Shinee are legends! They are nicknamed The Princes of Kpop. Other songs I would recommend are Lucifer, Don’t Call Me, and View.

OMG can't believe you start a journey to SHINee.. i wish You will enjoy SHINee's works..

SHINEE! (pronounced like "shiny") A group older than Exo, they brought alot of banging club disco vibes. 💙🌺

So happy to see you found the ROYALS of kpop. 15 years in the industry and still on top today. (debuted 2008 with the age between 14 to 18 years old ) PLEASE react more to them and their solo work, and look forward to a rabbit whole of greatness in discoragraphy as they are the ones that has done the most vast music through the years, known for their incredible vocals and choreography. This year they celebrated 15 years, and won several prizes for their comeback track HARD. But I urge you to start with a SHINee guide first, it is a must and absolutely worth it, and then you got a whole other feeling into their artistry!

5HINee forever💎💎💎💎💎❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

And it’s still banned during exam season in Korea.. TILL NOW! hahaa… The song was from 2009.

I’m so happy right now. I ❤ SHINee

😂😂😂yes, bro you gotta check out their live performance Ring Ding Dong & Lucifer remix form SWC5 concert ❤

So cute you love such an old song that the new kids into kpop don't like that much, but that was so famous before. I as a millennial love second gen kpop.

Enjoy your journey with SHINee

5HINee lets go next SHERLOCK REPLAY-DEBUT SONG

How I interpret the story in SHINee's "Ring Ding Dong" MV is, the song is about a sort of love at first sight and thoughts of that person keep ringing through your head, so much so that you start to become obsessed with them. It's more than just protecting the girl or your love, but it's about wanting to have her all to yourself and not allowing anyone else to come between you, etc. (As the English part of the lyrics says, "Fantastic, elastic ..." because thoughts of that person are constantly bouncing around in your head.) In the MV, if you notice, at one point, you see all the members dressed in white and they are standing in an all-white room looking into the mirror. However, the image they see in the mirror is not their reflection, but what seems to be their alter ego or inner self because you see their mirror images with brooding expressions and they have wings. But their wings are not white like an angel who is pure and good, they are grey like angels of darkness. So, maybe this is showing how their thoughts are not a pure and innocent love, but one of passion and possession, etc. You see them in the white room with the white clothes because I see that as showing how they are hiding their true selves -- on the outside people think they look innocent and pure, but once you get to know them, they have far less pure intentions. When in their black and red outfits this is more their true selves. The only explanation I can see as to why they are shown lighting the candles without even touching them is a way to make it clear that they are different than what they seem and they may have "magical powers" that can be used to attract the girl and make her theirs, etc. I interpret the butterfly they talk about in the lyrics, and the ones you see them with in the MV, to represent the girl and how she is beautiful, and fragile and flits around in their life attracting them and distracting them, etc. and they want to capture her and make her theirs. It is also thought that maybe SM Entertainment is now using the butterfly to connect the storylines between SM's groups. Some theories think that maybe SHINee's black butterfly is connected to the butterfly we see in EXO's debut "Mama" MVs from 2012, which could also be connected to NingNing's butterfly in aespa's storyline from 2020. The white butterflies in the jar could even be connected to the butterflies in NCT-127's "Favorite (Vampire)" MV from 2021, etc. The butterfly is thought to possibly represent the heart of the Tree of Life from EXO's storyline and the white butterfly could be the butterfly that helps aespa navigate through Kwangya in aespa's "ep. 2 'Next Level' -- SM Culture Universe" video, which would help to connect all of SM's groups' storylines together. The butterfly keeps appearing in all of SM's MVs because its what helps the members of SM navigate through Kwangya. (Kwangya is the metaverse that all of SM's groups' and artists storylines revolve around and its even the name of SM's head quarters where everything is created.) Although SHINee's storyline may not have originally been designed to connect to anything outside of their group, I think SM has been using things from their older groups' MVs as "happy coincidences" in order to draw everyone into their SM Culture Universe storyline. Beyond that, I don't really have an explanation of anything else that is happening in the "Ring Ding Dong" MV. Most of it I interpret as just part of the aesthetic of what was the new cool think and what they were doing with MVs in 2009. The boys' hair and clothing styles and the aesthetic of the MV was supposed to give them more of a bad boy image, to sort of contrast the fact that when they debuted with their song "Replay" in 2008 -- which is considered within the Kpop industry to be hands-down one of the best debut songs of all time -- they had a boy next door image and they were given the title as the nation's younger boyfriends -- people had a pure and wholesome image of them -- so they wanted to show that as SM's experimental boy group, people should never expect them to stay the same. SHINee will forever be changing up their image to show many different sides of themselves and all different styles of music and dance. "Ring Ding Dong" was showing a new side of SHINee. This was only SHINee's second comeback after debut, so it established their role as the ever changing and evolving group that was expected to keep setting trends and coming up with new concepts, styles and sounds. Fun Fact: Minho's long hair and Jonghyun's "Lion" hairstyle in "Ring Ding Dong" is such an iconic look. But Minho always hated this hairstyle, LOL. He has never liked having long hair. He begged SM to allow him to cut his hair and it took a few weeks before they would let him do it. They made him wait until they were done promoting for this album because their hairstyles were part of the album's concept. And therefore, Minho has refused to ever grow his hair out again. ;P Also, almost all of SM's boy groups had similar hairstyles during this time period. :D Take a look at Super Junior or TVXQ in 2009. Their hair looked like this too. hehehe. This was just sort of the look for Korean entertainers back in the day. SHINee were setting tends even with their hair. As you discovered, "Ring Ding Dong," is one of SHINee's most popular songs. This song is part of the era when auto tune was brand new and it was the new cool thing that everyone was using in their new songs. SHINee was ahead of their time when this song came out and it blew people away for its sound and style, which many had never heard before. :D This is totally the look and sound that was just becoming the new it thing back in 2009. As you mentioned, "Ring Ding Dong" is such an iconic song and it's so catchy that it has been said that in Korea this song is banned from being played anywhere or listened to during college entrance exam time. When it first came out, students complained that the song would get stuck in their heads and they couldn't concentrate on their studies or on the test. :D This is also one of SHINee's iconic choreographies and it is one of the dances that every rookie group in the industry, both boy groups and girl groups, are required to learn and know, and most have covered the song and dance at least once in their career, even still today. If you want to hear the song without the auto tune then you need to hear them perform it live in concert. Try their live MBC music festival performance of "Ring Ding Dong" in 2016, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldKJqNWgyLLUmWw.html. SHINee's songs are always way different performed live. You will see how SHINee has grown. It's been more than 15 years since SHINee's debut and they are still one of the most popular groups in the industry that are literally the group that most idols who have come after them cites as the reason why they wanted to become a dancer and singer. SHINee are the idols of other idols and legends among legends. And they are still producing some of the top hits in the industry today. SHINee never misses. There's a reason why they are called "the Princess of Kpop."

