As you discovered, "Ring Ding Dong," is one of SHINee's most popular songs. Not only does SHINee perform this song at almost all their live performances, but it's also one of their most well-known choreographies. It's one of the dances that every rookie group in the industry, both boy groups and girl groups, are required to learn and know, and most have covered the song and dance at least once in their career, even still today. This song is part of the era when auto tune was brand new and it was the new cool thing that everyone was using in their new songs. SHINee was ahead of their time when this song came out and it blew people away for its sound and style, which many had never heard before. :D This is totally the look and sound that was just becoming the new it thing back in 2009. As others have probably mentioned, "Ring Ding Dong" is such an iconic song and it's so catchy that it has been said that in Korea this song is banned from being played anywhere or listened to during college entrance exam time. When it first came out, students complained that the song would get stuck in their heads and they couldn't concentrate on their studies or on the test. :D If you want to hear the song without the auto tune then you need to hear them perform it live in concert. Try their live MBC music festival performance of "Ring Ding Dong" in 2016, ruclips.net/video/_lYurocLpi8/видео.html, or their legendary "Ring Ding Dong" and "Lucifer" set from their SHINee World Concert V in Seoul in 2016, ruclips.net/video/mtFK7FxKdLs/видео.html. SHINee's songs are always way different performed live. You will see how SHINee has grown and why they are live performance legends. How I interpret the story in the MV is, the song is about a sort of love at first sight and thoughts of that person keep ringing through your head, so much so that you start to become obsessed with them. It's more than just protecting the girl or your love, but it's about wanting to have her all to yourself and not allowing anyone else to come between you, etc. (As the English part of the lyrics says, "Fantastic, elastic ..." because thoughts of that person are constantly bouncing around in your head.) In the MV, if you notice, at one point, we see all the members dressed in white and they are standing in an all white room looking into the mirror. However, the image they see in the mirror is not their reflection, but what seems to be their alter ego or inner self because we see their mirror images with brooding expressions and they have wings. But their wings are not white like an angel who is pure and good, they are grey like angels of darkness. So, maybe this is showing how their thoughts are not a pure and innocent love, but one of passion and possession, etc. We see them in the white room with the white clothes because I see that as showing how they are hiding their true selves -- on the outside people think they look innocent and pure, but once you get to know them they have far less pure intentions. When in their black and red outfits this is more their true selves. The only explanation I can see as to why they are shown lighting the candles without even touching them is a way to make it clear that they are different then what they seem and they may have "magical powers" that can be used to attract the girl and make her theirs, etc. I interpret the butterfly they talk about in the lyrics, and the ones we see them with in the MV, to represent the girl and how she is beautiful, and fragel and flits around in their life attracting them and distracting them, etc. and they want to capture her and make her theirs. It is also thought that maybe SM Entertainment is now using the butterfly to connect the storylines between SM's groups. Some theories think that maybe SHINee's butterfly is connected to the butterfly we see in EXO's debut "Mama" MVs from 2012, which could also be connected to NingNing's butterfly in aespa's storyline from 2020, and it could even be connected to the butterfly in NCT-127's "Favorite (Vampire)" MV from 2021, etc. The butterfly is thought to possibly represent the heart of the Tree of Life from EXO's storyline and could be the butterfly that helps aespa navigate through Kwangya in aespa's "ep. 2 'Next Level' -- SM Culture Universe" video, which would help to connect all of SM's groups' storylines together. Although SHINee's storyline my not have originally been designed to connect to anything outside of their group, I think SM has been using things from their older groups' MVs as "happy coincidences" in order to draw everyone into their SM Culture Universe storyline. Beyond that, I don't really have an explanation of anything else that is happening in the "Ring Ding Dong" MV. Most of it I interpret as just part of the aesthetic of what was the new cool think and what they were doing with MVs in 2009. The boys' hair and clothing styles and the aesthetic of the MV was supposed to give them more of a bad boy image, to sort of contrast the fact that when they debuted with "Replay" in 2008 they had a boy next door image and they were given the title as the nation's younger boyfriends -- people had a pure and wholesome image of them -- so they wanted to show that as SM's experimental boy group, people should never expect them to stay the same. SHINee will forever be changing up their image to show many different sides of themselves and all different styles of music and dance. "Ring Ding Dong" was showing a new side of SHINee. This was only SHINee's second comeback after debut, so it established their role as the ever changing and evolving group that was expected to keep setting trends and coming up with new concepts, styles and sounds. Fun Fact: Minho's long hair and Jonghyun's "Lion" hairstyle in "Ring Ding Dong" is such an iconic look. But Minho always hated this hairstyle, LOL. He has never liked having long hair. He begged SM to allow him to cut his hair and it took a few months before they would let him do it. They made him wait until they were done promoting for this album because their hairstyles were part of the album's concept. (Minho recently said that he didn't cut his hair for almost a year from the start of "Replay" promotions to the end of "Ring Ding Dong" promotions, so that's why his hair was so long.) And therefore, Minho has refused to ever grow his hair out again. ;P Also, almost all of SM's boy groups had similar hairstyles during this time period. :D Take a look at Super Junior or TVXQ in 2009. Their hair looked like this too. hehehe. This was just sort of the look for Korean entertainers back in the day. SHINee were setting tends even with their hair.
