Mamacita (stylized as MAMACITA) is the seventh Korean studio album (eighth overall) of South Korean boy band
Super Junior. It was released on September 1, 2014, by
SM Entertainment
SM Entertainment Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean multinational entertainment agency. It is one of South Korea's largest entertainment companies where it was established in 1995 by record executive and record producer Lee Soo-man. The company ha ...
and was released online on August 29, 2014. This is their first Korean album since ''
Sexy, Free & Single
''Sexy, Free & Single'' ( reissue name ''Spy'') is the sixth Korean studio album of South Korean boy band Super Junior. It was released on July 4, 2012, by SM Entertainment, distributed by KMP Holdings and available from online music portal si ...
'' was released in 2012. On October 16, 2014, it was announced that a special version of the album, named This is Love, would be released on October 23, 2014.
The album features 10 members, marking the return of members
Leeteuk
Park Jeong-su (born July 1, 1983), known professionally as Leeteuk (), is a South Korean singer, songwriter, presenter, radio personality and actor. He debuted as the leader of the boy band Super Junior in November 2005 and since then has part ...
and
Heechul
Kim Hee-chul (; born July 10, 1983), better known mononymously as Heechul, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, presenter and actor. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Super Junior and has further participated in its subgroup Su ...
after their
mandatory military service
Conscription (also called the draft in the United States) is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day un ...
. It features the vocals of
Yesung
Kim Kang-hoon (born Kim Jong-woon; August 24, 1984), better known by his stage name Yesung is a South Korean singer, songwriter, actor, radio personality and television presenter. He debuted in 2005 as a member of Super Junior and its subgroup ...
in some songs, who was in mandatory military service during the production of the album.
Background
The group went on hiatus for two years and one month while waiting for their leader,
Leeteuk
Park Jeong-su (born July 1, 1983), known professionally as Leeteuk (), is a South Korean singer, songwriter, presenter, radio personality and actor. He debuted as the leader of the boy band Super Junior in November 2005 and since then has part ...
who was serving in mandatory military service. In 2013 and the beginning of 2014 the sub-units
Super Junior-M
Super Junior-M (stylized as SJ-M), an initialism for Super Junior-Mandarin, is a Chinese sub-unit of the South Korean boy band Super Junior. The sub-unit is the first international music group in the Chinese music industry to have members of bot ...
and
Donghae & Eunhyuk
Super Junior-D&E ( ko, 슈퍼주니어-동해&은혁, also known as Donghae & Eunhyuk, D&E or SJ-D&E) is the fifth sub-unit of South Korean boy band Super Junior, formed by SM Entertainment in 2011. It is composed of two Super Junior members: D ...
actively worked on their own albums and touring, while the full group successfully completed their World Tour
Super Show 5 and achieved some accolades and records overseas.
With the discharge of Leeteuk coming sooner, the members of the group started to hint they were recording a new album and also some of them updated their SNS with pictures in the recording studio. A week before the discharge of Leeteuk, they also uploaded a picture of the full group rehearsing together, causing great excitement. One of the pictures revealed that the famous choreographer
Tony Testa
Anthony Joseph Testa (born 31 March 1987) is an American choreographer, creative director, educator and dancer.
Early life
Testa started dancing at age eight in his hometown of Fort Collins, Colorado at Westin Arts Academy & Artistic Fusion Dan ...
was working with them.
It was announced in August 2014 that the group would be making their comeback later that month with a full album and new world tour
Super Show 6. The title of the album was revealed, increasing the anticipation, with around forty teaser images released in the following days. Finally the group released an image video teaser with a Western storyline, a music video teaser showcasing parts of the choreography and the chorus of the song and a Highlight Medley of the studio album.
Production & composition
The album is full of new sounds, different beats, old school R&B and pop music. It was revealed that
Teddy Riley
Edward Theodore Riley (born October 8, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer credited with the creation of the New Jack Swing genre. Riley credits Barry Michael Cooper with giving the genre its name.Hogan, Paul. "Tedd ...
