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After School(South Korean seven member girl band) released their 2nd singles 너 때문에 (“Because of You“) on the 23/11/09. This song is a nice paced song as it is not too fast nor too emotional. However, the lyrics play an important role of portraying the emotions of the girls being very emotional about the breakup between the girl and her boyfriend.

The song started slowly with a sad melody from a piano and a violin and I was expecting perhaps, a typical slow sad song. However, I was surprised that the beat starts getting faster and faster when the leader of After School Kahi starts singing. Her voice was pleasing to the ear and her voice is strong such that it lifts the atmosphere of the song (from a rather quiet beginning to rather pop kind of music).

The song is a sad song that is beautifully completed with a combination of seven girls’ different singing style comprising of rapping,singing at different volumes to portray different feelings. On the whole, it was beautifully done:D

I was surprised by the lyrics as they do not sound cliche but adds an impact to the song evoking emotions of listeners  especially the chorus part.Lyrics like

Because of you i cried a lot

Because of you i laughed a lot

Because of you I believe in love

Because of you(x2) I lost it all

It’s really oppressive,suffocating,asfixiating

The world without you

It chewed out my heart, it crushed my pride

It ripped my heart apart,why did you leave me?

The highlighted part (pink) was the line that really shocked me. From just that few words, you can see the sadness and how hard the breakup was. The girl felt lost, hopeless and worthless to a rather great extent after the guy just left her for no reason.

The music video for this song is worth watching. There are scenes of it which I think are very classic scenes of being emotional over breakup like putting lipstick and crying in front of a mirror and also crying scenes. Other than that, you can also see the seven girls dancing in the mv and their dance moves are rather nice!:D

Though this song was released about 3 months ago(23/11/09), I still want to review on this song as I realised that the number of hits for this song in youtube is about 109,046 views which is relatively high. This further explains that this song is still popular!

-yifan:)