SMTOWN’s winter
album, 2011 SMTOWN Winter [The Warmest Gift], will be released on the 13th.
It has been four
years since SMTOWN released winter album in 2007. In addition, since all the
SMTOWN artists including Kangta, BoA, TVXQ!, TRAX, THE GRACE DANA & SUNDAY,
Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, f(x), Zhang Li Yin and J-min
participated in the album, this assorted gift set is predicted to fascinate
music fans.
Also, this album
includes a total of 11 songs including 7 new songs and 4 covers such as world
famous carols like ‘Last Christmas,’ ‘Sleigh ride,’ etc., so it is enough to
meet warm music gift for the winter as well as Christmas season.
Especially SMTOWN
has proved its global brand power and artists’ tremendous popularity once again
through world tour concerts in Seoul, LA, Tokyo, Paris, New York, Shanghai,
etc. Therefore, in return for global music fans’ support, all the songs in the
album are recorded in English.
Pursuant to the
title of the album, ‘The Warmest Gift,’ Super Junior is selected as Santa who
carries presents. The lyrics of the title song ‘Santa U Are The One’ is about
how Santa is the greatest for bringing the world joy and presents. With cute
lyrics and quick rhythm and melody, it gives Christmas atmosphere and Super
Junior’s bright and cheerful voice doubles the atmosphere of the song.
Also, TVXQ!’s
‘Sleigh ride’ has a light swing rhythm accompanied by the orchestra’s grandeur
and big band’s powerful charm to express brilliance and excitement for
Christmas. SHINee’s electronic dance music, ‘Last Christmas,’ features SHINee’s
own unique color and dreamlike and powerful charms of synthpop.
Moreover, Girls’
Generation expressed warm and happy feelings of winter through standard pop
music, ‘Diamond.’ Following the song ‘Stand up!’ from the 1st album, f(x) once
again worked with Peppertones for winter song ‘1,2,3’ which features
Peppertones’ own bright and healthy music color with cute and lovely
atmosphere.
In addition, BoA’s
new song, ‘Distance,’ is a R&B ballad featuring simple rhythm, dreamlike
piano melody and mournful and graceful voice. Kangta’s ‘For The First Time’ is
an acoustic ballad which reminisces about the days with woman he loved and he
sings about love he received from her.
The album also
contains the English version of TRAX’s ‘Like A Dream’ from their 3rd mini
album, Zhang Li Yin’s cover version of ‘The First Noel,’ THE GRACE DANA &
SUNDAY’s pop ballad ‘Amazing’ and J-min’s remake version of ‘Happy X-Mas
(Original version by John Lennon and Yoko Ono)’ so 11 songs of various genres
are expected to receive an explosive response.
Meanwhile, 2011 SMTOWN
Winter [The Warmest Gift] will be released in Japan as well on December
14th.
Sumber: SMTOWN
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