"Missing You" (

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: 그리워해요; RR: ''Geuriwohaeyo'') is a song by South Korean girl group

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, released as a digital single on November 21, 2013. The song was produced and written entirely by long-time YG Entertainment producer and collaborator

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. Commercially, "Missing You" experienced success in South Korea, debuting at number one on the

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and sold over 1 million digital units by the end of 2014. A Japanese version for the song was later included in the group's Japanese edition of their second Korean studio album '' Crush'', which was released on June 25, 2014. The track was also featured in the '' 2NE1 Best Collection -Korea Edition-'' compilation album, which was released by

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in December of the same year.

Background and release

Beginning on November 18, 2013, YG Entertainment began releasing individual teasers featuring each member singing a snippet from the track, leading up to its release on November 21, 2013. The day before the release,

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was quoted stating the single brought his wife to tears when she first heard it.

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spoke about the song, saying, "I cried so much during the recording that I used up a box of Kleenex by myself." Bom commented, "It is a song through which you can hear the emotions that come from our hearts very well."

Reception

The song received positive reviews from

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. Jeff Benjamin of ''Billboard'' praised the song's musical styles—where he wrote, "While slow and tender at its core, the experimental track incorporates unexpected electronic flourishes and alien-like harmonies before its soaring guitar line brilliantly evolves into a pounding piano chords for the ladies to belt over." ''Pitchfork'' included "Missing You" in their list of 20 Essential K-pop Songs in August 2014, praising its musicality and the group's vocal delivery and referred to it as "one of the most vocally rich and structurally distinctive singles Korea’s ever produced". The music video also received attention from press regarding CL's nude scene, with ''Billboard'' referring to it as a more sophisticated version of

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" music video, which was released just a couple months prior and also widely notable for unprecedented nudity. "Missing You" was an commercial success, topping all South Korean daily charts and achieved an all-kill soon after release. In its opening week, the song landed at the top position on the

and became the group's eighth number one single. In the month of November alone, the track sold 453,481 digital units and ranked as the ninth best-selling song of the month in the country. It went on to sell over 1,080,000 digital downloads by the end of 2014, making it 2NE1's most commercially successful single released in 2013.

Accolades

Music video and promotion

The music video for "Missing You" premiered on November 21, 2013 at midnight KST (UTC+09:00) on 2NE1's official

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channel. It received more than 3 million views in less than two days. The members are depicted individually reminiscing over their previous relationships in solitary while navigating through a somber neutral-colored storage room-like setting, where at one point member CL is shown to be nude while recollecting her deep emotions. The members are shown to be united in the sense they share common sentiments of heartbreak. Regarding CL's nude scene, ''Billboard'' states "the video's talking point is undoubtedly when CL goes nude for a daring naked scene during the second chorus. The rapper/singer wistfully sits in a room of deteriorating cement, covering herself with only her arms and legs." Promotions for the single debuted with 2NE1's performance at the

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in Hong Kong, which followed a remix of the group's 2011 track " Lonely". On November 24, 2NE1 began promoting the song on ''M! Countdown'', ''Show! Music Core'' and ''Inkigayo'', and received five first place awards. Music show promotions for the single concluded on SBS ''Inkigayo'' on December 22, 2013.

Track listing

*Digital download / streaming #"그리워해요 (Missing You)" – 3:39

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

Sales

Release history

References

External links

* {{2NE1 2013 singles 2NE1 songs YG Entertainment singles Songs written by Teddy Park Korean-language songs