Cheer Up (song)

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"Cheer Up " is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Twice, the lead single from their second extended drama (EP) Page Two . The album was released on April 25, 2016 by JYP Entertainment and distributed by KT Music. It was written and composed by Sam Lewis and Black Eyed Pilseung respectively.

This song is the single with the best performance of 2016, because it charted number one on the Gaon Digital Chart. It also won several awards including Song of the Year in two major music awards ceremonies, the Melon Music Awards and the Mnet Asian Music Awards.

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Composition

"Cheer Up" has lyrics written by Sam Lewis and music by Black Eyed Pilseung, the same team that writes hit singles Twice "Like Ooh-Ahh" from their debut EP. This is a dance-pop song that combines several genres, including hip hop, tropical houses, and drums and bass; This mix is ​​described as "pop color". The lyrics, song emotes tease and frustrate about love interest.

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Music video

The music video for "Cheer Up" was directed by Naive's video production team (Kim Young-jo and Yoo Seung-woo). It became viral on YouTube as soon as it was uploaded on April 25, 2016, earning 400,000 views in just thirty minutes. It reached a million views in less than a day, and surpassed seven million views on 27 April.

In music videos, the members portray characters from famous films. Mina is Itsuki Fujii from Love Letter, Sana is Sailor Moon, Nayeon is Sidney Prescott from the Scream movie series, Tzuyu is Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) from Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Jeongyeon is Faye Wong at Chungking Express. Momo is a hero who reminds us of the movie series Tomb Raider and Resident Evil Jihyo is a cheerleader of Bring It On Chaeyoung is a cowgirl (Reminiscent of a different Western movie, especially A Fistful of Dollars ), and Dahyun is gisaeng Hwang Jini (from the biopic of Hwang Jin Yi ). In the group dance scene, its members are cheerleaders at a rally at football stadiums and basketball stadiums and elsewhere, they are in front of a house, decorated as if to host a party, wearing casual clothes.

A special music video, titled "Twice Avengers", was released on May 27 to commemorate the original music video that reached 35 million views on YouTube. In this special video, the members danced in their movie character costumes in a set made to look like planets in space.

On November 17th, the video surpassed 100 million views. Then surpassed 200 million views on August 9, 2017, making Twice the first K-pop girl group with two music videos to reach this milestone.

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Reception

Billboard and Dazed including "Cheer Up" in their best K-pop song on the 2016 list, with the next article that "if the dead have increased by 2016, may be required to finish off the 'Cheer Up' dance, while previously chorus "criminally catchy" and stated that, with this single, Twice "reinforced themselves as leaders in the girl-group game."

The song "shy shy shy" is a viral meme and imitated by many celebrities.

"Cheer Up" is commercially successful because it topped the Gaon Digital Ladder with an accumulative digital sales of 1,839,566 in 2016. It is also the most flowing song of the year with 111,556,482 stream counts. It includes Billboard charts' World Digital Songs at number 3.

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Japanese version

On February 24, 2017, Twice officially announced that their debut in Japan is set for June 28th. They released a compilation album titled #Twice consisting of ten songs including Korean and Japanese versions-the "Spirit" language. Japanese lyrics written by Yu Shimoji.

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Accolades

Music program awards

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References

Source of the article : Wikipedia