Bunny' is a trendy slow jam style song with the impressive lyric that characterfully expressed the love at first sight as 'Honey Funny Bunny.' This is a much anticipated song as the hit composer E-TRIBE and U-KNOW worked together. Also, MAX's solo that he wrote the lyric for, 'Confession', really brings out MAX's appealing voice through the sound of piano and magnificent orchestration with the lyric that contains the longing for the past love to raise the sad mood even further.
Also, 'CRAZY', a dance song featured by TRAX's Typhoon, 'RUMOR' with impressive harmony between elegant melody and the voices of the members, 'SHE' which expresses the indefinable feelings of a man in love, and 'MAXIMUM' which was released in advance during 'SMTOWN LIVE'10 WORLD TOUR' presents various charms of TVXQ! in the new album.
New year's hot issue TVXQ!'s new album, 'Keep Your Head Down', is expected to bring explosive responses from the music fans in all over Asia not to mention Korea and Japan and announced the forthcoming of the TVXQ! fever that will hit all regions of Asia.
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1. 왜(Keep Your Head Down) The title song, 'Keep Your Head Down' is an SMP style song which is characterized by splendid performance. The contrast between heavy kick drum, bass synth which continuously steps down, and a sharp 16-beat guitar riff stands out to create powerful and masculine attraction. Especially, the lyric contains the sadness of a man who was betrayed by the lover whom he believed as a true love, 'I'll erase you completely from my heart and move on for the happiness of tomorrow. You'll know how truthful the heart you once broke' puts mans warning and promise for the lover. This doubles the magnetism of the powerful song. The title, 'Keep Your Head Down', also attracts ears by conveying the gist of a lyric compressively as it connotes a plea with the betraying lover to be prudent and that she can also be betrayed by her lover someday.
2. 믿기 싫은 이야기(How Can I) 'How Can I' was created by the composer of TVXQ!'s debut song 'HUG', Chang-Hyun Park, and it expresses the puzzled feeling coming after a sudden good-bye from the lover. The song was presented through mature voice and emotion of U-KNOW and MAX.
3. MAXIMUM This song was specially released through 'SMTOWN LIVE'10 WORLD TOUR' and became quite famous. The arrangement is sampled by traditional Korean instruments such as gayageum, jing (gong) and kkwaenggwari (small gong) and the harmony between traditional instruments and modern heavy beats are impressive.
Also, the organization of the melody line that flows in various directions, suggesting great dance motions and other parts of the song shows the characteristics of SMP genre, and the lyric is expressed in a monologue that goes, "It's not the adversities of the world or others that I need to overcome, but it is I that I have to overcome by encouraging myself in order to be my true self, and I need to maintain confidence and love myself."
4. CRAZY 'CRAZY' is the dance song that reminds of a charming performance. A few challenges such as the mixing that modified the voices of the members in a new method and twisting the melody through the bridge built up on distinct individuality of each member stand out in the song.
5. Honey Funny Bunny U-KNOW's solo song, 'Honey Funny Bunny', is a trendy slow jam style song that presents new attractions of U-KNOW. It is a love song with the impressive lyric that characterfully expressed the love at first sight as 'Honey Funny Bunny'. This is a much anticipated song as the hit composer E-TRIBE and U-KNOW worked together, and the magnificent digital sound contrasted with the groovy drum and sweet melody present unique attraction.
6. RUMOR 'RUMOR' is the work of 'Outsidaz', a team of composers working in America. Sweet R&B chord progression is well mixed with the sensuous up-tempo groove. Especially, the song has impressive harmony that makes the elegant melody and neat voices stand out, and the lyric arouses empathy by realistically describing how frustrated a guy feels about his girlfriend who listens to people around.
7. 고백(Confession) 'Confession' is a ballad that MAX wrote the lyric for and performed solo. The sound of piano and orchestration stands out, and the wind instruments and brass section on top of strings added magnificence to the song. The dynamisms was maximized from the beginning to the end while presenting MAX's appealing voice and musical sensitivity, and the lyric expresses the longing for the past love to raise the sad mood.
8. Our game The futuristic sound riding on hip-hop rhythm makes a fantastic combination with upper register synth in impressive arpeggio pattern and the sub bass. The lyric expresses TVXQ!'s passion for music that they will express themselves and compete solely through music for the fans that continuously support them.
9. SHE 'SHE' is a medium pop ballad that conveys a unique ambience through an unconventional combination of acoustic sound and electric sound that are contrastingly mixed in the same song. The lyric depicts the mix of emotions the happiness and pleasure of a man in love and the anxiety and restlessness at the same time, interpreting the words in the same context as the composition of the song to distinguish the characteristics of the song more clearly.
10. 아테나(ATHENA) This song was chosen as the OST for SBS's Monday-Tuesday drama, 'Athena', and the magnificent and tense sound of the string which is combined with powerful sound of the band presents the splendid scale that could have not been heard from any existing OST. It was released before the opening of the drama, and has already drawn great attention from fans that have waited for new songs from TVXQ!
Credit: TVXQ's official website Shared by: continueTVXQ.wordpress.com ---------------------------------------------------
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