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| Single by Girls' Generation | ||||||||||||||||
| from the album Hoot | ||||||||||||||||
| Released | October 25, 2010 | |||||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download | |||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2010 | |||||||||||||||
| Genre | Dance-pop, new wave | |||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:18 | |||||||||||||||
| Label | SM Entertainment | |||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | DEEKAY, Alex James | |||||||||||||||
| Producer | DEEKAY | |||||||||||||||
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"Hoot" is the lead single from Hoot, the 3rd EP of South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. It became the 9th hit song for the group, topping various off- and online charts. "Hoot" was released on October 25, 2010.
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"Hoot" is a dance-pop song whose theme is about a lady warning her blunt boyfriend not to take his eyes off her.
The song was originally titled "Bulletproof" and written with English lyrics.[1] It was composed by Danish songwriter-producers Martin Michael Larsson and Lars Halvor Jensen, of DEEKAY, together with British songwriter Alex James, with the intention of creating an "exciting up-tempo record for a female artist or group".[1] The song demo was written and recorded in the UK, with Nina Woodford singing the vocal, and then finished and mixed in Denmark. Their publisher, Pelle Lidell of Universal Music Publishing, successfully pitched the song to S.M. Entertainment for Girls' Generation.[1] Jensen later told HitQuarters: "We knew it was a strong record and a lot of the time you have to be patient until you find the right artist to cut it at the right time. Girls' Generation were that match." The song was then translated into Korean, but incorporated some of the original English words such "trouble, trouble, trouble".[1]
Rino Nakasone Razalan was the choreographer of the song.[2]
The music video contains two settings: a white room and a black room. Throughout the video, there are scenes of the girls dancing in the black room dressed in black suits with high boots and in the white room dressed in silver suits, but also in the beginning the girls are seen dancing in an elevator. In the music video are individual close-ups of their own unique personality.
The music video featured a parody of James Bond films' gun barrel sequence with a runtime of 34 seconds, and sampled Monty Norman & John Barry's score.
The music video was released on October 28, 2010. A member of boy band Super Junior, Choi Siwon, appeared in the role of a Bond-like guy as a cameo. The video's runtime is 4:13.[3]
They held their comeback stage on October 29, 2010 on KBS's Music Bank. It was also performed on Show! Music Core, Inkigayo, and M! Countdown.
They held their goodbye stage on December 4, 2010 on MBC's Show! Music Core.
The song debuted at the #1 spot last October 30, 2010 on Gaon Chart.[4] The song won Triple Crown on Inkigayo on November 28, 2010 and won 5 times on Music Bank of KBS..
| Chart | Peak position |
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| Gaon Chart Weekly singles | 1 |
| Gaon Chart Yearly singles | 10 |
| Preceded by "By Instinct" (Korean: 본능적으로) (feat. Swings) by Kang Seung Yoon |
Gaon Chart weekly number-one singles October 30, 2010–November 13, 2010 |
Succeeded by "Always" (Korean: 언제나) by Huh Gak |
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