Lucifer came out in 2010, at the time the member's ages where: Onew -20, Jonghyun - 20, Key - 18, Minho - 18 and Taemin - 16 (a few days before turning 17). it was released 2 years into their career. They debuted in the 25th of May 2008 with the ICONIC song Replay (to this day considered to be one of the best debut songs in k-pop history) and their ages then were: Onew - 18, Jonghyun - 18, Key - 16, Minho - 16 and Taemin - 14. THIS song was released in 2009, and became HUGE (this song united all the fandoms), it was so addictive that it became the first ever banned song during exams season in Korea (there's a list of song that are not permitted to be played during the exams season because they are so addictive that people can't concentrate because of them, this song was the first song on that list and the only song to be on the list every year since. other songs come on the list and then leave it after a year or two, this one is a permanent fixture.), the lyrics of the song are also written on the wall of the Korean museum of history, as an exhibit. SHINee have MANY gorgeous Ballads but most of them are either b-sides, Japanese releases or both, so I'll mostly give you live performances or Japanese MVs. MVs: since it's that time of year, I'll start with SHINee's only original Winter song, Winter Wonderland - ruclips.net/video/k9orFMMnSKw/видео.htmlsi=zjAnYh5Vveq8gGNJ (Unofficial version with subs - ruclips.net/video/WoioQMSUnR4/видео.html ) Our page (this is a song the remaining 4 members wrote as a letter to Jonghyun, so the lyrics are SUPER important, s th link I'm giving is not the official MV) - ruclips.net/video/tKHQbOuxIwo/видео.htmlsi=Lr4Q9mhMg7aOB4qn 1,000 years, always by your side (this MV also has a 15 minute long version) - ruclips.net/video/z7e18C-Bbyc/видео.htmlsi=Sp3BKJXF9BCQxoa7 (Unofficial version with subs - ruclips.net/video/5SPpBNeOzP8/видео.html ) Fire - ruclips.net/video/BWsSiuU0ThY/видео.htmlsi=3VOOLtlYSoQ1DPEB (Unofficial version with subs - ruclips.net/video/biKHWsoTnDA/видео.html ) now, on to live b-sides: From Now on (this one is Beautiful but very VERY sad. it's a tribute to Jonghyun) - ruclips.net/video/nqnrrFGy_z0/видео.html Quasimodo - ruclips.net/video/Ib35Ii6T5hw/видео.html Selene 6.23 - ruclips.net/video/76iHzzWijLA/видео.htmlsi=wr3z0xxX30BMlLBY An Ode To You - ruclips.net/video/MFr6wH1zcFE/видео.html An Encore - ruclips.net/video/-BmAApB4G3g/видео.html Love - ruclips.net/video/lRhOwwV97UI/видео.html Colors of the season - ruclips.net/video/k82KsdWgwOQ/видео.html Keeping love again - ruclips.net/video/jYnpisyR1Fs/видео.html Moon river waltz - ruclips.net/video/95Qv0YAfHrs/видео.html Better Off - ruclips.net/video/uSYhkOk7VxM/видео.html Better - ruclips.net/video/Usd6cjLlp_A/видео.html Sleepless - ruclips.net/video/vzc43LljSJs/видео.html One - ruclips.net/video/CLXx-1ksTps/видео.html Romantic - ruclips.net/video/UXHqDlf3PuI/видео.html Run With Me - ruclips.net/video/0Xm7aVJ11Y0/видео.html The World with you - ruclips.net/video/VS2YuDxqILM/видео.html Tonight - ruclips.net/video/aA0-Yjg2hxY/видео.html Aside - ruclips.net/video/CYQbMjXVIao/видео.html Don't let me go - ruclips.net/video/0EEDmeJQGik/видео.html Green Rain (OST, actually has an MV if you prefer..) - ruclips.net/video/vVTLiCXY3s0/видео.html Graze - ruclips.net/video/eQHP5CBfshc/видео.html Farewell my love - ruclips.net/video/HifTVTthhWU/видео.html I'm with you - ruclips.net/video/3FTlOZ5iz5U/видео.html Life - ruclips.net/video/R1s2sN81cuE/видео.html Kiss kiss kiss - ruclips.net/video/-OrosqrN3D0/видео.html SEASONS - ruclips.net/video/8DBeRqEWfQE/видео.html The name I loved - ruclips.net/video/tSzjtXouxFI/видео.html
This song got easily stuck in the head , so it was banned as it made students lose their focus during exams 😂😂😂. I like the live stages version more for this song as there is no heavy autotune and it's so good !!!
