Song History
"Don't Don" is the first track in Don't Don, a song with the music combination of rock, heavy beat, R&B, rap, and dance-pop. The song debuted as part of the top 20 on most South Korean music charts on the second week of October. Composed, arranged and written by Yoo Young Jin, the song is an extinctive type of SMP (SM Music Performance), with the composition of heavy guitar riffs, percussion patterns, an electronic violin solo, and other musical elements that mix the song into a grand musical performance. The song features various rap strings and also a solo violin performance, performed by a Canadian-Chinese SM Entertainment trainee, Henry Lau, who is now a member of Super Junior-M.
"Don't Don," pronounced as don don in Korean, is a play on the words "don," (Korean: 돈), which means money, and "donda," (Korean: 돈다), which means "to go insane". In an effort to promote the world to become a more innocent and magnanimous place to live, the lyrics sends a message about how money, hypocrisy, and the change of society has made the world into a twisted and greedy place to live. The lyrics urge listeners to transform the world into a place where the innocence of children can be preserved.
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