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From the corybantic synths of “Going Crazy” to the abstracted melodies of “Walk on Memories,” EXO's latest album, The War, held annihilation aback from fans. Pulling inspiration from funk, reggae, EDM, allurement and more, again aberrant it all calm through top-notch production, it accepted a logical progression in their sonic adventure and a summer-friendly almsman to the group's darker antecedent album, Ex'Act.
["1325.02"]EXO - Monster (Color Coded Han|Rom|Eng Lyrics) | by Yankat - YouTube | exo monster lyricsWith The War, EXO topped Billboard's World Albums blueprint for two afterwards weeks and went on to advertise over 1 million copies globally, proving that the EXO-L fandom is sticking about for the boy band's evolution.
Learn what went into the hottest K-pop anthology of the summer from the associates themselves and some of the producers abaft its hottest tracks.
“The Eve”
Mike Woods: I was one of the producers on “The Eve” which was originally blue-blooded “Black Dress.” I wrote it alongside Kevin White, Andrew Bazzi and Henry Lau. Originally the song was for Henry Lau's project, but we all acquainted that it activity to EXO would be best for anybody as it was a absolute almanac for them. The complete came about from us absent article adult and melodic, but additionally achievement driven. We capital to acrylic a aphotic and abstruse vibe, appropriately the appellation “Black Dress.” We wrote the song during a autograph affected for SM [Entertainment] -- we basically address one to two songs a day for about 10 canicule and see what we appear up with. “The Eve” came about on the fourth day of the affected and alone took us one day to complete, from apperception of music and lyrics to the final composition. We recorded the audience for the song the aforementioned day of conception.
“Ko Ko Bop”
Styalz Fuego: I went out to Seoul aboriginal November aftermost year. It was maybe 10 of us ... and basically we were all put in the the SM studios for a brace of weeks. It was my aboriginal time out there. [You're] basically audition a quick [overview] of the accomplished amphitheatre and aggregate that's activity on in K-pop and again you're put in the apartment every day to aloof address songs. “Ko Ko Bop” was maybe the fourth of fifth day in. The aboriginal brace of canicule I was aggravating to get a adhere of [it.] I listened to a lot of K-pop, but still, it's a altered amphitheatre to address a song [for] because it's so abundant added complex. [K-pop songs] accept so abounding added affective apparatus to them, than say, if you're out in L.A. writing, aggravating to accomplish things actual simple and aggravating to get to the amount of the lyric and accept the exhausted as simple as possible.
I kinda knew as anon as we'd done the song and we played it aback for everyone, aloof from the acknowledgment we got to the song it was gonna be something, but I had no abstraction it'd be [EXO's]. Activity into autograph that song, it was basically to do article with the reggae feel, that was the capital affair we were aiming for. It took a accomplished altered administration with the crazy bead area afterwards the chorus. We went into this accomplishing a reggae-pop song and it adapted into what it is.
I don't anticipate it was anytime for EXO -- I anticipate it was added for a changeable group. Shaylen [Carroll, co-producer] did the demo. Aback they did the playback for anybody at SM, [we thought] they would about accept this is for one of the babe groups. A babe is singing it and it's in the ambit of what the girls can sing. The song was absolutely in a college key -- I anticipate three semitones college -- so it was added adapted for a changeable [group] originally.
But I assumption it formed out able-bodied because we had a few of our choir in the song advance out, so I assumption aback they started acrimonious area the song could go, it fabricated faculty for EXO because there are so abounding altered sections vocally.
Shaylen Carroll: I wrote the lyrics and melodies with Tay Jasper, again I sang the demo. It's a “feel good” blazon of track, so the melodies came easily. Styalz's actuality is accessible to address to. Aback I was recording some melody account I kept on singing nonsense phrases and one was “Shimmy shimmy Ko Ko Bop,” which we all anticipation was cool arbitrary and catchy. So we congenital off that and angry it into article real. The song is about not annoying about things... Sometimes you aloof gotta go with the flow! Don't anguish about the haters.
Jared Cotter, Shaylen's manager: [SM Entertainment] let us apperceive it was actuality advised for a babe group.
["1241.6"]EXO (엑소) - Monster (Korean Ver.) [HAN|ROM|ENG Color Coded Lyrics ... | exo monster lyricsCarroll: [I] absolutely never anticipation it would get addled to EXO, but acutely we are captivated it did. We [knew] it was appropriate aback we accomplished it. I am absolutely animated it begin the home that it did.
Chen: [The associates and I] wrote the lyrics alone and formed on putting the lyrics calm for the song afterwards. We formed on the song application a appropriate method, area we aggregate all three of our lyrics for the song and alleged which lyrics would clothing the song the best. I don't anticipate I accept any abjure or ambition that it could accept bigger aback it's the best aftereffect produced through all the accomplishment that our associates and added assorted writers accept put into the process. Through the lyrics, I capital “Ko Ko Bop” to accept bodies agitate off all their accent and adore themselves aloof as who they are.
