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I Got A Boy is a legendary song etc
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Originally posted by Billbaord
The girls' first Korean single since 2011 needed to be one that caught everyone's attention. And boy does it. "I Got A Boy" is not one sound polished and packaged for popular consumption (like past singles), but five completely different sounds stuffed for widespread music consumption. The track is created from: minimal drum and bass, funky and clunky electronic production, hyper hipster dubstep, dramatic vocal showcase sections, and what sounds like a xylophone. Sounds messy? Somehow it isn't with the sounds constantly playing off and evolving with each other, complimenting the girls' knack harmonies, to create one of the most-forward thinking lead pop singles heard in any country. With this title track, Girls' Generation just set the bar truly high for pop in 2013.
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Originally posted by Rolling Stone
It took the most beloved of all Korean girl groups (and a handful of Euro writers) to finally deliver a song as sharply plotted and blindingly razzle-dazzle as the K-pop machine itself. Harmonizing, speed rapping, and belting like divas, mostly in Korean, these nine young idols romp through a candy land of pop sounds, from minimal R&B to high-BPM dance. It's a musical gymnastics routine.
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Originally posted by Pitchfork's Top 20 K-Pop Songs
Though having found their popularity through bubblegum classics “Gee” and “Genie”, last year’s #1 “I Got a Boy” demonstrates their aptitude in less comfortable territory. On or off the charts, contemporary pop doesn’t get much weirder: The song is split between at least five musically distinct movements, an equal number of staggering, 40-BPM tempo jumps, a spectrum of genres covering snap music to Italo disco, multiple bars of abrupt silence, and a theatrical narrative with nine different characters. It’s like an entire musical, or rock opera, scrunched into an especially pliable pop tune.
Sometimes the tempo changes announce themselves—“Don’t stop! Let’s bring it back to 140!”—but mostly they’re meant to blindside. It’s been speculated that all this jarring tempo play references Korean club culture, where impatient DJs might switch songs after barely a chorus. But in any context, “I Got a Boy” takes chart pop’s increasing ADD in a bold new direction, and is perhaps the most structurally variable mega-hit since “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Considering the song topped all charts in Korea—with a video that has tallied more than 100 million views—Girls’ Generation prove the adventurousness of K-pop’s listenership, as well as the storytelling potential available to Asia’s pop groups.
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Originally posted by LA Times
In the case of "I Got a Boy," impatient bursts of synthetic melodies, hooks, bridges, breaks and bass drops change every eight or 16 bars in drastic directions, as though Katy Perry/Kesha producer Dr. Luke were trying to make a modern-day "Bohemian Rhapsody." These rhythmic explosions are connected by choruses that arrive with surprise and glee, part of an addled impatience permeating chunks of global culture. The song, built around a set of conversations among a girl and her friends, has already been viewed on YouTube more than 15 million times.
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Originally posted by Time's Top 10 Songs
The nine-woman South Korean group Girls’ Generation is a ridiculously effective hook machine, and a major phenomenon in Asia, whose biggest pop acts make One Direction and Katy Perry sound like audience-alienating avant-gardists. If you like songs that do everything at once, go straight to YouTube and call up the over-the-top video for this monomaniacally charming hybrid of bubblegum, dubstep and hard rock, whose Korean lyrics are sprinkled with incongruous English phrases (“Ayo, stop, let me put it down another way”).
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I Got A Boy is without a doubt the most critically acclaimed k-pop song of our generation
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