"Pinocchio (Danger)" (피노키오; Pinokio) is a song and lead single by South Korean girl group f(x) from their first studio album Pinocchio. The song was released digitally on April 17, 2011 through various music portal websites by the distributing and record label agency SM Entertainment. Accompanying promotional music video was released through YouTube on April 19, 2011.
| "Pinocchio (Danger)" | ||||
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| Single by f(x) | ||||
| from the album Pinocchio | ||||
| Released | April 17, 2011 | |||
| Studio | SM Blue Cup Studio, Seoul, South Korea | |||
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| Length | 3:09 | |||
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| "Pinocchio (Danger)" on YouTube | ||||
Music video
editThe teaser for music video for the song was released on April 14, 2011[1] and the full music video was released on April 18, 2011 through YouTube.[2]
The music video shows f(x) dancing the choreography by Jillian Meyers, thus featuring her first work with f(x), and would soon collaborate again in singles like Electric Shock and Rum Pum Pum Pum. The video features two dance sets, one with white carved walls, manual-rotating fans and pyramids on the floor and in the background, another one white set with swirling black and white, giving an illusion, and five individual sets (for each member). Leader Victoria on an orange room with different boxes, Amber on a white room with black drawings, Luna on a red room with checkered red flooring, Sulli on a hexagon blue-green and pink room and Krystal on a blue room in a triangular angle. Throughout the video, the members dance to choreography, gets close ups changing outfit and meets in Luna's set, and a balloon (designed like Pinocchio) appears, startling them.
Promotion
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f(x) made their first live performance stage of the song through appearance in one of the episodes of KBS's Music Bank on April 22, 2011. The song "Gangsta Boy" was also chosen to be part of the special comeback performances. "Pinocchio (Danger)" won a total of 8 music show awards: 3 on Inkigayo, 3 on M Countdown and 2 on Music Bank, the first win was on April 29 in Music Bank. The promotions of "Pinocchio (Danger)" and the album ended on May 29, 2011.
Charts
edit| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| South Korea (Gaon Singles Chart) [3] |
1 |
| Billboard K-Pop Hot 100[4] | 69 |
Accolades
edit| Program | Date |
|---|---|
| Music Bank | April 29, 2011 |
| May 20, 2011 | |
| M Countdown | May 5, 2011 |
| May 12, 2011 | |
| May 19, 2011 | |
| Inkigayo | May 8, 2011 |
| May 15, 2011 | |
| May 22, 2011 |
Credits
editCredits adapted from album's liner notes.[5]
Studio
edit- Recorded and digitally edited at SM Blue Cup Studio
- Mixed at SM Yellow Tail Studio
- Mastered at Sonic Korea
Personnel
edit- SM Entertainment – executive producer
- Lee Soo-man – producer
- Kim Young-min – executive supervisor
- f(x) – vocals, background vocals
- Kenzie – lyrics
- Misfit – lyrics
- Alex Cantrall – composition
- Jeff Hoeppner – composition
- Dwight Watson – composition
- Hitchhiker – composition, arrangement, vocal directing, sound, guitar, keyboard
- Lee Seong-ho – recording, digital editing
- Jung Eui-seok – recording
- Gu Jong-pil – mixing
- Jeon Hoon – mastering
References
edit- ^ "에프엑스 f(x)_피노키오(Danger)_MUSIC VIDEO". YouTube. April 19, 2011. Archived from the original on August 19, 2011. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
- ^ "Gaon Chart". Korea Music Content Industry Association. Archived from the original on January 8, 2021. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
- ^ "F(X) - Chart history - Billboard". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ^ f(x) (2011). Pinocchio (photobook). South Korea: SM Entertainment; Dreamus. Credits.