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An nyoung
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It's time for another K-pop Monday! This week we return back to Super Junior and this week is their sixth full length Korean album: Sexy, Free & Single.
Released in October 2012 it was their first album and marked the return of Kangin after his Mandatory Military Service and was also the first album without Heechul and was the last release with Leader Leetuek before he joined Heechul on their Mandatory Military Service, the group continued to tour without their inactive members but didn't release any group music until the return of their Leader Leeteuk and Heechul (sadly member Yesung was doing his Mandatory service when they both returned). Like many SM Entertainment albums it also got a repackaged album titled Spy! (I don't yet have this album).
Sexy, Free & Single was the lead single from the album and I have to say it's one of my favourite Super Junior tracks, the MV is also really colourful showing them in different outfits the theme given for the album and MV was 'Beautiful Men' with individual teaser images released for each member. For this album Leeteuk had expressed that they had wanted to try out different music and dance styles for this album as their third to fifth albums were similar.
The styling for the MV in my opinion was one of the first times I thought how strange and possibly ahead fashion was in Korea, there were a few outfit changes from the guys a few I thought looked really good, and a few that not only raised a few eyebrows also made my lips twitch into a smirk (basically some of them were shirtless with their abs on show) these were also some of the strange ones too. Sexy, Free & Single is also one of my favourite MV's that I love watching, each section is eye-catching and I love watching them dance. The looks include street style clothes, black rocker leather look, white painted clothes, Suits and something only I can describe as bondage style clothing if they were in charge. Different groups are able to pull off different styles and I think Super Junior are definitely a suits group, to me personally they always look better in a suit.
Owned by SM Entertainment
Tracklist:
Sexy, Free & Single
너로부터 (From U)
NOW
Rockstar
걸리버 (Gulliver)
언젠가는 (Someday)
달곰씁쓸 (Bittersweet)
빠삐용 (Butterfly)
머문다 (Daydream)
헤어지는 날 (A 'Good' bye)
*I may have got the second character to Bittersweet wrong*
The CD comes in a book style case with the CD on one side and the booklet with pictures and lyrics at the opposite side and each member gets a few pages with each of them getting to write their thank you notes. As expected their are members that have pictures without their shirts and if your familiar with these guys it doesn't surprise you that it's the usual suspects with their abs out on show. In all honesty I have no idea how to describe these pictures all I can do is let you see them and make your own opinion up, but as I was staring at the album covers I could only think they looked both masculine and feminine at the same time with both hair and choice of colours.
Front of album
Booklet & CD
Donghae
Donghae
Yesung
Yesung
Sungmin
Sungmin
Eunhyuk
Eunhyuk
Ryeowook
Ryeowook
Leeteuk
Leeteuk
Kangin
Kangin
Kyuhyun
Kyuhyun
Shindong
Shindong
Siwon
Siwon
Lyrics
Sexy, Free & Single
From U
Rockstar
Gulliver
Lyrics
Bittersweet
Butterfly
Daydream
Album credits
Back of album
This album also came with a group photo card that appears to be them either before or after a music show/event performance.
Of all the albums I have from Super Junior as bad as this may sound to some it took me longer to enjoy this album than some of their others, I went into this album with only had heard Sexy, Free & Single and on my first listen was the only song I really enjoyed and that stood out to me but after a few more listens more songs started to stand out, with some vocal making them shine a lot more. One thing I will give a big applause for is that like they wanted each track is different from the last, no song sounds the same which you can get on many albums, check out a few of my favourites below:
Sexy, Free & Single
너로부터 (From U)
Rockstar
걸리버 (Gulliver)
빠삐용 (Butterfly)
달곰씁쓸 (Bittersweet)
머문다 (Daydream)
Well I hope you've enjoyed this week's K-pop Monday! and the next few weeks are going to be a mixture of Super Junior and Shinee with a little sneak in by Girls Generation with their brand new album.
Sexy, Free & Single
너로부터 (From U)
Rockstar
걸리버 (Gulliver)
빠삐용 (Butterfly)
달곰씁쓸 *(Bittersweet)
머문다 (Daydream)
See you soon!
An nyoung
Sayonara
Zai Jian
Bye
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