[Trans] 121010 SHINee's interview with excite 「Dazzling Girl」
Overflowing with fresh charisma - their first original Japanese tune is out!
‘Dazzling Girl’ is your first original Japanese single release.
Jonghyun: This time, it’s not just the music that’s from Japan, but our clothing, music video staff, and make-up artists as well, so it feels as though we’re working in a totally new environment. We have gotten a lot of good experience from it. We hope to try it once more if given the opportunity again.
The piano melody and dance beats in ‘Dazzling Girl’ compliment each other. It’s a refreshing, happy tune.
Taemin: It’s a really happy song. In relation to its title, I think it’s a perfect melody to display the emotion of the skipping heartbeat. The tempo is quite fast, so we wonder if everyone will also feel that very skip of their heartbeat while they listen to our music.
The lyrics ‘Dazzling Girl’ = ‘A girl who dazzles’ and it carries the excitement of finally turning into your dream. What do you think of it personally?
Taemin: I have the same impression of the lyrics and the melody. ‘Dazzling Girl’ means a girl who ‘shines bright’, and the lyrics express having our first love with that girl, so we will sing it with a bright attitude.
Jonghyun: There’s a line which goes “Is this it? Is this love?” so I decided to express the honest emotion of having met the girl and getting that ecstatic feeling.
Key: This time, we managed to work out and sing in English and Japanese without having much knowledge of the languages. It’s a happy rhythm where Minho and I rapped the part of “Yes, I only belong to you. Boom boom boom pow!!” It’s my favorite phrase.