This might be their most known song but I can't say I listen to it a lot😅 you should really listen to Everybody, Wanted (live version, cause this song sadly doesn't have many videos), Evil (live version too), Kimi no sei de (I love this song so much ❤), Why so serious (it's a very fun song XD), Excuse me Miss, Symptoms, Chocolate, Odd Eye (live version), Woof woof (live version, it's a bit weird cause they have puppy ears and tails but it's a very fun live performance 😂❤)
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Winter Wonderland is a really beautiful song for the holidays. And the video is gorgeous.
As you discovered, "Ring Ding Dong," is one of SHINee's most popular songs. Not only does SHINee perform this song at almost all their live performances, but it's also one of their most well-known choreographies. It's one of the dances that every rookie group in the industry, both boy groups and girl groups, are required to learn and know, and most have covered the song and dance at least once in their career, even still today.
This song is part of the era when auto tune was brand new and it was the new cool thing that everyone was using in their new songs. SHINee was ahead of their time when this song came out and it blew people away for its sound and style, which many had never heard before. :D This is totally the look and sound that was just becoming the new it thing back in 2009.
As others have probably mentioned, "Ring Ding Dong" is such an iconic song and it's so catchy that it has been said that in Korea this song is banned from being played anywhere or listened to during college entrance exam time. When it first came out, students complained that the song would get stuck in their heads and they couldn't concentrate on their studies or on the test. :D
If you want to hear the song without the auto tune then you need to hear them perform it live in concert. Try their live MBC music festival performance of "Ring Ding Dong" in 2016, ruclips.net/video/_lYurocLpi8/видео.html, or their legendary "Ring Ding Dong" and "Lucifer" set from their SHINee World Concert V in Seoul in 2016, ruclips.net/video/mtFK7FxKdLs/видео.html. SHINee's songs are always way different performed live. You will see how SHINee has grown and why they are live performance legends.
How I interpret the story in the MV is, the song is about a sort of love at first sight and thoughts of that person keep ringing through your head, so much so that you start to become obsessed with them. It's more than just protecting the girl or your love, but it's about wanting to have her all to yourself and not allowing anyone else to come between you, etc. (As the English part of the lyrics says, "Fantastic, elastic ..." because thoughts of that person are constantly bouncing around in your head.)
In the MV, if you notice, at one point, we see all the members dressed in white and they are standing in an all white room looking into the mirror. However, the image they see in the mirror is not their reflection, but what seems to be their alter ego or inner self because we see their mirror images with brooding expressions and they have wings. But their wings are not white like an angel who is pure and good, they are grey like angels of darkness. So, maybe this is showing how their thoughts are not a pure and innocent love, but one of passion and possession, etc. We see them in the white room with the white clothes because I see that as showing how they are hiding their true selves -- on the outside people think they look innocent and pure, but once you get to know them they have far less pure intentions. When in their black and red outfits this is more their true selves. The only explanation I can see as to why they are shown lighting the candles without even touching them is a way to make it clear that they are different then what they seem and they may have "magical powers" that can be used to attract the girl and make her theirs, etc.
