Be EXO’s Baby Still remember the Hitz and epic comeback by EXO during the Call Me Baby era? Call Me Baby is the titl...
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Be EXO’s Baby
Still remember the Hitz and epic comeback by EXO during the Call Me Baby era? Call Me Baby is the title track of the album Exodus. It also brought some sadness to EXO-L.
This was the first comeback from EXO after those two members left. It was a very big comeback. In particular, it was the first time for EXO to release not only two versions of the album, but 20 versions. Yup, it was a lot. The 20 versions were actually because EXO has 10 members and each of the members’ albums were made in two languages, Mandarin and Korean.
Let’s have a little throwback to that era, EXO-L! But first, let’s play the music video once again!
Comeback and Teaser
As it was a big comeback, SM Entertainment made a lot of preparations for it. Before launching the teaser for Call Me Baby, SM Entertainment teased the fans with Pathcode videos. In the pathcode videos, each member was at a different time and place. That was making fans curious. Let’s see the compilation, below.
Many theories and speculations showed up, until finally, we found out that if we picked the first letter of the cities, we got L, B, A, B, E, M, A, L, Y, and C. Then, if we rearranged the letters, we would get Call Me Baby. Yup, the pathcode videos were actually the clues for the title track of the newest comeback. The Pathcode videos were released digitally on March 27, 2015, three days ahead of the album.
There is a funny thing behind the Pathcode videos. As they were very mysterious and many fans tried to find out what they meant, some fans also became like Sherlock Holmes to solve each puzzle. Among them, there were some who got frustrated, because the level of difficulty was quite high.
EXO’s members were asked about the mystery behind the Pathcode videos. During a press conference for the album ‘EXODUS’, Chanyeol revealed that even the EXO members were confused about the promotion of ‘Pathcode’.
Chanyeol admitted, “We have heard about the explanation, but I’m still not sure. I can’t solve everything, but if fans love us, I think they will be able to finish it easily. I can solve D.O’s thinking“.
On the other hand, D.O added, “How often I watch it, I can’t solve Chanyeol’s puzzle.” Meanwhile, Kai said that there were many significant changes made to form a new image, the music video for the comeback would have a unique concept.
Well, it was a very big comeback with many mysteries in it. Let’s just flashback to see the Call Me Baby teaser music video.
About The Song, Call Me Baby
“Call Me Baby” is the title track of EXO’s second studio album, titled Exodus. The song was released in Korean and Chinese versions by SM Entertainment on March 27, 2015, as the lead single for the album Gladly. Call Me Baby gained a lot attention from the public, as the album sold over 1.6 million copies worldwide.
The Korean and Chinese music videos for Call Me Baby were released on March 30, 2015. The videos mainly feature Exo’s performances of the song at a warehouse setting and against a white backdrop, and were filmed in a one-shot style. The Korean version later became the third most-watched K-pop music video on YouTube in 2015.
Surprisingly, the Korean version music video of Call Me Baby surpassed 200 million views on YouTube on September 23, 2018. The music video became their second music video to do so.
Lyrics Meaning
After talking generally about the song itself, now it is time for us to talk about the lyrics. The lyrics are about a boy who completely adores his girl crush so much. So, ‘he’ worships his girl and kinda persuades her to be his, forever.
Comeback Stage and Live Perfomances
K-pop identifies with the live performance of the lead song in an album. Every comeback must have their live performance, or what is usually called a comeback stage. EXO performed Call Me Baby on several music shows such as Music Core, Music Bank, M Countdown, and others. Let’s see one of the comeback stages, below.
In that performance, EXO’s members were wearing blue suits with a black t-shirt underneath. On the black t-shirts was written one word, and every member had a different word on their shirt. If all the shirts were lined up, they made the the sentence Call Me Baby.
At this live performance, EXO’s members were wearing the outfits they wore in the music video. The footstep that Kai does at the beginning of the video is very teasing!
The special performance that I, personally, like is when EXO performed Call Me Baby at the KBS Song Festival. They were all wearing a suit and tie at this performance. Also, this performance adds some mini-drama as an introduction. Just check out the video, below!
Focus Fancam
Some of music shows specially make a focus fancam. A focus fancam is a video that only focuses on one member. The cam follows everywhere the member goes during the live performances. Not only are they usually made by the music show, but the fans themselves often make focus fancams. Well, yeah, that is why they get called a ‘fancam’.
Here are the focus fancam videos for each member. Which one is your bias?