, Jason J. Lopez and
Yoo Young-jin
Yoo Young-jin is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer and vocal trainer under SM Entertainment. He has produced and written songs for H.O.T., S.E.S, BoA, Shinhwa, TVXQ, CSJH The Grace, Super Junior, Girls' Generation, Shinee, ...
worked on the title track, which is described as an "urban new jack swing track with an Indian percussion base and piano melody that is reminiscent of a DJ remix."
The album has a total of 10 songs, and features composers
Don Spike
Kim Min-su (; born January 24, 1977), better known by his stage name Don Spike () is a South Korean singer, composer and entertainer. Personal life
Relationships
In May 2022, it was reported that Don Spike would hold a wedding with his non-c ...
, Team One Sound and Hitchhiker. Band member
Donghae contributed music and lyrics to the song 'Shirt,' and also 'Islands' which is about the group's friendship and loyalty. Band member
Siwon
Choi Si-won (; born 7 April 1986), known mononymously as Siwon, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, model, and actor known for his work as a member of South Korean boy group Super Junior. Choi committed as special representative of UNICEF K ...
also wrote the lyrics to ‘Don't Leave Me’, which was found on the repackaged album.
Promotion
Release
Super Junior held a press conference at the Imperial Palace Hotel in Gangnam, Seoul on August 28, 2014. A few hours later, the official music video was released and it quickly reached one million views in less than 9 hours and two million views in less than 22 hours. It ended up being the most viewed k-pop music video of August 2014 despite being released at the end of the month. On the Chinese site
YinYueTai
YinYueTai (), is one of the major music video sharing sites in China. YinYueTai is the counterpart of Billboard and Gaon Charts in China and it hosts the annual V Chart Awards.
Summary
The website started when the founder could not easily find ...
Super Junior became the second group on achieve a perfect 100.00 score for the music video (Super Junior-M's Swing music video, being the first one).
On August 29 at 00:00 (KST) the album was released in digital format in South Korea. Over the next few days, it also became available through iTunes for oversea fans. The physical version of the album was available for pre-order a week before and became sold out in Synnara Store. On September 1 the album hit the stores and peaked at No. 1 in charts right away, despite a controversy with an error in the second print run of the album.
Live performance
The group made their comeback performance on the Korean music show ''
Music Bank
Music Bank may refer to:
* ''Music Bank'' (TV program), a South Korean music program by KBS
**''Music Bank World Tour
The ''Music Bank'' World Tour is a worldwide live concert tour of South Korean music show '' Music Bank'' by the Korean Broa ...
'' with the songs "Shirt" and "Mamacita" on August 29 and kept promotions going on
Music Core
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...
,
Inkigayo and
M! Countdown
''M Countdown'' () is a South Korean music program broadcast by Mnet. The show features appearances by popular music artists who also perform live on stage. It is broadcast from CJ E&M Center Studio in Sangam-dong, Mapo District, Seoul.
B ...
. On September 10 the group did two fan signing events at different locations in Seoul.
Super Show 6
Super Junior kicked off their third World Tour on September 19 at Seoul. The tickets for the first dates in their hometown were sold out in just 9 minutes, and the group celebrated their 100th concert on September 21. They also confirmed five stops in Japan as well, in
Tokyo Dome
is an indoor stadium in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. It was designed as a baseball stadium following its predecessor, Korakuen Stadium. Construction on the stadium began on May 16, 1985, and it opened on March 17, 1988. It was built on the site of th ...
and
Osaka Dome
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.
Critical reception
''
Billboard'' released an article about Super Junior's new album highlighting the experimental variety of music styles. The website Critical Kpop also named 'Mamacita' a front-runner for album of the year in the 2014's K-Pop industry, praising it as "Every song on Mamacita fits seamlessly together, and more revealing, every song on Mamacita is better for being included together, in this smooth, sophisticated, funky package. Now that's an album".
Allkpop also praised the album writing that composers "crafted a pretty masterful piece of work here" and giving them a 9,0 score overall.
