"Good Boy" is a song recorded by South Korean duo GD X Taeyang, members of the boy band Big Bang. After signing a contract with the record label, they spent the first year cleaning the studio and fetching water bottles during dance practices for YG artists. English Translation: Put your hands in the air How y’all feeling out there We gon’ party over here ... Song Information Released: 2014.11.21 Credits Romanizations by: kpoplyrics.net [8], "Good Boy" received generally favorable reviews. The energy is great, but a less repetitive structure would have taken Good Boy to another level. Each week, I’ll be taking a listen to the newest kpop releases and giving my thoughts. The rules are simple. "Good Boy" became a chart-topper on Billboard's World Digital Songs and a Top 5 hit on the Gaon Digital Chart. "Good Boy" is a song recorded by South Korean duo GD X Taeyang, members of the boy band Big Bang. Stations With Gd X Taeyang. This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 21:33.

Additionally, a physical single was released and topped the Gaon Albums Chart. I fire up my playlist, press “shuffle,” and whatever song plays first gets the full Bias List treatment! Lyrics. Taeyang returned the favor by appearing in the song "Korean Dream" for G-Dragon's first album Heartbreaker (2009). Good Boy’s combination of EDM and hip-hop had global roots, but had never been thrust into the mainstream of the K-pop market in such a concentrated dose. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account.

Check back frequently for new reviews and commentary on everything kpop! 1 Song. [13], "Good Boy" debuted at number five on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart,[17] with 169,139 downloads. The single was written by G-Dragon, who also produced it along with the Fliptones and Freedo. The single was written by G-Dragon, who also produced it along with the Fliptones and Freedo. 1 on World Digital Songs", "gaon chart > 2015년 01월 Album Chart (Domestic)", "gaon chart > 2015년 02월 Album Chart (Domestic)", "gaon chart > 2015년 04월 Album Chart (Domestic)", Coup d'Etat + One of a Kind & Heartbreaker, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Good_Boy_(song)&oldid=982111500, Song recordings produced by The Fliptones, Pages using infobox song with unknown parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 07:01. Where to Buy K-Pop Albums Online: The Best Stores Reviewed! 15. I don’t think I could ever dislike this song, I just have too many good memories associated with it from my first year in kpop! [9] It also ranked as one of Fuse's "41 Best Songs of 2014" at No. [4] Dong later admitted that current artists at the time weren't friendly towards him or Kwon. Musically, Good Boy is not the kind of thing I gravitate towards.

[10] Member Seungri later admitted that G-Dragon was initially cold towards Daesung and himself because G-Dragon had wanted to be in the hip hop duo and disliked being placed in a band.

We can certainly all moan and groan about that together, can’t we? G-Dragon later wrote and produced several songs for Taeyang's first and second albums Solar (2010) and Rise (2014). Unfortunately, the next few years would see a glut of this same sound, as trap and EDM became permanent fixtures within K-pop’s ever-evolving landscape. "Good Boy" became a chart-topper on Billboard's World Digital Songs and a Top 5 hit on the Gaon Digital Chart. ( Log Out /  [3] A teaser trailer was released on November 20 announcing that the single would be named "Good Boy" and was set to be released on November 21.

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[18] The physical edition, released a month latter, topped the Gaon Album Chart upon release. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. And though the two would go on to feature on each others’ solo albums, it would be many years before GDYB would came to fruition.

Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. [2] The single accrued 1.2 million downloads in South Korea,[3] and its music video accumulated over 100 million views on the video-sharing website YouTube. That, and – as much as I do enjoy some of them – the 2013-2015 Big Bang/GD oeuvre really did anticipate a lot of what would come to define k-pop in the late 2010s.

[2][3], Kwon Ji-yong and Dong Young-bae first met as trainees at YG Entertainment.