This song is a GLOBAL phenomenom. GLOBAL.
Like, looking at the Wikipedia page for this song - one thing I look at is chart performance. I have NEVER seen a longer list for one song.
And I understand it. It's a fun, energetic earworm that you will now be humming for the rest of the day. Co-written by the artists and a large team of collaborators (including credits for the composers of the Toni Basil classic "Mickey"), the song is broadly commercially AND critically successful.
But back to the composition. Rosé was the original writer... and its title and premise - and chorus - are directly based on, and this isn't a joke, a Korean drinking game. She was concerned about how broadly appealing a song about a drinking game might be. She didn't need to be, though.
By the way, I think the end of this video is a Breakfast Club homage. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
What I love about this song...
OK, for this, I need you to go back to what I said about live performances of "On The Ground" when I wrote about that song.
I add this "live" performance to illustrate a piece of the K-pop machine that I don't really enjoy. There's several videos like this. Rosé CLEARLY wants to sing her song. She's fully capable of singing her song. The helper track is turned up so high she can't.
Contrast that to THIS live performance, which she's REALLY singing. It's not about the dancing. It's about the music.
Even better is this live performance with Lee Young-Ji standing in for Bruno Mars... who we have not even talked about here. It's because, as fun as he is, Rosé is the one bringing the energy here.
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