Monday 5 November 2018

Seventeen - Director's Cut

Hello
안녕하세요 
(Annyeonghaseyo)
こんにちは 
(Konnichiwa)
你好
(Ni Hao)


I think this is a first for me, especially for a long time that I've shared with you a repackaged album for a group, so close to the album it's connected to. I read somewhere that this wasn't classed as a repackaged album because it contained more new tracks than a normal repackaged album does, so was titled a special album and this is Seventeen's first special album released.

On the 24th of January 2018, a teaser image was released announcing that Seventeen were making a comeback with a special album titled Director's Cut. The next day on the 25th of January 2018, the Director's Cut concept photo's were released for members Woozi, Vernon, DK, Seungkwan and Wonwoo.
Woozi

Vernon

DK

Seungkwan

Wonwoo
On the 26th of January 2018, the Director's Cut concept photos were released for Mingyu, The8, Hoshi and Joshua.
Mingyu

The8

Hoshi

Joshua
On the 27th of January 2018, the final set of Director's Cut concept photos were released for Jeonghan, Jun, Dino and S.Coups, as well as a group teaser image.
Jeonghan

Jun

Dino

S.Coups

On the 30th of January 2018, 3 short interviews were released of members Vernon, DK and Dino.

Also on the 30th of January 2018, the Special Album 'Director's Cut' Highlight Medley was released.
Owned by Pledis Entertainment
On the 31st of January 2018, the next set of short interviews with the members were released, this time with Hoshi, Joshua and Jun.

Also on the 31st of January 2018, the 고맙다 (Thanks) M/V Teaser 1 was released.
Owned by Pledis Entertainment
On the 1st of February 2018, the next set of short member interviews were released, this time with Woozi, Wonwoo and The8.

Also on the 1st of February 2018, the 고맙다 (Thanks) M/V Teaser 2 was released.
Owned by Pledis Entertainment
On the 4th of February 2018, the final short interviews with the members were released, finally with Seungkwan, Jeonghan, Mingyu and S.Coups.

The next day on the 5th of February the M/V for 고맙다 (Thanks) was released, along with the physical and digital release of their special album Director's Cut.
Owned by Pledis Entertainment
On the 10th of February 2018, the choreography video was released for 고맙다 (Thanks).
Owned by Pledis Entertainment

고맙다 (Thanks) won Seventeen 2 music show trophies, with 1 win through Show Champion ad 1 win through Music Bank.

Like all Seventeen releases, the members participated in the creation of the 4 new tracks.
Woozi co-wrote and co-composed track 지금 널 찾아가고 있어 (Run To You).
Woozi, Joshua and Jeonghan co-wrote and co-composed on track Falling For You.
Woozi and Hoshi co-wrote title track 고맙다 (Thanks), with Woozi also co-composing on the track.
Woozi, S.Coups, Wonwoo, Mingyu and Vernon co-wrote Thinkin' About You, with Woozi also co-composing on the track.

Director's Cut peaked at No.1 on the Gaon Albums Chart, No.2 on the Oricon Albums Chart, No.1 on the Five-Music Albums Chart, No.2 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart and No.2 on the Billboard World Albums Chart.
Gaon Sales:
194,279+
Oricon Sales:
38,563+
Giving the Director's Cut special album a total album sales of 232,842+ so far.
*YouTube views correct at time of writing post*
The M/V for 고맙다 (Thanks) has so far gained 28,661,139 million views through their official YouTube channel, while through the channel 1theK, the M/V has gained 3,913,242 million views. Giving the M/V a total of  32,574,381 million views, with the views increasing everyday.

Director's Cut was released in 2 versions: Plot and Sunset, both versions are set out in a book style case and come with random member Cd (plate design), photobook, random postcard set, random version photocard and random lenticular card.
The album covers are different for both versions, with the photobooks also being different in both versions.
The plot versions photobook seems to follow a more behind the scenes photo shoot concept, while the sunset versions photobook follows more of an official photo shoot concept.

Track List:
Thinkin' About You
고맙다 (Thanks)
지금 널 찾아가고 있어 (Run To you)
Falling For You

Intro. 新世界 (Intro. New World)
Change Up
모자를 눌러 쓰고 (Without You)
박수 (Clap)
날 쏘고 가라 (Bring It)
3월의 춤 (Lilli Yabbay)
Trauma
바람개비 (Pinwheel)
Flower
Rocket
Hello
캠프파이어 (Campfire)
Outro. 未完 (Outro. Incompletion)






 


































What can Seventeen do to an album that's already amazing and full of bops? Add four more awesome tracks of course. I was desperate for this album so I bought it on eBay without packaging so as you can see I don't have the photocards, but the main reason I bought it was because the Cd plate is my Seventeen ultimate bias, Jeonghan as I'd still not pulled him in any of my Seventeen albums. I'm glad I picked the plot version as I love how relaxed they all look in the pictures, it's like the crew had basically said have fun and we'll take some pictures. The four new tracks really work well with the tracks already on TEEN,AGE, while adding so much more to it. 지금 널 찾아가고 있어 (Run To you) has to be my favourite new track, it's something new from Seventeen and I love, it also has that anime opening theme feel. We also get a song from Jeonghan and Joshua, which I know will have made a lot of fans really happy, their voices work so well together.

Thinkin' About You


고맙다 (Thanks)

지금 널 찾아가고 있어 (Run To you)

Falling For You
Rocket

Hello

캠프파이어 (Campfire)
Night Sky

Outro. 未完 (Outro. Incompletion)

And there we have, the rest of Seventeen's amazing Special album Director's Cut and 2nd full length album TEEN,AGE. I think the next time we see Seventeen comeback again will be in 2019 and I look forward to when they do make their comeback.

Did you get Director's Cut?
Which version did you get?
Do you have a favourite song from their 4 new tracks?
Let me know in the comments below.

See you soon!



안녕
(Annyeong)
さようなら
(Sayonara)
再见
(ZaiJian)
Bye

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