[MV] 4Men - Present

Let’s see, before I watched this MV, I have thought that this single of theirs was about African children. However, after watching this MV, I realised I may be wrong. From the MV impression, it looks like the song is about children in general and the title is called Present…ehm… children are gifts from god ?

I didn’t capture any caps coz … I’m lazy - I actually uploaded this clip last Saturday - just procrastinated to feature it here today O_O see…I’m way behind in featuring all the MVs that I want to feature… ><

4Men new single, Seon Mul, cover and tracklist

Oh my, they are back ^^ with a new single. It looks like for some aid for African kids. I love their vocals (and harmonization). This single only has 1 song with 2 versions (excluding the instrumentals). J1, 4Men’s lead vocal, will have a solo part .

I also captured the melon promo event page and it has a picture of all 4 members. If I’m not mistaken, J1 is the guy in braids. Both songs were produced by Park Sun Ju. If you remembered that My Girl fan-made MV that I’ve featured long time ago - the duet between Kim Bum Soo and a female singer. That female singer is Park Sun Ju. I think they are the same person.

I’m waiting for the MV to be released .

[MV] 4Men + Park Jung Eun - Da Shi Sarang Hal Sool Eet Eul Ga

I discovered 4Men through this MV. It was a random download but oh my, what a discovery! I love the song so much that I went to search for the album (online version). After hearing the online version, I then decided to purchase the actual one for my collection. My impression on that album is written on this post here.

The MV is the theme MV for the movie, “Romance”, starring Jo Jae Hyun and Kim Ji Soo. I still haven’t watch the DVD that I bought but I will watch it before another MV that I’m going to post, which was like a sequel to this MV .

The lovely Kim Ji Soo.

The talented Jo Jae Hyun

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4Men - Andante

Excellent voices. One of my favorite 2006 Korean albums.

I first heard about this group when I downloaded the MV for the Korean movie, “Romance”. That song (“Da Shi Sarang Hal Sool Eet Eul Ga”) was a duet with Park Jung Eun and Soulciety (don’t know who they were at that time, too). It was a great ballad-type song, their voices were excellent and the nice scenes excerpts from the movie – who wouldn’t fell in love with the MV and song?

Later I came across their third album, “Andante”, over at z-degrees forum and absolutezero had put a recommended tag on it (if I remembered correctly). I downloaded it and since then the album has become a mainstay in my Winamp Player.

So who are 4Men? I tried to find their information on the internet but there’s not much information. I did find out that the current 4Men have had I did find out that the original 4Men was a pioneer of R&B in Korea. The original 4Men comprised of Yoon Min-soo, Jeong Se-young, Lee Jeong-ho and Han Hyun-hee and they debuted back in 1999. Yoon Min-soo left the group in 2001 and formed a new group Vibe (with Ryu Jae-Hyun and Yoo Sung-Gyu). The remaining 3 members found a new guy, J1, and re-grouped to release their third album this year - after 5 years of hiatus from the K-pop scene. You may think that Vibe and they were not on friendly terms but after I took a look at the lyric booklet – o_O all the songs were either composed by Yoon Min-Soo, Ryu Jae-Hyun and Yoo Sung-Gyu. They also produced the songs with 4Men. Yoon Min-Soo was featured in Track #2. Ryu Jae-Hyun played the piano for the first track, “To MJ”. Not to mention that Track #4, “Why Mo Reut Get Ni”, and Track #9, “Wish So Mang”, were remakes of Vibe’s songs (from Vibe Vol 2 and Vol 1 respectively).

The whole album consists of mainly ballad/R&B type (with bit of rap), which actually the type of songs that I like. The first track (“To MJ”) was a beautiful piano instrumental of the second track (“Go Baek” or “Confession”). It paved the way nicely to the second track. Of course, I have no idea who’s MJ :p.The MV for “Go Baek” was a sad one. It starred Jung Kyung-Ho and the plot was about him who couldn’t forget his fiancée who has died in a car accident. Track #6, as mentioned earlier, was the first track that I heard from them and it’s another great song. 4Men did another version of this song (Track #14), which only have 4Men vocals (no Park Jung-Eun here). I also like this version. I didn’t know that there were 2 remakes of Vibe’s old songs (Track #4 and Track #9) until I did a search on Google (for 4Men information).

I recently came across (and downloaded) the only 4Men performance that I could find. It was a fancam but well, it’s still a live performance! They performed Track #6 (“Da Shi Sarang Hal Sool Eet Eul Ga” or “Can I Love Again”) with Park Jung-Eun. Their live performance was very good – sounded the same as their studio version. And I finally knew who’s the lead voice was. Even though it was a blurry, I think he was J1 because he’s the only one in 4Men that has long hair :p.

The CD was in my favourite color (Blue). Some pictures of 4Men and their names – which was nice for people like me who do not know who’s who. However, I wished they provide more than just the names – some profile information would be nice ^^. The whole CD utilized some flowery patterns which was quite unique. I like how the CD was covered – it had a slip-on (refer to picture).

Singer: 4Men
Album Title: Andante
Released: March 2006
Label: A.N.Corps / Sony BMG
Genre: R&B / Ballad

Track List:
01 To MJ (piano by Vibe’s Ryu Jae-Hyun) *****
02 Go Baek *****
03 Sarang Han Man Keum ***
04 Why Mo Reu Get Ni (remake of Vibe Vol 2’s song, “Mo Reu Get Ni”) *****
05 Noon Mool (featuring Nobless) ***
06 Da Shi Sarang Hal Sool Eet Eul Ga (featuring Park Jung-Eun) *****
07 3 Nyun Hoo Ee Yah *****
08 Like A… (interlude)
09 Wish So Mang (remake of Vibe Vol 1’s song, “So Mang”) *****
10 Yeon In *****
11 Pain (interlude)
12 Geum Ji Dwen Yun In *****
13 Goodbye *****
14 Da Shi Sarang Hal Sool Eet Eul Ga (4Men version) *****
15 Go Baek (MR)
16 Sarang Han Man Keum (MR)

Music Video from this album:
01 Da Shi Sarang Hal Sool Eet Eul Ga (excerpts from Romance k-movie starring Jo Jae-Hyun and Kim Ji-Soo)
02 Go Baek (starring Jung Kyung-Ho)

Album Pictures