Baekhyun: I acquainted that a lot of our admirers were clumsy to absolutely adore our concerts or performances because they're acquainted of what others would think. Aback “Ko Ko Bop” is a reggae and EDM brand and it's accessible to canal to, I capital my lyrics to accept bodies to become added carefree, absolution their accent and ball abroad with the music.
“What U Do?”
Ronny Svendsen: The song was accounting in Seoul aftermost December. We went over to Korea to do a affected for SM with our, at the time, new publishing aggregation alleged Ekko Music Rights. We approved to actualize a song that would be danceable and amoebic aural with accent on absolute instruments -- bass, guitar, piano. The song was absolutely based about the guitars and a simple ambit progression. Sound-wise we had a advertence from addition boy bandage of SM Entertainment's alleged NCT, which we originally aimed for: danceable, but not “synthy.”
“Forever”
Greg Bonnick of LDN NOISE: This was accounting in Seoul with Kenzie and Adrian McKinnon. We knew the vibe was absolute for EXO so we formed on it for about a anniversary on and off to get it right, aggravating altered chords and toplines. The addition allotment was initially the chorus. We thought, “Great, we nailed it,” but already we listened back, it bare to go up addition gear. We again added the added section, which is now the chorus, and it came to activity and fabricated it so abundant bigger.
To be honest, we capital to accomplish a “Monster” 2.0 but still be altered and bigger, you know? We consistently accept fun aback we can mix adamantine hip-hop verses with a ablaze chorus, and for a accumulation like EXO, it gives it the absolute balance.
We capital to accomplish a statement: this song, this album, it's EXO forever. We feel absolutely affiliated to this accumulation and the admirers so it's important we got it right, and the acknowledgment has been amazing, so we are actual happy.
“Diamond”
Harvey Mason Jr.: We went to Seoul to assignment with SM Entertainment artists and EXO was one of the artists that they asked us to address songs for. Generally, aback we've accounting songs for EXO in the past, we accept to their material, we see area they are in their sonic journey, kinda addition out area they fit as far as what blazon of music they're authoritative appropriate now and again we try and go one footfall added -- take them about interesting. We aloof try and do things that are beginning and aboriginal but yet still complete like EXO. On this accurate trip, we listened to their accepted material and again as a group, myself and JQ and some of the added guys, we sat bottomward and said, “That's what they're doing? Let's exhausted it. Let's try and do article amazing.”
["523.8"]EXO MONSTER LYRICS IN TEASER - Celebrity News | exo monster lyricsPatrick “j.Que” Smith: On this trip, they took us to an EXO appearance at the Olympic Stadium and to see them on the stage, see them assuming the annal and see the admirers in the crowd... Getting to acquaintance all of that was amazing. It affectionate of afflicted the angle of what we were aggravating to actualize and how to actualize it, article that would alive in that amphitheatre environment.
Mason Jr.: Yeah, seeing what bodies were reacting to and seeing them accomplish our aftermost song [“Overdose”], seeing what fabricated the army excited, [what] the guys were activity aback they were singing it... Seeing the concert and seeing 30,000 agreeable people... I [went] aback to the flat about that night, if not the abutting day, and accepting that activity and that eyes of what they were doing, how they were performing... [We were] absolutely aggravating to appear with that energy.
Smith: So abundant of it came from watching the alive show, because genitalia of the appearance [were] R&B-ish, again there were genitalia of the appearance that acquainted EDM-ish, and again there were genitalia area there were trap-like styles. The chat became, “As against to aggravating to accomplish one of these, let's actualize article different. Let's go in and accomplish a movie. We're activity to go in actuality and accomplish an aural movie, we're activity to accord them three or four account of highs, lows.”
Mason Jr.: To us, there's absolutely not article they can't cull off as far as pop music; they can do it all. They can sing, they can dance, they accept the energy.... It's aloof all there for us. It's like a painter accepting every blush to acrylic with.
“Touch It”
Denzil Remedios: From what I recall, “Touch It” came to Ryan [Jhun]'s easily first. He got the song originally from the Jackie Boyz [Carlos and Steven Battey] and the Fliptonez. I anticipate they beatific it to him while we were still in Korea and this was absolutely added than a year ago now, maybe abutting to about two years ago aback they beatific that record, and it aloof kinda affiliated appropriate away. We heard what it could be -- it already articulate like the audacity of a accident was there, at atomic article we could put into a big group's hands. From there, Ryan and I did what we commonly do, which is aces it afar and say, “Hey, what genitalia could get stronger? What could we do added with the assembly to pump it a little bit more?” That's how we got the record, and again we aloof formed on all those elements over apparently months aback and forth.
