A Boy Explained

A Boy
Type:single
Artist:G-Dragon
Album:Heartbreaker
Released:November 9, 2009
Recorded:2009
Genre:K-pop, dance-pop, funk, electro-hip hop
Length:3:29
Label:YG Entertainment
Prev Title:Butterfly
Prev Year:2009
Next Title:Heartbreaker (Remix)
Next Year:2010

"A Boy" (Korean: 소년이여, Sonyeoniyeo) is a song recorded by the South Korean rapper G-Dragon. It was released as the fourth and final single from his debut album Heartbreaker. G-Dragon stated that the song was released as an answer to the plagiarism controversy that surrounded his singles "Heartbreaker" and "Butterfly" when several people were telling him to quit singing, with G-Dragon answering that he "will not quit."

Release

Although the end of G-Dragon's music video for "Breathe" included a teaser the music video for "A Boy", the single was not released as the next single. Instead, G-Dragon released the song "Butterfly".[1] A couple of weeks after the release of "Butterfly", "Soneoniya" was officially confirmed and released as the fourth and final promotional single for the album. G-Dragon stated that the song's lyrics, which were written by himself,[2] were about the thoughts and struggles he went through as a young boy when he became YG trainee at the age of 13.[3]

Track listing

  1. "A Boy" – 3:29

Music video

Similar to the music video of "Butterfly", "Sonyeoniya"'s music video is heavily composed of computer graphics. Unlike that of his previous music videos (which included either a stylized dance or a storyline), the music featured various changing graphics and G-Dragon singing. The Music Video expresses G-Dragon's emotions and his struggles explained in the lyrics of the song.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: I지드래곤 솔로 세번째 뮤비 '버터플라이' 전격공개 '로맨틱 애니 제작'. 2009-10-23. Newsen. 2010-01-21. 2011-07-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20110714173941/http://rss.newsen.com/news_view.php?news_uid=387710. live.
  2. News: ko:지드래곤 ‘소년이여’ 깜짝 공개 "대박 조짐?" . 2009-08-10 . JK News . http://ent.jknews.co.kr/article/news/20090810/4251353.htm . 2010-02-21 . ko . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110722135700/http://news.jkn.co.kr/article/news/20090810/4251353.htm . 2011-07-22 .
  3. Han, Sang-hee. G-Dragon to Hold 1st Solo Concert The Korea Times. Retrieved January 2, 2010.