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SM Music Performance (abbreviated as SMP)

Definitions and etymology
From the 1990s to the 2000s, when SM Entertainment artists began to emerge, the term SM Music Performance (SMP) appeared, referring to songs and performances with SM's "unique" color. SMP was a term coined by SM Entertainment in the late 1990s for a style of music that features heavy, dance-focused songs that occasionally incorporate lyrics comprising social commentaries on contemporary events. It was created by Lee Soo-man and was founded by composer and producer Yoo Young-jin, who worked as a singer in the early days of R&B in Korea and wrote many songs for SM artists. A piece is created together through SMP as a complete song and performance, which cannot be separated; essentially, these "complex" songs go beyond what a pop song is expected to be. It is a genre name that refers to SM artists who mix music and performance and is presented as "Music for performance". Kim Ki-woong, producer-director of Mnet, stated that the genre has been promoted since the era of H.O.T. and developed in Asia through TVXQ in about 10 years while further showing the evolution of idol music in the continent. The SM label-specific music genre was first revealed when TVXQ's second album Rising Sun, in 2005, was released.

Characteristics
SM Music Performance has its "clear" musical color, but it may be a kind of a management policy rather than a genre in its scope as it is constrained to SM Entertainment artists. A profound message of criticizing the "absurd" world and finding the self in chaos, with its "impressive" melodies and socially critical lyrics, is delivered along with a "colorful" arrangement that seems to contain several genres in one song characteristics of SMP. The company-coined sonic style SMP is choreography-synced with a combination of rock, R&B, and hip-hop beats. SM's strategy is to emphasize singing skills by focusing on dancing. "Intense" beats and "impactful" melodies that can create collaboration with dance are the essences of SMP music. The musical characteristic of SMP is "fancy" dance music that combines rock and techno with hard rock's "rough" guitar roar and techno's "stimulating" synthesizer sound flow in a "large" and "solemn" chorus.

Late 1990s–early 2000s
The first growth of SM Music Performance was found in H.O.T.'s music in 1996 when Seo Taiji and Boys retired. At that time, paying attention to the rapid expansion of the teenage market, SM Entertainment devised a Japanese-style idol group marketing and introduced it to South Korea. The music that the label brought out was hip hop, and through the "dark" and "gloomy" rap dance song that is not at all idol-like, SM creates the image of a "five dance corps shouting social messages with intense music". It was then seen that SMP had evolved to develop the concept while strengthening it musically. Not all SM singers use SMP as TVXQ's 2004 single "Hug" borrowed the mid-tempo R&B that was very popular at the time. S.E.S. never used the genre, and Fly to the Sky is not oriented to dance in the first place, so it has absolutely nothing to do with SMP. It can be seen that the use is limited mainly to dance music that can show "fierce" determination and intensity.

Late 2000s
In September 2005, TVXQ released "Rising Sun", a song combining "lively" breakbeats and analog sounds by composer Yoo Young-jin, with an SM Entertainment official characterizing its genre as an SM Music Performance track. Its lyrics express anger that the purity inside humans is becoming lost and corrupted and compare human regrets and sighs to the sunset, which disappears, and implies regaining the purity that humans possess. By November, Super Junior released their debut lead single, "Twins (Knock Out)", noted for its "dynamic" and "intense" feeling based on rock guitar sounds and drum beats featuring lyrics and melodies that are "well-suited" to Korean emotions. Written by Yoo and created by a team of foreign composers such as Peer Åström, it is a song of the SMP genre that harmonizes with the group's "colorful" performance. In September 2006, TVXQ released "'O'-Jung.Ban.Hap.", an SMP genre song that combines hip-hop and trance with music and performance. The song also contains "speedy" guitar melodies, "intense synthesizer", and "colorful" beats, with lyrics talking about a message to the world and the elements that make up society, such as positivity, anti-conformity, and unity. In September 2007, Super Junior released "Don't Don", described as an SMP song with a "harmonious" genre, and remarked for its "impressive, heavy" guitar riff, "fast-paced" drum patterns, and electronic violin solos projected onto various musical elements, including rock and R&B.

In January 2008, TVXQ then released "Purple Line", a song of the SMP genre, which Yoo Young-jin produced.