"Pinocchio (Danger)" (피노키오; Pinokio) is a song and lead single by

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n girl group f(x) from their first studio album ''

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''. The song was released digitally on April 17, 2011 through various music portal websites by the distributing and record label agency

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. Accompanying promotional music video was released through

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on April 19, 2011.

Music video

The teaser for music video for the song was released on April 14, 2011 and the full music video was released on April 18, 2011 through

. 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

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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

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on an orange room with different boxes,

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on a white room with black drawings,

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on a red room with checkered red flooring,

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on a hexagon blue-green and pink room and

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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

f(x) made their first live performance stage of the song through appearance in one of the episodes of KBS's ''

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'' 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 ''

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'', 3 on ''

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'' 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

Accolades

Music program awards

Credits

Credits adapted from album's liner notes.

Studio

* Recorded and digitally edited at SM Blue Cup Studio * Mixed at SM Yellow Tail Studio * Mastered at Sonic Korea

Personnel

–

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– producer * Kim Young-min – executive supervisor * f(x) – vocals,

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* Kenzie – lyrics * Misfit – lyrics * Alex Cantrall – composition * Jeff Hoeppner – composition * Dwight Watson – composition * Hitchhiker –

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, vocal directing, sound,

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* Lee Seong-ho –

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* Jung Eui-seok – recording * Gu Jong-pil – mixing * Jeon Hoon – mastering

References

External links

f(x) - Official website

SM Entertainment - Official website
* {{f(x) F(x) (group) songs 2011 singles Dance-pop songs Korean-language songs SM Entertainment singles Songs written by Kenzie (songwriter)