- ♪ Hit you with that ddu du ddu ♪
- Oh, that's how you pronounce it. Du du, du, ddu.
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (FBE) So, today we're gonna have you read lyrics
and listen to top songs all by one artist
and have you tell us the meaning and what you think.
These lyrics were not all originally in English,
but we have tried our best to find accurate translations
for you. - Oh, cool.
Now you got me real curious. If they weren't in English,
what language were they in?
- Sounds fun and challenging.
- It's great because music is considered a universal language.
- "Have to run now. What else would I do?
I'm immature. I have no fear, man.
Middle finger up, F U, pay me."
- "90's baby, I pump up the jam.
Run, run, oppa LAMBO. Today--"
Is that Lamborghini? "Today, you and I
are gambling with youth. Don't you dare stop me.
Even if someone tries, I'm gonna go brrr Rambo."
- The hell does that mean? Lambo, I assume that's
a Lamborghini, that's a car.
What's that got to do with Rambo?
I don't know, he probably drove a Lambo.
Rambo drove a Lambo, what do I know?
- It's youthful exuberance, just "I wanna get out.
I wanna go. I wanna be.
I want the world to happen." The impatience of youth
and the joy of youthfulness.
- This has to be something to do with K-pop maybe
because "oppa," I think that is a term for big brother.
- I like the line, "You and I are gambling with youth."
That's what youth's all about. It's a gamble.
You're always taking chances. That's the fun of it.
And then I like the visual Rambo. They're not gonna put up with it.
- "'Cause we gonna get it. My love, you can bet it on.
Black, we gon double the stack on them, whoa.
I be the Bonnie and you be my Clyde.
We ride or die. Xs and Os."
- "We gonna double the stack." It's a roulette term.
Double down on black, which is a 50/50 wager on roulette.
- Well, I guess it's roulette. Gonna go double down on the black.
Whoa, put it all on one throw like Bonnie and Clyde
who defied the laws and every social justice,
every social custom.
- They're just gonna take on the world and they don't care
what happens. They're just gonna be together
and go as far as they can go.
- "Time is ticking. I'm getting impatient.
Only you are my world. Missing you.
I'm so bad at this, won't you set me free?"
- "Baby, hold me 'til I explode. Stop thinking.
What's so hard about this? Kiss me like it's a lie.
As if I'm your last love."
- That's cool. I like that.
That's passion.
- This to me, is a couple of people who are having a relationship
and one of them is going away and the time is coming
where they're about to board the plane
or ride the train or whatever.
- They're talking to someone wanting them to hold them,
make love to them. They're not sure this person
really loves them or just loves only them,
but they're just getting impatient in a hurry to have them
make love to them.
- "A melting, flowing melody. I can't make you cry like this.
The fragrance is sweet felony but I still love it."
- "Before being sucked into this dark sky.
Hey, please don't leave me from your side already.
It must not be yours anyway. Stay with me, stay with me."
Sounds sad. I don't think it's desperate.
I think it's just missing an opportunity.
- It's someone that they're with for the moment
is what I'm looking at this and this melting, flowing melody,
there's music playing, it's affecting them
and they're saying "It only hit me right now.
I just wanna be loved. I just want somebody with me
right now."
- She's terrified of loneliness, it looks like, and she's addicted
or fascinated by this person and wants him to stay,
but it seems that "before being sucked into
this dark sky" it sounds like it's just
"So I don't get really lonely or feel bad"
To keep the negative at bay in some way.
- "Think twice. I can't act nice like other people.
Don't be mistaken. I only smile easily for myself.
You may not know well yet."
- "If you want, then test me. You're so predictable
if you wanted something easy. Oh wait 'til I do what I do.
Hit you with that du du du du du."
- "Hit you with that ddu-du ddu-du du."
- "ddu dudu" I don't know what the hell that is.
I think right away of the bathroom.
- It sounds like she's luring him in and he wants
something predictable, but she's gonna really
show him some wild times.
