Gee (Girls' Generation song)

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"Gee"
"Gee" is a bubblegum song with an electropop and Europop sound. The production incorporates techno- and hip hop-influenced synthesizers and beats.
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"Gee" was written, arranged, and produced by E-Tribe, a production duo consisting of Ahn Myung-won and Kim Young-deuk. It was recorded at SM's Concert Hall and Yellow Tail Studios in Seoul, South Korea. The track is three minutes and 21 seconds long. [12] The Japanese version's lyrics were written by Kanata Nakamura. [13]

"Gee" is an upbeat track that uses dense synthesizers. [14] Rolling Stone described the synthesizers as "glittering Shibuya-kei ", [8] and Billboard found them to be influenced by techno. [15] The track is accentuated with chimes at the beginning [14] and pulsing electropop beats throughout. [15] Music critics categorized the sound as bubblegum, [15] Europop, [16] and electropop. [14] The A.V. Club characterized the track as "a three-minute aural mélange of techno, bubblegum pop, and hip-hop". [14] The group members sing in high-registered vocals accentuated with electronic processing including bleeps and clicks. According to musicologist Michael Fuhr, this vocal technique demonstrates aegyo , a Korean concept for cuteness in an adolescent, feminine way. [17] The lyrics talk about the girls' feelings when they fall in love. [7]

Music video

The music video for the Korean version of "Gee" begins with the nine members being displayed as mannequins at a clothing store and coming to life after the store's male staff (played by Minho of Shinee) leaves. The members then discover the surroundings and find out the portrait of Minho being "the employee of the month". Scenes of the members performing the choreography are juxtaposed with the storyline. At the end of the video, the members leave the store and Minho returns realizing the mannequins have disappeared. [18] The video became the first video by a girl group to achieve over 100 million views on YouTube. [19] Another music video for the Japanese version was also released, which also features Minho as the male staff, but does not portray the members as mannequins but Minho's fellow female staff. [20]

Reception

Girls' Generation performing "Gee" on February 27, 2009. 090227 SBS baegsangyesuldaesang Gee.jpg
Girls' Generation performing "Gee" on February 27, 2009.

Girls' Generation had their first promotional activity for the song on the MBC's music show Music Core on January 10. [21] "Gee" eventually became a hit, achieving nine consecutive top one on the KBS's Music Bank , [22] [23] and eight consecutive wins on the Mnet's chart, [24] setting a record at the time. It was named as the Song of the Decade by South Korea's online music website Melon, [25] and chosen to be the most popular song of 2009 on Music Bank. [26] The song has also won several major awards such as Digital Daesang and Digital Bonsang at the 24th Golden Disc Awards, [27] the Daesang and Digital Music awards at the 19th Seoul Music Awards, [28] and Song of the Year at the 7th Korean Music Awards. [29] [30]

The Japanese version sold 130,145 physical copies in 2010, becoming the 49th best-selling single of the year in Japan. [31] The song reached number one on the RIAJ's weekly digital track chart on October 26, [32] and eventually was ranked fifty-seventh and twenty-third on Billboard's 2010 & 2011 Japan Hot 100 charts, respectively. [33] [34] In January 2014, "Gee" was certified "Million" by the RIAJ, achieving more than one million digital downloads. [35] The song is also the group's best-selling single in the US with 80,000 downloads sold as of May 2020. [36]

Accolades

"Gee" won 14 first place music program awards in South Korea, and received a record nine consecutive wins on Music Bank until Psy's "Gangnam Style" in 2012. [37]

"Gee"
Girls' Generation - Gee (Japanese version) single cover.png
Japanese version cover
Single by Girls' Generation
from the album Gee and Girls' Generation
ReleasedJanuary 5, 2009 (South Korea)
October 20, 2010 (Japan)
Studio
  • SM Concert Hall
  • SM Yellow Tail (Seoul)
Genre
Length3:21
Label
Composer(s) E-Tribe
Lyricist(s)
  • E-Tribe
  • Kanata Nakamura (Japanese version)
Producer(s) E-Tribe
Girls' Generation singles chronology
"Baby Baby"
(2008)		"Gee"
(2009)		"Genie"
(2009)
Girls' Generation Japanesesingles chronology
"Genie"
(2010)		"Gee"
(2010)		"Hoot"
(2010)
Awards and nominations for "Gee"
YearOrganizationAwardResultRef.
2009 Bugs Music AwardsSong of the YearNominated [38]
Cyworld Digital Music Awards Song of the Month – JanuaryWon [39]
Bonsang Award (Top 10)Won [40]
Golden Disc Awards Digital BonsangWon [41]
Digital DaesangWon
KBS Song Festival Song of the YearNominated [42]
Melon Music Awards Song of the Year Won [43]
Odyssey AwardWon
Mnet 20's Choice Awards Hot Online SongNominated
Mnet Asian Music Awards Best Dance Performance Nominated [44]
Best Female Group Nominated
Philippine K-pop AwardsMusic Video of the YearWon [45]
2010 Korean Music Awards Best Dance & Electronic SongNominated [46]
Song of the YearWon [47]
Seoul Music Awards Best SongWon [48]
Popularity AwardNominated
ProgramDateRef.
Music program awards
Music Bank January 16, 2009 [37]
January 23, 2009
January 30, 2009
February 6, 2009
February 13, 2009
February 20, 2009
February 27, 2009
March 6, 2009
March 13, 2009
June 26, 2009 [49]
December 25, 2009 [50]
Inkigayo January 18, 2009 [51]
February 1, 2009 [52]
February 8, 2009 [53]

A parody of "Gee", called "Hee", has gained popularity among Korean citizens. It is a combination of the instrumental of "Gee" and some extremely venomous dialogue from the drama Temptation of Wife . [54] A viral video named Showa Era Gee (Grandpa Showa era) (Gee しょうわ時代 （爺爺爺－昭和時代))) was posted on YouTube on August 15, 2011, featuring elderly men in a shoe shop dancing to the Japanese version of "Gee". The video was originally on SMAPxSMAP Japanese show. It was also posted on Smosh website and was reviewed by "AtomicMari" on "Smosh Pit Weekly".