I interpret the butterfly they talk about in the lyrics, and the ones we see them with in the MV, to represent the girl and how she is beautiful, and fragel and flits around in their life attracting them and distracting them, etc. and they want to capture her and make her theirs.
It is also thought that maybe SM Entertainment is now using the butterfly to connect the storylines between SM's groups. Some theories think that maybe SHINee's butterfly is connected to the butterfly we see in EXO's debut "Mama" MVs from 2012, which could also be connected to NingNing's butterfly in aespa's storyline from 2020, and it could even be connected to the butterfly in NCT-127's "Favorite (Vampire)" MV from 2021, etc. The butterfly is thought to possibly represent the heart of the Tree of Life from EXO's storyline and could be the butterfly that helps aespa navigate through Kwangya in aespa's "ep. 2 'Next Level' -- SM Culture Universe" video, which would help to connect all of SM's groups' storylines together. Although SHINee's storyline my not have originally been designed to connect to anything outside of their group, I think SM has been using things from their older groups' MVs as "happy coincidences" in order to draw everyone into their SM Culture Universe storyline.
Beyond that, I don't really have an explanation of anything else that is happening in the "Ring Ding Dong" MV. Most of it I interpret as just part of the aesthetic of what was the new cool think and what they were doing with MVs in 2009.
The boys' hair and clothing styles and the aesthetic of the MV was supposed to give them more of a bad boy image, to sort of contrast the fact that when they debuted with "Replay" in 2008 they had a boy next door image and they were given the title as the nation's younger boyfriends -- people had a pure and wholesome image of them -- so they wanted to show that as SM's experimental boy group, people should never expect them to stay the same. SHINee will forever be changing up their image to show many different sides of themselves and all different styles of music and dance. "Ring Ding Dong" was showing a new side of SHINee. This was only SHINee's second comeback after debut, so it established their role as the ever changing and evolving group that was expected to keep setting trends and coming up with new concepts, styles and sounds.
Fun Fact: Minho's long hair and Jonghyun's "Lion" hairstyle in "Ring Ding Dong" is such an iconic look. But Minho always hated this hairstyle, LOL. He has never liked having long hair. He begged SM to allow him to cut his hair and it took a few months before they would let him do it. They made him wait until they were done promoting for this album because their hairstyles were part of the album's concept. (Minho recently said that he didn't cut his hair for almost a year from the start of "Replay" promotions to the end of "Ring Ding Dong" promotions, so that's why his hair was so long.) And therefore, Minho has refused to ever grow his hair out again. ;P Also, almost all of SM's boy groups had similar hairstyles during this time period. :D Take a look at Super Junior or TVXQ in 2009. Their hair looked like this too. hehehe. This was just sort of the look for Korean entertainers back in the day. SHINee were setting tends even with their hair.
There's a saying in SHINee world that goes "SHINee finds you when you need them" maybe you found them at exactly the right time....
Thank you for this reaction! I recommend their debut song Replay. It's iconic and a slower song
Lucifer came out in 2010, at the time the member's ages where: Onew -20, Jonghyun - 20, Key - 18, Minho - 18 and Taemin - 16 (a few days before turning 17). it was released 2 years into their career.
They debuted in the 25th of May 2008 with the ICONIC song Replay (to this day considered to be one of the best debut songs in k-pop history) and their ages then were: Onew - 18, Jonghyun - 18, Key - 16, Minho - 16 and Taemin - 14.
THIS song was released in 2009, and became HUGE (this song united all the fandoms), it was so addictive that it became the first ever banned song during exams season in Korea (there's a list of song that are not permitted to be played during the exams season because they are so addictive that people can't concentrate because of them, this song was the first song on that list and the only song to be on the list every year since. other songs come on the list and then leave it after a year or two, this one is a permanent fixture.), the lyrics of the song are also written on the wall of the Korean museum of history, as an exhibit.