- Maybe they want this person to change and that's not
who they are. Another thing,
they're expecting something more out of this person
that apparently they're not capable of.
- When there's a new relationship, no one knows
the real person yet. That takes a long time
to get to know them, but I'm not so sure about
whoever wrote that. I want their partner
to be very, very careful.
- (FBE) So, do you have any idea whose lyrics
you've been reading? - No.
- I don't have the slightest inkling.
- I think it's one of the K-pop groups.
- (FBE) These were lyrics to songs from BLACKPINK's
repertoire. - Black--
I don't know who that is.
- Haven't heard of them. I'm willing to check them out.
- I've heard the name.
- Oh, okay. I think they're four girls.
- (FBE) So, BLACKPINK is the highest charting
female K-pop group on the Billboard Hot 100
and they've had a lot of American success.
- The K-pop, yeah. That genre's really hot.
- It's not surprising. I mean, you look at any
of the competition shows and they're people that travel
halfway around the world to do the show that's filmed here.
- On the YouTube, there's a certain--
the Korean channel, they introduce them constantly.
They have a lot of followers internationally.
- (FBE) Well, let's go ahead and play you the songs you read.
- ♪ (Korean singing) ♪ - Boombayah.
Oh, I like that.
- ♪ Middle finger up F U pay me ♪
♪ '90s baby I pump up the jam ♪
- It sounds really good.
- This is not for me. I'm not the target audience.
- ♪ I'm gonna go brrrr Rambo ♪
- Make me wanna dance. I like that.
- Their music's much easier to follow than the hip-hop
that we have in the US.
- ♪ Like touch, touch, touch ♪ - It's a little electronic for me
right there at the end, but it reminds me of the guy
who does... - (FBE) Gangnam Style?
- Gangnam Style. That's what it reminded me of
in the beginning.
- That was fun. That was interesting.
Yeah, make you wanna dance.
- ♪ (Korean singing) ♪ - Aw, a power ballad.
- You know, this one's better. Better melody.
- ♪ (Korean singing) ♪ - Definitely have talent.
- Yeah, she's just got a great voice.
- ♪ (Korean singing) ♪ - Even though I don't understand
the language, but I think I relate to it very quickly.
- Now since this is melodic, it's easy to listen to.
- ♪ Stay with me It goes a little something like ♪
♪ La la la la la la la La la la la la la ♪
- It's very interesting.
- Definitely some talent. I'm not gonna be downloading
it to my iPod any day soon.
- ♪ We gonna get it My love you can bet it on black ♪
♪ We gon double the stack on them, whoa ♪
♪ I'll be the Bonnie and you be my Clyde ♪
♪ We ride or die X's and O's ♪
♪ (Korean singing) ♪ - Now this is less melodic,
more like poetry.
- ♪ (Korean singing) ♪
- I could see this in a club, today's music.
- Little bit of rap, but a little bit of pop, too.
- Well that sounds like a lot of other songs to me.
I don't dislike it though, but it doesn't sound that unique.
- It's very pop. That seems very engineered.
It's not spontaneous music making.
- It's very catchy and then she has a little rap,
a little this, a little that. It's a nice combination of sounds.
- ♪ (Korean singing) ♪
- Pretty. She just got it, that's for sure.
- ♪ (Korean singing) ♪
- They have different people. They're rotating the singing.
- Yeah, this is pretty good.
- ♪ Oh wait 'til I do what I do Hit you with that ddu-du ddu-du du ♪
- Oh, that's how you pronounce it. Ddu-du ddu-du.
- ♪ Hit you with that ddu-du ddu-du du ♪
- This is a doo doo doo doo song.
- It's such a bright song and a bright sound.
- This is just to me, just cookie cutter.
There's nothing original.
- It's great. I think it's--
they usually have a routine, a dance routine to go with it.
If I could watch the choreographer, I'd totally forget about
the song itself and this time, I just listen
and it's fairly easy to follow.
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