K-pop music is most cultured and is very popular around the world. You can see everybody dancing to their tunes. If you want to get started with K-pop music, you don’t have to worry about your understanding capabilities for the songs. There are numerous tracks that are written either entirely in English or are made in English versions. Their language proficiency is one of the reasons for their growing global reach. Here, we have a list of the most-heard K-pop artists’ released English-language songs:
1. The Feels
The Feels is the English-language single from the popular girl group TWICE. TWICE has earned immense success in Korea and Japan. The Feels is a love song that is full of bright, colorful, and catchy melodies. Their Music video racked up the internet with about 320 million within a year. Not just The Feels, they have released various other song tracks, which are English versions of their Korean songs. The tunes and choreography of the music video will blow your mind and leave you mesmerized.
2. Another Life
Another Life is a phenomenal song by KEY, a singer from the popular boy band SHINee. It is a love track that pictures them traveling to Atlantis or exploding into outer space. It is a part of KEY’s 2022 album Gasoline, where he is tying his work to the retro creature feature inspiration. KEY began his career in 2008 when he joined as a member of the boy band SHINee. He is a South Korean singer, actor, rapper, songwriter, and fashion designer. He debuted with his first solo digital single, Forever Yours.
3. 2 MINUS 1
2 MINUS 1 is a song by boy group SEVENTEEN, released in 2021. The song features the band’s most fluent English speakers, i.e., Joshua and Vernon. 2 MINUS 1 became the first utterly English-language song in SEVENTEEN’s history. The song creates the perfect image of post-breakup denials, where Vernon and Joshua state, they are not lonely and they don’t need their previous lovers anymore. Their song makes an excellent collaboration with the 2000s pop-punk music.
4. WHO DO YOU LOVE?
This song by boy group Monsta X. WHO DO YOU LOVE is from their 2020 album ALL ABOUT LUV, which is filled with English-language songs. The theme for their songs was romance, love, lust, and rage, ranging from longing to be alone. The album contained various pieces such as SOMEONE’S SOMEONE, HAPPY WITHOUT ME, MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, and many more.
5. Life’s Too Short
This is the song by Aespa, a South Korean girl group. It is the that which brings you back to the early 2000s, and takes you back to the nostalgic sounds and memories, and the video is inspired by fashion, films, and pop culture. It brings you in hazy tones of pink, purple, and blue. It has references to movies like Clueless and Mean Girls. The song earned about 50 million views in just four months. It is a self-assuring song that brings you back to simpler times.
6. Ice Cream
Ice Cream, a song by South Korean girl group Blackpink and American singer Selena Gomez. It became the first single by a female Korean act to peak inside the top twenty of the charts and subsequently became the longest-charting song by a female Korean show. The lyrics are sung mainly in English, with a few Korean verses from Lisa. The music is relentless, chipper, playful, taunting, and distant.
7. Dynamite
It is a song recorded by South Korean boy band BTS. It was the band’s first song that recorded in English. The song is called an upbeat disco pop song with elements of funky, and bubble-gum pop, and it also takes influence from 70s music. The song received praise for its catchiness and broadly appealing retro sound. It gathered the band their first Grammy nomination. It also received immense commercial success worldwide.
8. Kiss Of Fire
Kiss of Fire isn’t entirely in English. It throws a pinch of Korean during the second prose of the song. It was released in 2021 and is a contemporary R&B track about burning love with WOODZ. WOODZ is a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, and record producer. He rose to fame as a rapper and vocalist in a South Korean-Chinese boy band, Uniq. Kiss of Fire, in which WOODZ has given a remarkable vocal performance over a rhythmic baseline.
9. Seven
Seven, a song by South Korean Jungkook of BTS featuring American rapper Latto. This song is a romantic UK garage pop song. It is about wanting to spend all of one’s time with one’s lover. It was accustomed to acoustic guitar sounds and catchy melodies. It is described as revitalizing summer song. Its music video was directed by Bradley & Pablo. Its explicit version’s lyrics express a more sexual desire.
10. Butter
Butter, a song recorded by South Korean boy band BTS. It was released as a digital single in 2021 and was the band’s second English-language single. Butter is a dance-pop track that holds the charismatic charm of BTS. Rolling Stone described the song as a pure dance-pop with layers of Jam and Lewis-style synths. In an interview, the band conveyed that there was no heavy message behind the song, and their goal was for the track to be easy to listen to.
