Red Velvet: Dumb Dumb

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Dumb Dumb 

is a lead single from Red Velvet released on September 9, 2015 for their first studio album The Red as the first track. Written by Seo Ji-eum and Kim Dong Hyun, with composition and arrangement by LDN Noise, Deanna Dellacioppa, Taylor Parks, and Ryan S. Jhun. It had been 184 days since their last single release of Ice Cream Cake in March of the same year.

Dumb Dumb features members Irene, Joy, Seulgi, Wendy, and Yeri at the average age of 20 years olds.

Dumb Dumb has a total of 470 words with 31.7% (149 words) in Korean versus 68.3% (321 words) in English. The song is broken down majority sung by All, on paper, with 256 words (54.5%), versus 214 words (45.5%) divided between the members. The average is 44.2 words with a standard deviation of 12.2 words and a margin of error of 5.5 words. Member Irene has the highest number of words while member Yeri has the least.

Rank
  1. Irene - 57 words
  2. Joy - 54 words
  3. Wendy - 49 words
  4. Seulgi - 37 words
  5. Yeri - 24 words
Irene - Highest word count


Dumb Dumb has a total track time of 3 minutes and 22 seconds (202 seconds) with a total singing time of 3 minutes and 47 seconds (227 seconds), with a percentage of total singing time at 112.4%. The reason the singing time is greater than the track time is due to overlapping adlib parts were members are singing overtop of other parts, leading to a greater singing time than track time. Mainly in this song, those parts were given to Wendy, Seulgi, and Joy. About 115 seconds (50.7%) of the song is sung by all members while 112 seconds (49.3%) of the song is divided between the five girls. The average is 23.2 seconds with a standard deviation of 6.6 seconds and a margin of error of 2.9 seconds. Member Wendy has the highest amount of time while member Yeri has the least.

Rank
  1. Wendy - 31 seconds
  2. Joy - 28 seconds
  3. Irene - 24 seconds
  4. Seulgi - 21 seconds
  5. Yeri - 12 seconds
Wendy - Highest Time Count

Dumb Dumb earned Red velvet a total of 5 music show wins and earned them 1 nomination during the award season cycle. Although not heavily rewarded, Dumb Dumb is considered Red Velvet's breakout song in the industry, earning a place on 6 different end of year lists in 2015, placing # 1 on the Dazed top 20 kpop tracks of 2015, #1 on the Medium 25 best Kpop songs of 2010s, and even placing #2 on the Vice top 20 kpop songs of 2015. It also featured on British GQ’s best kpop songs of the decade, along with Rolling Stone’s top 10 best music videos of 2015, and Billboard's 100 greatest girl groups songs of all time. The song peaked at #1 on the south Korea gaon download chart, and at #2 on the South Korea Gaon Digital chart, and #3 on the US World digital songs chart for billboard. Dumb Dumb placed on a total of 6 different charts the year of its release.

Dumb Dumb by Red Velvet earned a total of 1,441.8 points and earned a grade of B+ for word distribution and a grade of A for time distribution.

Points Breakdown
  • Standard Deviation:181.2
  • Margin of Error: 191.6
  • Music Show: 50
  • Awards/listings: 521
  • Charts: 498

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