Wedding Dress (song)
"Wedding Dress" | ||||
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Single by Taeyang | ||||
from the album Solar | ||||
Released | November 13, 2009 | |||
Format | Digital download | |||
Genre | R&b, dance pop | |||
Length | 4:03 | |||
Label | YG Entertainment | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
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Taeyang singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Wedding Dress" on YouTube |
"Wedding Dress" is a song recorded by South Korean singer Taeyang, and released as the second single of his first studio album Solar (2010) on November 13, 2009 through YG Entertainment. It was written by Teddy Park and composed by Park and Taeyang.
Background and composition
After his solo debut with the extended play Hot a year prior was acclaimed by music critics and the public, YG Entertainment announced that Taeyang would release two monthly digital singles to precede his first studio album.[1] The first single, "Where U At", was released on October and "Wedding Dress" followed in November.[1]
"Wedding Dress" was described as a slow R&B song. Lyrically, the single describes a man whose loved woman is going to marry another man, expressed with Taeyang's "bitter" and sad vocals.[2] "Wedding Dress" was composed using common time in the key of A minor, with a moderate tempo of 130 beats per minute.[3] The vocals span from the lower octave of E4 to the higher note of A5.[3]
Reception
"Wedding Dress" received international attention. In North America, the single gained popularity on the streaming site YouTube due to English covers and multiple parodies of the music video. This allowed his album, Solar, to top the Canadian and reach the Top 3 in the American iTunes R&B / Soul album chart, making Taeyang the first Asian artist to do so.[4][5] Additionally, "Weeding Dress" reached a peak position of number three in its sixth charting week on Billboard World Digital Songs.[6]
In Europe, even though there was no special publicity campaign to advertise the song, "Weeding Dress" ranked at number three in the Fun X Radio X-tips Chart of the Dutch music radio station FunX, based on the number of hits on the song and its music video and an online poll.[7]
Charts
Chart | Peak position |
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US Billboard World Digital Chart[6] | 3 |
References
- 1 2 "νμ, μλ‘ νλ μμ '15μΌ μ 곑 μ 격 λ°ν'". OSEN (in Korean). Retrieved August 9, 2017.
- β "νμ, μ€λ(13μΌ) μμ곡κ°νκ³ μλ‘νλ '본격ν'". Star News (in Korean). September 13, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
- 1 2 "Taeyang "Wedding Dress" Sheet Music in A Minor (transposable)". Musicnotes.com. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
- β "νμ μ¨λ², εηΎ μΈκΈ°λΉκ²°μ 'μ¨λ©λλ μ€' λ?". Star News (in Korean). July 9, 2010. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
- β "νμ 'μλΌ', μΊλλ€ μμ΄ν μ¦ 1μ". Star News (in Korean). July 9, 2010. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
- 1 2 "World Digital Songs". Billboard. September 11, 2010. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
- β "Tae-yang Climbs in the Dutch Music Chart". KBS World. December 2, 2009. Archived from the original on December 7, 2009.