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| Released | September 9, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
| Genre | K-pop, dance-pop | |||
| Length | 21:23 | |||
| Language | Korean | |||
| Label | Cube Entertainment Universal Music Group | |||
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Thriller is the third EP released by South Korean boy band,BTOB. It was released on September 9,2013,consisting a total of 6 tracks with Thriller as title track and the promotional single of the album. [1] [2]
On August 23,2013,Cube Entertainment released concept pictures for "When I Was Your Man",a pre-release track from the album before the official release with a special music video for the song released a few days later. [3] [4] On September 4,2013,BTOB uploaded the music video of Thriller on their official YouTube channel and on the same day they performed Thriller and When I Was Your Man on MBC's Show Champion prior to the release date of the EP. [5]
The EP features a total of 6 tracks with 5 tracks co-written by the members of BTOB themselves and the third track of the EP titled 왜이래(Why) was composed and co-written by label mate Beast's Lee Gi-kwang. [6]
The EP opens with the first track When I Was Your Man,a classy and soft,laid back track. The song is about a man looking back at a past relationship,and reflecting how different he is now. The second track of the album,Thriller,a dynamic song with a story of a fallen knight coming back to life to finish their mission of saving their princess. It is a song that focuses on that rush they get as they rise from the grave. The third track Why is an R&B influenced track that tells the story of a man who has realized that his lover has no feelings left for him. The fourth track Catch Me is a song that is focused on the feelings one experiences that moment he falls in love. The fifth track Like a Crystal,is a song largely accompanied by an acoustic guitar and the last track Star is a ballad song that samples the bars of the famous nursery rhyme,“Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". [7]
※Track inbold is the title track in the album. [6]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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| 1. | "내가 니 남자였을 때" (When I Was Your Man) | Park Woo-sung, Sora | Park Woo-sung, | Park Woo-sung | 3:45 |
| 2. | "스릴러" (Thriller) | Seo Jae-woo, Seo Yong-bae, Lee Minhyuk, Jung IlHoon | Seo Jae-woo, Seo Yong-bae | Seo Jae-woo, Seo Yong-bae | 3:27 |
| 3. | "왜이래" (Why) | Lee Gi-kwang, Lim Hyunsik, Lee Minhyuk, Shin Peniel, Jung IlHoon | Lee Gi-kwang, Lim Hyunsik | S. Tiger | 3:38 |
| 4. | "Catch Me" | Seo Jae-woo, Seo Yong-bae, Lee Minhyuk, Jung IlHoon | Seo Jae-woo, Seo Yong-bae | Seo Jae-woo, Seo Yong-bae, Lee Minhyuk, Jung IlHoon | 3:31 |
| 5. | "크리스탈같이" (Like a Crystal) | Choi Yong-chan, Lee Minhyuk, Shin Peniel, Jung IlHoon | Choi Yong-chan | Choi Yong-chan | 3:09 |
| 6. | "별" (Star) | Lim Hyunsik, Lee Minhyuk, Jung IlHoon | Lim Hyunsik | Kim Tae-ho, Son Young-jin | 3:47 |
| Total length: | 21:23 | ||||
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| KOR Gaon | TWN G-Music [8] | TWN East Asian [9] | |||||||||||
| "Thriller" | 3 | 16 | 3 | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. | |||||||||||||
| Country | Date | Distributing label | Format |
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| South Korea | September 9, 2013 | CD, Digital download | |
| Worldwide |
Release date for worldwide may vary in different countries
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