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Release Date
25 September 2008
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Length
13 tracks
MIROTIC is TVXQ (동방신기)'s fourth South Korean award winning studio album, released on September 26, 2008. The album had been in production since 2007, but the title was not decided upon until January 2008. TVXQ members Xiah (시아준수) and Max (최강창민) participated directly in the making of the album, penning the lyrics for "노을.. 바라보다 (Picture of You)" and "Love in the Ice", respectively. In addition, members Hero (영웅재중) and Micky (믹키유천) composed and wrote the lyrics to "사랑아 울지마 (Don't Cry My Lover)" and "사랑 안녕 사랑 (Love Bye Love)", respectively, for version C of the album. Three days after its release, MIROTIC became the best selling album of the year. On November 15, 2008, the album won the album of the year award at the 2008 MKMF Korean Music Festival awards selling over 500,000 copies.
The choreography of "주문 (MIROTIC)", the title track of the album, was done in a collaboration between Korean choreographers and Kenny Wormald.The song features a "reverse beat" track, meaning that the bass beat is either a half beat or a whole beat late in coming into a new phrase. While in most genres of music, the bass note comes in directly on the first beat of the measure in setting the chord of the phrase, reverse beat songs alter this usual method. In doing so, the reverse beat genre is said to have an effect of "growing on" the listener, having an addictive sound.
"MIROTIC" is a newly coined term, created by Hero (영웅재중), that combines the Korean MIRO (미로), meaning "maze", and the English suffix "-tic".
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