Girls' Generation: Kissing You

Kissing You

by Girls’ Generation was a lead single for the album Girls’ Generation (2007) and was on the reissue album Baby Baby as the fifth track. Released on November 1, 2007 the song was written, composed, and arranged by LeeOn with Kwon Yoon-Jung taking part in the writing of the lyrics. It had been 73 days since their previous single, Girls’ Generation had been released, also featured from the same album.

Kissing You features members Hyoyeon, Jessica, Seohyun, Sooyoung, Sunny, Taeyeon, Tiffany, Yoona, and Yuri at the average age of 17.6 years old at its initial release time.

Kissing You has a total of 233 words with 182 (78.1%) sung in Korean versus 51 words (21.9%) sung in English. About 50.2% (117 words) sung by all members in unison with 49.8% (116 words) sung in individual sections. The average between the nine members is 12.9 words with a standard deviation of 8.7 words and a margin of error of 2.9 words. Member Seohyun had the highest amount of words while member Yoona had the least.

Rank

  1. Seohyun - 29 words
  2. Taeyeon - 23 words
  3. Jessica - 20 words
  4. Sunny - 14 words
  5. Tiffany - 11 words
  6. Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Yuri - 5 words
  7. Yoona - 4 words
Seohyun - Highest Word Count


Kissing you had a track time of 3 minutes and 19 seconds and a total singing time of 2 minutes and 49 seconds. 68 seconds (40.2%) were sung in unison and the remainder 101 seconds (59.8%) sung divided amongst the members. The average is 11.2 seconds with 6.8 seconds standard deviation and a margin of error of 2.3 seconds. Member Jessica had the highest time, while member Hyoyeon had the lowest.

Rank
  1. Jessica - 21 seconds
  2. Taeyeon - 20 seconds
  3. Seohyun - 19 seconds
  4. Sunny - 13 seconds
  5. Tiffany - 9 seconds
  6. Sooyoung, Yoona, Yuri - 5 seconds
  7. Hyoyeon - 4 seconds
Jessica - Highest Time Count

Kissing You won 5 music show awards, received 1 win during the award season cycle and earned a total of 3 additional nominations. The song itself did not chart on any charts at the time due to a lack of kpop single charting systems.

Kissing You by Girls’ Generation earned a total of 454.3 points and a grade of A for both time and word distribution.

Points Breakdown
  • Standard Deviation - 184.5
  • Margin of Error - 194.8
  • Music Show - 50
  • Awards - 25
  • Charts - 0


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