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1. Odd Eye
Lyrics by Kim Jonghyun; Composed & Arranged by Kim Jonghyun / Jonathan Yip / Jeremy Reeves / Ray Romulus (The Stereotypes Team) / Ray McCullough
The stereotypes are a rnb/hip hop/dance Grammy winning production team, for kpop they recently produced SNSD’s “XYZ”, Boa’s “Kiss my lips”, EXO’s “Transformer”
The song is said be written to highlight each SHINee member’s vocal qualities so I exect some dance/pop with rnb elements (or viceversa).
2. Love Sick
Lyrics by Kenzie; Composed & Arranged by Kenzie / The Underdogs / Mike Dailey / Dewain Whitmore
According to many fans Love Sick could be a reference to Love Pain and a revisitation of it, I think it’s not farfetched considering that Kenzie composed a few slow-tempo songs for SHINee such as Graze, Life and The Underdogs producedSymptoms and Mono-drama.
3. View
Lyrics by Kim Jonghyun; Composed & Arranged by LDN Noise / Ryan S. Jhun / Adrian McKinnon
Not much to speculate since it’s been already said that the song will be deep/euro house with rnb vocals.
4. Romance
Lyrics by Kim In Hyeom (Jam Factory); Composed & Arranged by Andreas Oberg / Maria Marcus / Gustav Karistom
Another fandom’s speculation is that this could be the revisitation of Romantic, there aren’t many informations about the producers other than Oberg working on Breaking News and some japanese tracks. I doubt this will be an upbeat song because of the title, but we’ll see.
5. Trigger
Lyrics by Kenzie; Composed by Kenzie / Deez / Rodnae “Chikk” Bell, Arranged by Deez
I think Trigger is going to be an upbeat song. Kenzie composed for Stranger, Evil, WSS and with Bell on EXO’s “Overdose”. Deez has also worked with Jjong for Neon, but at the same time, they all did their fair share of mid-tempo, rnb tracks, so I’m not sure lol.
6. Road to Farewell (Farewell My Love)
Korean Lyrics by January 8th (Jam Factory); Composed by Steven Lee, Jimmy Richard, G'harah “PK” Degeddingseze; Arranged by G'harah “PK” Degeddingseze
Lee and Richard already worked together for SHINee and they composed 1000years and Better, so I’m pretty sure this is going to be a ballad, especially given the title.
7. An Ode To You
Lyrics by Kim Hyun Woo (CLEF CREW); Composed by Kim Hyun Woo, Gong Duhyung; Arranged by Park Hang Hyun
Not much stuff for these producers as well, I don’t think they ever worked with SHINee. CLEF CREW does mostly acoustic, soft music, so maybe this will be something soft similar to Taemin’s Play Me.
8. Alive
Korean Lyrics by Kim In Ha, MC META; Composed & Arranged by The Underdogs / Darius Logan / Dominique Logan
Second Underdogs track. Probably rnb since it’s what they’re specialized, but mostly due to the title, I wouldn’t exclude something with dancepop and hip hop elements. (MC Meta is a huge name in the hip hop korean community and it’s been freaking out some fans lol)
9. Woof Woof
Korean Lyrics by Kim In Hyeong (Jam Factory); Composed & Arranged by Will Simms / DWB
The song everyone is worried about lol. Yes, dude worked on Wolf, but he also worked on Hitchhiking and f(x)’s “Rainbow” so I’m not ready to write it off as terrible despite the title yet.
10 Black Hole
Korean Lyrics by Kim Min Jung; Composed & Arranged by Albi Albertsson / Andreas Oberg / Andreas Carisson
I think this is going to be a power upbeat track, mostly due the title, but also because the same producers also worked together on VIXX’s “B.O.D.Y”
11 Replay (An Encore)
Lyrics, Composed & Arranged by Kim Jin Han
Not much info about Kim Jin Han either. Looks like an ending/bonus track so maybe something mid/down-tempo.
Overall the tracklist is missing many familiar names such as Thomas Troelsen, Ylva Dimberg, Teddy Riley, DOM and Hitchhiker, so I think this album is going to have a different feel compared to MoU and I consider fans’ speculations about the parallels between “old” and “new” SHINee quite likley.