SNSD - I Got A Boy MV + Song Review

Oh boy oh boy...there is so much crap to cover with SNSD's first Korean comeback in over a year. Let me start by talking about the MV. On the positive side, the girls all look pretty good. I'm nuts for Yulsic, and they looked really cute so that was nice. 

CANT TAKE IT

im the teddy bear

The rest even Hyoyeon look ok as well. But Sunny...oh dear lord. Did you piss off some stylist into giving you blue hair on top of that ridiculous purple hair? You used to be so full of aegyo, but now i just feel really annoyed. 

Just no...

Some have mentioned that the outfits are too colorful, and that is generally true in this case. So so far so good right? A decent MV for a top girl group. So all we need is a solid title track to really drive it home and we can all celebrate SNSD's comeback. So how was the title track? In short...

weeeeeeee

Its horribly disjointed and incredibly unnatural on the first listen. A few more didn't really help as well. I'll say what i liked about the 5songs in 1 fiasco title track and talk about what I didn't in the next paragraph. The individual parts all show real potential, especially the "I got a boy handsome boy" chorus. That's why i was really hoping this was a medley instead of a title track and someone at SM made a horrible mistake. I really don't understand why they didn't just pick one of the distinct melodies and make a kick-ass title song. This is just really messy and disorganized much like my room. A lot of people are whining about the rapping, but I honestly thought it was okay, really enjoyed Yoona's part and I don't even like her that much. It was really catchy and enjoyable IMO.

Listen SM. You tested SONE's patience with The Boys. Now you are clearly just trying to see how much bullshit we'll endure just because its SNSD. That's the only logical reason I can come up with for this train wreck. I don't believe for one second that no one didn't get chills from listening to this. Maybe he/she/they brought it up and was/were thrown into the SM dungeon of the Forgotten along with TRAX and f(x). Alternatively, someone at a boring brainstorming session bet another that SONEs would accept this highlight medley and endlessly defend it as a title track. If that was the case, that guy must be laughing his way to the bank now.

This is just lazy. I've read some comments about it being "innovative" and "revolutionary". Bullshit. If being unnerving and disjointed is apparently being "innovative" and "revolutionary", then I will say without any shame that I rather go back to the Genie days. For example, the English adlibs are shameless thinly disguised veils to conceal the lack of flow between the varying tempos. The flow in this song is about as comfortable as having a man dig his ear with his finger, lick it and rub it all over his sweaty body before inserting his unholy finger into your ear. Speaking of which, just because you know English doesn't mean that you should overuse it to this extent. I don't know why you do so anyway, because the punchline in this joke of a song would be that they hope to promote in the US with it.

I'm a SONE. But I won't bend to fan opinion and accept this smoldering wreckage. I want to like it, I really do. I was extremely excited with the teasers. But as much as I was underwhelmed with The Boys, it never came close to anything this has made me feel. At least that song had structure and form. IGAB may grow on me eventually, but while I have disliked previous songs for minor flaws such as repetitive and slightly dull choruses e.g. "MAMA", this song's flaws are just too unsettling to forgive.