The Idols of Idols. Check out their latest. Hard mv and Juice performance video. Crazy good.

Seen SHINee and hit the subs. Thank you for the reaction ❤

Check out shinee's entire discography and solo work. It's still banned in Korea and Japan because of how catchy it is but only during school exams time in both countries.

U have the best energy!!!

Love your reaction..again ! 😊😊😊 SM artist groups are so amazing. I love EXO and also like Shinee, but there is a group that I like first-they are really really good is TVXQ (5 of them) OMG I miss them. If you have a chance to listen to their song I be so happy. Big Thankssss 😊☺️🙏🏻

BABYYYYY

Loved your reaction! This song is so iconic. Hope you do more SHINee. They are amazing and the Princes of Kpop, Legends. Even the member's solo stuff is amazing!

I was so happy to see your reaction. I would’ve hated to recommend something you didn’t enjoy. If you are interested in seeing more SHINee, I think you’d like Lucifer a lot. Now I have to tell you SHINee was inspiration for Exo, BTS, etc. SHINee was in the wave of K-pop groups before them. Now a bit of sad news, the lead vocalist Jonghyun had battled depression for a long time and he took his life in 2017. The other members felt he’d want them to go on, so they did. Then this year member Onew became dangerously thin and went on hiatus for medical reasons. The videos for Don’t Call Me and for Juice are some more recent bangers. They are beloved in South Korea. ❤

LOL, it isn't actually banned by anything official. It's just a popular thing in Korea to say that certain songs are too catchy and shouldn't be played when you're trying to study. Korean's take studying very seriously.