"High High" is a song recorded by South Korean duo
GD & TOP
GD & TOP was a South Korean hip-hop/pop duo formed by G-Dragon and T.O.P, the rappers of the K-pop boy band Big Bang in 2010. The release of their first album, '' GD & TOP'' (2010) was a commercial success becoming one of the best selling albums ...
. It was released on December 15, 2010, by YG Entertainment, as the first single from their self-titled debut album ''
GD & TOP
GD & TOP was a South Korean hip-hop/pop duo formed by G-Dragon and T.O.P, the rappers of the K-pop boy band Big Bang in 2010. The release of their first album, '' GD & TOP'' (2010) was a commercial success becoming one of the best selling albums ...
'' (2010). It was written by the duo with
Teddy
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* Teddy Bourne (born 1948), British Olympic epee fencer
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, and produced by the latter.
Composition
"High High" is a
pop-rap
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and
electropop song
with references to
old-school hip hop
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.
E. Alex Jung from ''
Vulture
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'' described the song as a "synth club banger". The track samples the 1985 song '
La Di Da Di
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" by
Doug E. Fresh
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and
Slick Rick
Richard Martin Lloyd Walters (born January 14, 1965), better known as Slick Rick, is an English-American rapper and record producer.
He rose to prominence with Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew in the mid-1980s. Their songs " The Show" and " ...
.
The lyrics include sexual metaphors.
Reception
"High High" received acclaim from music critics. ''
Spin'' named the single the seventh greatest K-Pop song of all time, commenting that the track "grows gruffer and faster as it buttaflies higher and higher" and concluding "this is how
LMFAO
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and
Far East Movement
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want to sound."
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Billboard'' chose "High High" as one of T.O.P's most memorable songs, with Tamar Herman writing that the "G-H-E-T-T-O E-L-E-C-T-R-O" chant on the track's bridge "remains one of the most catchy and baffling moments of Bigbang's career."
Additionally, the single's music video was named by ''
Stereogum'' the fourth best K-Pop music video of all time, with Tom Breihan writing that the track "does poppy American club-rap better than any American has done it in many years" and that GD & TOP "appear to be having more fun than anyone else on the global pop-music landscape" in the music video.
Korean magazine ''Ize'' complimented that the song's uses the "club culture" boldly, and the result is "refined and digested".
Charts and sales
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Sales
Music programs awards
References
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G-Dragon songs
T.O.P songs
2010 singles
2010 songs
Korean-language songs
YG Entertainment singles
Songs written by G-Dragon
Songs written by T.O.P
Songs written by Teddy Park