While looking through the credits of Key’s new album, HUNTER, I noticed that every track has an “original title” credited. This itself not really anything groundbreaking (we all probably know the Call Me Baby/Call Me Daddy one), but it did get a good laugh out of me to find out that Want Another was originally titled “Womanizer” and HUNTER “Her Number”.
However, it did send me down a rabbit hole, because, out of sheer curiosity, I decided to check the credits of all the albums I own to see which titles differ from the original ones. In the end I compiled a list of 170 songs, that have a different title. Most of them stem from SM, with a just few exceptions.
A few of these are very small changes, like shortening a song name (for example: Key – Hate That… = Hate that You’re Happy, Minho – Heartbreak = The Heartbreak) or changing it to a similar sounding one (VIXX – Dynamite = Do What You Like, SHINee – Like A Fire = Take Me Higher) but some others are a bit more wild.
I think posting the entire list would probably be a bit much, so here are some of my favorite examples:
| Artist | Used Song Title | Original Song Title |
|---|---|---|
| D.O | Lost | Ghost of You |
| EXO | Call Me Baby | Call Me Daddy |
| EXO | With You | F**k You |
| EXO | Cloud 9 | F’n Up |
| EXO | Butterfly Effect | Angel of the Night |
| Key | Yellow Tape | Masquerade + Breathe |
| Key | CoolAs | COOLASS |
| Key | Trap | Monday |
| ONEW | Far Away | One That Got Away |
| ONEW | Oreo Cake | PINK LEMONADE |
| ONEW | Caffeine | UGLY |
| SHINee | Our Page | Like I Did |
| SHINee | Excuse Me Miss | Verbal Rendezvous |
| SHINee | Farewell, My Love | There Goes the Neighbourhood |
| Super Junior | Closer | Clothes Off |
| Super Junior | Burn the Floor | Burning Waltz |
| Super Junior | 2YA2YAO | BBW |
| Taemin | Thirsty | Flaky |
| Taemin | MOVE | Don’t Fight the Music |
| Taemin | Shadow | I Need A Hero |
| Taemin | Want | Sex Flow |
| TEN | Nightwalker | Godmother |
| TEN | ON TEN | I_MIT |
| TVXQ! | Fix It | So Sexy It Hurts |
| U-KNOW | Vuja De | Grand Heist |
| VIXX | On and On | Love Therapy |
| VIXX | Chained Up | Stand Up |
| VIXX | Maze | Yeah, Dirty Dirty! |
| VIXX | Six Feet Under | Indestructible |
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