SUPER JUNIOR'S MR.SIMPLE

     SUPER JUNIOR 5th ALBUM PREVIEW


Super Junior are professionals at melting entire K-Pop communities to bubbling puddles of goo. They hold more power in the palm of their hands than most boy bands combined, and so it comes as no surprise that news of their comeback completely dominated the international K-Pop community.

Needless to say, the concept (as wacky as it may be) served its purpose – to grab all eyes and ears towards Super Junior like moths to a neon-colored flame.

With the release of ‘Mr. Simple‘, Super Junior’s fifth studio album, consider yourself jet-packing to the light and getting fried.

Their image was loud and eclectic, bold and bewildering. It left me wondering, how would this album actually sound? Is it as coo-coo bananas as what I’m looking at?

Well, let’s find out.

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Track List:
01 Mr. Simple
02 오페라 (Opera)
03 라라라라 (Be My Girl)
04 Walkin’
05 폭풍 (Storm)
06 어느새 우린 (Good Friends)
07 결투 (Feels Good)
08 기억을 따라 (Memories)
09 해바라기 (Sunflower)
10 엉뚱한 상상 (White Christmas)
11 Y
12 My Love, My Kiss, My Heart
13 태완미 (太完美: Perfection) (Bonus Track)

M Entertainment seemed to know that this album would be Super Junior’s last before membersHeechul and Leeteuk march into their military service. And so, to help them brave this impending departure, SM cooked up one final single which they could wreak havoc with, just for old time’s sake.

In truth, Super Junior’s title track is hectic and full of frenzy. It features a stu-stu-stu-stuttering instrumental and a pair of verses that are as glitchy. We hear most members chiming in through the first verse – from Siwon biting through his lines to Donghae quacking ever-so-endearingly. Then the chorus hits, hammering all the synths, dings, and vocals together in a synchronized fashion to the eighth notes; it’s resulted in something like controlled chaos.

There’s an unmistakable familiarity to “Mr. Simple” that I’m sure hasn’t gone unnoticed. “Mr. Simple” is at its core, a complete rehashing of “Sorry, Sorry” (2009). It was done with “Bonamana” (2010), which wasn’t that blatant of a copy, but it certainly came from the same archetype. Now you have version no. 3, which may actually contain samples from the two.

It doesn’t quite venture out of what Super Junior have released in the past, and so it’s not as groundbreaking as one would have hoped. But its energy and loudness is right in line with what Super Junior always seem to bring to the stages of K-Pop. “Mr. Simple” is like any other SM lead single, put together to be experienced in a setting where elements like choreography, special effects, and the members themselves are enough to distract from the otherwise recycled aspects of the song.

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HELL YEAH !!!! SUPER JUNIOR ROCKS !