SHINee have MANY gorgeous Ballads but most of them are either b-sides, Japanese releases or both, so I'll mostly give you live performances or Japanese MVs.
MVs:
since it's that time of year, I'll start with SHINee's only original Winter song, Winter Wonderland - ruclips.net/video/k9orFMMnSKw/видео.htmlsi=zjAnYh5Vveq8gGNJ (Unofficial version with subs - ruclips.net/video/WoioQMSUnR4/видео.html )
Our page (this is a song the remaining 4 members wrote as a letter to Jonghyun, so the lyrics are SUPER important, s th link I'm giving is not the official MV) - ruclips.net/video/tKHQbOuxIwo/видео.htmlsi=Lr4Q9mhMg7aOB4qn
1,000 years, always by your side (this MV also has a 15 minute long version) - ruclips.net/video/z7e18C-Bbyc/видео.htmlsi=Sp3BKJXF9BCQxoa7 (Unofficial version with subs - ruclips.net/video/5SPpBNeOzP8/видео.html )
Fire - ruclips.net/video/BWsSiuU0ThY/видео.htmlsi=3VOOLtlYSoQ1DPEB (Unofficial version with subs - ruclips.net/video/biKHWsoTnDA/видео.html )
now, on to live b-sides:
From Now on (this one is Beautiful but very VERY sad. it's a tribute to Jonghyun) - ruclips.net/video/nqnrrFGy_z0/видео.html
Quasimodo - ruclips.net/video/Ib35Ii6T5hw/видео.html
Selene 6.23 - ruclips.net/video/76iHzzWijLA/видео.htmlsi=wr3z0xxX30BMlLBY
An Ode To You - ruclips.net/video/MFr6wH1zcFE/видео.html
An Encore - ruclips.net/video/-BmAApB4G3g/видео.html
Love - ruclips.net/video/lRhOwwV97UI/видео.html
Colors of the season - ruclips.net/video/k82KsdWgwOQ/видео.html
Keeping love again - ruclips.net/video/jYnpisyR1Fs/видео.html
Moon river waltz - ruclips.net/video/95Qv0YAfHrs/видео.html
Better Off - ruclips.net/video/uSYhkOk7VxM/видео.html
Better - ruclips.net/video/Usd6cjLlp_A/видео.html
Sleepless - ruclips.net/video/vzc43LljSJs/видео.html
One - ruclips.net/video/CLXx-1ksTps/видео.html
Romantic - ruclips.net/video/UXHqDlf3PuI/видео.html
Run With Me - ruclips.net/video/0Xm7aVJ11Y0/видео.html
The World with you - ruclips.net/video/VS2YuDxqILM/видео.html
Tonight - ruclips.net/video/aA0-Yjg2hxY/видео.html
Aside - ruclips.net/video/CYQbMjXVIao/видео.html
Don't let me go - ruclips.net/video/0EEDmeJQGik/видео.html
Green Rain (OST, actually has an MV if you prefer..) - ruclips.net/video/vVTLiCXY3s0/видео.html
Graze - ruclips.net/video/eQHP5CBfshc/видео.html
Farewell my love - ruclips.net/video/HifTVTthhWU/видео.html
I'm with you - ruclips.net/video/3FTlOZ5iz5U/видео.html
Life - ruclips.net/video/R1s2sN81cuE/видео.html
Kiss kiss kiss - ruclips.net/video/-OrosqrN3D0/видео.html
SEASONS - ruclips.net/video/8DBeRqEWfQE/видео.html
The name I loved - ruclips.net/video/tSzjtXouxFI/видео.html
This song got easily stuck in the head , so it was banned as it made students lose their focus during exams 😂😂😂.
I like the live stages version more for this song as there is no heavy autotune and it's so good !!!
This might be their most known song but I can't say I listen to it a lot😅 you should really listen to Everybody, Wanted (live version, cause this song sadly doesn't have many videos), Evil (live version too), Kimi no sei de (I love this song so much ❤), Why so serious (it's a very fun song XD), Excuse me Miss, Symptoms, Chocolate, Odd Eye (live version), Woof woof (live version, it's a bit weird cause they have puppy ears and tails but it's a very fun live performance 😂❤)