TWINS (Knock Out)
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"Twins" is the debut single by Super Junior 05
, which was released online as a digital single on November 8, 2005 and later as an official in the group's first studio album
, SuperJunior05 (Twins)
on December 5, 2005.
Before the single was released for download, Super Junior 05 made their debut as a group on SBS's Popular Songs on November 6, 2005, performing "Twins (Knock Out)."
boy band, Triple Eight, titled "Knockout." Taiwan
ese boy band, Energy
soon released a Chinese remake of the song several months later, the song being called, "Retreating Dark Files" (退魔錄). Unlike the original song which was a hip hop
-influenced pop
single, "Retreating Dark Files" is an electropop song. Super Junior 05's version, "Twins (Knock Out)", however, kept the original single's hip hop influence but incorporated heavier bass
elements and quicker rap
, forming the song into a rap rock
piece. The promotional title of the song, Twins, was added to the song's title to mark the change in lyrics from the original song. The lyrics, written by Yoo Young-jin
, speaks of self-deception and the indecisive aspects of mind, contrasting the feelings between a man towards love and how he has to decide whether or not he should continue to love or fight with sticking to his own destiny.
The rest of the tracks in the digital single are less emphasized in the rap rock genre as "Way for love" is a bubblegum pop
track and "Over" and "L.O.V.E" are purely mainstream pop tracks with a light R&B vibe. The group's first ballad, "You are the one" heavily emphasizes gentle harmonization and R&B. "You are the one" is the group's only ballad, and like the single's other releases, it is heavily focused on R&B. The single was officially released as a studio album
a month later, titled SuperJunior05 (Twins)
, Super Junior 05's first official album.
Similar to the lyrics
and music style of the song, the dance choreography
displayed for the "Twins (Knock Out)" music video contains quick and tough body movements. The snatching movements of the wrist
, elbow
, and any other joint
on the arms and legs are richly used in a form of a robot
. Other hip hop movements, such as popping
and locking
, are also commonly used. Unlike Super Junior's other dances, sliding, waving
, and other smooth movements are rarely used in the dance choreography. It is said that the movements of a flying eagle
was an inspiration to the choreography, such as in the beginning of the dance and in the dance bridge towards the middle of the song, where their dance forms takes shape of an eagle.
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...
, which was released online as a digital single on November 8, 2005 and later as an official in the group's first studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
, SuperJunior05 (Twins)
SuperJunior05 (TWINS)
SuperJunior05 is the eponymous debut studio album by Korean boy band Super Junior 05 , released on December 5, 2005 in South Korea. The album peaked at #3 on the MIAK K-pop albums chart, selling 28,536 copies in the first month of release...
on December 5, 2005.
Before the single was released for download, Super Junior 05 made their debut as a group on SBS's Popular Songs on November 6, 2005, performing "Twins (Knock Out)."
Song history
"Twins (Knock Out)" is the cover of a 2003 single by BritishUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
boy band, Triple Eight, titled "Knockout." Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
ese boy band, Energy
Energy (band)
Energy is a Taiwanese pop rock boy band formed in 2002. The original band consisted of five members, namely Milk, Ady, Toro, Penny and Joe. Toro and Milk left the band in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Xiao Gang joined the band in mid 2007...
soon released a Chinese remake of the song several months later, the song being called, "Retreating Dark Files" (退魔錄). Unlike the original song which was a hip hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
-influenced pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
single, "Retreating Dark Files" is an electropop song. Super Junior 05's version, "Twins (Knock Out)", however, kept the original single's hip hop influence but incorporated heavier bass
Bass (instrument)
Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
elements and quicker 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”...
, forming the song into a rap rock
Rap rock
Rap rock is a cross-genre fusing vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with various forms of rock. Rap rock is often confused with rap metal and rapcore, subgenres that include heavy metal-oriented and hardcore punk-oriented bands, respectively....
piece. The promotional title of the song, Twins, was added to the song's title to mark the change in lyrics from the original song. The lyrics, written by Yoo Young-jin
Yoo Young-jin
Yoo Young-jin is a singer-songwriter and producer for various SM Entertainment artists. He has composed and written songs for H.O.T., S.E.S, BoA, Shinhwa, TVXQ, The Grace, Super Junior, Girls' Generation, Shinee and F....
, speaks of self-deception and the indecisive aspects of mind, contrasting the feelings between a man towards love and how he has to decide whether or not he should continue to love or fight with sticking to his own destiny.
The rest of the tracks in the digital single are less emphasized in the rap rock genre as "Way for love" is a bubblegum pop
Bubblegum pop
Bubblegum pop is a genre of pop music with an upbeat sound contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers, produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers, often using unknown singers.Bubblegum's classic period ran from 1967 to 1972...
track and "Over" and "L.O.V.E" are purely mainstream pop tracks with a light R&B vibe. The group's first ballad, "You are the one" heavily emphasizes gentle harmonization and R&B. "You are the one" is the group's only ballad, and like the single's other releases, it is heavily focused on R&B. The single was officially released as a studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
a month later, titled SuperJunior05 (Twins)
SuperJunior05 (TWINS)
SuperJunior05 is the eponymous debut studio album by Korean boy band Super Junior 05 , released on December 5, 2005 in South Korea. The album peaked at #3 on the MIAK K-pop albums chart, selling 28,536 copies in the first month of release...
