Dumb Dumb (Red Velvet song)

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"Dumb Dumb"
Single by Red Velvet
from the album The Red
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2015 (2015-09-09)
GenreDance-pop
Length3:22
Label
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
Red Velvet singles chronology
"Ice Cream Cake"
(2015) 		"Dumb Dumb"
(2015) 		"Wish Tree"
(2015)
Music video
"Dumb Dumb" on
YouTube

"Dumb Dumb" is a song by South Korean

SM Entertainment,[1] along with an accompanying music video.[3]

"Dumb Dumb" received positive reviews from critics, who praised its production and the group's vocal delivery—regarding it as one of the group's signature

Rolling Stone's 10 Best Music Videos of 2015.[6]

Background and release

Following the release of their first EP Ice Cream Cake in March 2015, it was reported that Red Velvet would return with their first full-length studio album in early September 2015. On September 3, a series of image teasers were revealed on the group's official Instagram account, along with the album's ten-song track list. A day later, S.M. Entertainment announced that the full album would be released at midnight on September 9, with "Dumb Dumb" serving as the album's lead single.[7]

Prior to the release of the music video, a total of 5 video teasers were released on the official

SMTOWN
channel from September 3 to 7. The official video for "Dumb Dumb" was then released on September 9, before being released digitally with its parent album a day later.

Composition

"Dumb Dumb"
A 20-second sample of "Dumb Dumb", a
pop dance
song by Red Velvet
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"Dumb Dumb" was composed by British production team

SHINee, The Red, in which they produced four tracks including "Dumb Dumb", marks Bonnick and Chapman's first time collaborating with the group. Described as a "brassy" and "genre-mashing" dance-pop track with R&B, funk and hip-hop elements, the song contains heavy hi-hats and snare line, percussive claps and horn instruments. It was composed in the key of C Dorian mode, with a tempo of 146 beat-per-minute.[8]

Its lyrics, which were written by Kim Dong-hyun and Seo Ji-eum of

Red Flavor".[11]

Music video and promotion

Music video

Directed by Beomjin J, a music video of the song was released on September 8, 2015, through the official

Pippi Longstockings, Alice from Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood.[15]

Promotion

Red Velvet started their promotions for the album and single by holding a

The Show, and gained a total of five wins for the song on all of the music programs in South Korea.[18] The group then continued to perform the song for the rest of 2015, before ending with year-end performances at Seoul Music Awards, KBS 2015 Song Festival and Golden Disk Awards in January 2016, where they performed a remix version of "Dumb Dumb", which was extended with a dance-break section. As part of their year-end award promotions, three remixes were produced for the group's performance at the Seoul Music Awards, the KBS 2015 Song Festival and the Golden Disk Awards in January 2016. While these mixes maintain most of the song's original production, the rap verse by member Irene and Joy was omitted in favor of an additional dance-break mix for the performances on Song Festival and Golden Disk Awards.[19]

Initially recorded and performed in Korean, a Japanese version of the song was performed for the first time during the group's first Japan showcase in November 2017, along with "Red Flavor".[11]

Critical reception

Upon its initial release, "Dumb Dumb" received positive reviews from music critics who complimented the song's production and quirky vibe, while noting the group's "well-blended" vocal performance. Jeff Benjamin of

College Scholastic Ability Test in South Korea due to their addictive nature.[23]

"Dumb Dumb" was included in Billboard's list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time, ranking at number 70.

GQ Korea in their November 2015 issue.[25] The song also placed fourth on the top 25 Red Velvet songs by critics on Billboard.[26]

"Dumb Dumb" on listicles
Critic/Publication List Rank Ref.
Billboard 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time 70 [5]
British GQ
 		Best K-Pop songs of the decade — [27]
Dazed The top 20 K-Pop tracks of 2015 1 [28]
Rolling Stone 10 Best Music Videos of 2015 9 [29]
Vice The Top 20 K-pop Songs of 2015 2 [30]

Commercial performance

Upon its digital release, "Dumb Dumb" quickly topped 7 Korean digital charts amidst heavy competition.

Gaon Digital Chart on the week of September 6, 2015, marking their third top-five entry and the group's highest peak on the chart at the time. It was their first chart-topper on the component Download Chart, having achieved a total of 175,127 downloads on the first week.[32][33] The song eventually became the group's first single to achieve over a million downloads in South Korea and currently one of the group's most downloaded hits in their native country, having achieved a total of 1,611,205 downloads as of July 2016. "Dumb Dumb" ended up being the 77th biggest hit on the 2015 Year-end Gaon Digital Chart, marking their second appearance along with their previous single "Ice Cream Cake" placing at number 46. It also peaked at number three on Billboard's World Digital Songs chart, making it the best-selling K-pop song in America of the week and the group's fifth consecutive top-ten entry on the chart.[34] The song has since achieved 26,000 downloads in the United States, becoming their second most-downloaded song after "Bad Boy".[35]

The music video for "Dumb Dumb" debuted at #1 on YinYueTai's V-Chart Korea[36] and was also the most viewed K-pop video in America and worldwide for the month of September.[37]

Accolades

"Dumb Dumb" received an nomination for Song of the Month for September 2015 at the 6th

Gaon Chart Music Awards. It achieved the top spots and several South Korean music program charts, including two times on M Countdown
.

Music program awards
Program Date Ref.
SBS MTV
) 		September 15, 2015 [38]
Show Champion (MBC M) September 16, 2015 [39]
M Countdown (Mnet) September 17, 2015 [40]
September 24, 2015
Inkigayo (SBS) September 20, 2015 [41]

Usage in media

Members of the boy group BtoB performed the song on a 2016 episode of The Boss Is Watching.[42]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Red.[43]

Studio

  • Ingrid Studio –
    digital editing
  • SM Blue Cup Studio – mixing
  • Sterling Sound –
    mastering

Personnel

  • SM Entertainment – executive producer
  • Lee Soo-man – producer
  • Kim Young-min – executive supervisor
  • background vocals
  • Seo Ji-eum – lyrics
  • Kim Dong-hyun – lyrics
  • Kenzie – vocal directing
  • Deanna Dellacioppa – composition, arrangement
  • LDN Noise – composition, arrangement
  • Taylor Parks
     – composition, arrangement, background vocals
  • Ryan S. Jhun – composition, arrangement
  • Jung Eun-kyung – recording, digital editing
  • Jung Eui-seok – mixing
  • Tom Coyne – mastering

Charts

Monthly chart

Chart (2015) Peak

position

South Korea (
Gaon Digital Chart)[46]
 5

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Dumb Dumb"
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
Various September 9, 2015
  • KT Music
 [citation needed]

Jang Jane, Giant Pink, and Perc%nt version

In 2017, S.M. Entertainment's partnership with

Mystic Entertainment resulted in a digital music project involving Red Velvet, Henry Lau and Mystic Entertainment's artists, wherein both companies' singers did a remake of each other's songs. PERC%NT, Jang Jane, Giant Pink and K JUN's R&B cover of the single was released on August 18, 2017, along with a music video.[47][48]

See also

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