In 2009 and 2010, SM labelmates Super Junior regularly included a cover of "Gee" in their setlist for Super Show 2. The performance was preceded by a video interlude entitled The Secret of "Gee" including Jessica and Tiffany respectively dancing Heechul's and Kangin's parts in "Sorry, Sorry" during a Girls' Generation dance practice before the practice is infiltrated as a prank by Heechul, Kangin, Leeteuk and Sungmin respectively disguised as Jessica, Tiffany, Taeyeon and Sunny. [55] "Gee" was the opening theme song of the film "To All the Boys: Always and Forever". [56]

Legacy

In 2009, the success of songs such as "Gee" and Super Junior's "Sorry Sorry" helped raise interest in K-Pop as the Korean wave began spreading across Asia through digital media and online sharing sites. Search volume for kpop.svg
In 2009, the success of songs such as "Gee" and Super Junior's "Sorry Sorry" helped raise interest in K-Pop as the Korean wave began spreading across Asia through digital media and online sharing sites.

"Gee" has been widely recognized as a K-pop classic and the group's signature song. On writing the group's biography for AllMusic, Chris True selected "Gee" as one of their outstanding songs. [58] Chuck Eddy from Spin ranked the single fifth on his list of the 21 greatest K-pop songs of all time in 2012, opining that the song has set up the group's "huge deals" ever since. [59] Pitchfork Media editor Jakob Dorof included the song on his list of 20 essential K-pop songs in 2014, noting it for being the "magnum opus" of modern Korean bubblegum pop genre, which he regarded as K-pop's "comfort zone." He further recognized the "formally irrefutable" song as overcoming half a millennium of historical animosity to broker pop cultural peace between South Korea and Japan for only one year. [60] Abigail Covington writing for The A.V. Club regarded Girls' Generation as the K-pop "premier, ubiquitous provider," particularly with "Gee", which helped to promote Korean music's full potential despite the fact that K-pop had existed long before the group's debut in 2007. [14] Billboard magazine labelled "Gee" "arguably the most iconic K-pop song in the past ten years." [61] [62]

In 2016, "Gee" was voted the top K-pop girl group song in the past 20 years in a poll involving 2,000 people and 30 music industry experts by South Korean magazine Dong-a Ilbo , web magazine Idology and research company M Brain. [63] [64] In a panel of 35 music critics and industry professionals organized by Melon and newspaper Seoul Shinmun , "Gee" was ranked the fifth best idol song of all-time, crediting the song as one of the catalysts of the popularization of idol/K-pop. Music critic Jiseon Choi believed that "through the rise of 'Gee', the year 2009 was heated up and became the protagonist of a nationwide syndrome." [65] In 2023, Rolling Stone named "Gee" the greatest song in the history of Korean pop music, referring to it as "a pure distillation of the giddiness of infatuation". [8]

"Gee" on select critic lists and polls
PublicationYearListRankRef.
Billboard 201710 Greatest K-pop Choruses of the 21st Century1 [66]
Every Girls' Generation Single Ranked3 [67]
2018The 100 Greatest Music Videos of the 21st Century92 [68]
The Dong-a Ilbo 2016Best Female Idol Songs in the Past 20 Years1 [69]
Gallup Korea 2009Most Popular Songs of 20091 [70]
202410 Most Beloved K-pop Songs of the 21st Century6 [71]
Melon 2021Top 100 K-pop Songs of All Time5 [16]
Mnet 2014Legend 100 SongsNo order [72]
Music Y 120 Best Dance Tracks of All Time5 [73]
Pitchfork 20 Essential K-pop SongsNo order [60]
Research Panel Korea2013Best hit idol songs of all time3 [74]
Rolling Stone 2023100 Greatest Songs in the History of Korean Pop Music1 [8]
Spin 2012The 21 Greatest K-pop Songs of All Time5 [75]
Star News201410 Best Digital Hit Songs in the Past 10 YearsNo order [76]

Track listing

CD single — Japanese version [77]
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Gee" (Japanese version)Kanata Nakamura E-Tribe 3:23
2."Gee" (Korean version)E-TribeE-Tribe3:23
3."Gee" (without main vocal) E-Tribe3:21
Total length:10:05
DVD — Japanese version [78]
No.TitleLength
1."Gee" (music video) 
2."Gee" (Dance version) 

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from album's liner notes. [79]

Studio

Personnel

Charts

Sales and certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ) [90]
physical single 		Gold100,000^
Japan (RIAJ) [91]
Ringtone 		2× Platinum500,000*
Japan (RIAJ) [92]
Digital single 		Million1,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The Korean version of "Gee" was released in 2009, therefore it did not enter the Gaon Digital Chart, which launched in 2010. The Japanese version peaked at number three on the Gaon Album Chart in 2011. [84]

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