Red Velvet: Ice Cream Cake

Ice Cream Cake

by Red Velvet was the second lead single from their EP Ice Cream Cake as the first track. Released on March 16, 2015, the song was written by Jo Yoon Kyung and Kim Dong-hyun. Composition and arrangement was by Hayley Aitken, Sebastian Lundberg, Frederick Haggstam, and Johan Gustafsson. Ice Cream Cake was released two days after Automatic.

Ice Cream Cake featured members Irene, Wendy, Seulgi, Joy, and Yeri at the average age of 20 years old.

Ice Cream Cake had a total of 435 words with 195 words (55.8%) in Korean versus 240 (55.2%) in English. The song is sung majority in unison with 65.3% (284 words) while only 34.7% (151 words) divided between the members. The average is 30.2 words with a standard deviation of 14.3 words and a margin of error of 6.4 words. Member Joy had the highest number of words while member Yeri had the least.

Rank
  1. Joy - 52 words
  2. Irene - 39 words
  3. Wendy - 27 words
  4. Seulgi - 23 words
  5. Yeri - 10 words
Joy - highest word count

Ice Cream Cake had a track time of 3 minutes and 11 seconds with a total singing time of 3 minutes and 7 seconds. The sung, just like words, mainly sung in unison with 64.7% (121 seconds) while 66 seconds (35.3%) divided between the five members. The average was 13.2 seconds with a standard deviation of 4.9 seconds and a margin of error of 2.2 seconds. Member Joy had the highest amount of time, while member Yeri had the least.

Rank
  1. Joy - 20 seconds
  2. Irene - 17 seconds
  3. Wendy - 12 seconds
  4. Seugli - 11 seconds
  5. Yeri - 6 seconds
Joy - Highest Time Count

Red Velvet earned 6 music show wins for Ice Cream Cake and earned 3 wins along with 2 nominations during the award season cycle. The song was listed on kpop end of year kpop list at #18 for billboard. Ice Cream Cake also peaked at #3 on the US World Songs and #4 on the South Korea Gaon chart, along with placing on two additional charts.

Ice Cream Cake by Red Velvet earned a total of 890.2 points and earned a grade of B+ for word distribution and a grade of A+ for time distribution.


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