, Super Junior 05's first official album.
Music video
The music video was filmed in a dance studio. A majority of the scenes are simply dancing footage, where the members are surrounded by fire and also the contrast, blue sky.Similar to the lyrics
Lyrics
Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
and music style of the song, the dance choreography
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
displayed for the "Twins (Knock Out)" music video contains quick and tough body movements. The snatching movements of the wrist
Wrist
In human anatomy, the wrist is variously defined as 1) the carpus or carpal bones, the complex of eight bones forming the proximal skeletal segment of the hand;...
, elbow
Elbow
The human elbow is the region surrounding the elbow-joint—the ginglymus or hinge joint in the middle of the arm. Three bones form the elbow joint: the humerus of the upper arm, and the paired radius and ulna of the forearm....
, and any other joint
Joint
A joint is the location at which two or more bones make contact. They are constructed to allow movement and provide mechanical support, and are classified structurally and functionally.-Classification:...
on the arms and legs are richly used in a form of a robot
Robot (dance)
The robot is an illusionary street dance style – often confused with popping – that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin...
. Other hip hop movements, such as popping
Popping (dance)
Popping is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from California during the 1960s-70s. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or a hit...
and locking
Locking
Locking may refer to:* Locking , a style of funk dance invented in the early 1970s* Locking, Somerset, a village in the United Kingdom...
, are also commonly used. Unlike Super Junior's other dances, sliding, waving
Waving (dance)
Wavinging along his arms, start and end a wave at any point on his arms, and transition the wave through his body as a bodywave. There are seven and eleven point waves. The eleven point wave runs as finger knuckes-knuckles-wrist-elbow-shoulder-chest-shoulder-elbow-wrist-knuckles-finger knuckles...
, and other smooth movements are rarely used in the dance choreography. It is said that the movements of a flying eagle
Eagle
Eagles are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several genera which are not necessarily closely related to each other. Most of the more than 60 species occur in Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just two species can be found in the United States and Canada, nine more in...
was an inspiration to the choreography, such as in the beginning of the dance and in the dance bridge towards the middle of the song, where their dance forms takes shape of an eagle.
Track listing
- "차근차근 (Way for Love)" — 3:17 ["Carefully (Way for love)"]
- "Twins (Knock Out)" — 3:21
- "You Are the One" — 3:52
- "Over" — 3:16
- "L.O.V.E." — 3:37
- "Twins (Knock Out)" [Instrumental] — 3:20
Main vocals
- LeeteukLeeteukPark Jung-su , better known by his stage name Leeteuk , is a South Korean idol singer, presenter, and occasional actor. He is the leader of the super boy band Super Junior. To prevent confusion with famous Korean veteran actress Park Jeong-su, he decided to use the name 'Leeteuk'...
– vocals (main) - Heechul – vocals (rap, chorus)
- Han Geng – vocals (main, chorus)
- YesungYesungKim Jong-woon , better known by his stage name Yesung, is a South Korean idol singer and occasional actor. He is one of the four lead vocalists of the boy band Super Junior. He was once a radio host for his own radio program, M.I.R.A.C.L.E for You, which ended its broadcast in September 2007...
– vocals (main) - Kangin – vocals (chorus)
- SungminSungminLee Sungmin 이성민 , or most commonly known as Sungmin 성민, is a South Korean idol singer and actor. He is one of the four lead vocalists and one of the main dancer of the South Korean boy band Super Junior. He is also a member of Super Junior subgroup Super Junior-T, Super Junior-H and recently became...
– vocals (main, chorus) - EunhyukEunhyukLee Hyuk-jae , better known by his stage name Eunhyuk, is a South Korean idol singer, dancer, rapper, presenter, song writer, and occasional actor. He is a part of the thirteen member South Korean boyband Super Junior. His position in the group is the lead rapper and one of the three lead dancers...
– vocals (rap) - DonghaeDonghae (entertainer)Lee Donghae , better known mononymously as Donghae , is a Korean singer and occasional actor. He is a part of the thirteen member South Korean boyband Super Junior. He is one of the three main dancers alongside fellow band members Eunhyuk and Shindong, and is part of its subgroup, Super Junior-M...
– vocals (rap) - Siwon – vocals (main)
- RyeowookRyeowookKim Ryeo-wook , best known mononymously as Ryeowook, is a Korean singer-songwriter and occasional actor. He is one of the four lead vocalists of the super boy band Super Junior, and is also a member of Super Junior-K.R.Y and Super Junior-M, two subgroups that are branched out from the main group...
– vocals (main, chorus) - KibumKim KibumKim Ki-bum , sometimes mononymously credited as Kibum, is a Korean pop singer, actor, and a member of the super boy band Super Junior. He made his debut in the Korean television drama April Kiss in 2004. Although debuted as an actor, he achieved higher results as a singer after his music debut with...
– vocals (rap)