I’m not a hater or nor do I want to be mean but this song sucks.
It’s not the girls but the song itself is horrible.
I heard it last night and it just left me cold. It’s just weird. I found the lyrics assignment just awful. Why on earth would they make Tiffany (one of the few members of the group with a great voice) just rap and on top of that they digitized her voice? Also, they allowed Sunny (who has a high pitched voice) to sing like a diva? (No offense to Sunny fans)
On Allkpop, one of the comments just popped out to me and it’s just silly (quote MsDAdvocate):
some people are so caught up in the memory of the past that they fail to enjoy the present
Nope, the past was good, but the present sucks. I wasn’t expecting them to release a cutesy song, after all they moved from the cute “Gee” to the awesome Japanese song “Taxi”. Yet “The boys” is a disappointment. I don’t know if their agency tried to release a song that would please the American market, but only die hard fans would actually enjoy this song. And not because of the greatness of the song, but because of their loyal devotion to the girls.
And so not to end this on a bad note, here’s a picture of the Dancing Queen, who surprisingly had a few more lines in this new song.
I don’t know how much success they will have with this new album. But I for one, I will wait for the Wonder Girls and T-ara to make their comebacks. Hopefully, they will release something that will rock my socks.
19 October, 2011 @ 11:17
i’ve been dissapointed too. when i saw the teasers i was pleasantly surprised and i looked forward to the video but when i saw the whole thing i was like: ….myeah….
it doesn’t suit them. if they wanted a bad girl image they could have got it easily with another song.
anyway, maybe the next release would be better 😛
19 October, 2011 @ 11:51
That’s what I thought! The video and teasers are really awesome but as a whole is pretty lame, dare I say.
They really worked the bad girl image in Run Devil Run, but with this song they just don’t seem to get it right…
I am wondering how are the other songs from the album.
19 October, 2011 @ 18:49
In my opinion this sounds more like a cheerleaders’ slogan or something…I’m disappointed with SME.. Such lovely girls and they give them such a.. uhmmm…lame song! Tsk Tsk!
Actually SME does that with all groups. I like the groups under SM just for their members, but I put a lot of effort to listen to a whole album… I own some Shinee’s and SuJu’s albums, but I never listen to them, just to few songs…
Btw, Since u posted that audition vid of Hyoyeon, I started to pay more attention to her (I wasn’t into SNSD b4) and I was actually impressed! So when this MV come out, I was impatient to see her and listen to her, but after awhile, I was like: “will she sing in this song?” Meh, unfair to have such a short line to sing…
20 October, 2011 @ 07:53
Even cheerleaders are better than this thing. It’s really a shame, I noticed that a lot of groups from SME had problems because of bad managing. As I said I will try to see if they have any decent songs n their new album. I have’t had the time to see what’s on it..
Wow, you actually own albums? That’s something. I usually try to buy certain albums and they say it can’t be shipped to Romania. The same thing happens when I try to buy headphones and sometimes it annoys me because there are moments when I actually see something I like on sale and I can’t buy it. Grrr
I’m glad you payed more attention to Hyoyeon. As I said she’s so underrated just because she was the ugly duckling of the group. I can understand the fact that’s it’s hard to share a song when you have 9 people in the group, but there are other ways you can make-up for it: like sub-units or more screen time..
23 October, 2011 @ 21:10
“she was the ugly duckling of the group.”
Are people blind or something? O_O
But maybe she wasn’t this beautiful in the past… hmmm… I’ll check pics from their debut :/
24 October, 2011 @ 07:23
Lina, she wasn’t always this beautiful. Actually a lot of people speculated that she was the one that had done the most plastic surgery in the group. But if you look at it you can see she has the same features.
She got beautiful by growing up and changing her hairtsyle, which i think was the best thing that could’ve happen to her.
I really hate how she looks with bangs but it seems she loves them, so who am I to criticize.