"Curious" is the third single by South Korean girl group, Fiestar, their first single after a 1-year hiatus. The single was released on November 1, 2013 by LOEN Entertainment, with the title track 'I Don't Know'.[1] This is also their first single under LOEN's music label, Collabodadi, after the company's re-organization, splitting the music division into two sub-labels: "LOEN Tree" and "Collabodadi".[2]
History
Leader Jei announced on SURE Magazine on June 2013 during a photoshoot and interview that they will be coming back soon.[3] They released a digital single first entitled "Whoo!", a collaboration with Eric Benet, an R&B singer. Few days after the release, they announced they'll be releasing an official single and "Whoo!" will not be part of the single. The comeback is confirmed during an episode of their web educational series 'FIESTAR's A-HA!' that they will be coming back with a cutely sexy concept with featuring a 10-second audio clip on the end of the episode.[4] They released a group teaser image on November 19,[5] and released individual teaser images on the following days from 20-27,[6] and released the group's concept teaser image on November 28.[7] After a delay, they released the video teaser for their title track, 'I Don't Know', on November 31.[8] They announced three days before the comeback on LOEN's I'M Interview that their title track is about a naive woman who doesn't know much about mature love.[9]
Music video
The music video stars the leader Jei and two Gag Concert team members, and also a cameo by main rapper Yezi. The story starts on a guy's room, then the doorbell rangs. The guy opens it, and his girlfriend Jei appears. As she enters, her boyfriend asks him to remove his jacket. As she removes her jacket, her boyfriend stares on her breasts, and thinks about lewd things which was portrayed by his furnitures, such as Pinocchio growing his long nose. As they're playing a game, her character Yezi is almost losing, then the guy's character is about to win but as he looks down on Yezi's breasts, the girl took an opportunity and beats her boyfriend's character, who forgot to play since he's staring at his girlfriend's breasts. As the two celebrates, the couple had an awkward moment and the boyfriend tried to kiss his girlfriend, which she refuses. The guy forces it until the girl left the room. As the guy's desperation came to an end, he turns on the television and sees his girlfriend, and begans to think of dirty things again.
There are four dance settings on this video: the black-and-white television, and the fun fantasy background with a marching band as backdancers. The other two settings are not really dance settings, but rather a song setting, since in the bridge part of the song, there are two settings: the lead singer Hyemi singing to a seemingly night-time version of the fun fantasy background, and the visual and leader Jei singing on the backdoor of her girlfriend's room.[10]
Release
The song was originally first performed by the group in Music Core on November 2, 2013. The album is a success, with the album ranking 4 places higher than their previous single, We Don't Stop, from 21 to 17, but is still not enough to beat the success of their debut single which peaked at rank 9.[11] The single is met with mixed to positive reviews, with AllKpop saying that the song is good but the lyrics seemed a little dull. Soompi praised the single, saying that the perverted humor of the music video is "amazingly fit" to the naive feelings of the woman as shown on the lyrics of the title track.[12]
Tracklisting
|
| 1. |
"Intro" | | Shinsadong Tiger | |
0:55 |
| 2. |
"I Don't Know" | Shinsadong Tiger | Shinsadong Tiger | KZ |
3:45 |
| 3. |
"Head, Shoulders, Knee Foot" | Kim Eana | Shinsadong Tiger | |
3:49 |
| 4. |
"I Don't Know (R.Tee Remix)" | Shinsadong Tiger | Shinsadong Tiger | |
3:27 |
Total length: |
11:56 |
|
Chart performance
Singles chart
| Title |
Peak positions |
|---|
KOR
Gaon
[13] |
KOR
Billboard
[14] |
| "I Don't Know" |
27 |
63[15] |
| "Head, Shoulders, Knee, Foot" |
57 |
92[15] |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. |
|
Albums chart
| Chart |
Peak Position |
|---|
| Gaon Weekly [16][17] |
17[18] |
| Gaon Monthly[19] |
63[20] |
| Mnet [21] |
16[22] |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. |
|
Sales and Certifications
| Chart |
Amount |
|---|
| Gaon Physical Sales[23] |
1,629+ [24] |
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