“Disturbance”: Another Predictably Wonderful BoA Single

As BoA’s music career slows down, the K-pop Queen has started to transition from an albums artist to a singles one. Sales for her last album, Only One, were significantly lower than her previous effort, Hurricane Venus, but the title track performed well on the digital charts, closing out 2012 as the 33rd biggest song of the year. Considering that all SM Entertainment artists other than Girls’ Generation usually tank on the digital charts, BoA’s ranking was solid, if not impressive.

Her new single, “Disturbance,” doesn’t appear to be a full-fledged comeback for the songstress, and instead looks like a one-off to coincide with her current Korean concert tour and to put her back on the charts before she takes the rest of 2013 to pursue acting projects. For that reason, it’s not an instant knockout like “Only One” was. It’s not hugely hook-driven, with most of the focus saved for the emotional lyrics about a once happy couple that have drifted so far apart that a reconciliation seems impossible. Like “Only One,” it’s an urban-pop midtempo, but more bleak and contemporary as opposed to the throwback bubblegum vibe of “Only One.”

The music video is really beautiful, and when I say beautiful, I specifically mean TAEMIN. SM has finally let the poor guy ditch the girly wigs look like a fucking man — something he’s been requesting for a long time. Given how handsome he looks now, it’s not hard to see why he desperately wanted to do away with his cute maknae image. Now before y’all get it twisted, Jonghyun is still my husband for all eternity, but I think Taemin just replaced Key as my No. 2 SHINee bias.

Taemin’s breathtaking beauty aside, the video as a whole is a smash. BoA and Tae really bring the lyrics to life, and there’s even a Choose Your Own Adventure ending where you can decide the couple’s fate. I split them up and left Taemin miserable and depressed so I could fantasize about taking advantage of his vulnerable state in a variety of sick and depraved ways.

Yup.

For the TL;DR crowd: BoA is back, her new song isn’t catchy but it’s still super awesome, Taemin is sexy.

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  • ntdnsrhzseyh

    her voice is annoying as fuck.

  • https://twitter.com/bubbletea_96 A-YO Bubble Tea ♥

    Great songs aren’t always catchy <3 I'm super glad SM is letting BoA write/compose her own songs!!! <3

  • ntdnsrhzseyh

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    BOA FAILS BITCHES,

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  • twinkle9

    I love everything and more taemin hahahaha.

  • theprophetblog

    Did she compose this one herself again? Like Only One? I didn’t realize that. That’s awesome. I hope she really does compose them though and doesn’t just get a fake credit like a lot of pop artists do

  • Kris

    Love this and it came out of left field. It isn’t as strong as Only One, but it’s a lot more powerful than some other SM content

  • https://twitter.com/bubbletea_96 A-YO Bubble Tea ♥

    yes ^^ she composed this one too <3

  • TLo

    BoA is the only Asian performer I like lol. Somehow other K-pop/J-pop musicians/performers dont attract me at all.

  • http://www.facebook.com/chibijoshie Josh Chinnery

    I hope not, either. Only One is definitely one of my favorite ballads of 2012 and this one is definitely gonna be hard to beat in my eyes.

  • http://twitter.com/kirstydelite gwiyomi!

    i thought yunho was your husband or something?

    the lyrics punched me in the gut :’(

  • theprophetblog

    Yunho is too.

  • theprophetblog

    Minus I Got a Boy aka song of the millennium

  • http://ohdenny.com ohdenny

    I love this song, BoA can do no wrong.

  • a_chan

    Pretty sure her writing credits are legit. She started actively producing her music in 2009 in Japan for her 7th album Identity. The four songs from Identity, the two from Hurricane Venus, Only One and now Disturbance are all similar in composition and show growth between them (learning how to write a bridge for example). So unless its some elaborate scheme to reignite BoA’s K-pop career that begins in her J-pop career then the credits are probably true. Plus she’s the sole credited writer, most people who fake it are only tagged on as co-writers

  • a_chan

    Love the song and MV, BoA’s brother did good work with directing again. The symbolism is more subtle than in the drama version of Only One but it’s similar in a way. The song itself sounds like Only One meets The End… (そして and) and she performs the song beautifully. It’s doing pretty well on the charts too, currently no. 2 on instiz.

  • Legend X

    Basically, lol. I LOVE a lot of K-pop music, but the performers themselves never interest me. Whenever I watch boA, she always captures me whether it be through her music, her videos, and especially her performances. BoA has that x-factor that I don’t think a lot of Kpop performers have. I’m not saying they’re not good performers but personally only the guy bands and boA are the ones who really slay me and keep me interested.

  • Mark S.

    It’s not my favorite vocal from her. I’d love to hear Brown Eyed Girls perform this as a b-side to One Summer Night. Only One is the comeback single of the year in my book though, and I like this as a follow up more than Shadow. I’ll always root for BoA though. If TVXQ is the JT of Kpop, still killing the charts after their early prime, then BoA continues to be Kpop’s Britney, a vet with a respectable display of singles and deserving of respect from pop lovers, even the ones who don’t love her.

  • http://twitter.com/Ieejihyun phil

    this would be perfect without taemin jfc he’s so gross

  • http://twitter.com/tinka_2910 tiggles

    Oh god, sad Taemin. My heart can’t take this.