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Reporter Lee Jae-hoon = A survey result showed that the representative song of the second-generation K-pop girl group, Girls’ Generation, ‘Gee’ is the greatest song in K-pop history.
Girls’ Generation’s ‘Gee’ took first place in ‘The 100 Greatest Songs in the History of Korean Pop Music’ announced on the website of American music specialist RollingStone on the 20th (local time).
Rolling Stone praised “Gee” for “showing how the inexplicable ecstasy of love can be translated through popular music.” Along with this, Girls’ Generation’s debut song ‘Into the New World’ also ranked 33rd. Rolling Stone praised this song, saying, “It opened the door to the girl group narrative in the late 2000s and early 2010s, an important period when K-pop was gaining global popularity.”
2nd place was taken by group ‘HOT”s ‘Candy’, 3rd place was top singer and actress IU’s ‘Good Day’, and 4th place was taken by global super group ‘BTS’ ‘Spring Day’.
Cho Yong-pil’s ‘short hair’ took 5th place in the upper ranks, where K-pop was mainly located, drawing attention. Rolling Stone said of “Short Hair”, “It was a combination of an outstanding falsetto, an unrealistic analog synthesizer, and a major seventh chord (a high-level major seventh chord that was not often used in popular music at the time). This freewheeling song became inseparable from the spirit of liberalism in the 80s.”
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Next, ‘DDU-DU DDU-DU’ by ‘Blackpink’ ranked 6th, ‘Day by Day’ by ‘Big Bang’ ranked 7th, ‘I Am the Best’ by ‘2NE1’ ranked 8th, ‘I Know’ by ‘Seo Taiji and Boys’ ranked 9th, and ‘Tell Me’ by ‘Wonder Girls’ ranked 10th.
SM Entertainment, which is credited with creating the prototype of K-pop, where music and dance intertwine like one body and create synergy, set a record for a single entertainment company by posting a total of 14 songs, including Girls’ Generation’s “Gee” and HOT’s “Candy.”
JYP, including World the Girls’ “Tell Me,” and YG, Blackpink’s “DDU-DU DDU-DU,” BIGBANG’s “Haru Haru,” and 2NE1’s “I Am the Best,” posted seven songs each side by side.
Hive, a new label with a shorter history compared to SM, JYP, and YG, posted five songs, including BTS’ “Spring Day” and New Jeans’ “Dito” (19th). However, if you include “We Like Today” (No. 91) by “Girlfriend,” a group from Source Music, “Catalena” (No. 60) by “Orange Caramel,” a unit of “After School,” and “Very Nice” (No. 68) by the group “Seventeen,” which are part of Pledis Entertainment, there will be eight songs in total. These songs became intellectual property (IP) of Hive after it acquired Source Music and Pledis.