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The repackaged album to be released on the 22nd contains a total of 15 songs comprised of 12 songs from the 2nd album and 3 additional songs including ‘Run Devil Run’, the title song, ‘Echo’ with addictive melody and refreshing melody, and the acoustic R&B version of ‘☆★☆.’

The title song, ‘Run Devil Run’, perfectly combined the powerful and wild sound of synth pop and the charismatic voices of Girls’ Generation, attracting listeners passionately and intensely unlike the charms presented by Girls’ Generation previously. The lyric also gives a warning to a bad boy in frank and unhesitating words to double the intensity that the song carries.

This is the joint work of composers around the world including Busbee (America), Alex James (England), and Kalle Engstrom (Sweden). Ke$ha (Kesha), A new American pop star and a friend of the composer, participated in the recording of the guide version of this song around August 2008 before her debut and this guide version made a little scene as it was illegally released in YouTube and was deleted from the site, but still Girls’ Generation is the first official releaser of this song.

‘Echo’, the newly added song, hooks the audience with the lovely and refreshing ambience while the lyric depicts a funny situation where a girl who hears the echo of the voice of a guy living inside the imagination that every woman in the world loves him whom she unwittingly fell in love.

‘☆★☆’ which was included in the 2nd regular album and also became noticed along with ‘Oh!’ was rearranged into an acoustic R&B. The acoustic R&B version included in the repackaged album dynamically depicted the sadness from heartache to express even more sorrowful emotion unlike the original song that suggested a beautiful scene from a tale.

Also, the new jacket containing the pictorials of members in the new look of ‘Black Girls’ Generation’ fitting the concept of the title song and the posters of members specially prepared for the fans of Girls’ Generation are randomly included with the cards having Girls’ Generation’s autographs, message and behind-scenes on. All of these factors will surely satisfy the fans.

Girls’ Generation will be appearing in various stages with ‘Run Devil Run’, the title song, and is expected to start another Girls’ Generation craze as much as the group is already enjoying tremendous popularity with ‘Oh!’