A Man in Love
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"갈증", translated to "Thirst (A Man In Love)" is an SMP and hip hop soul
dance
track performed by Korea
n boy band
Super Junior
. The track is released in Super Junior's repackaged version of their second album, Don't Don
on November 5, 2007. There are two versions of "A Man In Love", track 5 being the original version and track 16 being a longer remixed version.
. Super Junior made their first performance of "A Man In Love" on November 17, 2007 at the 2007 M.NET/KM Music Festival. They performed the same song a second time at the 2007 Golden Disk Awards on December 14, 2007. On December 31, 2007 they completed the year by performing the same track on a countdown special for KBS.
, heavy beat, rhythm and blues
and urban pop with a combination of soul music
. Percussion instrument
s such as the traditional African djemba and the Indian tabla
were heavily used throughout the song to heighten the dynamics and tribal theme. The Korean gayageum
was used to support the melody and chorus of the song. The remixed version of "A Man In Love" includes an extended rap
bridge in the beginning of the song and a drum instrumental performed at the middle of the song.
The choreographed dance provided for the song is intense, as the choreography requires frequent jumping, stomping, and also extreme street dancing.
Hip hop soul
Hip hop soul is sub-genre of contemporary R&B which fuses R&B, neo soul and dance elements with hip hop. The term did not originate until the promotion for Mary J. Blige's debut album What's the 411? in 1992 when Uptown Records proclaimed her to be the "Queen of Hip Hop Soul" and generally...
dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
track performed by Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
n boy band
Boy band
A boy band is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on...
Super Junior
Super Junior
Super Junior is a South Korean boy band. Formed in 2005 by producer Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment, the group comprised a total of thirteen members at its peak, and was once claimed to be the world's largest boy band...
. The track is released in Super Junior's repackaged version of their second album, Don't Don
Don't Don
Don't Don is the second studio album by Korean boy band Super Junior. It was released by SM Entertainment on September 20, 2007 in South Korea...
on November 5, 2007. There are two versions of "A Man In Love", track 5 being the original version and track 16 being a longer remixed version.
Background
"A Man In Love" is the first song by Super Junior that simultaneously released a remixed version along with the original. Although not an official released promotional single, the remixed version of the song was chosen to be a semi-promo single for the repackaged versions of Don't DonDon't Don
Don't Don is the second studio album by Korean boy band Super Junior. It was released by SM Entertainment on September 20, 2007 in South Korea...
. Super Junior made their first performance of "A Man In Love" on November 17, 2007 at the 2007 M.NET/KM Music Festival. They performed the same song a second time at the 2007 Golden Disk Awards on December 14, 2007. On December 31, 2007 they completed the year by performing the same track on a countdown special for KBS.
Music style
"A Man In Love" music style emphasizes the huge influence of tribal instruments with a mixture of modern hip hop musicHip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
, heavy beat, rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
and urban pop with a combination of soul music
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
. Percussion instrument
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
s such as the traditional African djemba and the Indian tabla
Tabla
The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
were heavily used throughout the song to heighten the dynamics and tribal theme. The Korean gayageum
Gayageum
The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings, although more recently variants have been constructed with 21 or other numbers of strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument...
was used to support the melody and chorus of the song. The remixed version of "A Man In Love" includes an extended rap
Rapping
Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
bridge in the beginning of the song and a drum instrumental performed at the middle of the song.
The choreographed dance provided for the song is intense, as the choreography requires frequent jumping, stomping, and also extreme street dancing.