Postby Taliana » December 18th, 2007 2:40 am
Suju have a lot of older fans xD I'm 24~
Suju's 2nd album was just ... okay, before I get into it, just let me say a bit of a disclaimer here XD I have been a fan of Super Junior for some time now, I got into them just a few months after their debut.
Super Junior's first album was so fun. Yeah, most of the songs were covers, and yeah, their vocals have improved a million times since then, but ... the songs were FUN. "Life couldn't get better~ WOO!" is just one of the many fun things from that album that gets totally stuck in your head.
With the second album ... a lot of that fun was gone. 돈돈 was an amazing song, I was really surprised by it and really enjoyed it, but the rest of the album I just found incredibly boring. I cannot hum you a melody from any song other than 돈돈 ... and Marry U, but that's only because I hate that song with a passion XD;
I felt that they were trying too hard to present themselves as a "serious" band, that they were trying too much to push the fact that "Hey, we can sing now! We can have real songs now!". That's all well and good, but I like my Super Junior to be fun and happy. I don't like them droning on in mediocre ballads - which is a lot coming from me, because I am a huge sucker when it comes to ballads, I love a good ballad I really do (which is no surprise since I'm a big fan of Fly to the Sky and 박효신). But ... these ballads were just not good ballads. And there was too many of them, way too many of them. You go from awesome rock-pop, to ballad after ballad after ballad ... talk about an unbalanced album.
On one of the repackages, they added another song, 갈정 I think it was called. That song was great, and I would have liked the album more if that song had been on it.
So yeah, just overall ... I felt that they lost their "fun" edge. I know that they're older now, they need to put forward a bit more of a mature image, and I know that they were wanting to push their image as a "real" group because a lot of people were just seeing Suju as a bunch of random hot guys who didn't really have much to offer other than good looks and a few good voices and a couple of good dancers. But the way that SM Entertainment chose to push forward that "real artist" image was just a bad way. It could have been done better. An unbalanced album full of so-so ballads was NOT the way to go, and I'm disappointed in SM for doing this.
I mean, look at TVXQ. They have some really, really gorgeous ballads. You can't really compare a Super Junior ballad to a TVXQ ballad. TVXQ was designed to do ballads. Super Junior was designed to do fun, crazy pop with a couple of pop ballads here and there.
They could have pushed a serious artist image without losing their fun edge. They really, really could have.
... So that's my superlong spiel about why I don't like Suju's second album XD;; In a nutshell: I want me back some Miracle!
I haven't seen any of TVXQ's recent concert footage. I really want them to come back to Korea ;_; They do have some cool songs over there in Japan, and some really pretty ones, but I just prefer their Korean releases. Have you heard their Evergreen song, from this year's Winter SM TOWN album?? Supposedly Yoochun wrote the music and Changmin wrote the lyrics... it is incredible.
My love for TVXQ has been a bit up and down, but I have always seen them as an amazing group. There is such talent there, there really is.
F.T. Island are great! Another group I've been following since ... well, since before their official debut, actually. So young, but so great! Hongki has excellent vocals, reminds me of Pop-Rock groups like Buzz, it's the same kind of emotional, powerful vocals. I'm hoping to see the boys have more of an input into the composing, though. It will be interesting to see if they are skilled at not just playing instruments, but actually making music as well. I'm quite sure that there is plenty of hidden talent there.
