Girls' Generation

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Regularly, listeners erroneously describe K-pop as a “genre” of music.

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But unlike Europop, the geographic notation of “K-pop” doesn’t immediately bring a single sonic style khổng lồ mind. Instead, it evokes the idea of pristinely crafted pop perfection that blends a wide range of musical styles.

And though many, many songs coming out of the South Korean pop scene have played with tonal shifts và BPM switcheroos, few have done so with such aplomb as Girls’ Generation’s 2013 hit “I Got aBoy” — which is often compared lớn Queen’s tone-hopping epic “Bohemian Rhapsody” due to lớn its pristinely chaotic approach khổng lồ jumping between musical elements.

A medley of upbeat components blended together with a sense of frenzied vibrancy, “I Got aBoy” was imagined by Korean entertainment label as if it were pretty much a showtune, says songwriter Sarah Lundbäck. “They were so smart. ‘ get bored, you need lớn keep the interest up.’ They said they really wanted lớn make the song into a musical feel, in the storyline.

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Because they really wanted the tuy vậy to be about a girl that meets a boy and all her friends are telling her, like, ‘You’re an idiot. What can you see in this boy? He’s not good for you,’ & she’s like ‘Well, I got a boy.’”

The result was a girlish discourse about dating wrapped in everything from pump-up chants khổng lồ panicked raps to lớn enraged pop-rock-fueled vocal belts. “In my head, it was like, ‘Okay, we can bởi something crazy,’” reflects Lundbäck, pointing to how the song goes through nine distinct tonal shifts. “And it really felt lượt thích it was crazy, và that was fun. It’s so not conventional.”

The track, which started out as a songcamp brainchild of Lundbäck, Will Simms, và Anne Judith Wik, nearly ended up with Missy Elliott — but once SM Entertainment got its hands on it, the K-pop company’s producing division says via a joint statement that the A&R team, “came up with various ideas by editing the tuy nhiên day & night.”