"Dream Glow" is a song by Jin,

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and

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of the South Korean boy band

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and British singer

Charli XCX Charlotte Emma Aitchison (born 2 August 1992), known professionally as Charli XCX, is an English singer and songwriter. Born in Cambridge and raised in Start Hill, Essex, she began posting songs on Myspace in 2008, which led to her discovery ...

, released as a single on June 7, 2019. It was produced by Stargate, and is the first song from the soundtrack of their ''BTS World'' game, released on June 26.

Background

"Dream Glow" is a reworked version of an unreleased Charli XCX song that was titled "Glow". "Glow" was written in 2016 during writing sessions for XCX's unreleased third studio album. XCX initially planned to include the song on the album, but ultimately decided not to as she stated that "it never quite fit in my world in its original form". In 2017, Charli XCX met BTS in

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, South Korea, when she was in the country performing for a festival. During their meeting, they decided to work on a song together. XCX would later send them her version of "Glow" as a potential song to use, and it was eventually chosen as the song for their collaboration. The group "sat with it for a while" in order to tweak the song and also adapt it to fit the

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. Charli XCX's version of the song leaked in 2018, XCX stated that the song was originally about "falling in love with someone in the club ecausethey had that "glow" about them". The song is credited as being "part one" of the soundtrack to the

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mobile game ''

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''.

Critical reception

Sheldon Pearce of ''

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'' gave the track a positive review, saying Jin, Jimin and Jungkook "don't miss a beat, with Charli filling the vacant spaces to maintain their carefully arranged synchronicity". Pearce also said that the four "sing vaguely but assuredly, in English and Korean, about the yet-to-be-realized potential of dreams", calling it "starry-eyed but not fanciful", "nearly pessimist-proof" and "pristine

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-lite".

Track listing

Charts

Release history

References

2019 singles 2019 songs BTS songs Charli XCX songs Songs written by Charli XCX Songs written by Ryn Weaver Songs written by Mikkel Storleer Eriksen Songs written by Tor Erik Hermansen Song recordings produced by Stargate (record producers) Macaronic songs Male–female vocal duets Hybe Corporation singles {{2019-single-stub