Commercial performance
The album hit the No. 1 spot on Hanteo chart, making it the best selling of the week with more than 65,000 copies sold. It became No. 1 on iTunes in many countries such as HongKong, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand and placed in the Top 10 in many countries such as Japan, Indonesia and México. The album topped Billboard's Album World Chart with just three days of sales, selling 1,000+ copies according to
Nielsen SoundScan.
Super Junior also ranked high in other domestic charts in Asia, coming in at No. 1 on KKBOX Weekly chart in Taiwan and Hong Kong, No. 2 on Tower Records chart and No. 3 on Oricon charts, Japan.
Track listing
Personnel
Credit for ''Mamacita'' are adapted from the album.
* S.M Entertainment Co., Ltd – Executive Producer
* Soo-man Lee – Producer
* Nam Soo-young – Director of Management
* Jung Chang-hwan – Director of Media Planning
* Lee Song-soo, Kwon Yoon-jung, Yoon Ji-hae – A&R Direction & Coordinator
* Park Hae-in, Kim Dong-hoo, Cho Min-kyung, Lee Seo-kyung – International Repertoire
* Jung Hyo-won, Kim Min-kyung, Oh Jung-eun, Park Mi-ji – Publishing & Copyright Clearance
* Vocal director – Yoo Young-jin
* Super Junior: Leeteuk, Heechul, Yesung, Kangin, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook and Kyuhyun – Vocals,
background vocals
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...
* Yoo Young-jin – Recorded at S.M. Boomingsystem
* Goo Joung-pil – Recorded at S.M. Yello Tall Studio
* Kim Chol-Sun – Recorded at S.M. Blue Ocean Studio
* Yoo Young-jin –
Mixing (mixing done at S.M. Boomingsystem)
* Nam Koong-jin – Mixing at S.M. Concert Hall Studio
* Goo Jong-pil – Mixing at S.M. Yello Tall Studio
* Kim Cheol-sun – Mixing at S.M. Blue Ocean Studio
* Jang Eui-seok – Mixing at S.M. Blue Cup Studio
* Kim Han-goo – Mixing at Sound Pool Studio
* Jeon Hoon –
Mastering (mastering done at Sonic Korea)
* Tak Yeong-jun, Kang Byeong-jun, Wan Young-sun, Kim Min-gun, Kim Si-young, Song In-ho, Park Yeong-suk – Artist Management and Promotion
* Lee Seong-Soo, Yoon Hee-jun, Cho Yoo Eun – Artist Planning & Development
* Kim Eun-ah, Jung Sang-hee, Lee Ji-sun – Public Relations & Publicity
* Kim Min Suk, Park Min-Kwon, Jung Kyung-sik – Media Planning
* Tak Young-jun, Hwang Sung-young, Beat Burger (Joe Sim, Greg Hwang) – Choreography Direction
* Toni Testa, Beat Burger (Joe Sim, Greg Hwang) – Choreographer
* Choi Jung-min – International Marketing
* Steven Myungkyung Lee – English lyrics Supervisor
* Lee Jung-ah – Customer Relationship Management
* Park Jun-young, Sun Young, Jun Sung-jin – Music Video Direction
* Min Hee-jin – Visual & Art Director
* Han Jung-cul – Photographer
* Cho Oh-chul, Yoon Jung-yoon, Kim Yae-min – Design
* Lee Won-hae (want) – Stylist
* Kim Jung-eun, Kim Hye-yun, Yae Won-sang, Kwak Dong-woo – Hair Stylist
* Choi Hye-rin, Han Hyoo-eun, SO Hyun-joo – Make-up Artist
* Young-min Kim – Executive Supervisor
Charts
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
Year-end charts
Album sales
Release history
Awards
Listicles
See also
* Mamacita
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* ''Music Video Event!!''
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* This Is Love x Evanesce
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References
External links
Super Junior official homepage
Super Junior official YouTube channel
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2014 albums
Super Junior albums
SM Entertainment albums
Korean-language albums