Watch: Red Velvet Teach the 'Surfin' Boy' Fanchant in a Four-Minute Cheering Guide
The one part of a comeback that almost never gets explained in English is now a video on the group's own channel.
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ReVeluv now have the words. Red Velvet posted a Cheering Guide for 'Surfin' Boy' on their own channel at three in the afternoon Korean time on August 4, three minutes and fifty-five seconds of it, addressed in the title to the fandom by name: ReVeluv과 함께여서 사랑으로 가득한 여름, a summer full of love because we're with ReVeluv.
A cheering guide is the piece of a Korean comeback that rarely survives translation. It sets out the fanchant — which words the crowd shouts, and exactly where they land between the lines — so that a room full of people arrives at the same syllable at the same moment. Learn it and a music show recording or a concert stops being something you watch.
The song sits on the summer mini album 'Velvet Summer', and its music video reads 1,464,662 views on SMTOWN's channel at the time of writing. This desk's record has ten posts in the run since July 6, opening with 'Meet The Surfin' Boy' and moving through two Mood Clips on July 20 and 22, a Highlight Medley on July 27 and a Countdown Live the same afternoon, before four short clips on August 3 and 4.
Every one of those posts sits on Red Velvet's record page here, dated to the minute, so the shape of the rollout reads back in the order it happened. The group's channel counts 5.59 million subscribers.
Context for International Fans
ReVeluv is Red Velvet's fandom, and the video's tags name the five members — IRENE, SEULGI, WENDY, JOY and YERI. A cheering guide (응원법, eungwonbeop) is standard practice for Korean releases: the artist or agency publishes the official fanchant so that the audience response at broadcasts and concerts is uniform rather than improvised. Because the chant is in Korean and taught in Korean, it is one of the few parts of a comeback that international fans usually have to learn secondhand — this video is the primary source.
Why It Matters
Fanchants are how a fandom takes part rather than spectates, and the official guide is the only version that is actually correct. For anyone outside Korea, having it on the group's own channel means the chant can be learned from the source instead of from a copy of a copy.
What to Watch Next
Music show stages for 'Surfin' Boy', where the chant gets its first mass outing. Every broadcast upload that names Red Velvet lands on the group's record page here as it posts.