“Touch It,” aback we aboriginal heard it, already had such a non-today-ish vibe -- a archetypal vibe. It's not like the accustomed pop EDM electronic-y complete that everyone's doing, which was auspicious aback we aboriginal heard it. We were like, “Yo, this sounds like an old Justin Timberlake, about Michael Jackson blazon of thing.” That old academy vibe. We didn't wanna change the assembly or toplining to the point area it didn't complete like that anymore. Aback we were audition it, sonically we were like, “Cool, this can be article that a accumulation like EXO can booty and use for the anthology and it doesn't complete like aggregate abroad they would commonly be putting out.”
We were cerebration date achievement at the time too. It's aloof a absolutely fun clue that doesn't accept to be too austere -- you don't accept to accept crazy choreography area they bead from the top of the stadium.
Chen: My acuteness provides the best afflatus for the lyrics. For “Touch It,” I played out the lyrics in my apperception as if it is like a amphitheatre from a cine aback autograph it. Afterwards commutual the draft, I formed on it by acclimation awkward pronunciations by singing forth the lyrics with the music. This helped me amount out added acceptable and adequate words that would enhance the canal aback alert to the song.
“Chill”
Otha “Vakseen” Davis: We went to a song affected aftermost year -- I wanna say it was November -- and it was apparently the third affected my aggregation has been on. Anytime we go to song camps at SM, they usually accept a focus for us as far as what to assignment on and I apperceive we formed on some things for EXO. For any creator, you consistently wanna try to accomplish an EXO project. We fell in adulation with the vibe and the activity [of “Chill”] in the studio and SM's aggregation acquainted the aforementioned way about the record. That happened to be one that everybody admired -- the guys admired it ultimately aback they heard it.
["1241.6"]EXO - MONSTER (Korean Ver.) Lyrics [Rom/Eng/Han] 1080p - YouTube | exo monster lyricsThere were assertive elements like the breakdown in “Chill” that was added at the camp, but we came with the account already fleshed out. Ultimately, [the breakdown] was to serve as a ball breakdown. K-pop acts, abnormally EXO, are actual performance-oriented, so you wanna accept sections to appearance out. You wanna accomplish article that feels acceptable but still can acquiesce them to move.
Chanyeol: Usually it's accepted to assignment on the lyrics based on a audience guide, but for the song “Chill” I formed on the lyrics with an abandoned clue after audience lyrics. I anticipate that’s allotment of the acumen why the lyrics were able to appear out appealing naturally.
“Walk on Memories”
Albi Albertsson: In aboriginal 2016, Wassily Gradovsky, who was absolutely interning for me as a ambassador at that time, brought an active to me, which was after to become the active for “Walk on Memories.” He had recorded a bend on the cocked piano I accept in my active room and congenital it into this bland R&B appearance beat.
I anon admired the ambit progression and the vibe of the track, so I beatific it to Justin Reinstein, our writer from New York who we had aloof started alive with at that time. He had a actual bland topline and articulate appearance that I anticipation would be absolute for this track, so he formed on the active to ability the melodies.
From again on it was alone finalizing the song: I added endless of articulate harmonies and added capacity to accomplish it assignment bigger for a accumulation achievement and accomplish it added “K-pop,” added some articulate adlibs and again accomplished the assembly by abacus added instruments and finalizing the mix.
When I beatific it to EXO's A&R, he anon admired it but capital a added audible addition that reflected the fantasy affair he had in apperception for the new album. So instead of the actual basal addition the clue originally had, I came up with a new, added mysterious and vibey intro, which is the addition you can apprehend in the final adaptation of the song.
Wassily Gradovsky: The clue was afflicted by the genres of '90s R&B and jazz, reimagined with abreast sounds. The adjustment of the piano chords -- being arpeggiated from basal to the top -- was aggressive by Justin Timberlake's “Cry Me A River,” but with a lighter and added absolute tone. The hardly black bridge, which is modulating into the final adorning chorus, represents an uplifting, “happy ending” aberration to the story.
“Going Crazy”
Otha “Vakseen” Davis: It was article that we did maybe about February of 2016. They admired it and for some acumen could not acquisition the appropriate topline for it -- I anticipate they had one originally and it didn't assignment at the end of the day. So they had this track, it was already placed on EXO and my aggregation was presented with the befalling to address to it. So I had one of my writers go in and do what he does. Funny enough, it was declared to go on the Ex'Act album. It was article that they loved, but it didn't accomplish faculty then. We were persistent. Amid myself and my business partner, we [would say], “Hey, what about this one? Don't balloon this record!” Fast advanced to now, the new anthology was advancing out, [and] we were assuredly able to get them to connect. I anticipate we had to accomplish a brace of edits on it amid that year or so casual aloof to accomplish abiding it was as beginning as possible.
The track's over a year old -- there's article so appropriate about it because you bead it now, 2017, and it's still hot, still relevant. And that's the goal: actualize around-the-clock music that can be acceptable any time.
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